Daria, Season 1, Episode 6 : This Year's Model
Feb 23, 2014 16:19:10 GMT -5
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Daria
Season 1, Episode 6
“This Year’s Model”
How much should a school encourage its students to do whatever they want, even if what they want to do may not ultimately be in their best interests? What responsibility does a school have to prepare them for the real world? “This Year’s Model” explores the notion of high schools taking money to encourage students into possibly less-than-ideal careers.
Daria is (as usual) quick on the uptake when it comes to the talent scouts in the school, asking Ms. Li, “Can we assume the financial rewards are great for the school, as well?” To which Ms. Li responds in the affirmative, saying that the money will be used to make the swimming pool skylights bullet proof, raising serious questions about what kind of community Lawndale is.
Jodi again acts as Daria’s equal and foil, telling Daria, “You don’t have to be against everything.” Jodi is right—there’s nothing wrong with students wanting to pursue a modeling career, but Daria’s issue is, essentially, where does it stop? She ponders, “Maybe there’s a go go bar down the street that would like to recruit lap dancers.”
Threaded throughout the episode is the idea of sexualizing teenagers, from Quinn telling her family that Claude said her boobs were perfect to the shirtless guys on stage. We have Britney fretting over possibly losing Kevin and Daria still shy around Trent. The talent scouts further stirred up the already rampant hormones, making the class implode all around them.
Daria has enough of this and ends up bringing in a mercenary group to recruit the students. After all, one group is as valid as the next.
Notes
• The mercenary recruiter guy’s delivery of “Oh look! The media!” kills me every time.
• Song list: outpostdaria.info/song_list_1.html#ep106
• This review was a long time coming. Sorry about that. Life got crazy and I’ll try to do better to get more on top of things.
It wrote a little rough, but I'm getting back in the swing of things (both with this, hopefully, and in regards to life in general....hopefully)!
Season 1, Episode 6
“This Year’s Model”
How much should a school encourage its students to do whatever they want, even if what they want to do may not ultimately be in their best interests? What responsibility does a school have to prepare them for the real world? “This Year’s Model” explores the notion of high schools taking money to encourage students into possibly less-than-ideal careers.
Daria is (as usual) quick on the uptake when it comes to the talent scouts in the school, asking Ms. Li, “Can we assume the financial rewards are great for the school, as well?” To which Ms. Li responds in the affirmative, saying that the money will be used to make the swimming pool skylights bullet proof, raising serious questions about what kind of community Lawndale is.
Jodi again acts as Daria’s equal and foil, telling Daria, “You don’t have to be against everything.” Jodi is right—there’s nothing wrong with students wanting to pursue a modeling career, but Daria’s issue is, essentially, where does it stop? She ponders, “Maybe there’s a go go bar down the street that would like to recruit lap dancers.”
Threaded throughout the episode is the idea of sexualizing teenagers, from Quinn telling her family that Claude said her boobs were perfect to the shirtless guys on stage. We have Britney fretting over possibly losing Kevin and Daria still shy around Trent. The talent scouts further stirred up the already rampant hormones, making the class implode all around them.
Daria has enough of this and ends up bringing in a mercenary group to recruit the students. After all, one group is as valid as the next.
Notes
• The mercenary recruiter guy’s delivery of “Oh look! The media!” kills me every time.
• Song list: outpostdaria.info/song_list_1.html#ep106
• This review was a long time coming. Sorry about that. Life got crazy and I’ll try to do better to get more on top of things.
It wrote a little rough, but I'm getting back in the swing of things (both with this, hopefully, and in regards to life in general....hopefully)!
