![]() ![]() The seeds of MSCL date back to the 80s when Showtime assigned Herskovitz to write a series about teenagers he conceived a “very personal, very internal” story about a boy and called it Secret/Seventeen. “Television was externalised in a very particular way, and having the subjective point of view of this girl that was not afraid to show her pain, to show her terror, that sort of thing was very new on television – and, I think, in certain ways ahead of its time.” “Trying to do a television show from inside of a person’s experience was a pretty new thing,” recalls co-producer Marshall Herskovitz. Despite her attempt at maturity, however, her solipsistic view of the world laid bare her white suburban privilege and her often contradictory views within that. ![]() With her, the personal was political Angela’s revolution was within herself, a rebellion against her former identity – the one prescribed by her parents. “People say you should be yourself, like yourself is this definite thing,” she’d say. Like The Wonder Years before it, MSCL was that rare series to use a teenager as its narrator, but, unlike Kevin Arnold, Angela Chase was a highly unreliable one. Appearing for one season on ABC in the US and on Channel 4 in the UK from 1994 to 1995, My So-Called Life revolved around a 15-year-old girl searching for her identity. ![]()
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