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Watched 2 seasons of Freaks and Geeks in 3 nights and it hit harder than any 8 season show I've stuck with
I grabbed the Freaks and Geeks DVD set off a buddy's shelf in Sacramento about 3 weeks ago and figured I'd watch a few episodes and move on. Ended up burning through both seasons, all 18 episodes, in 3 nights, which is a lot for me since I usually fall asleep 20 minutes into anything. What got me was how fast it made me care about these kids, like by episode 4 I knew exactly why Lindsay was hiding her old friends from her new ones. Compare that to some shows I've stayed with for 7 or 8 seasons where I still couldn't tell you why half the cast even talks to each other. The run time thing stopped bugging me too, because the show never wasted a scene on setup for next year's plot. It just used the 45 minutes it had. I think that is why the ending lands so hard, they weren't saving anything for later. Did the short run make it better for anyone else, or am I just romanticizing it because it got cut?
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