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Freaks and Geeks

Freaks and Geeks

Freaks and Geeks

1999 - 2000
Comedy, Drama
TV Series
44m
After her grandmother's death, a high school mathlete starts hanging out with a group of burnouts while her younger brother navigates his freshman year. (imdb)
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Directed by:

Jake Kasdan
Jake-Kasdan
25 total credits
Credits include: Orange County, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Bad Teacher and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
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Judd Apatow
Judd-Apatow
53 total credits
Judd Apatow is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is well known for his work in comedy films, especially for films he has been involved with throughout the latter half of the 2000s. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, a film production company that also developed the cult television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared. In 2004, Apatow produced the hit comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, starring Will Ferrell and directed by Adam McKay...(Wikipedia)

Writers:

Mike White
Mike-White
39 total credits
Credits include: School of Rock, Zombieland, Nacho Libre and The Stepford Wives
,
Judd Apatow
Judd-Apatow
53 total credits
Judd Apatow is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is well known for his work in comedy films, especially for films he has been involved with throughout the latter half of the 2000s. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, a film production company that also developed the cult television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared. In 2004, Apatow produced the hit comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, starring Will Ferrell and directed by Adam McKay...(Wikipedia)
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Paul Feig
Paul-Feig
50 total credits
Credits include: Bridesmaids, The Office, Spy and Ghostbusters

Starring:

James Franco
James-Franco
151 total credits
James Franco is best known as Harry Osborn -- Green Goblin, Jr. -- in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies (2002-07). He grew up in California and, after one year of college, began his acting career with small roles in TV productions in 1997. Fans remember Franco from the short-lived but critically acclaimed Judd Apatow series Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000, starring Linda Cardellini), but his career breakthrough came with his Emmy-nominated portrayal of James Dean in the 2001 TV movie James Dean.
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Busy Philipps
Busy-Philipps
25 total credits
Credits include: White Chicks, Blades of Glory, The Gift, Freaks and Geeks and Made of Honor
,
Linda Cardellini
Linda-Cardellini
52 total credits
Linda Edna Cardellini is an American television and film actress. She is best known for her roles as high school student Lindsay Weir on Freaks and Geeks, as Velma Dinkley in the live-action Scooby-Doo films, and as Samantha Taggart on ER. Cardellini was born in Redwood City, California, the daughter of Lorraine (née Hernan) and Wayne David Cardellini. She made her first public appearance at age 10, when she sang in a school play. After the performance..(Wikipedia)
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Becky Ann Baker
Becky-Ann-Baker
19 total credits
Credits include: A Simple Plan, Freaks and Geeks, Girls, The Half of It and Nights in Rodanthe
,
Jason Segel
Jason-Segel
42 total credits
Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American television and film actor, screenwriter, composer, puppeteer and musician, known for his work with producer Judd Apatow on the short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, the films Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up, I Love You, Man, Gulliver's Travels, and Despicable Me, and also for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother...(imdb)
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Seth Rogen
Seth-Rogen
92 total credits
Credits include: The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad, Knocked Up and Kung Fu Panda
,
John Francis Daley
John-Francis-Daley
21 total credits
Credits include: Horrible Bosses, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Waiting..., Game Night and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
,
Joe Flaherty
Joe-Flaherty
30 total credits
Credits include: Happy Gilmore, Heavy Metal, Freaks and Geeks, Slackers and Used Cars
,
Samm Levine
Samm-Levine
12 total credits
Credits include: Freaks and Geeks, Pulse, The Last Blockbuster, Drones and Made for Each Other
,
Martin Starr
Martin-Starr
39 total credits
Credits include: Spider-Man: Far from Home, Kicking & Screaming, Silicon Valley, Freaks and Geeks and Veronica Mars
,
Sarah Hagan
Sarah-Hagan
6 total credits
Credits include: Freaks and Geeks, Jess + Moss, Architecture of Reassurance, Help and Get It Done
,
Steve Bannos
Steve-Bannos
5 total credits
Credits include: Freaks and Geeks, The TV Wheel, Freaks And Geeks: The Documentary, Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag and Cultureshock

Genres:

Comedy, Drama

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Freaks and Geeks

1999 - 2000
Comedy, Drama
TV Series
44m
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Ratings & Reviews

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Average Percentile: 77.16%
28 Mar 2023
100
97th
A brilliant antidote to all the vapid CW-esque teen shows out there. Full of heart, frequently hilarious, and sometimes shockingly wise. The characters and setting feel so authentic you'd swear you're watching '80s home movies. Only a network executive couldn't love it.
12 Mar 2016
100
99th
It's hard for me to put into words how great this show is. Yes, it's just a small sample size of what could have been, as it only lasted 1 season...but what a fucking season it was! Forget about how many of the cast members went on to great things...this show perfectly encapsulates high school and the archetypes that we all know and love whom reside within. Easily my favorite series of all time...and I can say with both reverence and regret; this is the best fucking thing I've seen on TV.
16 Jun 2016
95
98th
Wow, what an amazing run this show had. In one long 18-episode season it accomplished more comedy, character development and astute social observation than most other shows accomplish in their lifetime. I think I confidently say this is the greatest portrayal of White, suburban middle-class adolescence ever put on film and amazingly, it's still instantly relatable, even in 2016, and even if, like me, you graduated years ago. Don't let the Judd Apatow label fool you, it's definitely a Must-see.
26 Sep 2015
9
98th
I have kind of turned on Apatow in recent years, but this intensely real, funny, moving, future-movie-star-packed high school series is, outside of Friday Night Lights, still probably the best teen TV series ever made. Maybe the best screen depiction ever of the feeling of being an outsider in that weird ecosystem known as high school. I'd pick Tests and Breasts as my favorite episode, but Smooching and Mooching comes close. This show completely lives up to every ounce of hype. It's great.
01 Sep 2015
90
97th
This wonderful dramady with an endearing performance by Linda Cardellini is the golden standard of high school shows.
11 Sep 2015
90
91st
So much heart to this show. Both incredibly funny and extremely emotional. The divide can be pretty steep at times and comes off as jarring, but that reflects how life is during the time that the show examines. The characters are very well written and I personally identify with them. I can see someone unable to identify with either the characters or situations being turned away from the show. I always had more interest in the Freaks than in the Geeks, except for Bill Haverchuck; comic gold
10 Sep 2015
72
68th
Maybe television's best coming-of-age series. It rarely made me laugh out loud, but I chuckled constantly and absolutely loved the character arcs. I was late to this show and I'm sad I didn't get to experience it when I was in middle or high school.
05 Sep 2015
9
93rd
Encapsulates high school very well and has a lot of charm and funny moments. The best thing Apatow has done and will ever do and launched the careers of a lot of famous people like Franco, Rogen, and Segel. I think it's loved more than it should be because it's a very short series and got cancelled prematurely but all the eps are great and worth seeing.
05 Sep 2015
73
88th
Wonderful slice of high school life with an obviously talented cast that went on to do mostly good things. Painfully short lived, another what if?
13 Jun 2023
80
79th
pilot was 88. then usually 80, some +-. it evoked a general feeling of care that Undeclared didn't, I think mainly because it has Lindsay. It's the most realistic high school show i've seen in a lot of ways, and that's why sometimes it reminded me of The Inbetweeners even though that's more intentionally exaggerated. It def shoulda had at least 7 seasons like usual lol but i wonder how long they woulda stayed in high school.
20 Sep 2022
91
89th
I was always curious about this show considering the cast. I don't really know why it got canceled as soon as it did, but this is a fantastic show, and a lot better than you'd imagine. This was really well made and I would love to see some kind of reunion of these characters at some point in a movie perhaps, similar to how Apatow brought previous characters back for This is 40.
11 Oct 2020
70
31st
i feel like this is essential high school viewing ~ skip it if you're not hormonal
16 May 2019
17
96th
Series was too fucking short
08 May 2017
5
41st
Cute but bland. I guess you have to be an american teenager to enjoy it. Being european, and an adult, I feel totally foreign to everything the characters are feeling throughout this series, both the freaks and the geeks. I actually feel the opposite of the desired effect: cringe. American high school culture is just an infinite amount of cringe to me. So puritan. Oh well. At least a lot of the episodes had a cute plot which saved the show from being nothing but overrated nostalgia.
20 Feb 2017
91
98th
Great Series
17 Feb 2017
95
75th
1
23 Oct 2016
75
89th
Great show which unfortunately only got one season.
26 Sep 2016
47
44th
Sticks much more closely to convention than its reputation might lead one to expect, but it's certainly one of the better TV series of its time.
19 May 2016
7
71st
Judd Apatow could have followed in the footsteps of this and become a 21st century John Hughes. Instead he decided to make a bunch of shit that really sucks.
24 Jan 2016
85
87th
A whole bunch we know from Pineapple Express, This is the end, etc, but so young. Real character development and good scripting. An underrated series.
05 Sep 2015
53
72nd
Only in your temple, Neal, not in the real world.
05 Sep 2015
9
90th
There's a vibrant world out there that's humming loudly and you want to be a part of it so bad but instead you're stuck at high school. Sucks.
Freaks and Geeks - Season 1
Season 1 - After her grandmother's death, a high school mathlete starts hanging out with a group of burnouts while her younger brother navigates his freshman year. (imdb)

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Jake Kasdan
Jake-Kasdan
25 total credits
Credits include: Orange County, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Bad Teacher and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
,
Judd Apatow
Judd-Apatow
53 total credits
Judd Apatow is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is well known for his work in comedy films, especially for films he has been involved with throughout the latter half of the 2000s. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, a film production company that also developed the cult television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared. In 2004, Apatow produced the hit comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, starring Will Ferrell and directed by Adam McKay...(Wikipedia)

Writers:

Mike White
Mike-White
39 total credits
Credits include: School of Rock, Zombieland, Nacho Libre and The Stepford Wives
,
Judd Apatow
Judd-Apatow
53 total credits
Judd Apatow is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is well known for his work in comedy films, especially for films he has been involved with throughout the latter half of the 2000s. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, a film production company that also developed the cult television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared. In 2004, Apatow produced the hit comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, starring Will Ferrell and directed by Adam McKay...(Wikipedia)
,
Paul Feig
Paul-Feig
50 total credits
Credits include: Bridesmaids, The Office, Spy and Ghostbusters

Starring:

James Franco
James-Franco
151 total credits
James Franco is best known as Harry Osborn -- Green Goblin, Jr. -- in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies (2002-07). He grew up in California and, after one year of college, began his acting career with small roles in TV productions in 1997. Fans remember Franco from the short-lived but critically acclaimed Judd Apatow series Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000, starring Linda Cardellini), but his career breakthrough came with his Emmy-nominated portrayal of James Dean in the 2001 TV movie James Dean.
,
Busy Philipps
Busy-Philipps
25 total credits
Credits include: White Chicks, Blades of Glory, The Gift, Freaks and Geeks and Made of Honor
,
Linda Cardellini
Linda-Cardellini
52 total credits
Linda Edna Cardellini is an American television and film actress. She is best known for her roles as high school student Lindsay Weir on Freaks and Geeks, as Velma Dinkley in the live-action Scooby-Doo films, and as Samantha Taggart on ER. Cardellini was born in Redwood City, California, the daughter of Lorraine (née Hernan) and Wayne David Cardellini. She made her first public appearance at age 10, when she sang in a school play. After the performance..(Wikipedia)
,
Becky Ann Baker
Becky-Ann-Baker
19 total credits
Credits include: A Simple Plan, Freaks and Geeks, Girls, The Half of It and Nights in Rodanthe
,
Jason Segel
Jason-Segel
42 total credits
Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American television and film actor, screenwriter, composer, puppeteer and musician, known for his work with producer Judd Apatow on the short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, the films Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up, I Love You, Man, Gulliver's Travels, and Despicable Me, and also for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother...(imdb)
,
Seth Rogen
Seth-Rogen
92 total credits
Credits include: The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad, Knocked Up and Kung Fu Panda
,
John Francis Daley
John-Francis-Daley
21 total credits
Credits include: Horrible Bosses, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Waiting..., Game Night and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
,
Joe Flaherty
Joe-Flaherty
30 total credits
Credits include: Happy Gilmore, Heavy Metal, Freaks and Geeks, Slackers and Used Cars
,
Samm Levine
Samm-Levine
12 total credits
Credits include: Freaks and Geeks, Pulse, The Last Blockbuster, Drones and Made for Each Other
,
Martin Starr
Martin-Starr
39 total credits
Credits include: Spider-Man: Far from Home, Kicking & Screaming, Silicon Valley, Freaks and Geeks and Veronica Mars
,
Sarah Hagan
Sarah-Hagan
6 total credits
Credits include: Freaks and Geeks, Jess + Moss, Architecture of Reassurance, Help and Get It Done
,
Steve Bannos
Steve-Bannos
5 total credits
Credits include: Freaks and Geeks, The TV Wheel, Freaks And Geeks: The Documentary, Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag and Cultureshock

Genres:

Comedy, Drama

Country:

USA

Language:

English
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