Originally posted at the DL May 2015
If I'm wrong please correct.
Also the theme of this season.
The show to this point was largely cases where Daria was ultimately in the right, and the conflict was over her being needlessly harsh in her delivery. Here the focus character of a given episode will pretty consistently be in the wrong. Jane is really bad at relationships and relationship/friend balance. Daria legitimately pisses off Jodie with her self-righteousness. Psycho Therapy very nearly sends Helen to tears. Dye! Dye! My Darling is an exercise in managing to make every single character do something very wrong and being angry at themselves over it later. Fortunately for the show (seeing as basically everything in the movies and season 5 is based on this episode) this flow logically from the season.
Between that and the highlight reel aspects of I Loathe a Parade, I'm wondering if they'd known at the start of this season approximately how much show they'd have left. World views have been rent asunder, and leaving Season 5 to rebuild our self-images using pieces old and new before making the true leap at the end of the show, leaving this life behind forever. If that makes any sense.
Best Episode: I Loathe a Parade. I gotta admit, I'm a sucker for all the callbacks.
Weakest Episode: Groped by an Angel. Of the many things Daria as a show has proved itself highly qualified to discuss, it turns out atheism is one it has to fall back on trite and predictable responses for. Oh well.
Rating- 8/10. Ramping up, calling out, kickin' ass. Pumped man.
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