Tag: Daria
The Expectation That Being a Fan of Something Creates An Automatic Bond With Another Person Or That There’s a “Right” Way to Be a Fan
There’s a series of scenes in the opening credits to Daria that present her in an array of different scenarios being stoic amid a sea [Read More…]
Mother of the Misery Chicks: Wednesday Addams As the Forebear for Emily the Strange and Daria
There’s an episode in season one of Daria called “The Misery Chick.” In it, a former quarterback/golden boy who attended Lawndale High, Tommy Sherman, is [Read More…]
Softcore Gloom: The Gentrification of Wednesday Addams Includes Nods to Charmed, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Gilmore Girls and Harry Potter
Maybe it seems ironic to say that the character of Wednesday Addams has been “gentrified,” considering she’s no longer white. And sure, in Jenna Ortega’s [Read More…]
Elizabeth Hurley’s Mom Is the New Mrs. George
Even though it is, by now, in this epoch called “Thirst Trap,” the norm that daughters wield their mothers for the purpose of heightening their [Read More…]
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Takes Major Inspiration From Daria’s “Fizz Ed”
It seemed too unreal to believe in many ways. And yet, at the same time, a stark glimpse into an evermore reliant-upon-corporate-“sponsorship” future. Corporate socialism, [Read More…]
Daria Ostensibly Rolling Her Eyes Over Reboot
Daria was, is and will always be one of the great beacons of late 90s/early 00s pop culture (in addition to Sex and the City, [Read More…]
The Real Daria Would Abhor A Projection of Her Future
There should be no shock anymore when it comes to what the world will allow to be rebooted–even entities that have no room for story [Read More…]
Daria, Still A Misanthropic Goddess 20 Years Later, Was Probably Also the Modern Originator of White Girl Problems
While the term “white girl problems” was at one time a cute and dismissive way to make fun of how often white girls complain of [Read More…]
When Garbage & Daria Combined to Create the Ultimate Alt 90s Experience
There are a lot of “most 90s” things that occurred during the decade of Clinton and dial-up internet, but among the annals of distinctive 90s [Read More…]
Daria and The Crop Top Anomaly
The sarcastic icon that is Daria Morgendorffer is typically known for being a sexless, snarky type who may or may not have a hole where [Read More…]
