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Best Teen TV Shows: "Skins"

"Skins" is a teen TV classic for a reason. It's easy to just look at it as another "gritty" show that depicts teens partying hard and making a lot of bad choices — a pre-"Euphoria," if you will. That perspective overlooks just how much ground the show broke, with thoughtful depictions of things that real teens face every day, even if we don't like to talk about it. Rather than glamorizing its characters' antics, it allowed for the storylines to have real fallout, and it took the time to tackle things like mental health, sexuality, class divisions, and more. Plus, it doesn't hurt that several of its stars (Dev Patel, Nicholas Hoult, and Daniel Kaluuya, to name a few) have gone on to become household names!

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