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'''[[mh:besttvshows:Daria|Daria]]''' is an animated TV series
A sequel/reboot, ''[[Jodie (TV series)|Jodie]]'', is making its way through development.
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==Episodes==
:''See [[List of Daria Episodes]].''
''Daria'' ran on MTV from March 3, 1997 to January 20, 2002. It consisted of five seasons of thirteen episodes apiece, as well as two film-length episodes. When looking back at the show's end in 2015, [https://decider.com/2015/06/25/today-in-tv-history-mtv-cancelled-daria/ Decider noted] that this inadvertently meant it started "just as the slacker-fied grunge era was giving way to the Spice Girls and millennial pop".
Initially, ''Daria'' premiered on MTV USA's popular "10 Spot" on Monday nights. ''Daria'' would remain on Monday nights for two seasons, then switch to Wednesday night at the beginning of the third season.
At the beginning of the fourth season, ''Daria'' was moved to Friday night, traditionally a poor night for television in the United States as Friday is the end of the work/school week and most people spend their evenings outside the home instead of watching TV. ''Daria'' was moved back
During the lifetime of the series, ''Daria'' was much more heavily promoted in its first three seasons than it its final two. Generally, episodes were rerun several times during the first three seasons whereas during the fifth season fans had to wait for marathons to take place in hopes of catching missed episodes, which were not rerun.
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During the show's run, one critic complained that the series was "particularly insidious" because it offered "a corrupt role model" for teenagers. Kathy Newman [http://books.google.com/books?id=H3USAr6i1e0C&pg=PA186&dq=daria+morgendorffer#v=onepage&q=daria%20morgendorffer&f=false disputed] that, saying that the [[Daria fandom]] was "refreshingly sincere" and optimistic. Rather than encouraging nihilism "the show has become a way for dealing with nihilism" and the fandom enabled alienated youths to bond with each other and express creativity.
Internet reviewer Doug Walker, aka the Nostalgia Critic
In a [http://jezebel.com/5536198/daria-a-love-letter-from-a-former-teen-nerd 2010 review] of the DVD collection in ''Jezebel'', Margaret Hartmann said that at as a teenager, "Daria and her best friend Jane Lane provided me with the sort of social guidance that allowed me to stay true to myself" and led to her keeping a childhood friend instead of dropping her to avoid "social suicide": "I'd picked up [Daria's] attitude that it's easier to survive high school with one fellow-loser who shares your misanthropic views than to spend four years trying to earn the admiration of girls whose main interests include proper eyeliner application". She cites Daria as "the most authentic TV nerd... she didn't look for her fellow students to accept her. She just wanted to be left alone", and said TV lacks similar character that "painfully geeky girls can relate to".
[https://decider.com/2015/03/10/daria-is-a-jerk/ A 2015 Decider column by Tyler Coates] wrote that "as someone who felt like an outsider and whose only retaliation was to hope that high school would wrap up swiftly — while also holding contempt for the athletic, popular kids who made this nerd’s adolescence a living hell — Daria was a role model". When rewatching the show as an adult, he wrote that it "holds up as a hilarious, thoughtful sitcom" but he was struck that Daria "is a real asshole". This caused him to wonder if he himself had been "just as much of a jerk to the kids I went to school with as they were to me", and if Daria also rethinks her high school years as an adult and tries to be more "more amiable and patient with people not like her" as he's tried to be.
The characters are still known well enough that [[Crossover#Drawn Together|''Drawn Together'' could cameo Daria]] (albeit as an "unpopular" character) in one episode in 2007, and that ''Jezebel'' magazine could run an [http://jezebel.com/5550875/an-open-letter-to-heidi-montag-from-quinn-morgendorffer?skyline=true&s=i open letter from "Quinn"] as an article in May 2010. Following the DVD release, Watsky & The GetBand would go on to use Daria as the setpiece for [[A Love Story]]'s music video, complete with some commentary from Daria; internet reviewer The Nostalgia Chick would compare ''Daria'' to the 90s film ''She's All That'' in [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/team-nchick/nostalgia-chick/32202-shes-all-that a review of the latter], with ''Daria'' episode "[[Through A Lens Darkly]]" held up as better.▼
▲Internet reviewer Doug Walker, aka the Nostalgia Critic/That Guy With The Glasses has cited this show [http://channelawesome.com/dougs-favorite-tv-shows-part-2/ as his favorite TV program]. He was conscious that this might seem "a really weird choice" since he doesn't often mention it in his content, but praises it for accurately reflecting high school and the students - "I ''knew'' these people, I grew up with these people" - as well as dealing with difficult teenage issues, reflecting the feel of the late 90s, and for showing that Daria's cynical attitude, while cathartic, was not always right. He also said that while he was worried it may have become dated, contemporary teenagers have told him that it hasn't and that "these people... are still around". He said that there were only three episodes he didn't like: [[Depth Takes a Holiday]], [[Daria!]] and [[Life in the Past Lane]], mainly for their irrelevancy.
▲The characters are still known well enough that [[Crossover#Drawn Together|''Drawn Together'', ''Robot Chicken'', and ''Family Guy'' could cameo Daria]]
Talking to ''Vice'' for an oral history, Eichler opined that "The minute Daria showed any vulnerability, some people declared that she jumped the shark", and referenced a lot of fans disliking her having a boyfriend. "Daria was echoing a place a lot of the viewers were in emotionally, but some of them just didn't keep going with her."
Finally, Raphael Bob-Waksburg [https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/bojack-horseman-netflix-raphael-bob-waksberg-718290/ told ''Rolling Stone'' ] that the show was a big influence on his black comedy, ''Bojack Horseman'': "As a teen, I really related to that character: the smartest person in the room who has disdain for everybody. But she was really well-developed, and that was cool. It did a good job of showing that smart people aren’t always right and stupid people aren’t always bad. I want to give my characters nuance. You think you have these archetypes, but then when you start exploring the character, you go into their nooks and crannies." The character of Diane, a smart outcast with glasses and a green jacket, is also clearly modelled on Daria, to the extent of Sarah-Lynn flagging it up by asking if she's "Asian Daria".
==2010 and onwards==
[[Image:Daria DVD set insert.JPG|thumb|200px|right|DVD insert explaining the
2010 saw the release of the DVD ''[[Daria: The Complete Animated Series]]'' in the US and Canada. A Region 4 release, primarily for [[Australian fandom|Australia]], would follow in 2011. For legal reasons, almost the entirety of the music cues had to be taken out and replaced with generic royalty-free replacements.
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