Well I got through Off Centre and now I am onto some of the other shows that were big around that era and one I found earlier was Freaks and Geeks and it was just the pilot but still I thought I would watch it and see what it was like and you know what I actually really liked it. It’s set in the 1980’s and has a great cast of Linda Cardellini and Seth Rogen among others and its produced by Judd Apatow who actually did some stuff for 40 year old virgin so I think thats a major reason why I wanted to see this knowing how funny that was. So I did some research on wikipedia on the show and lets face what can’t you find on wikipedia these days and it lasted for 15 episodes then it was canceled like all good stuff and then due to protest and fan support the last 3 were shown and then in 2004 it was released on dvd which is something I might look to get because its really good. This is the premise of the show to quote from Wikipedia:
The show centered on a teenage girl, Lindsay Weir (played by Linda Cardellini), and her brother, Sam (John Francis Daley), both attending McKinley High School during the 1980-1981 school year in the town of Chippewa, Michigan. (The town likely got its name from Chippewa Valley High School located in Clinton Charter Township, Michigan. Paul Feig graduated from the school in 1980.)Their friends, respectively, constituted the freaks — Daniel Desario, Ken Miller, Nick Andopolis, Kim Kelly — and geeks — Neal Schweiber and Bill Haverchuck — of the title. Parents Harold and Jean Weir were featured and Millie Kentner, Lindsay’s geeky, highly religious former best friend, was a recurring character.
The show’s starting point was Lindsay’s transition from her life as an academically proficient student, star mathlete, and proper young girl, with Millie as her like-minded best friend, to an Army-jacket-wearing teenager who hangs out with troubled slackers. Her relationships with her new friends, and the friction they cause with her parents and with her own self-image, form one central strand of the show; the other follows Sam and his group of geeky friends as they navigate a very different part of the social universe.
It’s not just that either I have been watching Undeclared which I used to see on ITV really late at nights like around 3am and such and thats another Judd Apatow show and also stars alot of the stars from 40 year old virgin and freaks and geeks, but of course that gained a cult following and also got canceled.
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