Author: "Philip C. Hartley" <[log in to unmask]> Date: 12/11/94 10:37 AM [Editor's note: This message was submitted to SCREEN-L by the "Author" noted above, and not by Jeremy Butler ([log in to unmask]).] On Dec. 7 Jajasoon Tlitteu wrote (re: My So-called Life) "Sorry to burst your collective bubbles, but I think the show is a pile of poo. Granted I've seen only one episode, but it fulfilled all of my fears & none of my hopes. It was a total "thirtysomething" clone (same producers) uneasily placed onto adolescence. The episode was about a friend of Angela's who OD'd on drugs. Angela's "good" suburban mom saves the day when the other "bad" working class mom is negligent. Oh please, do we need more of this self-congratulatory white middle-class bullshit? Let it fester in the low ratings cesspool." What a relief! I was beginning to think the ivory tower population had gone brain dead. It seems like whenever the mainstream viewing population lowers a program's ratings like My So Called Life people who consider themselves discriminating viewers start spewing accolades. As long as there are sponsors who dictate what airs on TV, there will never really be anything of any substance on commercial television. The guise of dealing with so-called sensitive subjects is fluff and all part of that fantastically sanctimonious and " self-congratulatory white (upper) middle-class b.s." which drives the entire Hollywood scene but is nauseatingly intrusive on prime time TV particularly. So thanks to Jajasoon Tlitteu for that succinct bit of wisdom without a lot of ... pedantry. Diane Hartley [log in to unmask]