I don't have cable, but I still love TV...
Freaks and Geeks was probably the best thing on tv when it was on. It could have gone on for much longer, it was brilliant, but sometimes these kinds of projects are meant to be looked back on with pride as your first ideas in some of its purest forms. Even the actors who were on that short lived show had careers that seemed so fresh. Seth Rogen could not act, but look at him now! Some of these people after the show ended really took off and some we didn't hear much back from them again afterwards. What's amazing is that that idea of what happened to these actresses and actors in real life hits home, I think, with the politics of high school. If you were a 'minor character' in the high school popularity contests, you may have gone on to do some great things, maybe it was the new friends, maybe it was that you were finally challenged on your grounds. If you were at the top of your life when you were in high school, well then… that's kindof unfortunate to peak so early and for such a short period of time. Perhaps high school is meant to be seen as something that sucks but it's short and necessary, necessary in that you realize what you will never want to deal with ever again in adulthood. True blossoming happens once you get the hell out, because that's when you go from thinking about more than the light at the end of the tunnel.
(This is one of the few times I was interested in the 'where are they now' crap, but I mean, the cheerleader in F & G is going to be a stripper in an upcoming movie, doesn't that remind you of the moment when you realized that the girl being double penetrated in Requiem for a Dream was also in Labyrinth! I guess that's what happens when you grow up along with the people who are kids in those movies, one day both you and that actor/actress think to themselves, I bet someone would pay to see (insert actor/actress) in a sex tape. And then it happens.)
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