Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

RavenGlamDVDCollector I have it on DVD and it's high time I watched it again. I've always been on about BEVERLY HILLS 90210 and its successor 90210, but those big, big efforts often, no, more often than not, took on too much and ran away with themselves. This one has that real feeling. And it often inspires these fuzzy warm feelings, hey, just the memory of it...! I have several ShoutFactory products as I'm into "decades past" and the ad pops up regularly, and I salute it every time it appears. Angela Chase is one of my all-time favorite girls on film. Coupled with ROMEO + JULIET, I am a hugé Claire Danes fan.Just today, I voted for it on the polls as "Greatest Series Set Mainly in a High School" or something like that. At their best moments, the 90210's were great, but far from consistent. This one, you knew what you had, it was always not just good, but great. More than that, it tugged at your heart.Was unfortunately doomed because of course Claire was destined for movies. Which sunk Season Two. That was the show's only flaw. It had a star it couldn't keep.By the way, A.j. Langer, cheered for you too!I maintain that the best TV came from the Nineties. This one is a prime example.Highly recommended. Soft-hearted romantics into unrequited love especially.{and I so wanted to post that classic quote "like a toaster or something", oh! but somebody beat me to it...!}

Adris Adrian I didn't grow up in the 90's still,I was born in 94 in Romania so I'm very familiar with that type of high school life. This show has a lot of life and really covers everything from child abuse, homophobia, addiction and adultery, things that you get to be involved or pass bay during your time in high school. I for one find this show an optimistic approach comparing with the reality now. I find now young people far more depressed and sensitive than back there, proving why Netflix 13 reasons got a huge hit, a show that has a lot of similarities to this one. As for the shows being very alike, this show has episodes that bring magic realism into the picture, like the episode with the dead girl with the guitar, it brings hope to those who watch it as 13 reasons why fail to do that. Overall, it's a good show, has it's flesh it's bones but more important, it has a soul. 9/10.

charlestontracy A special thanks to Netflix for finally putting something worthwhile on instant play. I haven't watched this show since it first aired 17 years ago! Oh! the memories this show brings back to me. Such a brilliant show, gone too soon! It really is a shame the show didn't stay on longer; especially when you consider what shows do get to stay on television. I was 15 in 1994, the same year 'My So-Called Life' first aired. 1994 could be considered to some as the height of the grunge era; it's the same year Kurt Cobain killed himself, the same year the second Woodstock took place (which should have been the last in my humble opinion:)). Generation Xers were certainly the basis of this show, and it shows in the clothing and music as well as issues such as, sexual orientation and school shootings dealt with on the show. The main character, Angela Chase (played by the fantastic Claire Danes) was also 15, and as far as I was concerned someone had taken my life and put it on television.Between Angela's confusion about what crowd she wanted to surround herself with, to those obscure and sometimes awkward voice-over thoughts Angela had about life, friends, family, and Jordan Catalano (sigh), all made for a very realistic teen drama. Even Angela's wardrobe set her apart from all the other shows depicting teens. She was the only teenage character on television that I ever saw wear the same outfits week after week. My dad watched this show with me and I think he really did enjoy it as much as I did.I was so heart broken when the show ended. But just like the good die young, this show had to be put to rest early. I like to think it was all for the best,and if it had stayed on it would have eventually jumped the shark and become a horrible show.Although, I must admit there are those times when I wonder: what would have ever come of Brian and Angela?? I will never forget that long, emotional stare they had with each other in front of her house at the end of the last episode. UGH! The agony of not knowing will always haunt me.

resafuchs Twothousendandnine, nearly 15 years after "My so called Life" was first screened, i watched the series again. Besides the enormous charisma of the main Charakter Angela, played by Claire Danse, the whole setting seems still so up-to-date, that i couldn't believe my senses. When i first got acquainted to the Saoap, in the age of 13, i was just not able to resist Angela. I wanted her Identity. Forcing young people to identify with the characters, not with bad means than with lots of hearts, I got me the same backpack and tried to behave like HER. Seeing the movies again (and i just saw the first one by now) is not just an echo back from old days. It's more than ever worth to keep in touch with a story and a Character thats full of life, melancholy and truth. For everyone who is able to be touched and able to feel and dive in to stories, "My so called Life" has to be seen! No matter of age, gender or special preferences.