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It's time to discover
My so-called Life last episode...
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"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities".
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It starts with an
Angela's dream...
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where lack of emancipation
materializes by a physical blocking.
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Jordan and Graham appear side by side,
embodying one character at two different ages.
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Generational parallels are one
of the series major purpose.
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Angela's great aunt funerals, her
parents presence... Her dream darkens.
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As usual, picture and
music don't deceive.
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Angela yells her anger at Jordan, who
slept with her best friend, Rayanne.
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"Hate can become like
food", says Angela.
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Nothing to do with Angela's euphoric
awake on "Blister in the Sun"!
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Will she definitely
break up with Jordan?
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Will she ever speak
to Rayanne again?
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And Brian, which
part will he take?
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With that brilliant introduction,
the story is "on the road".
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Graham implicates himself more and
more in the restaurant's launch.
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Angela supports him,
as she always did.
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Patty tries desperately
to catch the attention...
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The whole episode
relates to dreams.
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Delia has a crush on Rickie: an
impossible relationship, at first sight.
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Sharon rejects any friendship
between Rayanne and her...
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like it would "fade"
on her reputation.
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Graham and Hallie having an
argument: nothing unusual.
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This time, Graham
looks pretty angry!
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Logical, investors want
him out of the picture.
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Patty enters the battlefield.
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It seems like she's interrupting
a couple. Roles are inverted!
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Patty's lost, Hallie has to
explain her the situation.
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Patty kept her dream
in mind all day.
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She tries to help, Hallie answers
politely but with no interest.
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Graham is back to business!
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Jordan takes a greedy,
shy look at Angela.
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Once again, referring to the
pilot, roles are inverted.
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Angela has become Jordan's prey.
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Saved by the ring!
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Angela's dream is
confronted to reality.
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The timid teenager who was
discovering highschool...
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finally knows how
works the world.
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Angela seems clearly bored
by Jordan stories...
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but he doesn't give up.
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So many words in a sentence...
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Jordan tries really hard.
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There's a term for him...
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"heart breaker"?
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The situation becomes
unbearable, ready to explode.
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Brian's still on Delia Fisher.
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However, she likes someone
else: Rickie Vasquez.
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Bang! Angela breaks the ice.
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Sharon's playing referees,
so as to "recuperate" Angela.
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Just a look, and Brian's
going back to his homework.
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Still dreams...
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When "Our Town" is evocated...
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Angela immediately thinks
of Rayanne. It hurts!
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From Angela to Jordan, enjoy this
visual and psychological transition.
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Jordan can't think of
anything but Angela.
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"He created his own prison",
as will say Brian.
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Despite hiding his emotions, Brian
knows exactly who Jordan talks about...
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a person he's interested in...
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very interested.
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Jordan has the body,
Brian the words...
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the two of them were made
to meet each other !
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Jordan can't apologize to Angela:
pretty ironic, isn't it?
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Brian is Jordan's
alive dictionnary...
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while Jordan is Brian's
practical guide.
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Their unexpected association
defies usual cliches.
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By rejecting any help to Jordan,
Brian gives him the words he needed.
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Pretty ironic, isn't it?
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Brian's still suffering
from "Angela's syndrome"...
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maybe the vaccine's
name is Jordan.
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Rickie uses Angela's expression:
"In my humble opinion".
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Step by step, My so-called Life
has created its own language...
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a subtle combination of
poetry and simplicity.
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Between Brian and Rayanne,
there's still passion!
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Following the Angela-Jordan-Rayanne threesome,
here comes the Brian-Delia-Rickie threesome.
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Delia flirting, Brian interposing,
Rickie has a lot of fun.
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A true complicity was born
between Brian and Rickie.
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Rickie seems flattered
by Delia's interest.
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Patty's talking to
her "dream boyfriend".
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Her voice sounds completely different,
revealing her excitation.
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Angela and Danielle, half-amused,
half-appalled, hide and watch.
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Patty reacts like a little
girl caught eating chocolate.
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Angela's all understood.
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Surprise, the three Chase
ladies "have a moment".
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As a responsible mother, Patty doesn't want
her daughters to reproduce her mistakes.
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A new awake dream, pictured
differently than the other sequences.
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Princess Diana remains
a strong symbol of dignity.
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Patty perceives her
highschool boyfriend...
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a virile and dark
biker cliche?
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Danielle, so candid,
asks right questions.
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Tony's return in Patty's
life coincidates with...
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Graham and Hallie's
all fresh intimacy.
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Ingeniously, the screenplay compares
this love relationship with Angela's one.
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Patty doing wild things in her
early years: hard to believe!
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Angela seems pretty astonished.
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A great Patty's quote.
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Graham (as "reality") is back home!
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Graham isn't jealous,
only sarcastic.
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A few seconds later,
he deliberately lies.
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Unpredictably, Patty
will be alone with Tony.
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Planning change...
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Angela and Sharon are
old new best friends...
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who share intimate secrets.
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As long as Rayanne
doesn't show up...
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Here she comes, disturbing
once more Angela's life...
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in a brilliant mute sequence.
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Brian enjoys the situation:
he can "insult" Jordan...
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and declare his love to
Angela in the same time.
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He would say
he's helping Jordan...
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but in fact, as will say Rickie,
he's above all helping himself.
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Now, Angela needs an introduction
sentence to be spoken to...
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Jordan'd better pick
carefully his words.
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And now, ladies and gentlemen,
taste the pleasure of seduction.
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Jordan feels very guilty.
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Angela and he don't really
understand each other...
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their relationship is "made up".
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When comes the serious talk,
Jordan runs away...
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finding a stupid excuse, as
Angela did a few months ago.
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Brian's feeling exhausted, he mentally
took part in the conversation.
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Tutoring, take two.
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"She's like, starved",
says Jordan.
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The letter idea
comes from Jordan.
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But Brian's the most
qualified person to write it.
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Angela's telling Rickie
the whole story.
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Rayanne interrupts the discussion,
without any permission.
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The threesome is broken,
despite Rayanne's efforts.
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Angela's trying to be
kind, but it's too hard.
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Brian keeps using a
"metaphoric language"...
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as if truth will hurt him.
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Yet, he can't prevent from
confessing his manipulation.
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"Brian, you're using
Jordan Catalano!"
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The kind of declaration
that tells more...
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on characters thoughts
than a very long speech.
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Delia's clearly flirting with
Rickie, at Brian's surprise.
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Rickie feels like a
"new man in town".
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He has a unique opportunity:
being like everyone...
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a "straight", heterosexual
and normal person.
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No irony in My so-called Life,
but a message of tolerance.
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Graham and Hallie
prepare carefully...
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the restaurant presentation
to the investors.
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Cruelly, Graham seems glad
of Patty's unavailability.
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Hallie straight away understands Tony's
potential role in her relationship with Graham...
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she keeps quiet, but a look
and a smile are enough.
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"Flirting a little", isn't that
what Graham and Hallie are doing?
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If Patty's flirting too,
so everything's fine...
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Hallie moralizes Graham on jealousy
benefits: pretty ironic, isn't it?
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Music brings us
to another place.
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Brian feels irradiated by
inspiration, like a painter...
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or a sculptor at work.
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In a certain way,
Brian's an artist.
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He excels in love expression...
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which demonstrates his
progress since the pilot.
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The voice over interconnects
several sequences.
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Man can already imagine this letter's
eventual consequences on Angela's life.
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The final decision is near.
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Angela seems totally
seized with emotion...
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reading Jordan,
or Brian's words.
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Brian's trying to
see Angela's face.
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Little Krakow and little
Chase are still the same.
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A passionate declaration,
Angela's copyright.
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Nevertheless, many young people feel
familiar to this kind of poetry...
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only Angela tells
it out loud.
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"You must have really worked hard",
another great double meaning quote.
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Brian tries to decrypt
Angela's thoughts...
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through a letter he wrote himself,
but "it's too personal".
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Appearances are gone, Angela's
now in love with Jordan's soul.
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At least, does she believe.
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Jordan can be considered fooling,
manipulating, egoist...
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do we have to blame
his lack of sincerity?
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In the same time, he shows a
true feeling of guiltiness.
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Angela doesn't listen to him.
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Desire's in her eyes.
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Jordan's quality is to
possess his own poetry.
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This time, words come
from his own heart.
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In that way, we can consider his
love for Angela as a true one.
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This hollywoodian kiss
"makes the deal".
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Once, Jordan crossed the
hall to take Angela's hand...
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Brian watched the scene
faraway. As today.
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Except he now plays a consequent
role in Angela and Jordan's union.
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Rickie perceives at his
turn the two lovers.
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Brian seems furious.
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As usual, Rickie immediately
sees where the problem is.
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Rickie is Brian's "secret
keeper", as Sharon with Angela.
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Brian has to tell someone,
it's too heavy.
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Will he reveal his secret, and break
Angela and Jordan's relationship?
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As an well-raised, generous and loyal
boy, Brian prefers keeping quiet.
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He cares for other people before
himself, a rare temperament.
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Rayanne's talking to
Sharon, almost naturally.
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Sharon's like Rickie, a "buffer"
between Rayanne and Angela.
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Rayanne's near from crying,
completely lost...
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but she did bad things,
how to forgive her?
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Angela couldn't.
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But Sharon has evolved,
she doesn't judge Rayanne.
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Finally, would Rayanne
be a fallible teenager?
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She's refreshing,
Sharon likes it.
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Rayanne has a friend,
she wants it or not.
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Sharon and Rayanne, Jordan and Brian,
the series made a speciality...
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of putting "opposed"
characters together.
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Just look over the appearance.
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Back to the Chases, where parents
keep pretending the osmosis...
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Delia doesn't release Rickie!
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Jordan is the center of every
discussion, as in old days.
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How will Angela react
to Brian's secret?
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Her smile erases, her eyes moisten,
her body is filled with distress.
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A 15 years old teenager isn't
prepared to such a shock!
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Claire Danes proves
she's a huge actress.
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One look, and Rickie understands
Angela didn't know.
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Rickie takes the opportunity
of being alone with Delia.
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These two kids play a very
realistic love symphony.
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Rickie tries to convince
himself that he likes girls.
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Not Delia in particular,
juste "girls".
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The "gay" word explodes
like a bomb.
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A freedom bomb.
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Rickie needed to be pushed.
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His coming out wasn't
planned for today.
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Wilson Cruz, as a gay actor, plays
very realistic for 1995 television.
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It's Delia's turn
to reveal her secret!
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We learn that Delia was using Rickie
so as to revenge from Brian...
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the same way Rickie was using
Delia so as to be "straight".
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The idea of Brian "tossing
girls aside" is surprising!
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Rickie and Delia don't need
words to understand each other.
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Patty's anguished like a young girl
who would attempt her first date.
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Here comes Tony!
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Or his teenager incarnation
in the present time.
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Doubles, parallels, the
writer Winnie Holzman...
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manipulates her story
like a multifaced mirror.
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Thanks to her talent, My so-called
Life will become a new reference.
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Many people in the next generations
will fall in love with Angela.
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As an educative series, it can be shown in
cinematography institutes, even general schools.
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After nineteen episodes
filled with intense drama...
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the creative team was
"exhausted" (their own word).
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A second season
would hardly have...
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reached the same level of quality, considering
scenarists had to change their minds...
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by working on other projects.
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For instance, Edward Zwick, Marshall
Herskovitz (the producers)...
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and Winnie Holzman (the creator) then worked on
Once and Again, a parents point of view series...
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even if My so-called Life remains
their unforgettable masterpiece.
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Jordan told Patty
the whole story.
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Once again, he expresses
a wish of forgiveness...
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by confidences he'd
never tell Angela.
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Patty remembers her past
while listening to Jordan.
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When kids give adults a lesson...
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After such a strong declaration,
Jordan's back to futilities.
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What an unpredictable boy!
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It's part of his charm,
which seduced Angela...
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with a few consequences.
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Patty's date has cancelled.
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He's run away, as Jordan did when comed
the time of a serious talk with Angela.
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Pretty ironic, isn't it?
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Graham and Hallie "fight", again.
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They didn't expect at all
the investors compliments!
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The final sequence approaches.
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It will disturb Joss Whedon and so
many scenarists, by its open end...
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in consequence, many following series
will have "unopened seasons", as a precaution.
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Graham's finally a little
bit jealous from Tony...
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or is it just a fake?
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Patty feels like she really
met her youth boyfriend.
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Graham calls Patty, but he celebrates
the "victory" with Hallie.
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They get closer,
enough to kiss.
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Finally, they just grasp each other,
and the suspense remains.
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Graham and Hallie brave
their deep feelings.
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With no word, they
both feel attracted.
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It's the last time we see
Graham and Hallie together.
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Where will be headed their relationship?
Will Graham have an affair with Hallie?
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A second season, figured by the creators,
would have lightened this great mystery.
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Later, a "fanfiction" written by Catherine
Clark and called "My so-called Life goes on"...
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developed the story
in a free version...
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but it let adults aback.
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Now, here we go:
the finale sequence.
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Angela and Brian in the street,
face to their house at night...
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it's obviously a
reference to the pilot.
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Like every great finale,
My so-called Life ends by...
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a direct parallel
to its beginning.
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The situation is clear: Brian wrote the
letter, Angela knows it and Jordan, too.
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However, is love possible
between Angela and Brian?
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Doesn't Brian prefer finding happiness
mentally, through Jordan's body?
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Making his neighbour, his friend
since nursery school happy...
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wouldn't it be the
greatest prize for Brian?
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But can there be satisfaction
without self-accomplishment...
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without living one's
own experiences?
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Brian chooses the first option:
the generosity way.
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Even if he "meant every word",
as he admits briefly.
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This lapsus reveals for the first
time Brian's true love for Angela.
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She always knew Brian
had a crush on her...
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but she didn't expect
it to be so strong!
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Angela can't forget
this conversation.
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The letter, the
words she "loved"...
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were coming from Brian's heart.
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How could she forget that?
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"You liked it, right?" This question
constitutes the finale turning point.
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Brian opts for Angela's happiness,
his own will come later.
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All that matters to him,
is Angela to be happy.
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He couldn't give her a
more perfect present.
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Angela never considered Brian
as a "potential boyfriend".
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It was "against nature", as she said
at the beginning of the series.
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Presently, she sees in Brian
a new, desirable human being.
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Then appears Jordan,
the "designed boyfriend".
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Angela's life would be so
easier with Jordan, like...
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Rickie's life would have been
if he decided to be "straight".
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But Rickie chose the truth.
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Angela's leaving with Jordan,
letting Brian aside, as a spectator.
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Nevertheless, Brian chose his way.
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Concerning Jordan, he made mistakes
with Angela, sometimes betrayed her...
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but his apologies, even with
someone else's words, were sincere.
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Cause at the crucial instant,
he found his own language.
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My so-called Life will
forever be in our heart.
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Comments:
Benjamin Campion
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Contact:
jcatalano@laposte.net
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