REVIEW: AQUA TV SHOW SHOW ‘SKINS’
Spoilers Below
“Music isn’t about freedom or feelin’ the rhythm. It’s about loose women and raking in the jack” – Master Shake
Hippies are the worst, this is well documented. Even if you agree with their political stances, surely you can agree against their hygene (or lack thereof). The only thing worse than a hippie is an entrepeneurial one – and Master Shake finds himself in the crosshairs of just such a beast.
In this episode of Aqua TV Show Show (ATSS), Master Shake finds himself on the other side of the paper chase by becoming an activist musician against the sale of alien skin bongos.
Okay, I guess that kinda needs to be explained a bit.
After buying a $200 bongo to fit into a hippie drum circle, MS learns that everytime he plays the drum, the ghost of a screaming alien appears looking for [his?] skin. We later learn this is because aforementioned hippie-drum-slumlord had slaughtered an entire tribe of ‘Wabbo Sabi’ aliens to use their skin for trinkets and shit. Not unlike many other sheltered attention whores, MS then proceeds to boycott and protest against these Wabbo-Sabi products in exchange for the delicious attention that it brings him. After a short stint in jail MS eventually abandons his anti-skin stance and just gets back to whats really important – singing minstrel songs outside of a car dealership with his bros. Amen.
The plot line in this episode was creative and had some great new age hippie stereotypes played out. That being said, the pseudo-guest star characters here weren’t exactly my favorite and the voice acting for them just didn’t rub me the right way. All-in-all I had a few chuckles but it didn’t exactly crack through to the upper echelon. Keep on truckin’ boys.
Do we know if Hulu will be the only entity to have the dub, or if it will be on other platforms, too? The show in general is definitely going to be on multiple platforms.