The tv programme Daria serves to highlight our vapid culture down to a tee. From looks being more crucial than brains to the ever present doctrine of society that states you must fall in line, Daria is ready and waiting to make a sarcastic and insightful remark about it. The programme follows Daria Morgendorffer and her family - her mum who is work obsessed in order to gain her mothers acceptance, her dad who is constantly having flash backs of his fathers awful treatment of him and Quinn, Daria's sister, who out and out lies that she even has a sister and is embarrassed by her parents. Daria is an outcast in school and is befriended by her one ...  Read the complete review

I never understood how this programme ever made it as a TV show. The usual idea is that the main character is a likeable one, or at least someone with likable qualities- Homer in the Simpsons, Fry in Futurama etc. etc. The main character can have flaws- the two examples I gave clearly do, but you should have at least ONE likeable quality. However, this Daria has absolutely NO likeable qualities whatsoever. If she were real, she'd be the kind of person you want to hit repeatedly and tell, literally, to "get a life", because evidently she doesn't have one! She just seems to be a cynical, moody, boring, unattractive, unemotional... being (because ...  Read the complete review

My first brush with Daria was on Channel 5, you can catch the show on Saturday afternoons if you can manage to get a decent reception. If you want more of a fix then I'm afraid you'll have to open up to the joys of cable/digital/satellite tv and get MTV where the show can be found every weekday at 1.30pm. The show is a cartoon with a whole host of characters. The main one being Daria, a teenager at school who isn't the typical american schoolkid stereotype. She's actually quite deadpan and neagtive about everything but then again she's the voice of reason in a crazy american world. The only one who shares her opinions is her friend Jane, ...  Read the complete review

Daria's only a cartoon character, and we all love her, but if she was real, you know you'd hate her! You've got to love the cynical chick, full of sarcastic comments, and witty comebacks. There are 2 main families that this show is based around - the Morgendorffers - The Mom - Helen, the Dad - Jake, and Quinn and of course, Daria. Then the Lanes - There are extended members of this family, but you mainly get to know Jane - Daria's best friend, and Trent - Jane's brother, who incidently, Daria rather likes, and she loses all sense of, well, anything! when she's around him. The show is also great, with overly stereo typical teenagers at Lawndale ...  Read the complete review

Daria, I suppose, is a teenage Ally Mcbeal, and has a similar image to Harry Enfield's character Kevin, the sulky, spotty, whiney teenage boy who likes to make his parents life hell. Except Daria of course is a girl, she is smart, and her sulkiness comes from being very intelligent and world-wary. The central characters are caricutures of the type of people you had at high school, (or maybe you were one of them)except they are very American (the Britney with the football player boyfriend etc.) but still one can relate to the character. Daria herself speaks in monotony, symbolising her character in general. She is saracstic and is a loner with ...  Read the complete review