This episode gets into a lot of heavy female issues that I know we’ve all experienced.  The least of these is the cosmetic: teenagers getting zits, the thirty-and-forty-somethings covering their faces with wrinkle cream.  It seems that at every age, women have something else to worry about regarding their appearance.  I remember the desire to [...]

Forgive me if I sound like a teenage girl, but Oh My God, You Guys.  Episode 4 of MSCL is the most boring episode ever.  Why? Jordan Catalano is in only ONE scene. I’ve now realized that my whole reason for watching this series was due completely mostly to the Catalano fan service. And Father [...]

The third episode of My So-Called Life is about… well… guns.  And Gossip.  Obviously. It’s also possibly the most dramatic and memorable of the series. I grew up in the age of Columbine.  I wore trench coats to class.  Me and my buds were dubbed as part of the “mafia.” I’m pretty sure I saw [...]

The second episode of My So-Called Life is all about kissing.  It begins with Angela re-capping three of her first kisses, two of which aren’t even “real” kisses. I can still tell you exactly who I have kissed in my life, and what I was feeling at the time, and where we were.  All of [...]

Every time I sit down to watch an episode of My So-Called Life (hereafter MSCL), I get this overwhelming sense of nostalgia.  It’s so overwhelming that it’s like… a gaping hole in my heart that like, cries out when I breathe.  Or something. The cheesy teenager-stylization of the dialogue.  The 90’s mismatched, baggy clothing.  Jared [...]