(Angela’s father had a parallel experience with his business partner, a younger and quite attractive woman with whom he got along quite well after they succeeded in impressing their investors, they almost kissed before he realized, no, his committed relationship with his wife was not worth jeopardizing over mere attraction.) ![]() He is, Patty realized immediately, Angela’s version of her old flame. The larger point is made quite explicitly when, at the time of evening when Patty’s old boyfriend was due to come over for dinner (while her husband was out impressing investors), it was actually Jordan there ringing the doorbell, looking for Angela. It’s hard to think of Angela’s love for Jordan as remaining the same after that event, which tied into the larger theme of the finale, which recurred in the series at large as well: that there are many different kinds of love and attraction, and that one’s love for or attraction to another person can evolve with time.Īngela’s mother Patty (Bess Armstrong) reminisced fondly over her high-school boyfriend, with whom she’d been planning a reunion, ostensibly to help Angela’s father with his new business venture but really because, as Angela noted when Patty showed her an old photograph, “He’s cute.” But, rather than immediately falling in love with Brian on the spot, she got in Jordan’s car and drove away. Initially, this worked, as Angela fells back in even deeper love with Jordan, thinking that he’d authored the letter Brian wrote professing “his” love, before she discovered, in the very last scene, the letter’s true author. The pair then encountered the kind of relationship turbulence so many couples do and broke up, by which point Jordan was as smitten with Angela as she was with him, and he attempted to persuade Brian Krakow (Devon Gummersall), the shy nerd who’d been in love with Angela all his life, to be his Cyrano de Bergerac and give him the words to win Angela back. ![]() In one season, the show started with Angela having a crush on Jordan and him not being aware that she even existed (a nearly universal teenage experience), and progressed to their actually beginning to date in reasonably short order, considering that that’s where the story would ordinarily end in a teen romance - the happily-ever-after. ![]() “My So-Called Life” pulls off a delicate balancing act in respecting Angela’s love for the beautiful, mysterious Jordan Catalano ( Jared Leto) as a real thing while still being realistic about the long-term prospects of their relationship.
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