Me and my mates have been watching this but I'm finding it bloody awful. It has had some high points, which are keeping me watching - and the fact nothing else is on- such as the episode where one of them's brother got shot dead. It was quite emotional and stuff.
However, all of the girls and Danny are coming across very annoying. (I loved Mitch Hewer in Skins fyi!) Apart from the canteen girl...so far. There are far too many unlikeable characters and not enough likeable ones. Jez, for example is one of the only characters I like.
Lola is awful, I know someone who's a bit like her, but Lola is worse. She's too annoying. The whole her/teacher love story? Terribly unbelievable. Like he'd run away to Australia! As if! much prefer the whole Nearly Famous pupil/teacher story to that. The whole Matt Willis thing was awful too, and I love Matt.
I loved them S Club shows when I was little, they were bearable and great for CBBC, but this on ITV1 is awful. Everyone I know in my school have nicknamed it 'cheese'. I promise you I would have switched off if I was 8, too!
I'm going to give it the rest of this series to have another good episode but otherwise I'm not watching any more episodes from this. Most people I know have switched off already. If they are ok, they're not good enough to watch twice.
On the other hand, the songs are quite good but the video clips kind of ruin them sometimes. Some of them were a bit...meh. The theme music is great though, at the start and end. Very catchy and some great songwriters.