ABC is putting full episodes of My So-Called Life on its website. It looks like "new" episodes go up every Friday.
The show was tragically cancelled after just one season (in 1994-95) -- one of the greatest injustices in television history -- and it seems that it's being re-run just as we are collectively becoming ready to reflect on the 1990s as a significant cultural period.
The first film to address this is the recently released The Wackness, which purports to capture the mood of the 1990s. I haven't seen The Wackness, but most reviews suggest that it fails in this endeavor. Maybe that's because the film is about a drug dealer in New York City, and that in no way encapsulates the 1990s. Yes, hip hop played a big role in both the movie and the decade, but by 1994, when the The Wackness takes place, it could no longer be said to emanate from New York. And at least as much as hip hop, the 1990s were defined by Seattle and Silicon Valley and a sort of dissatisfied focus on the waning idealism surrounding suburbia. On this last count, at least, there is no better representation in art than My So-Called Life.
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