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Summary:
16-year-old Bethan (Gabrielle Creevy) hides her troubled home life from her friends and teachers in this Welsh dark coming-of-age comedy created by Kayleigh Llewellyn.
[Pilot originally aired on BBC 3 on 28 Oct 2018 and won Best TV Drama at the 2019's BAFTA Cymru. Commissioned to series with four additional episodes to air in 2020]
[Pilot originally aired on BBC 3 on 28 Oct 2018 and won Best TV Drama at the 2019's BAFTA Cymru. Commissioned to series with four additional episodes to air in 2020]
Genre(s):
Comedy, Drama
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Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E5. Episode 5
Air Date: April 29, 2020
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S1:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: April 22, 2020
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S1:E3. Episode 3
Air Date: April 15, 2020
Jul 30, 2020
The Independent
Apr 29, 2020
Even when laying bare the bleak realities of teenage life in the wreckage of Britain’s forgotten places, In My Skin is filled with tenderness. ... Also preventing the series from turning into some kind of burdensome flogging ritual is the humour. Llewellyn’s dialogue is caustic and sharp, with all the warm familiarity of the Wetherspoons background hum.
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Jul 27, 2020
The performance that Gabrielle Creevy gives as Bethan also goes a very long way toward making this series so relatable. ... Although the episodes are only a half-hour long, they are dense. A lot happens in each one, but under the supervision of director Lucy Forbes, whose credits include multiple episodes of The End of the F***ing World, they never feel overpacked.
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Jul 30, 2020
Happily smutty dark humor and light melancholy mostly win out over maudlin life lessons. The distinctively British mix of winsome-glum kitchen-sink drama and sitcom beats works in this case, helped by the loose, run-and-gun style of Forbes and her cinematographer, Benedict Spence, and Creevy’s alert, understated performance.
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Jul 30, 2020
Jul 29, 2020
In My Skin is a half-hour drama, and quite a good one. It takes Bethan’s pain and Katrina’s illness seriously, while also allowing both of them occasional moments of joy that feel earned. The brief first season ends in a place that has me very interested to see what happens next. Honestly.
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Jul 30, 2020
Bethan’s occasional voiceover narration is an inconsistent element of the series, but her self-aware commentary is a welcome counterpoint to her infuriatingly self-sabotaging behavior. While having Bethan explain her inner thoughts can easily become a narrative crutch, In My Skin could have benefited more from Bethan’s reflective observations, which give us a deeper understanding of her often impulsive decisions.
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: July 30, 2020
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S1:E5. Episode 5
Air Date: April 29, 2020
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S1:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: April 22, 2020
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S1:E3. Episode 3
Air Date: April 15, 2020
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S1:E2. Episode 2
Air Date: April 8, 2020
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S1:E1. Episode 1
Air Date: April 1, 2020
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Season 1 Overview