THR's TV critics revisit MySoCalledLife — the 1994 teen drama that launched the careers of Claire Danes and Jared Leto — debating its resonance today, its treatment of a prominent gay character, the depressing relatability of Brian Krakow and more
were able to combine earnestness and knowing awareness of John Hughes in a way that spoke to my reference-craving Gen-Y brain. remains easy to embrace, equally easy to mock and totally fascinating in its placement right on the cusp of TV's latest Golden Age.
In perhaps one of the previews of prestige TV that you were alluding to, I really did appreciate that storylines and character arcs often took several episodes to resolve.
Sure, it's a world without cell phones and Google and cyber-bullying. It's a world where a character thinking about having sex would get ideas from a purloined VHS tutorial about intimacy, and where the pinnacle of kink is a pair of handcuffs. The kids onis a light comedy! There are so many After-School Special elements here. Jordan can't read! Rayanne is drinking again! And yet Rickie's sexuality and the way the show teases out its layers still feel complex and rich to me.
And criticizing Angela and Rayanne for not recognizing their privilege? Come on! They're dumb! One of the very first things Angela does in the entire series is to deem Anne Frank "lucky" because she got to spend years trapped in an attic with a boy she liked. Angela is a hugely myopic, hugely flawed, hugely sheltered character, and that's not subtext — it's text.
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