I call her Red.

So I have a bit of an inferiority complex.

Four years ago, my mom spent what is perhaps the best 40 bucks of her life: She bought me the boxset of my favorite TV show, My So-Called Life, on DVD.

Now, at the time, I'd forgotten it was my favorite TV show; after all, it had been, like, 10 years or so since she and I used to curl up on the sofa in our family room and watch the trials and tribulations of one Angela Chase (the stellar Claire Danes) and co. unfold before our very eyes (I have a pretty hip mom to let me watch a mature show like that when I was in the fourth grade). Back in those days, high school seemed light years away. Boys? They still had cooties, so Jordan Catalano (played by Jared Leto) wasn't anything special to me.

But boy, as a college sophomore, things were sure different. Riding the high school roller coaster of emotions that played out so typically and honestly onscreen made me thankful that I survived and also nostalgic for the grunge era, which I was sadly too young to fully appreciate as it was happening. I have watched each episode dozens of times, and my two roommates and I even dressed up this Halloween as Angela and her trusted sidekicks Rickie and Rayanne.

Now they've got to rock my world by telling me that my boxset is obsolete? Today marks the release of a new boxset, complete with -- gasp -- bonus features that include interviews with the cast and creators and the original music. Wait, my boxset doesn't have the original music? Why would you do such a thing?

I can't bear the thought of dumping my lovingly worn set, so I'm making my roommate buy the new one so we have both. Maybe I just make sure to live with her forever so I always have access to this new and improved (and perhaps so over Jordan Catalano) version. - Kim