Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Finally!!! A whole generation will be able to go back to a time when the world felt smarter in many ways and when teenagers were the hope of the future rather than oversexed, immature, corporate packaged fad followers (Or maybe we were but the corporations had to be less obvious about it?). Ironically, MTV, the channel that originally broadcast this brilliant show about Daria and her witty friend Jane to a mostly likeminded audience have now begun to cater to, or some would say go out of their way to create and perpetuate, an immature drama addicted generation of Britneys and Kevins who only want shows like The Hills or Jersey Shore. Ah, look how far we've come. This 8-Disc set contains all five seasons and both TV Movies: Season 1 Esteemsters The Invitation College Bored Cafe Disaffecto Malled This Year's Model The Lab Brat Pinch Sitter Too Cute The Big House Road Worrier The Teaching of Don Jake The Misery Chick Season 2 Arts n Crass The Daria Hunter Quinn The Brain I Don't That Was Then, This Is Dumb Monster The New Kid Gifted Ill Fair Enough See Jane Run Pierce Me Write Where It Hurts Season 3 Daria! Through A Lens Darkly The Old and the Beautiful Depth Takes a Holiday Daria Dance Party The Lost Girls It Happened One Nut Lane Miserables Jake of Hearts Speedtrapped The Lawndale File Just Add Water Jane's Addition Season 4 Partner's in Complaint Antisocial Climbers A Tree Grows in Lawndale Murder, She Snored The 'F' Word I Loathe a Parade Of Human Bonding Psycho Therapy Mart of Darkness Legends of the Mall Groped by an Angel Fire! Dye! Dye! My Darling! Daria TV Movie: Is it Fall Yet? Season 5 Fizz Ed Sappy Anniversary Fat Like Me Camp Fear The Story of D Lucky Strike Art Burn One J at a Time Life in the Past Lane Aunt Nauseum Prize Fighters My Night at Daria's Boxing Daria Daria TV Movie: Is it College Yet? That's 65 episodes and 2 TV Movies which adds up to 1606 minutes, or over 26 hours, of Daria! Special Features For The Set Are: Original Pilot: Sealed With A Kick (10 Minutes Long) Music Video: Mystik Spiral Music Video "Freakin' Friends" Daria Day Intros Top Ten Video Countdown Hosted by, who else, Daria & Jane Cast & Crew Interviews!!! Never Before Seen Mystik Spiral Spin-off Script All in all this set is great for us fans who have waited so long, even if it can't live up to being entirely worth the wait. Firstly, I am thankful that they released the entire series at once so we never had to worry about poor sales or stupid executives only allowing partial release of the series. Secondly, I did enjoy the special features but wish they'd had more, maybe some commentaries, to make up for the absence of proper music. There is also a paper inside the set telling us, in Daria fashion, to be happy we got the set at all and I found it funny and in tone with the show. That said it would have been nice to have a proper booklet with episode summaries and show facts to go along with it. Watching the show with the music changes I will say it's still a funny and enjoyable show, but even to those who say they didn't pay much attention to the music, I think you'll still sense an absence. It's not enough to ruin my enjoyment of this great series but I can best describe it by saying when I watch the show without proper music it feels as though one of the main characters is missing. I still enjoy it but in the back of my mind I keep wondering when and if that main character will return. At any rate getting the complete series with a few special features for this price is more than worth it. To sum up this show is great regardless but it does suck that songs inevitably had to be changed and left out since the late 90's and early millenium music is a character of the show. I personally say five stars for this series but I have to give this set 4 stars because I do miss the music and wish there had at least been some more in depth special features to make up for it or even a book with proper episode listings. Still, this is a great buy for any Daria fans - just remember to only get as excited about it as you imagine Daria would have been and you should be fine. *Kind of upset that the Looking Back In Annoyance Special wasn't included on this set yet the Jane and Daria Top Ten Countdown was. Oh well, still 4 stars from me.