iCarly Season 2 Is Wasting Its Best Revival Storyline
WARNING: Spoilers for iCarly season 2, episode 4.
iCarly had great potential to update and modernize the original show’s premise, but the revival is wasting its best storyline. While iCarly sees most of its original core characters returning, Sam being the only exception who hasn't, the revived series was always bound to be different from the original. Very much like the characters, the audiences who followed the original show are now grown up – thus explaining the more mature themes of iCarly season 2.
That said, much of what has made iCarly such a beloved show is still there. Freddie and Carly could still become a couple, the playful humor is the same, and Spencer has not changed at all. Balancing a more modern style of TV comedies with the core elements of iCarly is not easy, but that isn't the only challenge the show is facing. The greater problem is that, to this point, it's ignored its most interesting potential storyline.
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So far, the iCarly revival hasn't explored the idea of what it means to be a social media star these days – something that should have been the focus when bringing iCarly back. The basic premise of iCarly was seeing Carly, Freddie, and Sam producing a web show and becoming internet stars. Given how the world and mostly the internet have drastically changed from when iCarly originally aired on Nickelodeon to now, one could reasonably expect that the iCarly revival would both incorporate those changes and highlight them. That, however, did not happen. In fact, little has been shown of what the iCarly web show looks like in the 2020s.
It is not clear if the iCarly web show is now an Instagram livestream, a YouTube channel, or a combination of
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