The TV that does not educate: 'Victorious'

It seems that today we have a pattern that most television series that are aimed at teenagers usually follow. And it is repeated again and again, regardless of the chain where it is broadcast, that premise for which that program is followed by a legion of children, although the content it offers is not suitable for them. Once again we stop to observe one of those television spaces that are currently broadcast on a children's channel, but that does not have educational guarantees and also offers a product full of contaminated values for the society in which we live.

In that society, success prevails today, being a star and obtaining the recognition of others and that trick not only is not forgotten in the television series that seek to capture the little ones, but is part of its central premise. In this case, we stop at 'Victorious', a fiction that comes from the United States sharing base, characters and even plots with many other productions of its generation. There are no major differences between these types of products, which are not able to differentiate with each other, and show their inability to offer content that is suitable for children over 4 years.

'Victorious' is another fiction aimed at an audience that covers a high age range and arrives in sitcom format, providing the touch of comedy that many children may not understand. Still, the episodes of 'Victoriuos' are distributed in the programming of Clan TV, where it is broadcast daily at 13:50, 18:10 and 22:00 hours. The 'Victorious' chapters have a duration of about 23 minutes and in many of them there is usually a musical number as a high point and as a way to sell the series beyond its passage on television.

What is 'Victorious'?

Fiction begins when Tori Vega replaces her sister when she was about to sing in a musical show at Hollywood Arts, an art institute where students who want to stand out in the world of music or acting study. Despite showing insecurity, Tori manages to stand out in his show, which favors that it begins to study in the school next to a series of peculiar companions.

Tori becomes the center of the sitcom, where we observe the relationships established between the group of friends and how they face the classes that aim to direct their careers. How could it be otherwise, much of the plots of 'Victorious' collect the love relationships that arise between their characters, which boast the sexual awakening of young people.

What can we expect from the series?

Nothing new under the sun. 'Victorious' does not present great differences with other fictions that we have already commented in our special on children's television. Again we find a series with very marked profiles aimed at conquering the spectators through the halo of success surrounding young singers. Tori is nothing more than another character extracted from the audiovisual industry aimed at the adolescent public, something that is not taken into account when being programmed in a children's channel like Clan TV.

It is common to find in 'Victorious' absurd plots that have no other purpose than to make people laugh or to place their characters in different situations to carry out the musical performance on duty, regardless of the ideas that emerge from these stories. As an example, we can point out that chapter in which the protagonists end up in the jail of a totalitarian country due to a fortuitous incident. The unusual plot only aims to reach the moment in which its protagonists perform their musical number in the prison yard.

Loving relationships are also very present in the plots of the series, since It is common to observe the protagonists of 'Victorious' have sexual interest by his schoolmates. These plots range from boys who slip into ballet classes to be close to girls to female characters capable of cheating a boy to get to date him.

In the first episode of 'Victorious' we meet Tori Vega, a 16 year old teenager He unexpectedly replaces his sister in a musical show. From that performance, Tori begins to receive classes at a performing arts school, where he meets those who from then on will be his classmates. Each one stands out in a different scenic setting and possess extravagant personalities who intend to exploit the comic part of fiction.

'Victorious', beautiful, singer and successful

'Victorious' has been another success that has been aired on one of the US youth channels, from where it has reached a fame that has pierced the small screen. During 2012, 'Victorious' was chosen as the favorite series of the Kid's Choice Awards and as the best international program in the Argentine version of the awards. The success of 'Victorious' has been confirmed with the three films that have been released to date, which continues with the plots that we can find on television.

In the small screen the fiction is over after 60 episodes and four seasons on the air that have found the success that was expected to reach the 'Victorious' step in advance. How could it be otherwise, the fiction also has its record of success in which the songs that have sounded in its episodes are collected. The process that has followed the series reminds so many other products that are constantly repeated on current television, a mechanical process that seeks the profitability of an audiovisual production regardless of the consequences of your viewing, in this case, among the smallest viewers.