It’s not an overstatement to say that MSCL paved the way for every teen drama that followed it, from the '90s to the aughts and beyond.
Why You'll Love It: Sure, C.Danes is the main character, but this show is really about The Everyteen, and it paints her/him in a far more three-dimensional light (well, with the possible two-dimensional prettyboy exception of Jordan Catalano - but even he has a learning disability! Nuance!) than any show had before. Plus, "Halloween" includes little-sis Danielle's spot-on Angela Chase costume/impersonation: "Mom, Sharon Chersky and I exist in, like, two different worlds, okay? I can't just hand her a dish, okay. (The kid's name is Nicky Driscoll and he's the second-best character-who-doesn’t-actually-exist on the show - after Tino, of course.) But, "Halloween" also features a high-school break-in, some solid Brian/Rayanne buddy comedy, an unnecessary parental-sex sub-plot, and the scariest Halloween costume of all: a Brian Krakow sweater vest (can we talk about how Brian Krakow grew up to be hot, by the way?).
Sure, the episode features a ghost dude who died at a sock-hop in the '60s and may or may not be haunting Liberty High. Best Episode: I have to pick the underdog: "Halloween." This episode, much like "Depressing Holidays On The Streets," or whatever the Christmas episode was called, was criticized for going all magical-realism and breaking from MSCL's trademark hyper-honest reality of teen-dom.
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