I blame it for, like, ruining my vocabulary.) (I want to do a log of how many times the word “like” is used in Angela’s voiceover. Which would be, like, the worst thing ever. My So-Called Life perfectly portrayed that desperate longing for something to happen, a desire that lives alongside a deep fear that something will actually happen. The wonderful thing about most teenagers is that they feel like insane things are happening to them and their emotions are incredibly intense, but in reality they're just living in suburbia and going to school and feeling the same things people their age have felt for hundreds of years. It shrugged off the expectation that teenagers were (slightly) more youthful looking adults that had crazy and pretty unlikely things happen to them but were still able to hold it together-I'm looking at you here, Beverly Hills 90210-and instead showed teens in all their blemished greasy glory. ![]() ![]() ![]() For once it showed characters that weren't glossy and perfect, and who struggled with real teen problems: loneliness, feeling like an outsider, having small boobs, being the only gay guy at your school, hating your parents while still desperately needing their approval, the weird thing that happens to daughters and fathers when a girl goes through puberty and they suddenly don't know how to talk to each other anymore, the pain of being the little sister when your big sister turns moody and mysterious, and the even worse pain of having a pre-teen little sister who is super annoying and nosy. My So-Called Life was a game-changer for teen TV.
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