EPISODE
My So Called Life - Season 1
A 15-year-old girl and her trials and tribulations of being a teenager and dealing with friends, guys, parents and school
5 October 1944
1 June 1975
8 December 1943, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
12 August 1972, Cordoba, Argentina
8 April 1950, Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 January 1961, Berkeley, California, USA
13 July 1968, Tampa, Florida, USA
January 31, 2015
The built-in obstacle for a dramatic series about teen-age life that aims to engage an adult audience has to do with its level of sophistication. My So-Called Life bravely takes on this problem, and even adds a degree of difficulty.
January 29, 2015
In subsequent weeks the series settles into a more predictable and sentimental mold, reminiscent of The Wonder Years, but it is still superior TV The debut episode is so poignant and so powerful, however, it deserves separate consideration.
January 29, 2015
The show is so beautifully, dreamily shot--almost to a fault sometimes--that watching nothing happen to earnest, angsty, teenage philosopher Angela again was pretty fun.
January 31, 2015
The central character in My So-Called Life feels so real. Like many adolescents, she -- and the series -- can be off-putting at first, but it doesn't take long to develop a deep attachment to her.
January 31, 2015
My So-Called Life was doing something special. These were kids who felt incredibly genuine and believable.
January 29, 2015
It is a blessed relief that Life portrays things that have become "issues" without turning them into moments of preachment.
January 29, 2015
My So-Called Life handles standard high school woes with delicate insight.
January 31, 2015
There have been many successful coming-of-age teen television shows over the years, but what had been missing for so long was realism, and MSCL's quality may have actually helped lead to its demise.
January 31, 2015
Ostensibly concerned with the lives of teenagers the show revealed itself to be a greater and more nuanced examination on the interconnectedness of family, friends, time, and place.
January 31, 2015
This collection presents the show as being of a particular time that only gets further away from us, but also as timeless in its achingly realistic portrayal of adolescent angst.