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My So-Called Life (Season 1 - Entire Series)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 27, 2011, 11:39 am
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Trailer
DVD Trailer
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Opening Credits
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Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot
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Episode 2: Dancing In The Dark
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Episode 3: Guns And Gossip
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Episode 4: Father Figures
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Episode 5: The Zit
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Episode 6: The Substitute
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Episode 7: Why Jordan Can't Read
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Episode 8: Strangers In The House
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Episode 9: Halloween
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Episode 10: Other People's Mothers
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Episode 11: Life Of Brian
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Episode 12: Self-Esteem
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Episode 13: Pressure
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Episode 14: On The Wagon
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Episode 15: So-Called Angels
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Episode 16: Resolutions
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Episode 17: Betrayal
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Episode 18: Weekend
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Episode 19: In Dreams Begin Responsibility
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Re: My So-Called Life (Season 1 - Entire Series)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 27, 2011, 11:40 am
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Added Episode 1: Pilot
I haven't seen this since it went off the air. This is gonna be
fun to revisit again.
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Re: My So-Called Life (Season 1 - Entire Series)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 27, 2011, 1:26 pm
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Pilot
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Damn, I can't remember much of this series at all and in a way,
I'm happy about it. This way, I get to fall in love with the
show all over again. I just can't believe how long it's been
since it went off the air, which to this day is one of the
biggest crimes against humanity. That and Freaks And Geeks. But
that's a story for another time.
The Pilot sets up the tone of the series extremely well as
Angela Chase (Claire Danes) is looking to find her own identity,
one that is not based on what other's want her to be. He
statement about what Yearbooks represents couldn't more on point
on how they don't represent what and how school made us feel
back then when she says it's "...it's not even what really
happened, it's what everyone thinks was supposed to happen.
Because if you made a book of what really happened, it'd be a
really upsetting book." With Angela breaking out on her own, she
of course is drawn to the school bad girl Rayanne Graff (A.J.
Langer). It's easy to see why Angela who has led a
straight-laced life would be fascinated with her. She is out
breaking curfew, drinking, hitting parites and socializing. But
with it comes consequences of getting into trouble with
authority figures and alienating former friends Sharon Cherski (
Devon Odessa) and Brian Krakow (Devon Gummersall) because they
aren't "cool" enough to hang with anymore. This of course leaves
them feeling really insecure, leaving them to think they did
something wrong to be dropped in the manner they are.
Just like Angela is attracted to the idea of doing things not
expected of her and being "bad", it's not till she gets
"arrested" that the school bad boy Jordan Catalano (Jared Leto),
whom she has had a crush on for awhile, takes notice of her for
the first time. It's all about perception and the roles we play
in High School to build you up to be something your not, which
goes back to what she was saying about the Yearbook and what it
represents. Even though she reconnects with her Mother, she
still feels the need to keep the image going the next day at
school by perpetuating the myth behind her "arrest" to attract
more kids at school, which it does, expanding her circle of
"friends".
If you are a fan of such shows like The Wonder Years and Freaks
and Geeks, this is an absolute must-see for you. Check it out,
you won't be disappointed.
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Re: My So-Called Life (Season 1 - Entire Series)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 27, 2011, 1:31 pm
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Added Episode 2: Dancing In The Dark
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Re: My So-Called Life (Season 1 - Entire Series)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 27, 2011, 1:45 pm
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Added Opening Credits
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Re: My So-Called Life (Season 1 - Entire Series)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 27, 2011, 2:51 pm
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Dancing In The Dark
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The main story revolves around Angela's parents deciding to take
a Ballroom Dancing class in an effort to reconnect since their
marriage has hit a rough patch. In the Pilot episode, Angela
stumbles across her Dad talking to another woman late at night
out on the street. It doesn't take much to figure out that there
is something going on between them. So, in Dancing In The Dark,
Graham Chase (Tom Irwin) confesses to his brother Neil (Danton
Stone) about the other woman that is pursuing him. Up to this
point, the plot is kind of run-of-the-mill standard that you
have seen on most shows. It's not till the very end when Angela
overhears her father "breaking it off" with the other woman over
the phone and see her in the next room. No words are spoken from
here on out.
The other half of the episode is about Rayanne setting up
getting a fake ID from Jordan for Angela, in an effort to create
a moment for the both of them. This worked in theory, but not
practicality when Jordan does in fact make his move on Angela.
Only thing is, he is moving faster than she likes and quickly
rebuffs his advances. See, she is not such a "bad girl"
afterall.
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Re: My So-Called Life (Season 1 - Entire Series)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 28, 2011, 8:09 am
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Added Episode 3: Guns And Gossip
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Re: My So-Called Life (Season 1 - Entire Series)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 28, 2011, 9:22 am
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Guns And Gossip
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Rumors are a funny thing. Regardless if they are true or not, it
changes things. In the case of Angela, she is the victim of a
rumor going around the school and beyond that she has had sex
with Jordan, which she clearly wants to dispel as false. In the
case of Rickie (Wilson Cruz), who is the victim of bullying due
to his sexuality, he wants nothing more than to have people
think he is carrying a gun so that bully's will leave him alone
once and for all. Both of these incidents are connected to
Brian, who happens to have started the rumor about Angela and he
was also a witness in the hallway when the gun went off.
The school Principal wants nothing more than to make the school
feel safe by getting to the truth about what Brian may or may
not have seen regarding the gun. Over the course of the episode,
the Principal becomes more invasive and threatening in trying to
coerce a confession from Brian till evnetually he finally stands
up to him with threats of a lawsuit for harassment. It's at this
moment he realizes what Rickie is going through now that he
himself is a victim of bullying, just as she saw the damage he
had done to Angela about the rumor when she confronted him on it
earlier.
The gun issue is never resolved since Brian keeps the truth to
himself. The kids at school think nothing of it, that all is
forgotten and it's going to just be another day at school. That
is till they all arrive at school and now have to walk through a
metal detector. Yup, rumors changes things.
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Re: My So-Called Life (Season 1 - Entire Series)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 28, 2011, 10:08 am
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Added Episode 4: Father Figures
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Re: My So-Called Life (Season 1 - Entire Series)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 28, 2011, 12:11 pm
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Mother and daughter are both trying to deal with their own Daddy
issues as best as they can. Angela's mother Patty (Bess
Armstrong) is trying to reconcile with her own Father (Paul
Dooley) who resents her for taking over the family business and
Angela herself is trying to come to terms about what her own Dad
(Tom Irwin) may or may not be doing with another woman on the
side. A lot of tension between all four of them. They kind of
reconcile at the end, but not really. It's more true to life if
everything isn't wrapped up in a big red bow.
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