EPISODE
Freaks and Geeks - Season 1
Lindsay attempts to transform her life as an academically proficient student, star 'mathlete' and young girl to a rebellious teenager who hangs out with troubled slackers while her younger brother navigates his freshman year.
26 March 1977, Seattle, Washington, USA
10 April 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 November 1948
July 24, 1975 in West Covina, California, USA
21 June 1941, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
4 May 1994, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 August 1979, Tampa, Florida, USA
1960, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
12 May 1978, Pasadena, California, USA
3 August 1978, Massachusetts, USA
7 December 1961, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
20 February 1960, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA
29 February 1976
26 January 1983
19 November 1957, Sherman, Texas, USA
25 June 1979, Oak Park, Illinois, USA
5 November 1985, San Diego, California, USA
20 July 1985, Wheeling, Illinois, USA
30 September 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
28 September 1977, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
October 10, 2017
Freaks and Geeks distinguishes itself by the eerie realism of its portrayal of suburban high school life, circa 1980, from the ugly, boring clothes, to the across-the-board wonderful acting to the refreshing lack of narration.
October 10, 2017
This is the perfect introduction into the world. Not only have we immediately become immersed from the jump thanks to Joan Jett's Bad Reputation as well as a slew of other songs used in this episode, but the costuming drives the point home.
October 10, 2017
Paul Feig have fashioned a dramatic comedy that perhaps gets it a tad too right. Freaks and Geeks carries a sheen of bleakness, of sadness and depression that strives to equate the lives of middle teens with those of infantrymen on the front lines.
October 10, 2017
Freaks and Geeks finds abundant humor in the absurdity of the situations the characters face.
October 10, 2017
Mass audiences are only interested in reliving high school if it's sentimentalized. The chance to revisit something remotely in the ballpark of the real thing is as appetizing as cafeteria food-and Freaks and Geeks was a weekly feast of teen awkwardness.
October 10, 2017
Freaks and Geeks is tapping into something primal: adolescents' hunger to begin to understand themselves and their world. Freaks and Geeks is too honest to offer answers. But it affirms the value and the universality of asking the questions.
October 10, 2017
Freaks and Geeks is that wonderful rarity among television series, a show that simultaneously lampoons reality and embraces it.
October 10, 2017
Freaks and Geeks, despite its numerous flaws and hinting at Apatow's subsequent reliance on man-child humor in his feature films, often succeeds as humanist comedy precisely because the characters at its center are teenagers.
October 10, 2017
Watching the show often feels like an out-of-body experience, as if one were watching oneself navigate through high school. This is exactly what makes the show so timeless.
October 10, 2017
On the geeks' side, Martin Starr is simply brilliant as Bill, a lanky kid who's both bumblingly incoherent and strangely charismatic - words really can't do him justice, but suffice it to say he's one of the all-time great TV nerds, Screech be damned.
