Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, January 25. All times are Eastern.
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Freaks And Geeks (Hulu, 3:01 a.m.): This, as our current president once said about a certain piece of healthcare legislation, is a big fuckin’ deal. Here’s Danette Chavez on Paul Feig’s seminal one-season series arriving, soundtrack intact, on Hulu:
Paul Feig’s beloved coming-of-age dramedy Freaks And Geeks is coming to Hulu, the streamer announced via press release on Monday. The complete series (a One Season Wonder) will be available to stream beginning January 25 in all its awkward and earnest glory […] First-time viewers will be able to watch at their leisure starting next Monday, which is a decidedly different experience from watching Freaks And Geeks when it aired, sporadically and on multiple networks, from 1999 to 2000. One thing that Hulu has seen fit to preserve, though, is the show’s music. A representative for Hulu confirmed to The A.V. Club that Viacom has confirmed that the show will stream with its original soundtrack intact. This is a huge deal, as music licensing rights have held up home releases for shows like Freaks And Geeks and Daria in the past. And, as Feig told the A.V. Club last summer, dropping any of the pitch-perfect musical choices would be like “losing a character from the show.” But come January 25, Hulu subscribers can watch the freaks and geeks of William McKinley High navigate adolescence to the sounds of The Moody Blues, The Who, Van Halen, Styx, XTC, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Rush, and of course, The Grateful Dead.
Check out the baby faces of some then-unknown, now-very-famous people at will, for the first time. (Or, if you’re like many of us here at The A.V. Club, for the eleventy-hundreth time. It’s a very good show, all right?)