Sexeteria

This is a completely random post but I just needed to share.

Today I popped in a DVD while doing stuff around the house was reminded once again of exactly why I will always think Freaks and Geeks was one of the best shows ever put on TV:

Come on, you have to admit that's genius. Damn short-sighted, unoriginal network TV for not realizing it had a treasure on its hands and choosing to cancel this show. It was the only show I ever saw that even came close to approximating the real emotions and hideously ugly and shockingly beautiful things kids experience during high school age. And man, did they capture the feel of 1980. Plus, the kids LOOK like kids really look in high school--those, tiny, pre-pubescent freshmen contrasting with those big, post-pubescent seniors all desperately trying to act like they're oh-so-totally comfortable with their newly adult bodies...

I also have a soft spot for the character Lindsay, who was a lot like me growing up--a girl who was both nice and smart and hopelessly frustrated with the preconceptions everyone around her attached to those adjectives for girls. Watching her character struggle to find and grab onto something--anything--else that might provide a little breathing space of difference in a suburban community that really didn't offer much in the way of alternatives often had me feeling like I was watching my own high school self right there on the screen.

But most of all, man did the show make me laugh. And that's what I love about it the most. I've been laughing all day watching it.

If you've never seen the series, rent it on DVD, or better yet, buy the special edition box set, which is some of the coolest DVD packaging I've ever seen.