For most millennials, Skins was the teen drama that defined mid-late noughties telly. Instead of studying for our A-levels, we were tuning into E4 every Thursday night and trying to plan our own neon-heavy house parties. The show was a phenomenal success and launched the Hollywood careers of Dev Patel, Nicholas Hoult and Daniel Kaluuya, but amidst the glow sticks and floppy fringes it attempted to deal with the darker coming-of-age corners.
Throughout the 7 seasons, Skins punctuated scenes of free-living drug-taking teenagers with weightier subject matter - viewers watched as the beloved characters experienced things like abandonment, homelessness, mental illness and grief. But according to Kaya Scodelario - who played Effy Stonem for four seasons - the safeguarding that is now industry standard for young actors was not there in 2007.
