Sunday, October 4, 2009

My So-Called Life: "Halloween"

A Month Of Halloweenie Reviews #4

I never watched My So-Called Life, but as far as Halloween specials go, this one is strong. A great Halloween episode of a television show must do more than simply mention the holiday: it must rotate around it, and ideally have something supernatural or at least mildly creepy happen. On Halloween, Claire Danes dresses in the clothes of a girl who dated a kid who died at a school dance thirty years earlier, so she and her ragtag group of misfits decide to sneak into the school at night and contact his spirit. She gets separated from her crew, and is strangely transported to the infamous dance, where she tries to talk the dead guy out of dying. She wakes up the next morning and realizes it was all a dream OR WAS IT?

RATING: 61%

3 comments:

John said...

If CD really wanted to know what a "so-called life" was like, she'd've moved to Dallas and enrolled at a commuter school.

For my Hallowe'en costume, I'm thinking "bewildered suburban alien" or "ideationally suicidal misanthrope." The difference really hinges on whether I manage to shave or shower from October 26 onward.

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

u shld dress up as a ghost i. jon gosts are real scary and all u have 2 do 2 make a costum is cut some holes ina bedsheet

LoCo said...

Ghosts are like, these things. That like, you see. They just, like, hang around, like, watching you. Do they even, like, know that their lives are like, over?