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The Debut

September 24, 1999
Salon Arts & Entertainment | In with the out crowd

“One of the most promising new series of the fall season.”
September 28, 1999
The Eyepiece Network: The Darker Side of Those Not-So-Wonder Years: High School

“Because of its insistence on aiming for realism, Freaks and Geeks has a thin veneer of bleakness”
October 8, 1999
TeeVee Archive – Fall ’99: “Freaks and Geeks”

“Let’s get this out of the way up front: Freaks and Geeks is […] a show that has a snowball’s chance in hell of surviving to see its second season. Locked in a brutal Saturday night time slot by an apparently uncaring network, adjecent to series utterly unlike it in tone or substance, and brining a light touch to a TV line-up populated with the crude and the crass. Doomed. Gone.”
October 29, 1999
freep.com – Give ‘Freaks’ show a chance to shine

“We have a homework assignment for the weekend. […] All you have to do is watch “Freaks and Geeks” […] Despite rapturous reviews from most TV critics, the low-rated “Freaks and Geeks” (no. 82) is teetering on the brink of trouble.”

February 10, 2000
IGN FilmForce: Transcripts of FilmForce’s Chat with Paul Feig

[and be sure to go back later and follow the “Related Articles” link on this page for many many more interesting-looking pages than i felt like counting]
February 21, 2000
Marylaine Block – My Word’s Worth – Freaks and Geeks: reminding us what adolescence was like

“Network execs who haven’t figured out exactly who its natural audience is are letting it die because they don’t know when to run it and how to promote it. They obviously think that because it’s ABOUT adolescents, this show is FOR adolescents, but it’s not.”
March 6, 2000
salon :: Give “Freaks” a chance, By Joyce Millman

“[Y]ou will say “How come nobody told me this was so awesome?” And I will gently remind you that I (and every other TV critic in the country) have been telling you exactly that since September. You could have listened. But, no.”
March 23, 2000
TeeVee Archive – Freak Out

“When it comes to the untimely, undeserved demise of Freaks and Geeks, i will blame you. Because you didn’t watch.”