My So-cast Life

If you've spent this whole season thinking that the only things My So-Cast Life was missing were a live audience and a third, even smarter voice at the table, are you in for a treat! We wrap up our podcast with a special LIVE episode, recorded at The Royal Cinema in Toronto on October 22 with special guest star Soraya Roberts, author of In My Humble Opinion, available now from ECW Press. Plus: Matt and Kat tie off their year of reading diaries with the most humiliating entries from their teenaged years that they could find!

The 19th and final episode of My So-Called Life is a bittersweet time for all of us who still feel the sting of that premature cancellation back in '95, even though the episode itself is basically incredible. Matt and Kat gather round their diaries one last time before kicking it over to the October 22 LIVE finale of My So-Cast Life...

The parents head out to the countryside to "reconnect" (*bone) and Angela and Danielle are left home alone, Kevin McAllister style, in the hilarious penultimate episode of My So-Called Life. Have you got your tickets for our LIVE final episode yet? Listen in for details!

The critical friendship at the core of My So-Called Life - Angela and Rayanne's BFF-ness - comes crashing down when Rayanne sleeps with Jordan Catalano, and every other relationship in our town / Liberty High is tested as a result. Get a hanky.

Happy New Year, My So-Called Listeners! As the gang on My So-Called Life tries to get their shit together on how they will change in 1995, we confront the forthcoming end of the My So-Called road and make a Very Special Announcement. Plus, the life and times of Rickie Vasquez!

Christmas comes early on My So-Cast Life, as we have a look at the series Very Special Christmas Episode, with its angels, homeless kids, and Rickie Vasquez. Plus: white privilege!

Rayanne's on the wagon, and we're right there alongside her! And wondering if we might have misjudged Ms. Graff, and her mother Amber, in our previous dealings. Plus all-new diary entries from 1994!

Sex is like this thing people, like, HAVE. And Angela's trying to figure out if she should, like, HAVE it - with Jordan Catalano. Naturally, Matt and Kat have tons and tons and tons to say about this episode, as our heroine tries to locate her sexual agency and we reflect back on finding ours. Plus: what, if anything, does Danielle know about foreplay?

What is so important about some dumb boy holding your hand in the hallway? A lot, apparently. The impossible has happened! Angela Chase and Jordan Catalano! We discuss!

We're back! After a somewhat-longer-than-expected hiatus, we toss out a somewhat-longer-than-expected episode, because "Life of Brian" is just that interesting. It's the first MSCL to give the v/o to someone other than Angela, and it turns out the things going on in Brian's head are just as weird, if not weirder. What is love? Baby, don't hurt me!

A special announcement from the hosts of My So-Cast Life!

Magic realism continues to be a thing on the recent episodes of My So-Called Life, as Angela takes a spiritual mind-walk into the world of tarot cards by way of Rayanne's absolutely appalling mother, Amber Vallon. Plus, Patty's mom shows up - and Patty, officially, becomes awesome.

Isn't Hallowe'en, like, the best holiday? Angela thinks so, and so do we, as the opportunity to become someone else proves irresistible for several members of the My So-Called Life squad - including, just maybe, a g-g-g-g-g-g-ghost!!

The grim spectre of death ties everything together for our heroes as Sharon's dad goes to the hospital, forcing Angela and Sharon to confront their "thing," and Patty and Graham to confront their "thing." Plus: who's using Brian Krakow this week? Matt and Kat discuss!

He calls her Red... but who the hell is "her?" It's a nosedive straight back into My So-Called Life's favourite topic - Angela's pathological fixation with Jordan Catalano - in the one where notes are passed, songs are sung, and Jordan can't read. Oh, the angst! Plus, as usual, hilarious diary entries from 1994 from your hosts, Matt and Kat.

Matt waxes nostalgic about his favourite high school teacher while Kat and Matt discuss the spectrum of female sexual pleasure as anarchic substitute teacher Vic Racine hits Liberty High and Liberty High hits back, hard. Plus: a very unusual journal entry from one of our hosts!

So Sharon's life is, like, developing, and so are her boobs, and so is a big gross zit on Angela's chin, and so is Patty's need to bond with her daughter through ill-advised beauty contests. It's a mess! Let's all try to feel like we might be beautiful as we re-watch the fifth episode of My So-Called Life.

What do the IRS, banana cream pie, the Grateful Dead and the way we feel about our fathers have in common? Easy: it's the fourth episode of My So-Called Life, where we go deep on Angela's relationship with Graham in the wake of the potential extra-marital affair, AND Patty's relationship with her own father, as the tax man (ok, woman) comes calling!

SPLAT! We'd hate to be that soda can. Sweetly innocent gun violence hits Liberty High as Kat & Matt tackle episode 3 of My So-Called Life, "Guns and Gossip," along with their fond feelings about Rickie Vasquez and their diary entries from the week of September 8, 1994.

Welcome back! Kat and Matt continue their episode-by-episode rewatch of ABC's beautiful 1994 teen drama, My So-Called Life. This week: Patty changes her hair, Angela kisses Jordan, and we read from our diaries from September 1994 as we tackle "Dancing In The Dark."