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Welcome back to our rewatch of the 90's cult classic teen drama My So-Called Life, which TRAGICALLY only saw one season. For today's episode, we watched:

E2: Dancing in the Dark

E3: Guns and Gossip

E4: Father Figures

We're watching My So-Called Life on Amazon Prime, but check Archive.org first to see if you can watch it for free.

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We're kicking off a new rewatch, and this time it is of the 1994 Xennial cult classic My So-Called Life, which only aired for one season on ABC (but you may have seen the re-runs on MTV).

On this kickoff episode, Dani shares the background information on the writers, actors and context of the show from the POV of an average teenage girl.

We're watching My So-Called Life on Amazon Prime, but check Archive.org first to see if you can watch it for free.

Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

This episode was made possible by the following sources:

My So-Called Life on Wikipedia

My So-Called Life, 30 years later on People.com

My So-Called Life on IMDB

Staci Keenan and Devon Odessa (Besties) on People.com

My So-Called Life Facts on Buzzfeed

How My So-Called Life Changed TV on TheGuardian.com

Episode Topics and Mentions:

Claire Danes
Jared Leto
A.J. Langer
Wilson Cruz
Devin Odessa
Devin Gummersall
Bess Armstrong
Tom Irwin
Lisa Wilhoit
Winnie Holzman
Edward Zwick
Marshall Herskovitz
Alicia Silverstone
Shannon Leto
Stephen Schwartz
Barbara Streisand
Jimmy Buffett
Staci Keanan
Laurie Metcalf
John Malkovich
Gary Sinise
Joan Allen
Chelsea Clinton
Anne Frank
Jimmy Stewart
My So-Called Life
Dawson's Creek
Little Women
Romeo + Juliet
The Way We Were
Wicked
Rent
The Wonder Years
Step by Step
Blossom
Coach
Hanging with Mr. Cooper
Baywatch
Seinfeld
Touched by an Angel
Party of Five
Sister, Sister
Ally McBeal
The Facts of Life
Small Wonder
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Felicity
Hook
Mean Girls
Clueless
Porky's
It's a Wonderful Life
Arrested Development
7th Heaven
Even Stevens
Jaws 3-D
The Haunting
China Beach
The Outer Limits
Beethoven's 2nd
My Girl 2
Independence Day
Dick
Fight Club
Girl, Interrupted
Urban Legend
American Psycho
Masters of the Universe
Everybody Hurts — R.E.M.
My So-Called Life — The Ataris
Claire Danes' Poster — Size 14
Companies / Organizations / Places
ABC
MTV
Amazon
Apple TV
Archive.org
People Magazine
Elle
TV Guide
Entertainment Weekly
Time
Rolling Stone
The Atlantic
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
30 Seconds to Mars
The Ataris
University High School
Space Center
Topics
LGBTQ+ representation
Teen sexuality
Teen fashion
Sharing clothes
Life before cell phones
1990s nostalgia
Early internet fandom
Fan campaigns to save canceled TV shows
Television cancellations
Cult TV shows
Child actors / child labor laws
Method acting
Actors' careers
Theater and Broadway
Community theater
Hair color / changing your hair
Y2K
High school
Smoking in high school
Police giving teenagers rides home
College memories
Dating/relationships
1990s music
1990s movies
TV Easter eggs

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We’re wrapping up Xennial Girl Summer with a re-read of the original 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables and discussing all of the spinoff pieces of pop culture it has inspired.

We hope you've enjoyed Xennial Girl Summer. Let us know what you'd like us to watch and read next time!

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We journeyed to outer space and back on our final Xennial Girl Summer rewatch of 2026: The 1986 classic Space Camp. Join us for all the 80's camp (including a robot named Jinx) and a discussion of the cultural climate at the time the movie was released.

This film is hard to find on streaming services, so we watched it on Archive.org

This episode was made possible by the following sources:

Space Camp on IMDB

Space Camp on Wikipedia

Space Camp at 40 on Space.com

Neil Armstrong misheard quote on Mental Floss

Episode Topics and Mentions:

Dawson's Creek

Party of Five

Alias

John Williams

Star Wars

Indiana Jones

Harry Potter

E.T.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg

NASA

Challenger disaster

Roger Ebert

VHS era

US Space & Rocket Center

Huntsville, Alabama

Kennedy Space Center

Cape Canaveral

Atlantis shuttle simulator

Gimbal technology

Kate Capshaw

Tom Skerritt

Tate Donovan

Lea Thompson

Kelly Preston

Joaquin (Leaf) Phoenix

Jennifer Aniston

Sandra Bullock

Hercules

Friends

Ally McBeal

Love Potion No. 9

Memphis Belle

Top Gun

Steel Magnolias

Picket Fences

Back to the Future

Howard the Duck

Some Kind of Wonderful

Dennis the Menace

The Little Rascals

Caroline in the City

Broadway's Cabaret

Jaws 3-D

Ballet career and Mikhail Baryshnikov

Revenge of the Nerds

The Karate Kid

227

Magnum P.I.

The Jeffersons

St. Elsewhere

Martin

Seinfeld

The Jamie Foxx Show

John Travolta

Charlie Sheen

Kawasaki syndrome

Children's Health Environmental Coalition

River Phoenix

Johnny Depp

Viper Room

Walk the Line

Reese Witherspoon

Heath Ledger

Marlon Brando

Robert De Niro

The Godfather

Cults and "flirty fishing"

Space Camp Hall of Fame

Double Dare

Mikey Day

Saturday Night Live

Harry and the Hendersons

A League of Their Own

Geena Davis

Madonna

Tom Hanks

Rachel McAdams audiobook of Anne of Green Gables

Audible

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It's good twin versus evil twin as we reread the first in the iconic 80's and 90's book series Sweet Valley High. Did you know there are more than 180 of these books by Francine Pascal? We talk about the book itself (holy problematic) and the background of the author, characters and entire francise.

Were you a Sweet Valley fan?

This episode was made possible by the following sources:

Sweet Valley High Online

Grab the Lapels (review site)

Francine Pascal on Wikipedia

r/Sweet Valley High on Reddit

Episode Topics and Mentions

Double Love
Sweet Valley High
Sweet Valley Twins
Sweet Valley Junior High
Sweet Valley University
Sweet Valley Confidential
Fearless
Save Johanna
The Ruling Class
Hanging Out with Cece
If Wishes Were Horses
Anne of Green Gables
Authors
Francine Pascal
Danielle Steel
Harry and the Hendersons
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Space Camp
Dawson's Creek
In Living Color
The Young Marrieds
ABC Afterschool Specials
My Mother Was Never a Kid
Jerome Offenberg
John Pascal
Jamie Stewart-Carmen
Kate Rubin
William Rubin
Don Meredith
Wayans brothers
Sweet Valley High Characters
Jessica Wakefield
Elizabeth (Liz) Wakefield
Todd Wilkins
Alice Wakefield
Ned Wakefield
Steven Wakefield
Enid Rollins
Rick Andover
Betsy Martin
Alice Martin
Winston
YouTube
Reddit
ThriftBooks
Cosmopolitan
Ladies' Home Journal
Modern Screen
True Confessions
NBC
ABC
ESPN
CVS
Publix
Places
Sweet Valley (fictional)
California
Manhattan
Queens
New York
Los Angeles
France
Scotland
Ghostwriting
Literary ventriloquism
Soap operas
Perimenopause
Brain fog
Eurocentric beauty standards
Patriarchy
Diet culture
Body dysmorphia
Fat shaming
Pretty privilege
Thin privilege
Female competition
Diversity in media
High school stereotypes
Anonymous gossip columns
Catcalling
Body confidence
Aging
Self-esteem
Journalism
Broadway musicals
Competitive dance
Pageants
High school sororities
Pizza classroom prank
Sports cars (Porsche, Fiat, Datsun)
Internet trolls
Reddit fan discussions
Fandom pages

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We finish rewatching the final two episodes of the entire series -- and boy are we in our feels about it. We spent two+ years rewatching it!

How did you feel about the ending to Dawson's Creek? And how do we greenlight Kerr Smith's sequel pilot?

For this episode, we rewatched:

Season 6, Episode 23: All Good Things...

Season 6, Episode 24: Must Come to an End

Watch Dawson's Creek with us on Hulu or Amazon Prime.

Episode Topics and Mentions

My So-Called Life
Freaks and Geeks
Lily Leery
Amy
Doug Witter
Bodie Wells
Kerr Smith
James Van Der Beek
Mary Beth Peil
Michelle Williams
Kevin Williamson
Busy Philipps
Claire Danes
Musicians & Music
Edwin McCain
Paula Cole
John Mayer
Annie Hall
Writers' room representation
LGBTQ+ representation on television
Small-town sheriff
Single fatherhood
Guardianship
End-of-life videos/messages
Living wills and estate planning
Military family deployment planning
Soulmates (platonic)
Chosen family
Friendship across different life stages
Television series finales
Time jumps in television
TV reunions/revivals
DVD collections
Poetry assignment in school
Production companies
Screenplays/teleplays

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We rewatched the 1987 fantasy comedy Harry and the Hendersons -- and ended up in our feels for some of the film. From the behind-the-scenes facts, to the Academy Award winning makeup, to the stars who humanized the otherwise outlandish tale, we get into the "why" of this movie still holding up in 2026.

Don't miss any of our rewatches in our Xennial Girl Summer!

This episode was made possible with the following sources:

Harry and the Hendersons on IMDB

Maggie Langrick.com

Harry and the Hendersons on Wikipedia

Episode topics and mentions:

Dazed and Confused
Beverly Hills Cop II
The Untouchables
The Rocketeer
E.T.
Predator
Predator 2
Big Top Pee-wee
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Footloose
Terms of Endearment
The Manhattan Project
Raising Cain
The Pelican Brief
Shrek
A Christmas Story
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Absence of Malice
The Prince of Tides
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Magnolia
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
My American Cousin
Cold Comfort
Frankenstein: The College Years
Death of a Cheerleader
Flatliners
SpaceCamp (upcoming rewatch)
Fire in the Sky
The Lost Boys
Harry and the Hendersons (TV series)
227
Third Rock from the Sun
Camp Wilder
Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series)
What a Dummy
Perfect Strangers
ALF
The Crown
21 Jump Street
The Twilight Zone
Masterpiece Theatre
Dawson's Creek
Little House on the Prairie
Sweet Valley High
Anne of Green Gables
Little House on the Prairie
Actors & Celebrities
Matthew McConaughey
John Lithgow
Melinda Dillon
Kevin Peter Hall
Rick Baker
Steven Spielberg
William Dear
Gene Siskel
Roger Ebert
Alaina Reed Hall
Tom Cruise
Sandy Dennis
Linda Hamilton
Steven Dorff
Joaquin Phoenix
James Van Der Beek
Jay Mohr

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Revisiting Capeside after a season+ in Boston brought back early-show day feels, as Dawson struggles to forgive Pacey for losing all his savings in the stock market. Can old friendships and romances rekindle in time for the series finale?

We rewatched these episodes:

Season 6, Episode 21: Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road

Season 6, Episode 22: Joey Potter and Capeside Redemption

Watch Dawson's Creek with us on Hulu or Amazon Prime.

Episode Topics and Mentions:

Dawson Leery
Joey Potter
Pacey Witter
Jen Lindley
Jack McPhee
Audrey Liddell
Grams (Evelyn Ryan)
Jen's mother
Uncle Bill
C.J.
Oliver
Chrissy / Christy
Allie Larder
Tamara Jacobs
James Van Der Beek
Kevin Williamson
Mary Beth Peil
Jack Osbourne
Spielberg films
Jaws
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Amistad
Cape Side
Potter Bed & Breakfast
New York
NYU
Paris
Eiffel Tower
Our Town
The Butterfly Effect
Ashton Kutcher
Hamilton

1Richard Rodgers Theatre
Broadway

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