Original artwork, not a still
My parents keep asking how school was. It’s like saying, “How was that drive-by shooting?” You don’t care how it was, you’re lucky to get out alive.
— My So-Called Life ‧ 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Angela Chase compares a routine parental question to asking about surviving a violent ordeal, arguing that getting through the school day intact matters more than any detail of how it went, capturing teenage exhaustion as a kind of barely controlled crisis.
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