History YMMV / SKins

* OnceOriginalNowCommon: Nowadays it can be hard to see how Skins once felt so ground-breaking for it's rather diverse portrayel of teen stories. Maxxie being already out and proud with his family and friends and not having to go through a Coming Out story? Not only showing how a same-sex relationship came to be but how they deal with the trials and tribulations (and struggle to remain faithful) once they are officially a couple? The experience of an immigrant teen adjusting to a new country? Another dealing with Aspergers syndrome? The head-on exploration of it's teens mental health struggles (despite the somewhat negative {{Strawman}} view of mental health professionals)? The fairly experimental writing and occassional dips into a more surreal tone of a fairly based-in-reality teen drama? All fairly new territory back when the show first aired, now they're completely common place in almost any modern, serious-minded show revolving around the teenage experience that it can feel less surprising or even innovative in hindsight.

** Josh gets this in some corners, in spite (or perhaps [[EvilIsSexy because]]) of his dark streak. Same goes for Luke of the third generation.

* EvilIsSexy: The reason David Blood is still well-liked in some circles despite possessing about as many [[HateSink redeeming qualities]] as Mad Twatter.

** While it was perhaps inevitable due to the near complete recasting, early on the second generation got a lot of flack for what felt like a really uneven overall tone, from far more frequent use of broad CringeComedy and rather silly subplots (the one with gangsters immediately comes to mind) that felt like an odd contrast to the more serious teen drama that was otherwise still present, and some were especially put off by Cook constantly and boorishly grabbing the spotlight in episodes that were supposed to focus on other characters. While the darker Season 4 was generally viewed as more consitent in style and tone and had some excellent mid-season episodes that were considered among the best in the entire show, it was considered a mess overall storytelling wise that was definitely not helped by the episode order being cut (with some characters not even getting their own specific episode) and with the Freddy/Effy/Cook love triangle taking far too much screentime while other relationships either remained underdevoloped (partcularly Thomas and JJ's newfound friendship) or left in a MakeItOrBreakIt holding pattern all season long (Naomi/Emily and Thomas/Panda's romances, respectively).

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Nowadays it can be hard to see how Skins once felt so ground-breaking for it's rather diverse portrayel of teen stories. Maxxie being already out and proud with his family and friends and not having to go through a Coming Out story? Not only showing how a same-sex relationship came to be but how they deal with the trials and tribulations (and struggle to remain faithful) once they are officially a couple? The experience of an immigrant teen adjusting to a new country? Another dealing with Aspergers syndrome? The head-on exploration of it's teens mental health struggles (despite the somewhat negative {{Strawman}} view of mental health professionals)? The fairly experimental writing and occassional dips into a more surreal tone of a fairly based-in-reality teen drama? All fairly new territory back when the show first aired, now they're completely common place in almost any modern, serious-minded show revolving around the teenage experience that it can feel less surprising or even innovative in hindsight.

** Katie and Emily's parents think nothing of the former dating older men; one even helps her father with his business; but the latter is forbidden from pursuing a same-sex relationship with a college peer. Modern sensibilities tend to see these attitudes reversed.

** For Gen 3, [[LesYay Franky/Mini]], or Minky if you like, is probably the most popular ship except maybe [[OfficialCouple Rich/Grace]]. It's infinitely more popular than [[MasochismTango Mini/Nick]] [[spoiler: considering it's effectively been [[ShipSinking sunk]]]] and ahead of [[OddFriendship Alo/Mini]], which is a popular pairing following Alo's season 5 episode. (And it's obviously way more popular than [[OfficialCouple Franky's relationships with the Levan Brotherrs]], some of the least popular canon couples in the history of ''Skins''.)

** Cook (for his SpotlightStealingSquad tendecies) and Katie (for her almost cartoonishly AlphaBitch qualities) were this in season 3, but got effectively RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap during their spotlight season 4 episodes as they got a far more nuanced portrayel.

** Skins: Fire, particularly its absolutely abhorred Naomi/Emily subplot, which many thought was tangential to Effy's main storyline and not remotely necessary, considering it just squeezed in the show's most popular couple for a brutal helping of anti-Fanservice.