This is uncommonly good-looking for this sort of doc. They did a great job of capturing the flavor of the look of the show in the talking heads. That added a lot. So did the sheer amount of interviews; just about everyone is in this. It’s made with obvious love for this show, which is echoed by all the interviewees, who are equally ionate about this wonderful thing that they made that was just a few years ahead of its time. (If it is developed in a world where it could play on basic cable or streaming, it surely could have hung around long enough to capture the full four years of the geeks’ high school careers.)

I’m sure some people lie about this now, but it’s true for me: I watched the show when it was on the air. And it was hard to watch; not because it was on on Saturday nights (I was a total loser and I had very few Saturday night plans), but because a lot of weeks it just wouldn’t air for some reason. But it was so true and so funny and so painful that it was worth the effort. TV is so easy to watch now; so many things are available 24/7 at a click. And that is probably for the better for most shows. But you did feel like you were a part of the coolest thing ever made about uncool people when Freaks and Geeks was on the air.