"Freaks and Geeks" has always been billed as a cult series and I had to find out why. James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, JoAnna Garcia, busy Philipps, John Francis Daley, and even appearances from Ben Foster and Shia LaBoeuf? All the names we now know as grown-up stars, they started there, with Freaks and Geeks.

High expectations in mind, Freaks and Geeks delivers. The reality of the highschool life and the teenage stage are depicted in such intricate and intimate details with the freaks, the geeks, the nerds, the jocks, the bullies, the parents, the teachers, and all the rebellion, the lies, the problems and the solutions that result from that.

I was 14 in 1999 when the show aired, and let me tell you, I wish I can go back and tell teenage-me to watch it then. So many questions, internal struggles, issues, so many things would have been different, maybe easier to comprehend. Oh well, I get to rejoice and see this now, as an adult, and have intimate glimpses into my past, into things I had forgotten or got out of touch with. All I know is, I will make my kids watch this when they are 12.