Or you see them with someone else and crash to the lowest low there ever was. He was one of those infuriating people who are popular and universally accepted, simply by being.Īngela’s responses capture perfectly that euphoric feeling when the person you like even glances at you in you corridor, and you float on the joy of it all day.
He was a slacker, in a band, he wore a choker, he was a little bit dumb. Unlike other high school shows at the time, where the popular boys were rich, well dressed and high achieving, Jordan was beautiful, but vapid. If you were around in the 90s and you were a girl who liked boys, or a boy who liked boys, then you’ll know the name Jordan Catalano. Once I almost touched his shoulder… He’s always closing his eyes, like it hurts to look at things. During her first real meeting with Jordan, she unknowingly has a splash of mud on her face, and we all related. But the way her rucksack straps always fall down her arms, and her baby-pheasant-legged run down the school corridors, remind us she is still in many ways a child. And the one ground-breaking, beautiful season of My So-Called Life was there to document it all.įrom that first whisper of “go, now, go” before the opening credits, we were whisked along with Angela Chase and her friends as they found themselves careening through the transition from childhood to young adulthood, negotiating their way through drama, heartbreak, and the social hunger games that is high school.Īngela is shy, awkward, and clearly very beautiful under the boyish ill-fitting clothes and plaid shirts she wears. Grunge music and fashion, low budget films and internet chat rooms were infiltrating the mainstream. Teens were feeling empowered and able to express themselves more. Music and culture experienced a shift toward the DIY attitude. You’re lucky to get out alive.ġ994 was a year that changed a generation. It’s like saying “how was that drive-by shooting?” You don’t care how it was. This week Cheryl explores a show that is close to many of our hearts: My So-Called Life. Whether there is some sense of completion, or we are left dangling by a finger from the side of a cliff, these are shows that we think are worth remembering, re-visiting, or even watching now for the first time. A season or two that grabbed us, and… that’s it.
#Rayanne my so called life tv#
Over the years there have been a number of TV shows that have made an impact on us here at 25YL, which we have been sad to see struck down in their prime. “Only the good die young” as the song goes.
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