I was a Freshmen in High School when this aired and I have to say it had a profound affect on the way that I viewed everything around me. I remember, shortly after seeing my first episode, I thought it was the hipper MTV version of 90210. I thought it was trash, that is until I walked into Nicole's apartment for the first time I remembered a quote, verbatim, of the episode I saw nearly a week before: "Walking into someone else's house for the first time is like entering another country. Not that I've ever been to another country." I was hooked after that experience, as a high school Freshmen I couldn't exactly relate to, well, anything I was watching at the time. But with "My So-Called Life," time & again, I found myself in similar places & situations that I could relate back to the series.
It's a shame it ended after only one season. There aren't any other shows I've related so much with & with "My So-Called Life" it came around at just that time of life where I could access with the greatest amount of relevancy. A few years earlier or a few years later & the impact wouldn't have been so monumental.
I wonder if today's teens would feel the same, or if the environment & culture have changed so much that it would be alien to them. Still, with things as vastly unprofound as: "If only there were a button somewhere that I could push. To force me to stop talking." I'm sure it will stand the test of time.
It's a shame it ended after only one season. There aren't any other shows I've related so much with & with "My So-Called Life" it came around at just that time of life where I could access with the greatest amount of relevancy. A few years earlier or a few years later & the impact wouldn't have been so monumental.
I wonder if today's teens would feel the same, or if the environment & culture have changed so much that it would be alien to them. Still, with things as vastly unprofound as: "If only there were a button somewhere that I could push. To force me to stop talking." I'm sure it will stand the test of time.