![]() I cared what critics said, and it was the most acclaimed show of that season. The writing, and especially the jokes, are frequently great (e.g., the immortal line when Angela’s dad asks, sincerely, “Who’s scarier than Madonna?” in the Halloween episode), but the writers also know when to put themselves in the backseat to the looking and being looked at that are so much the currency of high school.Ĭritic's Notebook: 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Demands the Impossible - and Therein Lies Its Greatnessĭaniel Fienberg: I definitely watched My So-Called Life when it premiered in the fall of 1994. ![]() ![]() So I greatly appreciated that My So-Called Life felt like a channeling of adolescence rather than Holzman’s version of, say, The Breakfast Club.Īngela (Danes) is both profound and inarticulate, transparent and incoherent. Most teen stories onscreen (your Riverdales, your Buffy the Vampire Slayers, your American Pies) seem to be more about reaching milestones in fantastical fashion than actual teenage experiences (one wonderful recent exception: Eighth Grade). Having watched it for the first time this past weekend, over a quarter-century after its debut, I can say that it’s a show I admire more than one I connect with. Inkoo Kang: Until this weekend, my so-called TV expertise failed to include My So-Called Life, a show that I was too young for during its original run and that for some reason I’d never been interested enough in to check out. But does it hold up in the era of prestige TV? We discuss. Starring Claire Danes as 15-year-old Angela Chase, a daydreaming high-schooler in suburban Pittsburgh, and created by Winnie Holzman, the teen drama became an enduring cult classic for its insights into the mind of a teenage girl. ![]()
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