Posted on: May 24, 2010 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 0

Eight years after the animated show Daria ended its five seasons run, the series – tailor-made for Generation X – is finally being released in its entirety. The collection includes the pilot, episodes from all five seasons and a slew of extras. They may have taken their time rolling this one out, but they did it right.

A spin off of Beavis and Butt-head, Daria centers on a cynical teen and her perky, popular younger sister, her clueless Yuppie parents as well as the standard high school archetypes (the jock, the cheerleader, the stoners, the hippie kids, etc.). The writing is much clever than an animated show deserves to be.

Holding up immensely well despite being mothballed for nearly a decade, the series is nostalgic not only for it’s late 90’s references, but is a reminder that MTV actually had a handful of decent shows at one time.

Daria was a slow build and really started to get good towards the end of the second season, catching its stride and holding up for the entire run. A show like Daria, which premiered at the end of 1996, would likely get canceled by the end of the first season without a strong following if it were to be released today.

Rating: 8.9 out of 10

Daria – the Complete Animated Series/8 DVDs/2010/MTV and Paramount/1606 mins.

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