Brilhante Victória

After launching his career as the creative force behind All That, Dan Schneider has gone on to create some of Nickelodeon and TeenNick's best and most well-known programs, including The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh, Zoey 101, and iCarly. His latest effort is Victorious, a Nickelodeon sitcom starring teen idol Victoria Justice. Known primarily for her supporting role in Zoey 101 and starring in the iCarly movie, iFight Shelby Marx, her first lead role in a television series finds her as Victoria "Tori" Vega, an easily likable high student whose talent is obvious to everyone but herself. After her naive sister is unable to perform at her art school's annual talent show, Victoria unwillingly takes the stage, wows the crowd, and, eventually leaves her "normal" high school to enroll at the fictional Hollywood Arts High School. From the very first day, it's clear: the transition will be a difficult one, thanks to the inherent irregularities that come with such a process, but ultimately necessary to achieving her lifelong dream.

Victorious adds little to Schneider's patented formula--the characters are still a bit odd, their dialogue quirky, and the situations they find themselves always more absurd than reasonable. Fans of Schneider's previous works will be right at home here, but unless you find Victoria Justice's character a more effective protagonist than, say, Zoey Brooks or Carly Shay, those who find shows like these predictable and cliché will likely retain the same opinion.

I'll admit I have a lot of nostalgia for this show. However, after rewatching it now that I'm older plenty of aspects of it still hold up. The writing is surprisingly funny in a weird sort of way(one of the main character is literally a "urban" puppet.) The acting from the kids is fine and obviously it includes a lot of breakout stars like Ariana Grande. Obviously it is a kids sitcom so it has a lot of cheesiness but as far as this genre goes I'll still say it gets a pass from me.

I don't know about you but this was pretty funny for me. I don't really see shows like this but I like original teen shows that have funny wit and real fresh humor.

I don't know why but back in 2010, the quality of shows like these were actually pretty funny, I hate to break it to you but now a days shows like these lack a lot. I guess it would have to be time.

This show is very entertaining and fun. My favorite character is cat. She is very adorable and sweet. I also like Andre, who is very musically talented and anti stereotype. Trina annoys me TO DEATH. She has some funny one liners, but all of her plot lines consist of her being a total b*tch. Some of the songs sung are poorly written and hard to listen to. Also I think they maybe should have made the Tory character a more outstanding singer that the others. In the show, there is nothing that makes her voice better than cats or jades, but they still always have Tori the one being discovered, or applauded. In the platinum music awards episode, cat did a better job in my opinion but tori still won. This bugged me because there was nothing really special about toris voice. So that part was kind of unrealistic. Beck is a very flat character. He is almost never funny. I don't know why he was in that school in the first place other than for the tori/ jade love triangle. Other than beck being a flat character, Trina being annoying, and tori being unrealistic, this show is amazing and I definitely recommend watching.

I was 15 when this show came out. I watched some episodes here & there and found it enjoyable enough, but didn't love it....it wasn't "mature" enough for my "discerning palette" (I mainly watched Gossip Girl, Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, etc. hahaha). In fact, most of my exposure to this show came from babysitting a little girl who was obsessed with it, so that probably also made me feel "too old" for it (gotta love teenager logic!). Zoom forward to 2020 and the craziness of this year, and out of boredom (and possibly psychological regression) I've revisited this show on Netflix. Only....I'm amazed at how much I am genuinely enjoying it! True, parts of this show haven't aged well....at all. But, it has some truly funny moments, catchy songs, and the cast had great chemistry overall. And of course it's fascinating to see Ariana Grande shine as Cat Valentine in the days before her mega stardom/success. Victorious didn't take itself too seriously, and as long as you don't either, you might just find yourself watching all 4 seasons in an alarmingly quick span like I did.