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Another full page article about “My So-Called Life”, this time in Sunday’s New York Times (by Ginia Bellafante):

[..]To claim that ‘My So-Called Life’ is great, watershed television is to say something so firmly ingrained in the conventional wisdom that it hardly bears repeating. The series brought us the experience of adolescence outside the bounds of artifice, peril and pathology that had provided the context for nearly every other depiction of teenagers on television. Here what it meant to be 15 was not to discover that you suddenly had to raise your 6-year-old sister or that you might be pregnant with twins but merely that you suffered everyday indignities: overhearing people talk behind your back, the plop of a grim-looking lump of mashed potatoes on a pallid cafeteria tray.[..]

Jonathan Storm from the Philadelphia Inquirer also has only good things to say about “My So-Called Life” and the new DVD set:

[..]It set a bar that, no matter what their tone, none of the high school shows that came after could clear. Not one, from the popular Dawson’s Creek to the current god-awful Gossip Girl, not even the similarly ignored yet exquisite Freaks and Geeks nor Veronica Mars, measured up.[..]

Rich Heldenfels from The Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio interviewed Winnie Holzman for an article about the MSCL DVD release: Cult hit ‘My So-Called Life’ back on disc.

Winnie Holzman wants to write for television again. Television has not been so welcoming.

[..]But even as she is beginning work on a theater piece, she wants to write for television, too.

”I’ve written many pilots that have never been produced,” she said. And if they were, she said that her TV-writer friends say the business has changed considerably in the last decade.’[..]