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Summary: this is better than heaven!
Review: This show brings me back to such good times....
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Summary: watch Daria. Better yet-Absolutely Fabulous
Review: As is the usual way with most pop culture phenomenon and me, it took me a few years to watch this one. Boy am I unhappy I did. After watching about four episodes in a row, I wanted to kill myself. I'm being melodramatic, but this show would make the happiest person on earth start having doubts about their sanity. This show was that depressing. Teenage life, especially when you are a girl is bad enough and this show would just sort of added salt to the wounds. I didn't like it when I was a depressed teen and watching it as an adult makes me want to throw the tv out the window. Or, at least change the channel and watch Nigella Bites instead. At least I could learn something from her.
Jared Leto was nice to look at, Claire Danes could benefit from some acting lessons and the rest of the cast had their moments, but this was really nothing special.
An hour of dysfunctionality, highlighted by Claire Danes making some face, that was supposed to convey some emotion. Then, she would pull her plaid shirt in tighter and say "like" all the time.
Fine television.
Daria and Beavis & Butthead were funnier. Ab Fab had a teenage daughter-who really had a right to pout, but didn't. At least Daria and Saffy stood up for themselves-instead of making faces and giving out these ridiculous teenage bromides like "sometimes, the most truthful people can be so dishonest." Almost like meeting the Dalai Lama hearing something like that-yeah, right.
There's a reason teens don't run the world.
Save your money-if you are a teen-buy something that will make you feel better...
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Summary: Awesome trip down memory lane
Review: During the early 1990's this show was a critically aclaimed success among my generation for a myriad of reasons. First off it chronicled the 'real-life' feel of high school while simmultaneously borrowing from the 'grunge' fashion craze of the early 1990's (albeit in a non-condescending manner). Seccondly, it's characters were neither the 'cookie-cutter' nor 'junior soap' creations of other shows proclaiming to doccument the high school experience. Rather, the sheer magic of the show was the fact it spoke to us in our own language and our own terms. My favirote character (due to her off-beat dressing) was Rayanne, but I also had a soft spot in my heart for Rickie Vasquez and of course Angela and Jordan. I was saddened the later two were never quite as close as I hoped they would become, but chalked it up to the show's intention of keeping things real. That it was pulled by the networks should not be held against the show, but rather used as an indicator to show just how far ahead the show was in it's over all portrayal of teen life. If there had to be one show I would want my kids to watch many years later for 90's retro-tv, this would be one of my top shows. Long live MSCL!
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Summary: Where to start?
Review: I had heard the buzz from this show for almost a year leading up to its premiere. I came in with low expectations. I don't think it's hyperbole to say that this show captured the experience of being a teenager better than any other show had before or has since. It was both timeless and timely and that is a hard balance to strike. If you take out the music and watch the show, it could be happening now. Angela Chase and friends deal with the same issues that today's teens do. Guns in school, alcohol and drugs, first love, insecurity about their changing bodies. It's all there. The characters are rich and engaging. They are true to themselves. The writing is superb and incisive. The show is well cast and the acting is excellent. The music is incredibly timely and sets the mood of the show equally well. ... I've read this a number of places and I ultimately think it's true. The show was ultimately doomed because of Angela herself. The person she confided in most was herself and the times that she came to her greatest revelations were within self-reflection. There were no solutions, only emotional patches to help get from one personal crisis to the next. We like to see our characters resolve things with the help of their friends and everyone goes home happy at the end of the day. I can't do anything but recommend this show. I have been for 8 years.
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Summary: THE BEST SHOW EVER!!
Review: This amazing show is finally being released on DVD in its entirety much to the relief (and thanks to) its loyal fans, thousands of whom signed a petition at mscl.com years ago to convince BMG that we do indeed want every single episode on DVD (rather than only the first three previously released). MSCL captures a moment in time that we all remember. Even if you weren't a flannel wearing teenager in 1994, the themes still resonate. After all, everyone remembers their first heart-breaking crush, betrayal at a friend's hands, and the highs and lows of high school. I have only watched two of the discs so far, but the quality is excellent. Granted I was so overwhelmed by seeing the show again that perhaps I'm a bit biased, but the episodes I have watched so far look great...
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Summary: One of the True Greats
Review: When seen in order, these 19 episodes form an amazingly rich chronicle of a year in the lives of Angela Chase, her high school friends and the adults in their lives. Writing this great rarely makes it into series television. As disappointing as it was when the show was cancelled after one year, the result was a self-contained almost novelistic tapestry of interwoven stories that stands alone as one of the finest depictions of adolescence and parenthood ever created for the screen. One of the most distictive threads that runs through the series is the way both children and adults deceive themselves about what they really want and need out of life. The drama and humor of the series often revolves around the struggle of the different characters to break through to their genuine selves. Among many fine story lines, one standout is that of Rickie Vasquez, probably the first depiction of a gay teen on series television, and if not the first, certainly the most unapologetic. I could go on way too long about all the other moving, surprising, heartbreaking and ironic story lines, about the way characters are always surprising us with unexpected depths or insights or abilities, about the use of music, about the incredibly honest and unexploitative depiction of teenage sexuality, and about the performance of A.J. Langer, the only adult playing a teen-ager and doing it stunningly. Best of all the show is so rich and crafted so brilliantly that it rewards repeated viewing, so you can take out your DVD's every year or two and find new things to enjoy and revisit your favorite moments. Update after viewing the DVD's: The quality of the tranfer (or the production of the discs)is not the greatest, certainly not what we've come to expect from this format. On my set, there's a lot of streaking of bright points in the frame. The original always had a 'soft' quality that was a part of the show's look, but this set should have been more carefully produced. For that reason I'm lowering my rating to 4 stars.
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Summary: A Good Time to be a Teenager
Review: It's funny; we spend 4 years trying to get the hell out of high school, and the rest of our lives trying to recapture it. Whe MSCL premiered, I was 17. A little older then the characters, but still able to relate. This show was almost TOO realistic, which is why I think it was so quickly cancelled. I imagine parents of teenagers watching this show and being hit so hard by what their kids were going through, that they had to turn the channel. I watch this show now and think: this was high school in the early to mid 90's. Slightly exagerrated? Maybe. But it still hits home with all of its original force. Bottom Line: This show will always be very close to my heart, and when I have children, I will watch it with them so they can see what their father's time in high school was like.
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Summary: Easily the best show about being an adolescent!
Review: I was a HUGE fan of this show and was so sorry to see it sadly come to an end after only one season. The characters were wonderful and very true to life as a young adult in the early to mid-90s. It is a shame that shows like this, and Freaks and Geeks don't last longer - but they remain in the hearts of fans and now with this DVD they can live on forever. Kudos to the producers, writers, and stars of My So Called Life - you did an awesome job!
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Summary: My So Called Life (Best Show Ever!)
Review: This is a must have dvd set if you are a fan of the series. I never wa a true fan until the series was cancelled, but I caught up quick when all the episodes aired on Mtv. Since then, I have been a "So-Called" junkie!
I highly recommend this to any teen (girls mostly) out there because nothing comes closer to true life than this series. I grew up with Angela and actually I finished off with Felicity.
If you were a fan of My So-Called Life, then I recommend Felicity as well. Angela is High school, while Felicity is college.
However nothing can ever replace a great show such as My So-Called Life with losing and gaining friends, cheesy dances, awkward moments, love and overall life.
This is a winner for anyone.
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Summary: Wow. Finally.
Review: This summer I watched the scratchy, almost-ten-years-old tapes of My-So Called Life that I made off of the reruns MTV played of it. I got sucked back in all over again, despite the fact that the tapes skipped and the audio quality was horrible. Then when I was done, I wrote in my journal, "I really want to know who Angela Chase became. She's me- she's a whole generation of me's at 15. Would she be us at 22?" We'll never know for sure, but at least I can finally see it the way it originally aired- able to hear Jordan's song without it warbling, able to watch all the multitude of times that Angela cried, able to be sent back in time to when Rayanne's outfits were actually kind of cool. I will be the first person in line to buy this on November 19.
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