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It doesn't look like much work was done at all to restore the image quality, which is a shame for a series this acclaimed. There is notable grain in the image that is a bit more obvious in some scenes compared to others, and occasionally some fairly blatant scratches and imperfections in the picture. This is a 12 year old series, so perfection isn't expected in this regard, but still, this is a fairly poor transfer and the only real downside to this DVD set.

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The Video My So-Called Life is presented in a non-anamorphic full screen (1.33:1) aspect ratio, as it originally aired.

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Fans of quality TV owe a big debt of gratitude to Angela Chase and the show that begat her. Michele Byers, in an essay that's included in the booklet that accompanies the set, says that echoes of Angela Chase have been felt in numerous other notable young female characters since the short-lived run of My So-Called Life, including Buffy Summers, Lindsay Weir, Veronica Mars and Felicity Porter. There were some missteps along the way, but the 19 episodes of My So-Called Life are almost entirely a bit of television wonder. It's a small thing, but having Angela and the others on My So-Called Life have a specific wardrobe, with the same clothing popping up numerous times, was just another small part of a show that was making a lot of specific and clever little decisions. Even the clothing the kids wore on the show was notable - Other teen oriented series, including the rightfully lauded Buffy the Vampire Slayer - feel the need to have their main characters wear a completely different, oh-so fashionable outfit every week, even if the characters financial status wouldn't allow for that.

On only the eleventh episode of the show, the excellent 'Life of Brian', they switched up the paradigm and had the episode done from Brian Krakow's point of view and narrated by him, rather than Angela.

The creators were really unafraid to go against the grain on the series. Danes utterly sells the confusion a 15 year old is going through and why she would do the things she does, even when you wish she wouldn't. But this was a show that wasn't afraid to show even their central character as well rounded and less than perfect to the point that in some scenes, you are definitely not on her side. Angela's not always likeable - she can be snippy or flippant with her family or friends, and often talks without thinking. Danes is absolutely remarkable as Angela, giving one of the most nuanced and lovely performance an actress her age ever has done on network television. At the center of it was Claire Danes, who was only 13 years old when she filmed the pilot to the series, and 15 during production of most of the rest of the episodes. This was helped in no small part by a truly perfect cast. But there was a genuine affection and respect for the characters being conveyed that makes them easy to love, even in the most heart on sleeve moments. Yes, the pilot plays 'Everybody Hurts' near the end, without irony. My So-Called Life was a very earnest show, perhaps too earnest for some.

My So-Called Life was didn't just want to have The Gay Kid episode or The Alcoholic Girl episode, but rather make have ongoing, important characters, whose issues wouldn't be solved in one 'very special' episode, but rather continually play out. Some will role their eyes at storylines of this sort, finding them cliche, but context is everything. Rayanne partied all the time, including drinking in excess, going down a self-destructive path that threatened to take her down at any time. Rickie was the first ever series regular teenage character on a TV show who was gay, something he continually struggled with. Beyond that it was attempting to deal with issues and themes teens go through in a much more level-headed manner than an afterschool special would do with such subjects. Yes, some of their problems were perhaps not monumental in the scheme of things, but the show was capturing the way in which the worries teenagers have certainly feel at the time like the weight of the world upon their shoulders. These were kids who felt incredibly genuine and believable. And My So-Called Life was doing something special. It all sounds pretty basic written out like that I suppose, but a story is all in the telling.

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