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Kal Alston <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 7 Dec 1994 14:54:35 -0600
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As each week goes by, I remain amazed at the lack of commercial success and
critical attention given _My So-Called Life_, the ABC drama (Thursdays, 8-9
pm).
 
 
Moi aussi.  I think part of it is a demographic problem.  My own informal
surveying indicates that women in the 25-40 age bracket are great fans of
the show--if they can watch it. The writer (Winnie Holtzman) is tapping in
to our memories, our anxieties, our lives in a real dynamic way.   Plus
Clare Danes (the reallife teen who plays angela chase, the vidheroine) is
enchanting--beautiful and painful.  this is no 90210 (with 30 year olds
playing 18 year old) and yet they seem to nbe marketing it to the same
audience--preteens.  The preteens prefer the glamorous, false, hollywood
version of highschool life and not the chaotic, uncertain, vague world
angela, jordan, ricki, brian, and rayanne inhabit.
 
The timeslot is poisonous because it is too early in the evening for most
of us to stop and watch tv.
 
The writing is great.  There is, of course, something manipulative about
the words of retrospective wisdom coming out of 'angela's' brain.  But i
don't really mind.  I too am worried about its prospect for the future.  I
never write letters to networks, but I actually am considering it in this
case.
 
kal
 
kal alston
ed pol studies/ women's studies
uiuc
380 education
champaign, il 61820
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