'My So-Called Life' cast comes together virtually for 'overdue reunion': 'My youth right there in a Zoom grid'

My So-Called Life aired its final episode 25 years ago this January, but Winnie Holzman’s groundbreaking series would still be voted “Most Popular” among its class of 1990s teen shows. And Wednesday night, series star Wilson Cruz hosted a virtual cast reunion during the coronavirus quarantine that collectively transported Generation X back to the era of grunge and flannel. The actor — who played fan-favorite Rickie Vasquez — posted a screenshot of the Zoom session on Twitter, calling it a “very comforting, sweet, heartfelt and overdue reunion.”

My So-Called Life fans were certainly comforted to see Claire Danes’s smiling face among the show’s alumni. The future Homeland star scored her breakout role as Angela Chase, reportedly beating out Alicia Silverstone for the part. Keeping it all in the family, Danes’s on-screen mom, dad and granddad — Bess Armstrong, Tom Irwin and Paul Dooley, respectively — also joined the call, as did her former schoolmates Devon “Sharon” Odessa, Devon “Brian Krakow” Gummersall and A.J. “Rayanne” Langer. Rounding out the reunion were Holzman and character actress Mary Kay Place, who played Sharon’s mom, Camille. While footage of the chat has yet to be made available, the screenshot Cruz posted was enough to make Twitter’s heart beat loud.

At the same time, fans couldn’t help but notice who wasn’t in the frame, namely Liberty High heartthrob Jordan Catalano, played by Jared Leto. The Oscar winner was famously late to the coronavirus pandemic but early to social distancing having spent two weeks on a desert mediation retreat in early March. Then again, it’s only appropriate that the eternally disaffected Catalano would skip a group hang.

My So-Called Life isn’t the only classic TV series staging virtual cast reunions. The daily streaming series Stars in the House, which is hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley and benefits The Actors Fund, features get-togethers with actors from Desperate Housewives, Frasier and SCTV that can be watched on YouTube. And earlier this week, they organized a star-studded reunion for a show that can trace its lineage back to My So-Called Life: Fox’s musically-inclined high-school series, Glee.

We can’t be the only ones up for a Liberty High/McKinley High co-production.

My So-Called Life is streaming on ABC.com and Amazon Prime with an IMDB TV subscription

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