This series
only ran for one season before being cancelled (1999-2000). It has since become
a cult classic. A number of actors from the series now have great film careers
(James Franco, Jason Segel Seth Rogen, Linda Cardellini, Busy Phillips) and
that is the reason "Freaks and Geeks" landed on my “must watch” list. The show
features one family in suburban Detroit in 1980. The sister and brother are
described as freak and geek respectively, and the show follows their lives as
they try to navigate through high school. Their troubles are mostly focused on
finding your place in life. I greatly enjoyed watching this series. There were a lot of laughs and many unbelievable
moments. Freaks and Geeks reminds me of another teen high school drama that
also only lasted one season. "My So-Called Life” (1994-1995) dealt with the
same type of issues and had the same sort of lost feeling in the main character.
The main character in that series was also trying to find her place in the
world as she started questioning many values that she had been taught by school
and her family. "My So-Called Life" has also become a cult classic.
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