My friend Jamie is not only the Master of the Internet, but he has impeccable taste in movies, television series, and anime (oh and of course video games). He has given me many recommendations and I have liked them all. My So-Called Life was no different, only that when we first watched three episodes of the series during my sophomore year of college together, I had a heard time watching it. Three episodes in, I was an emotional wreck and stopped watching it. Three years later, I saw the box set of the series sitting on my dad's dvd bookshelf. I was so busy with graduate school and work that I put it aside for another year. Finally, I realized it was also on hulu.com and decided to start watching it.
I agonized over the plots and troubles that the teenagers had to go through. Things that I thankfully never had to go through. Drinking, drugs, guns, parents thinking about cheating, a guy wanting to use a girl form homework/sex, homelessness, etc. It was an intense series which only lasted one season. It was a little too early for its time, but the episodes had excellent acting/scripts/plots. The only nit-picky thing that annoyed me about the series was the use of stock sounds (door creaking open, glass breaking, etc), but what are you gonna do?
Rating: 5 stars
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