EPISODE
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.
4 August 1970, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
21 January 1967, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 December 1985, Torrance, California, USA
26 March 1977, Seattle, Washington, USA
13 October 1964, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
15 May 1978, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
1 January 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
9 July 1983, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 April 1959, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26 June 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 June 1983, Beverly Hills, California, USA
5 March 1976, Santa Cruz, California, USA
30 July 1982, Santa Monica, California, USA
13 August 1944, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 February 1960, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA
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 that wonderful rarity among television series, a show that simultaneously lampoons reality and embraces it.
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.
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
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
Freaks and Geeks finds abundant humor in the absurdity of the situations the characters face.
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
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
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.
