Jade Dumps Beck

Jade Dumps Beck

   Hello. This is still a blog that reviews Victorious. This one is called Jade Dumps Beck- that's the title of the episode. 

   I still can't get over how un-cool the extras in this show are. Not because I'm a 13 year old concerned with how close my show imitates the popular kids, but because how frequently we're told how cool every student is supposed to be. Sinjin is an actual rapist. I don't know I'm not in high school maybe thats the new trend

    Anyway. Beck hangs out with some girl who is apparently a well known celebrity. It would be like if I walked up to you and said I sometimes get coffee with Ariana Grande. Only in my dreams. Anyway Jade gets mad and breaks up with him or whatever. This scene is notable because Jade is wearing a Gears Of War messenger bag. I like to picture that some poor intern had his bag commandeered by Dan Schneider himself after realizing all of their props were fedoras and outfits from 2003. Then again, maybe the show is just trying to take a nuanced approach to establish the background and hobbies of it's characters in a way that respects the intelligence of the viewer.

   I'm kidding.

  So they break up and Jade becomes immediately distressed and cries to Tori who vows to fix it or something. Tori teaches Jade the meaning of being a girlfriend (buy him better presents) and they get him some dog they find on the streets. I never really got this logic in shows where people get eachother pets. When people want a dog and don't have one, it's not like acquiring the dog is the great challenge. They just can't have the responsibility of taking care of it. I mean it's not like dogs are this rare commodity you have to 

   Ok so the dog mauls Beck's dad but Beck and Jade get back together because Beck would rather rejoin his toxic relationship than be with a kind girl he has already stated to have similar interests with.

  The B-Plot is something about Trina having a play that Robbie has to review I don't know honestly I watched this a few hours ago and I'm trying to piece the fragments together in my mind for this review.

     Overall I thought this was a good episode. It was funny to see Jade's character act distressed and more human, and the plot feels pretty realistic and makes sense. It also shifts the light away from Tori a bit, who is for some reason the worst character in a show named after her. 8/10

Side Notes:

• Beck has a housecleaner who shuffles out of his RV at one point, after which he calls out "Thanks Consuela!". This woulden't be offensive, but the maid is clearly not at all Latin American.
• Beck lives in his own RV in his parents driveway because "My parents said if I was under their roof I was under their rules, so under my roof, my rules". Despite this, Beck is only ever shown to work very occasionally as an extra on sets, so there's basically no chance his parents didn't buy that RV in the first place.