The Inbetweeners

The Inbetweeners wouldn't get made today

On January 25 2007, a TV drama called Skins captured the way teenagers like to imagine themselves: as weary, battle-scarred participants in a cycle of drug-fuelled parties and casual sex.

The following year, a TV comedy called The Inbetweeners captured the way most adults tend to remember those same years: as a period of excruciating social inadequacy, boredom and utterly doomed attempts to make the people you fancy realise you even exist.

The Inbetweeners cast interview

"There are guys who approach me [about the show] who must have been children when it came out," says Thomas, who was 24 when the series began filming. "I think it's aged well, although they deliberately didn't shoot it in HD because they were worried you might see wrinkles on the cast..."

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