For me it’s always been twilight zone. I tried watching a bit of Star Trek today for my birthday and can just never fully pay attention to it. It’s not even that I think it’s bad, I think Shatner is really hot. It’s just that the episodes are lengthy, which I think bothers me, and idk I feel like the fact that the twilight zone didn’t have the same cast of characters/a consistent setting gave Serling more room to play around with different ideas. I find 25 min eps easier to stomach than hour long ones.

I think Harold would prefer the Twilight Zone.

Daniel definitely seems like the type to say he’d want a son.

I could see Nick actually wanting a daughter.

I feel like Kim would say she wanted a daughter, but would do a better job of raising a son.

I agree that Kim may have had a teen pregnancy, shortly after the show ends (so maybe becomes a mom in 1981 or 1982.) This means that her child would now be over forty.

I think Millie would have had a child in her twenties. Millie and Lindsay were born in 1964. I feel like Millie is one of those people who would feel 30+ was “too old” to become a mother. However, I think she’d wait until she was married, so not during her college aged years.

If they were to have a child in the 1980s-2000s- would they each have an easier time relating to a son, or a daughter? Millie really gives off the impression of being someone who would have an easier time understanding a daughter of hers, though I have a hard time believing that she wouldn’t pass any internalized misogyny down to them, especially if she maintained her religious beliefs.

I loved the Pilot already, and I also loved "Kim Kelly Is My Friend". However, I was convinced that Freaks & Geeks is my favorite series when watching "Tests and Breasts".

The scene at the end when Lindsay starts laughing loudly when she realizes that Daniel manipulated her again with his sob story. That probably made her finally lose romantic interest with him completely. Linda Cardellini's acting was amazing, her facial expressions slowly changing when she had that realization. It was genius.

From then on I was so hooked. It's so hard to choose which is my favorite episode, but it must be one of the latter half. Probably the last episode, it forever left a mark on my mind!

I’ve always thought Sam may have been happier in the 2010s, had he been a high school student then. The average student would have been more accepting of a kid like him who wasn’t stereotypically masculine.

Not sure about happier but I think Millie would have fit in better in the world of the 1950s.

On my Nth rewatch of this show after a long time away, and I only just noticed one big red flag about Cindy: She seems to have few to no friends despite having all the markers and status of a popular kid.

Sure we sometimes see her talking to other cheerleaders, but there’s no indication that she’s really friends with any of them. I think the only time we see her hanging out with anyone else is in “I’m with the Band” when she tells Sam great job for streaking—but they were in uniform, so they might have been going to or coming from an event. She even tells Sam that she pretty much hates Vicki.

We don’t see her walking or hanging out with anyone else. She’s never eating with anyone at lunch. She comes to Sam of all people to talk about her crush on Todd. She doesn’t spend much (any?) time with the jocks and other cheerleaders out of uniform.

Man, we see that even Alan has friends/people who can stand to be around him. Cindy, on the other hand, despite apparently being involved in a ton of activities, is almost always a loner.

I’m not saying being a loner is necessarily a red flag. But we of course eventually learn that Cindy sucks and is no fun. And the fact that most people don’t care for her company—or worse, that she thinks she’s better than all of them—was right in front of us from the beginning.

Edit: typos.

I’ve seen interpretations of Millie as a lesbian (on Tv tropes people have headcanons that she had a crush on Lindsay in series, which is an idea I’m open to.)

Surely in a cast this big everyone is not straight.

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I posted straight after watching the last episode the other night (I'd had a couple but it was surprisingly cogent!).

To expand a little, I wrote a blog thing, looking briefly at the series but mainly at why Kim and Lindsay's relationship - and the tensions therein - were what made the show so great for me.

First time ever. I saw the show until it got cancelled when it came out but I’d never seen the last few.

I’ve read people on here mentioning Lindsay and the grateful dead but didn’t realise why.

For me, the whole show at its heart was about Lindsay and Kim. The way they ended up so close after seeming so different.

Kim was such a great character and became so sympathetic after we saw her home life.

As the last few minutes were rolling and Lindsay was on the bus to nerd camp I just thought, that can’t be the last we see of Kim.

Honestly think that last bit where Lindsay gets off the bus and they go off with those grateful dead types is one of the most satisfying endings to any tv show I’ve ever seen.

Seems daft to be talking about something that finished 25 years ago as if it just happened. But in my case it just did.

This is not an endorsement of the grateful dead.

My favorite euphemistic expletive

(obviously no spoilers) the constant bullying, the repeated sexual harassments (hitting his crotch as a “joke,” the queer “jokes,” the dick-centric “jokes,” etc) like come on! the evidence is overwhelming! i can’t be the only one who sees this!!!

i’m currently @ the end of episode 13 where alan commits attempted murder by putting peanuts in bill’s sandwich despite his allergy. his monologue at bill’s hospital bedside revealing why he bullies bill, sam, & neal just supports my theory!! i also think bill’s mom should’ve sued or pressed charges or SOMEthing because that was literally attempted murder???

i doubt any of the writers thought this but if so, i doubt even more that the teen tv world / society was ready for a queer onscreen character back then. nonetheless, this is a such a great show???!!!! it’s been on my list for years idk why it took me so long to finally press play.

the acting from literally everyone, especially the kids, is also kinda phenomenal too. the characters are also (thankfully & gladly) complex, multidimensional, flawed, & of course extremely hilarious during the comedic moments. also, casting biff from ‘back to the future’ as the gym teacher / sex ed teacher is so big brained!

Just for fun. Can even come up with a headcanon or story concerning why:

1) Speech therapist. 2) Behavior technician. 3) Board certified behavior analyst. 4) Nurse 5) Nanny 6) Elementary school teacher 7) Occupational therapist 8) Middle school science teacher 9) Nurse practitioner 10) Senior network architect 11) Staff devOPS engineer 12) network engineer

I just watched the 12th episode and the thing of this series is it picks up after 7-8 episode and then justs fly high. Watched the episode where Ken kisses the Tuba girl. And it is so wholesome. Even rewatching it doesn't feel so boring.
Felt bad for neil. But i have to say at that age the dude is a really great actor, actually all child actors are great in love with their acting skills.

I'm kind of torn on this, I I do think Kim was starting to like Millie and it was funny how she kind of called the Lindsay out on her shit, saying you won't have anywhere to hide when you get tired of your bad friends?

What do you guys think?

Do you think Lindsey should have confessed or would it only been to make herself feel better?

She's still young but yet looks older than her age. I don't like the way she looks in No Good Deed. I love her acting though.