WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the first three episodes of the iCarly revival, now streaming now on Paramount+.
In the iCarly series on Nickelodeon, Carly (Miranda Cosgrove) and Sam (Jennette McCurdy) had many critics of their web show. As popular as their series was, they just couldn’t shake the haters, but it’s something they knew came with the territory. However, in the more mature Paramount+ revival, as Carly restarts her channel, she’s shocked to find out that her newest — and biggest — troll comes from within her own family.
The relentless Millicent (Jaidyn Triplett) is a sassy, charismatic young girl who Freddie reveals in the premiere episode, “iStart Over,” to be his adopted daughter. It happens at Spencer’s art party, where Freddie’s breaking down, telling a prospective date about his two failed divorces and how he failed with tech start-ups.
Sadly, Millicent’s recording it all and sending it live for her channel as she thinks she can be bigger than Carly ever was. She’s all about the likes and thinks her aunt Carly is from an arcane era, not understanding how the TikTok and Instagram Live generation does things. She even goes as far as to also like haters’ comments in “iHate Carly” as she thinks this person’s speaking the truth and can actually get Carly to “do better.” Truthfully, she wants to see Carly fail as she thinks that’s less competition for her to succeed.
Carly thinks her niece’s ego’s pretty ridiculous but as much as she asks Freddie to talk the girl down, Millicent doesn’t listen to anyone. She has no lid for her mouth and denigrates her own people just to get props for herself. Carly realizes that if she doesn’t tame her, Millicent might become popular and dangerous to her brand.
Millicent’s most sinister chops show in “iFauxpologize” when Carly throws up meatballs at another of Spencer’s art unveilings. A ton of memes get generated after the livestream, making Carly popular, but Millicent sees them as things that are offensive.
As such, she starts a Cancel Culture movement, even crafting a jingle for business in Seattle, scouring Carly’s digital footprint and threatening to out her if she finds incriminating stuff. The kicker is that she does, but it’s for Freddie, who lambasted the idea of having kids years ago via comments on social media.
She guilts him into buying her gifts, realizing she can monetize Cancel Culture and even blackmail people with it if they don’t abide by her words. Freddie picks up on her scheme, but he’s too late as she’s already manipulated him to collect her things. Through all this, it becomes perfectly clear that if Millicent remains unsupervised, her trolling will get out of control and a jealous person like her could truly harm Carly’s new show moving forward.
iCarly stars Miranda Cosgrove, Nathan Kress, Jerry Trainor, Laci Mosley and Jaidyn Triplett. The first three episodes are streaming on Paramount+ with new episodes every Thursday.
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