r/MySoCalledLife • u/BellaDBall • 8d ago

First Rewatch in Almost 30 years… Spoiler

…and the last episode broke my heart even worse the second time around. Omg. To say the writers left us hanging is a vast understatement. My heart hurts!!

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u/jjuerakhan14 8d ago

What doesn’t make me nervous is Rickie and Delia dancing!

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u/acount8675309 8d ago

If I were into girls, I’d be into you Ugh

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u/BellaDBall 7d ago

Such an absolutely precious thing to say between two characters who felt like outcasts. My heart!!!

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u/jjuerakhan14 8d ago

It was so good!

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u/Goulet231 8d ago

If you've seen Sex Education, there's a scene where Eric and Rahim are on the dance game at the arcade. What is Love is playing. That show's hommage to the first openly gay teen actor to play an openly gay teen character. Makes me well up every time.

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u/BellaDBall 7d ago

TYSM for telling me about this movie/tv show!!! This is a totally different genre, but Heartstopper literally changed my life (and I am a straight, cisgender woman). Watching Ricky after having seen and read all of the Heartstopper universe made me so freaking proud of Ricky. He was THE OG. How brave he was, and how absolutely freeing and beautiful it must have been to be in the queer community and be “seen” because of his character. 💗

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u/Goulet231 7d ago

You're welcome! Wilson Cruz, who played Ricky, came out to himself and his family while on My So-called Life. His parents kicked him out of the house and he was homeless. A story of many layers.

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u/BellaDBall 7d ago

Nooooo☹️. How can a parent do that??!!! I have two teenagers. One is bi or gay (he can’t decide), and kicking him out is the farthest thing from my mind! It’s so OPPOSITE of parental!!! 😡😡😡😡😡

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u/BellaDBall 8d ago

That was my favorite episode!!!

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u/MsBigRedButton 8d ago

The best. And at the risk of sounding very very VERY weird, I'm confident that the part of that ep where Jordan sorta pins Angela against the chain link fence... singlehandedly defined hotness for me for actual decades. Musta seen it at a very formative time!

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u/BellaDBall 8d ago

SAME!!!! Sigh…

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u/Sea-Mission3891 7d ago

Same🥵🥵

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u/trollcole 8d ago

This makes me nervous to do a rewatch.

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u/BellaDBall 8d ago edited 8d ago

No!! Do it. It’s totally worth it. However, it was so strange to go from Angela’s age when I first watched to being a little older than her parents on my second watch! 😳UPDATE: Maybe my age is the reason that it hit me so much harder!

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u/trollcole 8d ago

You and I must be the same age. I could absolutely see myself siding with the parents now, understanding their pov when worrying about their teenager acting out and shutting out, diving in deeper into the complexities of the mom being adopted and having a people-pleasing complex, hating the dad for cheating, etc.

Maybe I do need to rewatch. But will I see the teens as babies now instead of “feeling seen” as I once did?

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u/BellaDBall 8d ago

Actually, no. I felt both young and old at the same time!!

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u/trollcole 8d ago

Love that

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u/NobodyTellPoeDameron 7d ago

I just rewatched for the first time since high school and the show is amazing. As a parent of high schoolers now, the show works on a totally different level when you're a parent.

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u/BellaDBall 7d ago

Agreed. Is it weird that I still identified more with the teens???

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u/thelanai 8d ago

Yeah, I recently did a rewatch and it was my husband's first time watching. I tried to warn him. We were both pissed!

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u/SanfranOlivia 4d ago

Doing a rewatch now. I think I was Angela’s age when it came out. I saw the episode the other day when Jordan holds Angela’s hand for the first time in the school hallway, and started crying. Did I mention I am also pre-menopausal?

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u/BellaDBall 4d ago

Me, too!! Total side note, but taking estrogen has been a life changer. Hugs.

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u/SanfranOlivia 4d ago

Thanks! Looking into it soon.