TV Club: Let’s watch My So-Called Life!
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In a very special miniseries, Greta joins forces with podcast host Kristen Meinzer to unpack every single episode of the 1994 ABC teen drama My So-Called Life. In this episode, before they begin their rewatch, Kristen and Greta discuss the cultural impact of the show with New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum. Then, Greta talks to her best friend Marty, who binged the show with her when they were in high school.
SHOW CREDITS
Creator and host: Greta Johnsen
Co-host: Kristen Meinzer
Senior Producer: Ben Goldberg
Composer: Andrew M. Edwards
Tile art: Lou Lovisek
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| 0:00.0 | This is to me the continuum and right in the middle of it is this 1994 moment when my so-called |
| 0:06.3 | life comes out. And I feel like in its quiet way, it sets off a bomb. |
| 0:16.8 | Hello, I'm Greta Johnson, host of Happy to Be Here. And I'm Kristen Mineser, host of podcasts like The Nightly and Movie Therapy, among others. |
| 0:27.0 | Kristen, I am so excited to have you here today because I don't, I feel like we've been sort of like long distance, sort of like podcasty cousins for a really long time oh I love that you think of us as |
| 0:40.4 | cousins this is great you know what I mean though yeah like our circles have sort of like come |
| 0:45.7 | closer and farther away from each other for like I mean many years at this point because we're |
| 0:50.3 | both kind of old ladies and podcast taking my juicase so my itself and I'm really, I just like admire your work so much. I think you're such a delightful human. And I'm so excited to start this project with you. Oh my gosh. All those things times a thousand right back at you. Well, this one is really exciting because you and I are launching. This is it. The first episode of a special mini series that we are doing |
| 1:12.0 | in the Happy to Be Here feed. Normally on the show, y'all know I talk with folks about the things |
| 1:17.1 | that they find delightful. And today's topic is indeed delightful, but we are doing things a little |
| 1:22.8 | bit differently. It is Happy to Be Here's first ever TV club. |
| 1:31.8 | And we are going to rewatch one of my favorite shows of all time. |
| 1:33.8 | It is my so-called life. |
| 1:37.3 | So I started hanging out with Rayan Graf. |
| 1:39.3 | Just for fun. |
| 1:43.7 | Just because it seemed like if I didn't, I would die or something. |
| 1:52.9 | Things were getting to me, just how people are, how they always expect you to be a certain way, even your best friend. |
| 2:05.1 | And I get to do it with you, Kristen, a dear friend and cousin and also incredible podcaster. Yay! I am so excited. So happy to be here, no pun intended. It's just how I feel. My so-called life, I just, you know, |
| 2:11.1 | Greta, we've talked a little bit about this off mic, but I know both of us feel this was a really |
| 2:16.5 | important show for slightly different |
| 2:18.0 | reasons. We connected with it at different times in different ways. And for the next few weeks, |
| 2:23.0 | we are going to rewatch my so-called life together, two episodes at a time, mostly spoiler-free |
| 2:30.0 | or at least spoiler light. So you all can watch along with us. I am so excited. Yes. And we have a brand new |
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