There's A 'Daria' Reboot Coming, And All Is Right With The World

Daria is heading back to television and things are about to get so much more sardonic

Put on your favorite army green jacket and start working on your very best side eye. Daria is getting a reboot which means that life is officially about to get so, so good. Lawndale High, we’re a’coming.

There aren’t a ton of details about the upcoming reboot yet, but we do know that MTV is developing the series with Inside Amy Schumer writer Grace Edwards. According to Variety, the show will be called Daria & Jodie, and has been “reinvented through the eyes of heroine Daria Morgendorffer and one of her closest friends Jodie Landon.”

“These two smart young women take on the world, with their signature satirical voice while deconstructing popular culture, social classes, gender and race,” MTV’s logline read.

Yup, yup, yup. This is about to be some truly great television.

Twitter was having mixed ~feelings~ about the whole thing. Some people were excited. Some people were skeptical. Some people wanted to know WHERE THE HELL Jane Lane is?!?!

Clearly, a lot of 90’s kids are very protective of their favorite childhood TV show. After all, being a teenager is pretty much the worst so anything that helped make that experience a little bit better must be treated with very, very good care. The show’s co-creator Glenn Eichler told Variety that he hears about Daria’s massive impact all time.

“I’ve had a lot of people say to me, you know — that show really got me through high school. And for the first 10-15 years they said that to me, I’d be like oh yeah, okay, sure. But now I’m starting to like hearing that,” he said. “I’m glad people liked it. And I’m glad they still like it. It makes me feel like the work was worth it.”

No word yet if the reboot will pick back up at Lawndale High or fast forward to 2018, but co-creator Susie Lewis has some thoughts about where the original Daria would be today.

“I think she’d be a writer on a talk show…writing like political commentary,” she said. “I do wonder…I wonder how her navigation has been through her work life, and what kinds of success she’s had with her personality, and what kind of challenges. Because she is that person who doesn’t always fit in, but she is incredibly smart.”

Impatiently counting down the days to this reboot with a level of enthusiasm that Daria would absolutely hate. Quinn, however, would wholeheartedly approve.