Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Misspixieknight My So called life first aired when I was 11 and in my first year of junior high. Well I was the perfect age for it as I could relate so much to a lot of the issues the teens on the show were going through. The show revolves around a 15 year old girl named Angela Chase. Angela has recently ditched her childhood best friend Sharon to hang out with the free spirited yet troubled Rayanne Graff and her gay male friend Ricki Vasquez. They encourage Angela to dye her blonde hair a deep red color much to her parents dismay. Angela is in love with an older boy named Jordan Catalono a quiet,mysterious but gorgeous guy. All of this is revealed in the first episode and if it sounds like a boring typical teen drama trust me its not. It's so much more! There are numerous characters and detail is giving to all. The show deals with a lot of issues such as young love,problems with parents,substance abuse,guns in school,sex,friendship and so much more. Most of everything is seen from Angela's POV,and we get frequent voice overs from her as well. The series has aged well from 1994.It's actually quite refreshing to not see smart phones everywhere or hear references to social media like Facebook and twitter. I believe teens nowadays can still enjoy this show. Girls will probably enjoy it more then guys but I do remember a few of my male classmates admitting they enjoyed it as well. I enjoyed re watching My so called life as an adult as it brought me back to my middle school days watching it with my mom and my best friend and I dressing just like Angela and Rayanne ..I admit re watching this made me want to dig up all my old flannel shirts and baby tees:) My recommendation? Whether you are nostalgic for some good 90s television or are a teen debating if you should watch this show I say go for it! You will be pleasantly surprised how realistic and entertaining My so called life is.

GrayAreaDVM ...but it was too hard to watch the accurate portrayal. This show was on back when we still trusted our Government. I watched this series with my wife. We knew each other very well. We've been around, traveled, are both well read, both of us have advanced degrees. She has a Master's Degree in History and I got a Bachelor's Degree in Economics, a Doctor's Degree in Veterinary Medicine and a Master's Degree in Experimental Psychology (Animal Behavior). We've raised four great kids that married well, exceeding our hopes. We thought we had done well and were very comfortable with our methods and results. We were amazed at how uncomfortable this series made us feel. The others, who watched with us, were of various ages, and also all felt queasy and ill-at-ease within their own spheres, age groups and lifestyles. Why? The entire production was done in a way that would not allow us to lie to ourselves about anything. All the naiveness, selfishness and mistaken approaches that each member of Angela's family either demonstrated or narrated, letting us hear what they were thinking, all of the squirming that was elicited from us by the scenarios presented, all made the show very raw and real. The astonishingly honest interpretations presented of life and its unavoidable [...], required of us all self-revelations that had heretofore been quietly buried. The near-misses and potentially huge mistakes that we didn't do, still, those haunted us, seeing the precarious nature of the many variables existing around us all as we go/went blindly through much of life's dangerous waters. Many proactive opportunities were not taken by all of us due to fear of the unknown. That omission of action, which occurred in many cases, is as gnawing as the chances we did take that were scary. Each age group's nausea, those of every and any stage of development through life, was brought out and presented to us, having all of the subjects covered, in doing so, touched some aspect of what each of us should have, could have and/or would have done, or not. No cell phones... made a difference in many aspects. The first time I remember there being a gay kid as a regular member of the cast of a TV show was portrayed on this show without hesitation, as just another member of the group. I am sure, though have not heard, I just feel it, that the advertisers had a hard time with that and is partly why the plug was pulled. If, in fact, that made a difference, how stupid were those executives! The teenage drinking and the unbridled passion unflinchingly shown when the young people made out for hours at a time was all a bit much for the Execs and the conservative overseers of the production. It made them as uncomfortable as it did us, though all well-presented and was what happened to all of us. What really happened, as Angela pointed out when speaking of the yearbook's idealized portrayals, was the upsetting book of the year's activities chronicled in this show's every episode explored more and newer ways anyone and everyone could have and did screw up. This show was not the idealized version to life, as the yearbook was to the/that particular year, idealized in the book but not in the show. Actual events if put in the yearbook, unvarnished, would portray, would lead to a very upsetting book, as Angela pointed out. The show gave us the real version of the year. This is a true classic show that was w-a-a-a-y ahead of its time and ended up being too much to handle, too hard to watch, too difficult to be starkly realized, all the things that actually happened that way, that knowledge being avoided by, and for, those living in their fake, idealized yearbook-type memory-of-their lives, a condition which took a lot of self-deception to create in their/our minds as if that pleasant history had been the one that happened. For that year, any year, what should go in the yearbook was what was in the show, so, of course, could not actually happen.

Eva-Stina Nordkvist You know how you watch a TV show, a movie, or whatever, when you're young, and when you see it again many years later, you feel embarrassed that you ever liked it in the first place? Well, that has almost always been the case for me, but with my so-called life.. I mean, I don't really know what to say. I saw it for the first time when I was 13-14 years old and now I'm 29 years old, and it still gives me shrills down my spine, goose bumps, tears in my eyes, strong compassionate feelings.I have never seen anything, TV or movie, that made me feel this way. It is, like many people here already have stated, a realistic show, it's everyday life, a glimpse of the struggles in a normal family, of a normal teenage girl's life. You know it was you, standing there in a corner, longing for that guy (or girl) you dreamed about. You know it was you who sneaked out to go to that party your parents strictly forbade you to attend. As much as I recognize the things happening to Angela, in another way, that frankly alarms me a bit, is that I now see my teens in the eyes of my parents. The anguish they must have felt, and how helpless they must have been. I sort of realize that now. Another example of this shows brilliance, it is so spot on, I'm not even sure the writer knew that at the time. How can one person know the situation of both teenagers and adults? It's so unreal, but I am forever grateful for this masterpiece. I will keep this series and show it to my kids one day. It is sad that it only lasted one season, but I'm happy it's there. So,so happy.

jayarebee Sophisticated as well as excellent casting for one of MTV's first set of TV Shows Network Produced, which grabbed the attention of many watchers. 1994 had a lot of great shows for teens and the younger audience, this show was probably the most mature of many of them and the most known. I fell in love with Claire Danes who was only 3 or 4 years older than me, so I anticipated every girl to be as pretty as her come high school. She was amazing, her talents are way beyond her age. Claire has only become more beautiful and amazing and just one of the few down to earth young actresses who can turn a guys attention to whatever she is in. I thought she was sisters or related to Nickelodeon's Larisa Oleynik from Alex Mack, two very beautiful girls about the same age who's premiere shows were hits for their networks. Both young female actresses handled their quick fame and success wonderfully and only grew into magnificent young women. I love watching Claire to this day, she was so cute 17 years ago and I can not believe how old I am getting and how lovely she has matured. MTV should have stuck to programming like this, because My So Called Life was excellent as well as was their other show Dead at 21 which aired about the same time. My So Called Life turned out to be a little bit more popular, I think the plot was very intuitive and interested not only young females but males as well... we all want to know what girls like Claire (Angela) think about and want in their lives. I can not wait until I have time to watch this series in it's entirety, it will be enjoyable.