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And while the jokes have been updated to be somewhat more progressive, and there are finally more racially diverse main characters, the show still relies on stereotypes for humor. Carly's whole boy crazy/not serious about intellectual pursuits trope isn't really a good look on an adult character in 2021.

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The original iCarly series was amazingly prescient and predicted the era of influencers, but for today's kids Carly's an 'old' who's still video streaming and probably doesn't understand TikTok. It's possibly meant for fans of the original series, who are now 20-somethings like the characters on the show, but it's hard to imagine adults finding the slapstick humor and shallow storylines entertaining as grown-ups. It's not tweens like the original series: the grown-up plot lines make it pretty irrelevant for kids. Can Carly win back her channel's audience and find love in the process? Show moreįans of the original iCarly will probably feel like they're catching up with an old friend, but anyone who's coming to it as a new viewer will likely watch and wonder 'why?' The intended audience of this reboot is a bit of a mystery. She desperately wants to find a partner and makes questionable decisions in her pursuit to land a guy. Millicent is trying to become an influencer too and mostly makes fun of Carly for being 'an old.' When she's not trying to revive her influencer career, Carly is also trying to find success in the dating department.

Freddie's snarky tween stepdaughter Millicent (Jaidyn Triplett) is another addition to the cast. Carly lives down the hall from her brother (still in the Bushwell Plaza apartment building) with new character Harper ( Laci Mosley), a formerly wealthy down-on-her-luck barista with dreams of becoming a stylist. Her best friend Sam from the original series is not in the 2021 reboot, and Carly explains her absence by saying that Sam is 'following her bliss' in a biker gang. She decides the best way to find happiness is to revive her old iCarly video channel with Spencer (a famous sculptor) and Freddie (a washed-up startup guy) beside her. Carly is a 20-something who has finished college but is uninspired by career options in the real world.

Carly Shay ( Miranda Cosgrove), her brother Spencer ( Jerry Trainor), and Freddie ( Nathan Kress) reprise their original characters 10 years after the original iCarly series ended.

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