My so-called mom
When we got back from grocery shopping this morning, my mom was just putting on a DVD. Ooh, what are we watching? An exercise tape? A movie from Netflix? What, what? She went, I'll show you. Oh, you can just tell me; it's probably nothing I want to watch. And then she held up the cover for the DVD of My So-Called Life.
Mind: BLOWN.
I totally know why she has this; it's because freaking Jordan Catalano freaking won an Oscar recently. Yeah, I meant to mention that here but never got around to it, but OMG 16-year-old me was very excited. Like, when I actively watched the show (and I totally did, hence, y'know, my username), there was no way of knowing that Jared Leto was an Oscar-caliber actor. And mom gets really into awards season, and when someone wins she likes to watch their previous works, so here you go. Better, it turns out she and my dad watched the first DVD already; she's on the second.
I ended up getting sucked into two episodes, though it was in part by accident. Mom literally had just put in the DVD and pressed play when I walked in--the WARNING was just up on the screen--and she helped unpack the groceries. There were a lot; I'd paid and gone a bit overboard with a few things. What, I could really use a lint roller. So as we're unpacking the DVD ends up playing somehow, like we'd taken too long to make a selection on it so it figured we should just start watching the show. We missed the first few minutes of the DVD's first episode, which is also how we missed Kaley Cuoco as young Angela (wow, didn't know she had a small role on it too!) until the credits rolled. I don't know that mom watched the show back in the day--actually, she was still working nights, so unless she taped it, she couldn't. But she says the show holds up pretty well, save for the outfits. What, they wore the height of '90s fashion. I know it's not spandex and neon, but flannel had its place. You just watch. Another few years and it'll come back. It has been 20 years (!!!) after all. She likes that it's funny, saying she didn't remember it having such funny lines. I don't either, but then again I was so full of my own angst at the time that I don't remember everything about it. I just recall which of my friends fit the characters.
Now if only my mother, or really both my parents, had watched this with me back in the day, perhaps they'd have understood me better. I did make a point of saying, yeah, these were my high school years. I was slightly older than Angela, but believe me, the awkwardness was the same.
Mind: BLOWN.
I totally know why she has this; it's because freaking Jordan Catalano freaking won an Oscar recently. Yeah, I meant to mention that here but never got around to it, but OMG 16-year-old me was very excited. Like, when I actively watched the show (and I totally did, hence, y'know, my username), there was no way of knowing that Jared Leto was an Oscar-caliber actor. And mom gets really into awards season, and when someone wins she likes to watch their previous works, so here you go. Better, it turns out she and my dad watched the first DVD already; she's on the second.
I ended up getting sucked into two episodes, though it was in part by accident. Mom literally had just put in the DVD and pressed play when I walked in--the WARNING was just up on the screen--and she helped unpack the groceries. There were a lot; I'd paid and gone a bit overboard with a few things. What, I could really use a lint roller. So as we're unpacking the DVD ends up playing somehow, like we'd taken too long to make a selection on it so it figured we should just start watching the show. We missed the first few minutes of the DVD's first episode, which is also how we missed Kaley Cuoco as young Angela (wow, didn't know she had a small role on it too!) until the credits rolled. I don't know that mom watched the show back in the day--actually, she was still working nights, so unless she taped it, she couldn't. But she says the show holds up pretty well, save for the outfits. What, they wore the height of '90s fashion. I know it's not spandex and neon, but flannel had its place. You just watch. Another few years and it'll come back. It has been 20 years (!!!) after all. She likes that it's funny, saying she didn't remember it having such funny lines. I don't either, but then again I was so full of my own angst at the time that I don't remember everything about it. I just recall which of my friends fit the characters.
Now if only my mother, or really both my parents, had watched this with me back in the day, perhaps they'd have understood me better. I did make a point of saying, yeah, these were my high school years. I was slightly older than Angela, but believe me, the awkwardness was the same.