i just have to put my two cent in . this show be without a doubt my favorite and and i normally hate television . but this be worth see . some of it be absolutely hysterically funny and some of it be brutally real and part truly touch . the character be uncompromisingly write and act and and the storyline doesn not ring false once . i read a review that say that f and g do not feel so much like a show about the 80 a a product of the 80 . and they be right . there still 70 stuff everywhere and trace of the 60 and if you pay attention . i love this . it not like the ball drop on january first in 1980 and everyone across the world immediately strip down and have a nudist party to burn all there 70 cloth and and any other belonging they may have acquire over the past 10 year . the writing be perfect . the script have it fair share of one liner but the humor never feel force and the writer possess the useful talent of set up situation where we be not entirely sure whether to laugh and cringe or cry . and the acting be very good too . the casting director must have be up for a year to find a cast so talented and completely unknown across the board . they also do well to cast teenager who actually look like teenager and almost unheard of in the world of one tree hill gossip girl etcetera . i be fully aware there will be a fresh set of 25 year old playing high school student along shortly . i can barely keep up . but the kid in freak and geek look like they just wander out of 6th period and and do not get much sleep last night . linda cardenelli be luminous and doesn not worry about always be likable and only about always be relatable and and do exquisitely . a young seth rogen provide some dry humor for most of the early episode and and show some genuine dramatic talent during the latter one . john francis daley spend a lot of his time on screen gaze around him with wide eye . but unlike a lot of young actor who do this and he give the impression of absorb everything around him and be expose to new thing every second . so much so that you kind of wish you could protect him from some of it . in scene where he and his friend get hold of a porn movie he be almost devastating . martin starr and samm levine be and there be no other word i can use and perfect . martin starr be worth watch the show for on his own and perfectly sweet and socially awkward . samm levine however and gradually get under your skin a a kid with to much self confidence to be entirely believable . jason segal be good and too . sweet at the beginning and slightly scary a the series go on . but i guess thats to his credit . james franco brings alittle extra to the traditional bad boy role . intill this year i would have say that this and his role a james dean be the high point of his act career . he probably the only kid in the cast who alittle to beautiful and but he make up for it by show u a character who a bit to break to try as hard a he can at anything . he also interestingly alternate with linda cardenelli in the role of the straight man . and do so to perfection when he call on to . he and busy phillips be devastate in their portrayal of two kid who do not stay together some much because they like each other and but because they need each other desperately . who cling together for support and love and sex and everything else good in their life . altogether and it perfection a far a tv series go . almost anyone can probably relate to at least one of these character and and get something out of this show . highly recommended .