Freaks and Geeks (1999)
8.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 25, 1999

The benchmark for this whole list. NBC canceled it after airing 15 of its 18 episodes, and the full season now plays as one of the truest portraits of high school ever put on TV: Lindsay Weir drifting toward the burnouts while her little brother Sam survives with the geeks in 1980s Michigan. The…

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