I'll probably give it a miss, then. Maybe I'll skip straight to next week's, or maybe this will be the beginning of me giving up on it entirely.

I still think capturing the edgy vibe of the show will be tough to do on MTV.

That's true, but I don't think that necessarily means it's going to be bad. The US version of The Office doesn't really capture the tone of the UK version at all, but it's still good in its own right (or was; it kind of sucks now). So I'm hoping something similar will happen with Skins.