A lot has changed in the last twenty years, fads have come and gone, the internet has taken over the world and none of us are without our smart phones, but most importantly of all we have all changed as would have some of our favourite TV characters (you know if they were real).
So in celebration of the twentieth birthday of My-So Called Life here is what I think the characters would be up to now.
Angela Chase
One of the great unanswered questions of the 90’s – what did Angela do once she found out who actually wrote her the letter? After some lengthy internal dialogue she came to the decision that as hot as Jordan Catalano was she was never going to be able to truly forgive him for sleeping with Rayanne or enlisting Brian to write a love letter on his behalf, after all he could write a perfectly good love letter to his car, so she broke up with him.
She spent the summer getting to know Brian all over again and began to get past his social awkwardness and bullish nature to reveal a sweet, caring boy who she couldn’t help but fall in love with. They dated each other until the end of high school but went to different collages (Angela to NYU and Brian to MIT) and went their separate ways, although they remained good friends. Upon graduation Angela became a best-selling YA author, married and now raises a family in Brooklyn.
Jordan Catalano
After being dumped by Angela, he unsuccessfully attempts to win her back through the remainder of the school year. When he sees how close she is getting to Brian he decided to drop out of school and follow the dream of hitting the big time with Frozen Embryos. After arriving in LA with Tino and signing with a small record label, the pair tour as an opening act for bigger bands until their first record is released and becomes a favourite on college radio which then leads to a number one single. Excesses of drink, drug and groupies lead the band to split and a stint in rehab follows, where Jordan connects with Rayanne again. The two now run an animal rescue shelter together in Arizona. His favourite band is 30 Seconds to Mars.
Ryanne Graff
After a great deal of effort, apology and remorse, Ryanne and Angela become friends again, but they were never as close as they once were and Ryanne found herself opening up to Sharon more and more with the two becoming firm friends and confidents. Upon graduation and unsure what to do with the rest of her life, she travelled around the world before finally settling in India where she lived with the Yogis, won her substance abuse battle and found the inner peace she had always been searching for. After a few years she returned to the states and settled in LA where she trained to be a drug and alcohol counsellor. She reconnected with Jordan when he came into her treatment programme and after his treatment ended they began to date. They decided to leave city life and it’s temptations behind and bought a house and some land in Arizona.
Rickie Vazquez
After moving in with Mr. Katimski, who assumed full parental reasonability for him, Rickie soon became one of the star pupils at Liberty High School, excelling especially in English. After graduating within the top 2% of his class, he accepted a full scholarship to UCLA where he focused on the creative arts and eventually became a teacher, with a focus on students who come from under privileged backgrounds in Los Angeles. A fierce equal rights campaigner he was at a forefront of campaigning against Prop 8. He met his partner at one of the rallies and the two live together with their two adopted children. Mr. Katimski gave him away at his wedding.
He speaks with Angela at least once a day and they are Godparents to each other’s children.
Brian Krakow
After finally getting Angela to notice him, Brian and Angela began a relationship which lasted the remainder of their High School careers. After trying and failing at a long distance relationship, Brian focused his energies into his studies and was part of the first wave of the dot com bubble with a site not dissimilar to Facebook, which he remains convinced until this day was his idea. Undeterred he worked his way through a series of tech companies until he founded his own, a service which writes love letters on behalf of teens unable to find the right words to express their feelings.
The company then moved into the greeting card industry and Brian became a multi-millionaire on the back of its success. He retired early and now spends his time on his private island with his model girlfriend.
Patty and Graham Chase
After getting backing to open his first restaurant, Graham becomes well known locally and soon has people coming far and wide to taste his simple but honest food. Soon he opens a second restaurant then a third and with his popularity rising, Patty becomes head of his business interests and the pair become one of the hottest power couples in the restaurant industry and after becoming a familiar face on his show on The Food Network, she also becomes a well-known face on the entertainment circuit and a regular contributor to business publications.
They are still happily married.
Sharon Cherski
On the evening of her graduation from High School, Sharon ran off to Vegas to marry her high school sweetheart. They settled back in Three Rivers and soon started a family. Five children later, Sharon opened her own business, a small coffee shop which soon became the go-to place for the teens of the town, a title which was cemented when Jordan held an intimate concert there. She and Ryanne are still best friends and visit each other as often as they can.
Danielle Chase
After completing her education, Danielle moved in with her big sister in New York and became a famous theatre actress. You can see her performing on Broadway most nights and is always the centre of attention wherever she goes.
Tino
Whereabouts unknown.
You can also check out my look back at how My So-Called Life changed teen drama over at Den of Geek here, http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/my-so-called-life/31837/how-my-so-called-life-changed-teen-drama
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