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Rayanne my so called life12/26/2023 Rayanne is revolution personified.Īngela's teenage rebellion is pretty predictable. Of making bad decisions for all the best reasons. It's not the beginning of Angela's adult life - she'd already learnt responsibility and duty from Sharon - but it's the beginning of Angela's teenage life. Upon meeting Rayanne, Angela dyes her hair "crimson glow," attempts to trick strangers into giving them money, starts crushing on angel-faced stoner Jordan Catalano, and even tries to get into a club. Sharon's nice, but she's big on playing by the rules and ticking all the right boxes at school. When we meet Angela Chase at the beginning of Season 1, she's already got a best friend: Sharon. She brings a certain infectious anarchy to the Chase household that's been missing. Sex with Jordan aside, I still wouldn't argue that Rayanne is a solely negative influence in Angela's life. And, after forging an intense friendship with Angela Chase, full of intimacy and shared confidences, a friendship which seems far more romantic and intense than anything either of the girls share with Jordan, she gets drunk and has sex with Jordan Catalano in his car, alienating Angela forever. Her mother lets her hold a house party at their place, provided she's sensible about drinking Rayanne proceeds to overdose and ends up in the hospital. She chains herself to Angela's parents' bed as part of a skit and can't unlock herself. On joining Jordan Catalano's rock band, the Frozen Embryos, she rocks up to the stage, full of swagger, and then realises she's got stage fright and can't sing a single note. Pages and pages of the Internet wax lyrical about the tender realism of the show's character development of Angela Chase, but Rayanne is as multi-layered and contradictory as people really are - and as flawed. This ended up making Rayanne seem more developed and, ironically enough, more realistic. She was always completely and utterly her (niche) self. Perhaps the most compelling reason for Rayanne's shedloads of charisma as a character is that the show never intentionally tried to craft her into the type of character we could all see parts of ourselves in. But, while she may have been relatable, Rayanne Graff was the shining star at the center of the show's galaxy. Angela Chase was My So-Called Life 's everywoman. They had stable family backgrounds, but could still be insecure about pretty much everything: For example, whether they said the right thing or did the right thing or looked the part. They could act out, but they were good girls - at least, most of the time. Most girls I knew growing up were Angela Chases.
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