FREAK | Episode 6 | Online Teen Drama

Freak Episode 6 Online Teen Drama

Named Entertainment Weekly’s best DVD of 2007, this poignant series launched the career of actress Claire Danes and served as a role model for a heap of of the teen oriented shows on television today. Although the primary series aired for less than six months (enjoying a subsequent lengthy rerun on MTV) in the mid-’90s, it has gone on to acquire legendary cache. Smart, bold and real, this series raised the bar for television shows when it comes to coming-of-age and life s transitions. Whether you ve memorized each line, or it s your very basi time, My So-Called Life remains as fresh and honorable today as when it premiered.

Along with nineteen episodes, the bonus features illumine the origin, life and afterlife of this benchmark series with all-new interviews, episode commentaries and archival footage.

Bonus Features:

Featurettes with the cast and creators:

* My So-Called Life Story: The aweinspiring story of the origins, life and afterlife of the series.

* A Conversation with Claire Danes and Winnie Holzman

* The Characters: Exploring the backstories and relationships of the characters.

* An exclusive consultation with Claire Danes

* Photo gallery

* The Music: with composer Snuffy Waldren

* Deluxe book comes with set and includes primary art alongside full-color cast photos and liner notes from Winnie Holzman, Joss Whedon, Janeane Garofalo, and Michele Byers.

Avoiding the sensational, My So-Called Life tackled each teen hot-button issue imaginable (and initiated the then-controversial topic of teen homosexuality), but with a clear-eyed perspective, never dissolving into soap opera-–even when Angela mooned over heartthrob Jordan Catalano (dreamy Jared Leto). Even as it mined adolescent angst, though, My So-Called Life never lost sight of it is adults, with Bess Armstrong and Tom Irwin both extraordinary as Angela’s parents, whose marriage was one of the most complex seen on TV since… well, thirtysomething. Through it all, Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Danes was a neurotic, touching, and funny center, whether obsessing over a zit or negotiating the rocky terrain of initial love. Her funny, sobering, and empathetic portrait of teendom reminded us that in a lot of ways, life was just an extended version of high school. –Mark Englehart

Entertainment Weekly, December 28, 2007#1 DVD of 2007

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92 of 94 persons found the following review helpful.
We had a time–didn’t we. Didn’t we have a time.
By J. Kim
“Okay, so perchance he’s bi. Who cares? His cousin may still DRIVE.”

50 of 53 persons found the following review helpful.
A Realistic View of High School
By Amanda
I am so glad I never watched this show when it was basi on, because I would have been outraged when it was cancelled. Instead, I caught the marathon on MTV – I watched each episode, back-to-back, and enjoyed each second of each episode. A couple of years later, I got into watching Dawson’s Creek and was highly amused by how each single high school reputation talked like a college scholar. I thought that it was refreshing. But now, looking back at My So-Called Life, I realize that it was so much better than any teen drama today. Angela Chase (wonderfully portrayed by Claire Danes) is like a lot of girls in high school: shy, insecure, and in love with the cutest (and baddest) boy in school. She never employed huge words, she never tried to be clever or cute. In other words, she is the realistic version of a high school student. She had a wild and crazy best friend, a geeky boy all over the street who loved her, caring parents, a sometimes-annoying younger sister, and at last the coolest guy in school as her boyfriend. A lot of people thought the Angela/Jordan kinship was a little far-fetched, asking themselves what he would ever see in a girl like her. I thought the idea of their kinship was wonderful, far-fetched or not: it showed young women that they don’t have to be easy and dress provocatively to get guys to detect them.

To this day, I’m still astonished that this show was so short-lived. It dealt with severe issues such as drugs, sex, violence, and it dealt with them realistically. I realize now that My So-Called life was the clever one, not Dawson’s Creek. This DVD is a must-have for the numerous die-hard fans the show still has today. One thing is for sure: the show may have been cancelled, but it will never be forgotten.

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