Freaks and Geeks

Premise

The show centered on a teenage girl, Lindsay Weir (played by Linda Cardellini) and her brother Sam (John Francis Daley), both attending McKinley High School during the 1980-1981 school year in the town of Chippewa, Michigan. ( Town likely got its name from Chippewa Valley High School located in Clinton Charter Township, Michigan. Paul Feig graduated from the school in 1980.)

Related Topics:
Teenage - Lindsay Weir - Linda Cardellini - John Francis Daley - High School - 1980 - 1981 - Clinton Charter Township, Michigan

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Their friends, respectively, constituted the freaks (James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel and Busy Philipps) and geeks (Samm Levine and Martin Starr) of the title. Joe Flaherty and Becky Ann Baker played the siblings' parents, Harold and Jean Weir, and Sarah Hagan played Lindsay's geeky, highly religious best friend, Millie Kentner, in a recurring role.

Related Topics:
Freaks - James Franco - Seth Rogen - Jason Segel - Busy Philipps - Geek - Samm Levine - Martin Starr - Joe Flaherty - Becky Ann Baker - Sarah Hagan

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The show's starting point was precisely Lindsay's transition from her life as a well-doing student and proper young girl, with Millie as her best friend, into the freak group, as her grandmother's death makes her reconsider her approach to life. The resulting relationships as she became a part of it and the development of the already existing ones, along with Sam and his friends' tribulations as geeks, represented the show's central plot.

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