My So-Called Life - The Complete Series (w/ Book)

by Shout! Factory

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Director:Scott Winant
Release Date:2007-10-30
Label:Shout! Factory
UPC:826663105582
Binding:DVD
Published By:Shout! Factory
ASIN:B000TXZVGQ
Category:DVD

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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 many of the teen oriented shows on television today. Although the original 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 about coming-of-age and life s transitions. Whether you ve memorized every line, or it s your very first time, My So-Called Life remains as fresh and honest today as when it premiered.


Along with nineteen episodes, the bonus features illuminate 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 amazing 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 interview with Claire Danes

* Photo gallery

* The Music: with composer Snuffy Waldren

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

Customer Reviews

The Best Show Ever 4 Teens - Reviewed on 2008-11-11
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Great in every way discusses real life issues from the pov of a young girl every adolescent girl should see it..
My so called Review - Reviewed on 2008-10-22
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I was extremely excited to see the whole series of My so called life, because I was just missing seeing it. It brought me hours of entertainment and I enjoyed the commentary view to get a better idea of what happened behind the scenes and how the stories were put together.
Fantastic! - Reviewed on 2008-09-01
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A wonderful set of DVDs complete with fantastic new interviews; the companion book is short, but enjoyable. The best part, though, is simply the episodes themselves. This is television at its best.
In Contrast to Today - Reviewed on 2008-08-31
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3 customers found this review helpful.

I was one of those who actually got to see the show, one episode, when it was on ABC. I'm not even sure which episode it was, but I caught the tail end of it, and then it was gone. When I showed up on MTV I had just gotten cable, but I saw it disjointed because I would catch an episode here and there. Suffice to say I really love the show for its writing and acting. It can start to get a little melodramatic, but come on, it was the 90's, who wasn't melodramatic. I loved the little insights that Angela would say in a passing manor. Because, even though they came off as just a throw-away thought, there was actually some deep thinking behind those thoughts.
Today's "teen" shows have nothing on MSCL, because they're based in some fantasy world where everyone is rich, beautiful, and only goes to school to socialize. No one deals with problems that go beyond blank sleeping with blanky, while also with blankwitz. I mean come on, I don't know what fancy world these people live in, but none of my friends were hopping in and out of each other's beds. My point is, today's shows are meant for escape, not for real introspection. All these years later I still find something new when I watch the show that makes me go, "Wow, things don't change."
The "book" is good, but is more like a bunch of trivia information than an actual book. Would be be cool is if someone could go to the writers of the show and ask them what they were planning for season two. That would make a good book.
my so called life - Reviewed on 2008-08-16
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What a fantastic show! The writing, the acting...All seems so real! I couldn't get enough!
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