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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Smart, Stylish, and Dryly Ironic
By Theo
Refreshingly nihilistic and amoral, this classic MTV animated series from the 1990s represented a truly wonderful break from the saccharine pap we’re usually fed. It offered us a take on high school life light years away from the idealised vision to be found in so many shows. What we have here is considerably closer to the brutal – and just plain stupid – reality. What’s more, “Daria” is a show that manages to pull all this off with a dry, rapier wit, and its own tersely ironic sense of style.I know that five star reviews tend to predominate here on Amazon. So much so that it becomes almost a running joke. I think that’s because according to Amazon’s stated guidelines, five stars simply means “I love it!”, and most folks tend to review what they love. But in all honesty, this really is an extraordinarily good piece of animation. One well worthy of five stars by just about any criteria.As is the case with any TV show transferred to other formats, it needs to be acknowledged that there are really two issues here: the show itself and the transfer. As most readers will already know, with Daria the big issue with the transfer was always going to be the music. Because the original show sampled from so many popular artists, a full and faithful reproduction on a non-bootlegged release was always going to be a copyright impossibility. In the end, virtually none of the original background music survived.Given this reality, for the most part I take off my hat to the musicians who did end up providing the substitute background music for the DVD. They took on what was always going to be a thankless task and for the most part acquitted themselves pretty well. True, there are moments here and there where the music they provide is noticeably weaker than what we heard in the TV original. But overall they do a fairly solid job. Personally, what I miss most is not the lost background music per se, but the varied and eclectic range of songs used as end title music in the original broadcasts. These often provided an ironic or poignant counterpoint to the themes explored in the episode.Now for the show itself. In my opinion, the first two seasons really do see Daria at her best. I don’t think this season (season two) is quite as good as the first, but it is very close. Hereafter… things begin to go downhill. Slowly and intermittently at first, but by progressively greater leaps and bounds. The most marked change is that Daria the sardonic observer of human folly is replaced by Daria the moral crusader. The show’s dry edge isn’t entirely lost, but it is substantially dulled.Curiously, the season two opener is an episode called “Arts ‘n’ Crass” where Daria and Jane collaborate on an artistic work that is then horrendously sanitized by school administrators. I can’t help but wonder if the irony here is deliberate: if there was at least someone behind the scenes who fully grasped what was being done to the show, and felt the urge to give voice to this protest. If so, the protest is remarkably clever and doubly ironic, because how Daria and Jane handle the situation that has been thrust upon them fits seamlessly in with the show’s new direction. A direction that is ultimately spelled out quite plainly in all its awfulness at the other end of the season, in the final episode “Write Where it Hurts”. That one really does rather ominously show us the way of things to come.Fortunately, the episodes between these two bookends are for the most part in the spirit of season one. It is for this reason that I’m still able to give this season five stars. Things don’t really descend into full blown sermonising until season three. So for true diehard fans of the show’s original vision, this is your final chance to bask in the light of that vision (dare I say, “the harsh light of reality”?) before the coming of the dark times.Enjoy it while it lasts!Theo.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
One of my favorite shows from the 90s
By LaRue Brown
This is an awesome show, and it’s in great quality on instant video. Please keep it in the prime section. Thanks

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
One of the best shows from the 90′s
By Roberto Gonzalez
Always amazing how right they portrayed things.Like how a little effort by good looking but not so bright people made the good looking appear to be extra good of extra smart while truly gifted languished on the side sidelines keeping everyone out of trouble.

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“Daria” Arts ‘n’ Crass (TV Episode 1998) – IMDb
Directed by Karen Disher. With Tracy Grandstaff, Wendy Hoopes, Julián Rebolledo, Nicole Carin. Daria and Jane create an iconoclastic poster for a contest, only to …

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Daria reluctantly gets involved in a poster contest which she and Jane depict “Student Life at the Dawn of the Millennium”…rather negatively.

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Daria: Arts ‘N Crass (1998) – Synopsis – MSN Movies
Daria (voice of Tracy Grandstaff) and Jane (voice of Wendy Hoopes) once again suffer the school-spirit torture of Ms. Li (voice of Nora Laudani), but this time Helen …

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