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Instead, it just kind of quietly went about the business of dissecting high-school life. The show was never outlandishly funny or goofy, and only sometimes reached My So Called Life levels of melodrama. Apatow produced, worked in large part because it never did too much. The best of these efforts – and there were only really two of them – was Freaks and Geeks, a not-quite-comedy, not-quite-drama chronicling the myriad indignities and hormonal whiplash plaguing a group of high-school students in 1980s America.įreaks and Geeks, which Mr.
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But at the very least I'd include 1,000 Ways To Die, which is about exactly what you think it's about, and America's Funniest Home Videos, which I recently discovered will never go away, because the show's creators apparently have a fallout shelter's worth of home video backlog sent in by fame-seeking viewers over the years.)īefore he went on to make every big-budget comedy of the last 10 years, Judd Apatow made TV shows – specifically, TV shows about school. (And if there was such a thing as the opposite of an all-star team? Too many to mention. On the bench: Damages, Futurama, The Office, Firefly, Life On Mars (the British one, because I haven't seen the other one), Mad Men (haven't seen it, but the fans would probably vote it in) and the recommendation below. If I were putting together an all-star team of Nettflix-accessible TV shows, my starting five would be Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Arrested Development, the newly added Archer (although that show is so horribly offensive that the best I can do is mention it here in passing and then very quickly move on) and then maybe Twin Peaks, if only because I love the fact that David Lynch managed to keep that thing on the air, even if it was for just two seasons. On the topic of TV shows, it is worth mentioning that Netflix now carries both Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead, both of which are of course tremendous, but probably too well-known to bother highlighting here at length. This week's selection of Netflix highlights and lowlights features all manner of themes – TV shows, the 1980s, double-bills, you name it.