SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

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.

vivreenpaix I remember seeing this show playing after Degrassi on "The N" when Degrassi was still a good show. It never captured my interest then, but once I saw the whole series on Netflix, I thought I'd give it a try.It instantly stole my soul. I felt like I was watching my own teenage years on the television. Angela Chase's words, thoughts, and actions were all too familiar to me. The way that she swooned over Jordan Catalano reminded me of all of the boys that I saw as gods in high school. Rayanne betrayed her in the worst way possible (which also happened to me) and by the end of two long days and nineteen episodes, I was in love with a television show that was long gone. For a week or so, I had the urge to order the silly book that was a continuum of the show that got cancelled. I was THAT desperate to know what happened. There really isn't another television show like this. You had "Boy Meets World", "Saved by the Bell", "The Wonder Years", etc. - but nothing will ever compare to how deep "My So-Called Life" can dig into your core and take you back to those high school days when everything was unfathomable. Although it is JUST a television show from the nineties, a 15 year old girl shows you a lot about life - and reminds you that even though life is complicated, we still have to go on. I will never forget this show as long as I live.

GrayAreaDVM ...but it was too hard to watch the accurate portrayal. This show was on back when we still trusted our Government. I watched this series with my wife. We knew each other very well. We've been around, traveled, are both well read, both of us have advanced degrees. She has a Master's Degree in History and I got a Bachelor's Degree in Economics, a Doctor's Degree in Veterinary Medicine and a Master's Degree in Experimental Psychology (Animal Behavior). We've raised four great kids that married well, exceeding our hopes. We thought we had done well and were very comfortable with our methods and results. We were amazed at how uncomfortable this series made us feel. The others, who watched with us, were of various ages, and also all felt queasy and ill-at-ease within their own spheres, age groups and lifestyles. Why? The entire production was done in a way that would not allow us to lie to ourselves about anything. All the naiveness, selfishness and mistaken approaches that each member of Angela's family either demonstrated or narrated, letting us hear what they were thinking, all of the squirming that was elicited from us by the scenarios presented, all made the show very raw and real. The astonishingly honest interpretations presented of life and its unavoidable [...], required of us all self-revelations that had heretofore been quietly buried. The near-misses and potentially huge mistakes that we didn't do, still, those haunted us, seeing the precarious nature of the many variables existing around us all as we go/went blindly through much of life's dangerous waters. Many proactive opportunities were not taken by all of us due to fear of the unknown. That omission of action, which occurred in many cases, is as gnawing as the chances we did take that were scary. Each age group's nausea, those of every and any stage of development through life, was brought out and presented to us, having all of the subjects covered, in doing so, touched some aspect of what each of us should have, could have and/or would have done, or not. No cell phones... made a difference in many aspects. The first time I remember there being a gay kid as a regular member of the cast of a TV show was portrayed on this show without hesitation, as just another member of the group. I am sure, though have not heard, I just feel it, that the advertisers had a hard time with that and is partly why the plug was pulled. If, in fact, that made a difference, how stupid were those executives! The teenage drinking and the unbridled passion unflinchingly shown when the young people made out for hours at a time was all a bit much for the Execs and the conservative overseers of the production. It made them as uncomfortable as it did us, though all well-presented and was what happened to all of us. What really happened, as Angela pointed out when speaking of the yearbook's idealized portrayals, was the upsetting book of the year's activities chronicled in this show's every episode explored more and newer ways anyone and everyone could have and did screw up. This show was not the idealized version to life, as the yearbook was to the/that particular year, idealized in the book but not in the show. Actual events if put in the yearbook, unvarnished, would portray, would lead to a very upsetting book, as Angela pointed out. The show gave us the real version of the year. This is a true classic show that was w-a-a-a-y ahead of its time and ended up being too much to handle, too hard to watch, too difficult to be starkly realized, all the things that actually happened that way, that knowledge being avoided by, and for, those living in their fake, idealized yearbook-type memory-of-their lives, a condition which took a lot of self-deception to create in their/our minds as if that pleasant history had been the one that happened. For that year, any year, what should go in the yearbook was what was in the show, so, of course, could not actually happen.

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.