Daria (TV Series) Partner's Complaint (2000) User Reviews

A good follow-up to the final episode of season three.

[planktonrules · 8/10 · 7 March 2011]

At the end of season three, Jane met a guy named Tom and they started dating. In this same episode, Daria feels abandoned and begins sniping at Jane--and for the first time, you see both girls acting insane--like MOST teenage girls. Here in the first episode of the following season, you see this same plot continuing--with Jane and Daria still having a very strained relationship. Coincidentally, Brittany and Kevin are arguing once again and Jodie and Mack-Daddy are having a few problems. So, when a class project is assigned, the usual pairings do NOT occur--and Jane is paired with Brittany, Daria with Jodie and the two guys together. The project involves making a major financial decision and the kids are supposed to PRETEND to make a huge purchase and report on the results. The subtleties of this assignment are totally lost on Kevin--who provides lots of entertainment at his expense.

Overall, a good episode that continues the new teen angst that now threatens to make Jane and Daria too normal! Enjoyable and pretty funny.

Fallings out

[Tweekums · 8/10 · 8 January 2013]

In the previous episode, at the end of season three, Daria's friendship with Jane took a bit of a dent when Daria though Jane is ignoring her in favour of her new boyfriend; I don't know how much time is meant to have passed but they are still not getting along the way they used to. This means when they are given a school project where students have to partner up to study real world financial matters they choose not to work together. Daria ends up working with Jodie, who doesn't wish to work with her boyfriend Mack because he isn't financially reliable and Jane ends up with Brittany because she has had a falling out with Kevin. While things don't go quite how they planned Daria and Jane's pairings manage to arrange deals successfully... Kevin is a little too successful as he forgets that they aren't meant to actually go through with the deals!

I liked how issues from the previous season weren't just dropped as though they never happened as well as being realistic it provided an opportunity to get Daria and Jane working with other people. The drama worked well enough and there were some good laughs; Kevin's reaction on learning he shouldn't have given a cash down payment was hilarious and the way Brittany would have got a discount because the sleazy salesman fancied her was as funny as it was disturbing! Overall this was a good start to the season with a decent mix of laughs and drama.