Hello, welcome back to the Prestige TV podcast, Veed.

I'm Donna Robinson.

I'm Rob Mahoney.

We're here with a very special episode of the Prestiage Television podcast.

We're doing a look back at a couple of high school shows that we were thinking about in relation to our coverage of Euphoria season three.

And today we're talking about Skins, UK.

Very important clarification. Crucially, Skins, UK. We're not doing like a series

overlook. We are not completely mental and watch seven seasons of a television show for one

episode of a podcast. But we're here mostly to talk about the pilot episode.

So series one, episode one of, of UK skins, titled Tony after Tony Stoner.

The titular role.

The Skins himself, Nick Holt.

Mr. Skins. Mr. Skins, Nick Holt.

And we're just going to talk about sort of the impact of the show at the time.

There's been a lot of chatter recently where people have been saying, like, Skins UK was the

original euphoria.

Yeah.

But I think you could make that argument on a lot of teen shows because the general cycle of teen

showdom is that a new show comes along and people go, gasp.

I know. Teens are doing this? Is this okay? And then rinse and repeat over the generations. It's almost like being a teenager is about rebellion. What? Who knew? I mean, this goes back to like, there was like patent place back in like, you know, splendor in the grass in the 60s. Like, this has been a tale as old as time in terms of, like, what are the teens up to? Skins UK was a show that I watched not originally when it was airing, but a little bit later. I think it's part of my, like, Nick Holt completionist phase. What was your entry point? What really grabbed you by the Holt? By the Holt. Thanks so much. Like into my Holt fandom? Yeah. Like what did you first see him? And then you're like, oh, I want to see what that guy has been up to. Well, I saw about a boy his, like, debut when he was a kiddo. And I loved that, you know, I was a huge Nick Hormby fan. I love Hugh Grant. I love that movie. He's so good in it, too. He is so good at it. And then I didn't see Skins, but then I saw a single man, which came out after Skins and which in which he plays like a young gay pink mohair sweater wearing sex pot. And I was like, what happened to the boy from About a Boy? And I missed this sort of crucial bridging skins phase. So I did eventually

go back. I have to imagine the reason I went back to check in on skins was because it is the

origin story for Joe Dempsey and Hannah Murray, who are two big Game of Thrones actors.

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