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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.
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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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My friends and I LOVED this show when it originally aired. We still use quips from certain episodes as inside jokes. Watching the series again brought me right back to those ackward and intense "important" things that made up high school.
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This remains the one truly great and overlooked TV creation of the 1990s. The ensemble acting, storytelling skills, production values, and emotional substance are as compelling now as when I first saw this series in MTV's reruns. That persistence, after what must now be a dozen viewings of each episode, is unique for me, as for thousands of others.
Unfortunately, it didn't get enough of a chance to be thus adopted by millions of others, when this first aired, and that is why it didn't continue for even a full 24-to-26-episode season. (Along with ABC's poor publicity and well-documented corporate cowardice - far more than any actor's skittishness, despite what is said on Wikipedia and elsewhere.)
I won't repeat the descriptive points brought out well by many other customers. I'll note here one crucial aspect that is often under-mentioned: "MSCL" is not solely about the teenagers. It revolves around a group of friends of that age. Yet it puts the stories firmly in the settings of their families and their teachers, as well. One knows the context and hidden facets for all the characters' lives, even within only 900 minutes.
This came from both serendipity and law. Claire Danes (Angela Chase) and Devon Gummersall (Brian Krakow), portraying the two central threads of characterization, were 14 to 15 when this was made, and had strong legal restrictions on their work hours. That meant more scenes had to be written or rewritten to highlight and deepen their characters' friends. All of them were portrayed by actors with more liberal hours, but who were still all teenagers, rare both then and now.
Most of all, it meant that the adults had to have substantial screen time. This adds most strongly to the emotional dimensions opened up for, and by, Bess Armstrong (Patty Chase) and Tom Irwin (Graham Chase). That broadened scope is one of the strongest reasons why this series still resonates, especially for many in our 30s and 40s, when any number of sitcoms and formula dramas using pre-fab parental stereotypes have faded from cultural memory.
This six-disc release from Shout! Factory far exceeds the five-disc 2002 release from BMG in quality and features, and finally gives this seminal show the treatment it deserves. The book that's included has compelling reading, vivid photos, and an index to the entire series. The bonus disc's documentaries and production information are worth the entire price in themselves, especially the actors' appearance on a panel from 1995 at the Museum of Television and Radio. Even the series' music, a sprightly and perfectly fitting creation from a then-little-known composer, gets its own lively profile.
Video and audio quality are superb. Several of the actors and creators have contributed commentary tracks that are perceptive and filled with anecdotes, even with having some long pauses - as many of them are clearly newly re-experiencing their work, with considerable wonder. The menus include potent, funny quotations. (The only element from the 2002 set that's missing here is the English subtitles.)
If you like this series, if you think you might, if you were stunned with delight by it, you must snap this set up at once!
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One thing that I love about this show is that it does capture the essense of your teenage years. It puts a voice to the things that we are never able to say, if not out of fear, then just the inability to express it correctly. There are so many lines in this show that make you just stop and say, "Oh my God, that is exactly what it feels like!" I am glad that the show ended when it did, because it didn't have the room to become, like other teen soaps, a cheesy love triangle of get togethers and break-ups filling up the seasons. We are left to own imaginations.
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