Daria Satire

In contrast to the explicit success of the eighties and early nineties, Nirvana and the musical evolvement/birth of grunge sent a wakeup call to the youth which sent a large majority of them into an attitude for the rest of the decade which screamed ‘apathetic’.

Indifferent, detached and misanthropic, Daria embodied the very essence of smug unpleasantness. This was a show which trusted its audience to be intelligent enough to get the jokes which the characters made. This stands in slight contrast against the ‘polished’ MTV of today.

When MTV decided to produce a show based on one of the characters from ‘Beavis and Butthead’ with two writers from the said television show, they decided collectively that instead of repeating the same formula

In Daria an initially school run society is something of which to be suffered, throughout the series Daria’s ‘non-involvement’ policy proves to serve inadequate time and time again, as all situations and people are proven more than something to be measly shrugged off.

Daria in her own series had a policy of non-engagement broken only when pushed and then only begrudgingly. Shortly said, Daria was fairly unpleasantly adjusted, as admittedly her monotone could grow a tad tedious also.

The characters in Daria all seemed to fall into some kind of late nineties stereotype; the mean girl squad which ran their own fashion club, the history teacher who was close to snapping and the brain-dead quarterback and his equally bubbly cheerleader girlfriend. The interesting thing which Daria portrayed is that the essential ‘high rulers’ of the school were never portrayed as malicious or mean-spirited, only privileged and without much intelligent

Like most siblings the two spend and unorthodox amount of energy in the pursuit of making each other miserable. Not much changes of Quinns personality in the first three seasons, as Daria’s parents don’t particularly show understanding of their own two children either.

Helen, Daria’s mother, is a hyper driven workaholic whilst being resentful for being that way, while her husband, Jake, is an oblivious over worked caricature who is constantly cursing his own deceased father. Helen is as perspective of their children as Jake is oblivious. Jake is consistently showing to be baffled by his inability to relate to either of his two teenage daughters who couldn’t be more different.

If there were any relationships within Daria which felt forced there was definitely one which didn’t. The strongest aspect of the television show by preference is the friendship formed between Daria and Jane. Daria and Jane provide to be the emotional core of the series, though for five series of the show there are very few episodes which most tend to pass