messed up brit teens

For the last week or so, I've been pretty hooked up to this british teen drama series, called skins. I don't quite follow TV series, other than the popular comic ones, but I pretty much liked the approach that this has toward character development. Each episode develops the story around one of the character, telling us more about it, while taking the story along. I generally like to watch old seasons of TV series on my laptop, as I don't have the patience of waiting and remembering where the story was left last. However, this one moves at a pretty fast pace. around quarter of an hour of each episode, with the story moving at a real great pace.
It is about a interesting phase in life, the teenage, though, the events that the characters face in their lives and the impact that it has on them can be a bit disturbing at times. At times, the way the need for support is realized through random sexual encounters belittles the otherwise emphatic approach to character build up.  But maybe that helps in building up the pace at which the story moves. Some characters are awesome but hard to believe for teenaged kids, particularly like those of effy or cassie. In fact, maybe their age restricts them from bringing out the true shades of their characters. Not sure how experienced the actors are, but their performance is pretty consistent and impressive at times. Though I think what really makes the narrative all the more impressive is the amazing choice of music for the background score. It is just awesome. I am closing to the end of the second season, but I think I might get bored of it pretty soon. (well the impatient part of me read the story beforehand at wiki) But, I think I will keep watching it till I get hooked up on something else.