TL; DR: Amazing show, due to it's simplicity and originality. I started of thinking it was fine, but once I got into it... damn.
There is a bit in the Never Ending Story book (maybe it's also in the movie, I don't remember) where the main character is described as the ultimate outsider and nerd, with a long passage about how much books and stories mean to him. Everytime he'd finish a story, no matter what the ending, he'd end up crying, because he would never be able to see those characters again, they were dead to him (literally).
At the time I found this to be such a unrealistic trait that it became pretentious. I have always loved books, movies, shows and stories for as long as I can remember, and as a nerd I thought this couldn't be how anyone felt. I have only been sad with characters deaths, didn't really watch cancelled shows, and have always been done with a book once I finished it. I think that I finally found this feeling now.
This show was a trip, because it had all the high school drama tropes, while at the same time being completely original. I only started 4 days ago, and begun thinking it was a fun show with the purpose of being relatable to teens in high school like me (I'm 16), but this tiny golden show ended up as so much more. It's so weird, because it only has a handfull of story, and yet it means the world to me. It's probably because I am the perfect target audience, but this show is so much about life for me that it hurts.
While still being subtle, it also makes you feel incredibly much. I have never reacted so wildly to such tiny and unimportant things. Before this I watched Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, both shows are genius in a very other way than Freaks and Geeks, BB and BCS aren't really about life at all, and they sure as hell aren't relatable, and they weren't supposed to, not really creating the ability to make you walk besides those characters. (again a lot of amazing shows are like that, they weren't supposed to) F&G does have that ability, which makes it the perfect show to watch with the people you love. (makes me sad that I watched it alone.)
And these characters are just so goddamn well crafted, they don't paint anybody as the bad guy. You get to see everything through the eyes of everyone. It's not trying to be a lesson in how you should or shouldn't be, it's a lesson in that everyone can be amazing in their own way. The show being called: "Freaks and Geeks" + the intro makes you think that the message is that being different is okay and cool, but the lesson is that you should be who you are as long as you accept others for how they are. Because you first see the popular kids in the show as the bad side, but eventually you can understand them.
And they don't try to make every episode it's own story. They don't need to give every episode a cliffhanger nor do they need to be happy endings, which just makes it feel like life. And not everything needs to be meaningfull or lead to one thing.
And then it just ends. In the perfect way for F&G, they don't make the ending a finale, but an ending.
The show was cancelled and it just leaves you behind devastated, not knowing the futures of these characters. They're dead. It's so perfectly bittersweet, because you know that if the show had a proper finale it wouldn't mean half as much. The show is so perfect because it's limited. Real life is often limited, and sure as hell won't give you a proper ending. Like many things in the show by the way. That's how life is.
And I hate it because I begun thinking it was a mid show, but I now ended up binging it so much that I'm gonna fail my social studies test, failing that class, failing my year. Lmao. Ill study.
There is a bit in the Never Ending Story book (maybe it's also in the movie, I don't remember) where the main character is described as the ultimate outsider and nerd, with a long passage about how much books and stories mean to him. Everytime he'd finish a story, no matter what the ending, he'd end up crying, because he would never be able to see those characters again, they were dead to him (literally).
At the time I found this to be such a unrealistic trait that it became pretentious. I have always loved books, movies, shows and stories for as long as I can remember, and as a nerd I thought this couldn't be how anyone felt. I have only been sad with characters deaths, didn't really watch cancelled shows, and have always been done with a book once I finished it. I think that I finally found this feeling now.
This show was a trip, because it had all the high school drama tropes, while at the same time being completely original. I only started 4 days ago, and begun thinking it was a fun show with the purpose of being relatable to teens in high school like me (I'm 16), but this tiny golden show ended up as so much more. It's so weird, because it only has a handfull of story, and yet it means the world to me. It's probably because I am the perfect target audience, but this show is so much about life for me that it hurts.
While still being subtle, it also makes you feel incredibly much. I have never reacted so wildly to such tiny and unimportant things. Before this I watched Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, both shows are genius in a very other way than Freaks and Geeks, BB and BCS aren't really about life at all, and they sure as hell aren't relatable, and they weren't supposed to, not really creating the ability to make you walk besides those characters. (again a lot of amazing shows are like that, they weren't supposed to) F&G does have that ability, which makes it the perfect show to watch with the people you love. (makes me sad that I watched it alone.)
And these characters are just so goddamn well crafted, they don't paint anybody as the bad guy. You get to see everything through the eyes of everyone. It's not trying to be a lesson in how you should or shouldn't be, it's a lesson in that everyone can be amazing in their own way. The show being called: "Freaks and Geeks" + the intro makes you think that the message is that being different is okay and cool, but the lesson is that you should be who you are as long as you accept others for how they are. Because you first see the popular kids in the show as the bad side, but eventually you can understand them.
And they don't try to make every episode it's own story. They don't need to give every episode a cliffhanger nor do they need to be happy endings, which just makes it feel like life. And not everything needs to be meaningfull or lead to one thing.
And then it just ends. In the perfect way for F&G, they don't make the ending a finale, but an ending.
The show was cancelled and it just leaves you behind devastated, not knowing the futures of these characters. They're dead. It's so perfectly bittersweet, because you know that if the show had a proper finale it wouldn't mean half as much. The show is so perfect because it's limited. Real life is often limited, and sure as hell won't give you a proper ending. Like many things in the show by the way. That's how life is.
And I hate it because I begun thinking it was a mid show, but I now ended up binging it so much that I'm gonna fail my social studies test, failing that class, failing my year. Lmao. Ill study.