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While MTV has noticeably declined during the era of “TRL” and “Undressed,” “Daria?? has achieved what the network originally set out to do. “Daria?? is an insightful, ironic dissection of high school culture and its victims. Its consistent quality has been one of the few positive constants in the networks programming over the past few years (you’ll forgive me if I neglect to praise “Say What? Karaoke?...
...release labels it, the “strange developmental purgatory that is the college freshman experience.” But alas; “Undergrads” comes closer to “Saved By the Bell: The College Years” than it does to “Daria?? in finding humor in the maelstrom of social and academic changes that accompany the first year of college...
...Undergrads’” biggest failure is that it relies on college stereotypes so stale that most middle school students will be tempted to tune out. “Daria?? can be appreciated by anyone, but perhaps the greatest reason for the show’s success is that it only becomes funnier if one is immersed in high school life and the paradoxes that are so fundamentally a part of it. But instead of digging for the deeper comic ironies inherent in dorm life, “Undergrads” is content to recycle...
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