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Fun. Made for the teenage-ish crowd, but still watchable as an adult. Plot is not that original...chemical spill in a town makes zombies except for the kids locked in detention at a local high school. Stereotypical roles, but the acting is pretty good which makes it fun to watch and entertaining, which is the point of the show. SOme laughs, some scares, some gore and it will hold your attention even when there are some predictable parts.

Put it this way, the scientific part is not airtight. An air contagion, yet they ride in vehicles without their mask on. Pretty sure they don't make cars impenetrable to outside air.

I saw a short reel on part of the first episode and decided to find and watch. It wasn't too bad, but some situations were a bit over the top.

I enjoyed the series and watched the majority of it over a few nights after I found it.

After Grover finds the different types of "Freaks", he still doesn't question any of it. Then he finds the "Participant Retrieval" card on Collins and still doesn't make any connection. It isn't until Barrett shows him what he has found that it all comes together for him and he realizes that he has also been experimented on.

My biggest pet peeve was the ending. It left me with so many questions. Since Grover knew he was an experiment participant, why wouldn't his sister be one too? Also when they saw the interview with the Keller daughter, why didn't they question that between the two of them? They knew she was always lying and doing things that were sketchy. There were so many unanswered questions after the last episode. I hate when a series ends with more questions than answers.

Overall I really liked it. I just wish that there had been more to it.

I had never heard of this show before giving it a try, so I went into it without any expectations. Unfortunately, this did not deliver anything particularly good or memorable. The characters are all over the place, motivations are weak, and holy crap does the pacing suck. The premise is that of a group of stereotypical teens (more on that later) who end up trapped in their high school after an explosion of a chemical plant poisons the outside air with fallout and turns people exposed into something like mutant zombies.

--Spoilers from here on--The entire 10 episodes only takes place over a period of about 2 days, which is very much to its detriment. It's also very confusing, as they keep making it seem like more time has passed - you keep seeing the characters bedding down to sleep, but I guess maybe they just all take a lot of micronaps? At one point the water is shut off and they only have what bottled drinks are left. They say with rationing it should last a week - and yet, even though only a day has passed (as they keep repeatedly telling you by talking about how it's been two days in the show over and over again) they're suddenly really low on their water. Not sure if I should say they're all stupidly irresponsible or if the show just decided to forget what was going on.

The stupidity is not restricted to the lack of time passing. We get the stereotypical cast of characters (jock with his cheerleader girlfriend, the nerd, the bad boy, perfectionist girl, etc) who do very stereotypical things. There is, of course, the one who gits bitten and hides it from the group. There's the one who is an obvious jerk, who almost lets another character die by withholding the medicine he needs to live because he has a thing for his girlfriend. The main character is obviously the boy Grover, the whitebread boring lead who was never meant to be there in the first place, but showed up to detention he didn't earn in order to be close to a girl he liked. It's hard to care about any of the characters, or to believe they care about each other.

One of the girls it turns out is pregnant, and this brings basically nothing to the story. She doesn't seem to put much emotion into caring about the baby, and it's treated like exactly what it is - a poorly thought-out plot device, one they bring up when convenient and then abandon otherwise. She starts an out-of-nowhere relationship with one of the "bad boys" and over the course of less than a day suddenly the show treats them like they're in love, and have a huge meaningful relationship, which it never actually earns.

Eventually a man shows up who says he's there to rescue them, and has a vaccine that would allow them to safely breathe the air so they can escape. Only one of them has any misgivings about how this guy shows up and magically has a vaccine after only 2 days. When questioned why he was wearing a hazmat suit and mask if he's had the vaccine and doesn't need it he says because he'd already been out in it for 2 days and it was easier on him with the suit. That implies the vaccine was available to him the same day as the explosion. And with the exception of the one kid, no one questions this, and are willing to let him inject them with some mystery vaccine they know nothing about, even after he acts shady and refuses to answer questions, dodging them in very obvious ways.

It turns out the "vaccine" is actually a poison to kill them as they are witnesses to the mutants the chemical plant explosion caused, and he is part of a team trying to cover it up. Big surprise. One of the group (the pregnant one, of course) has already had the vaccine by the time they figure it out and try to stop him. As mentioned earlier, she never really brings up the baby, even when she's been injected with poison and is dying.

Ultimately, I only even finished this series because there was literally nothing else for me to watch and I was bored, but it's not really worth it. The characters are paper thin and VERY stupid (even when they try to convince you of how smart they are), the pacing is the absolute worst, and there are plot holes big enough to drive a semi through.

A lot of the bad reviews on here are from people who judged too harshly for the type of show this is. It's not meant to be taken too seriously. It's marketed as young campy teen horror drama and that's exactly what you get from this series. You will definitely be disappointed if you were expecting anything else. Freakish was enjoyable. Cringey at times. The writing, acting, and special effects are not amazing, but I've definitely seen much worse (especially from this genre). This show was fun to watch and got better as it went on. There's some humor sprinkled in. There's a decent amount of realistic gore for a show like this. I went into watching it with pretty low expectations and surprisingly liked it. It's nothing special, but it's entertaining (especially if you're into zombies or teen dramas). I wish there had been at least one more season since it ended with so many cliff hangers and unanswered questions. I think there was some good potential for season 3 and possibly more after that. In my opinion, they did a good job with the storytelling and pacing considering the episodes are pretty short. I wouldn't have minded longer episodes though. I also realize that some people intentionally judge this show harshly because the cast almost exclusively consists of social media influencers and former child stars from Disney and Nickelodeon. Pretty much everyone tends to be very opinionated about people in their position to say the least LOL. The worst aspect of this show was Natalie's pregnancy. Not written / executed well at all. It always ended up feeling out of place. It's not really talked about enough at all and felt unrealistic the whole time. Just forced and awkward. It seemed like an afterthought despite it being revealed pretty early on in the first few episodes. I think it was meant to be used as a plot device to challenge and complicate things for the characters but it just completely fell flat and wasn't believable at all to me which I found to be a bit distracting and annoying. As a diabetic who knows several other diabetics, everything that happened with Lashawn's health was completely unrealistic which was also a bit distracting and annoying because they made it such a huge plot point yet for such a brief period of time? The girls' hair and makeup always looking freshly done during the apocalypse was so unrealistic it was both eye roll inducing and somewhat funny, but not a huge deal. Overall, Freakish wasn't anything great, but not terrible either.

I had high hopes going into this series, however only a few minutes in I knew it wasn't going to go well. I hung in and watched all the episodes. This show is too typical. You have the nerdy guy, the jock with the hot girl, the bully, the semi popular girl etc.

The acting is so so and at times over the top.

*Spoiler* As an example of some of the ridiculousness, in a scene the whiz kid black girl makes ether to put the zombies asleep. They then sneak into the shelter looking for masks. Rather than killing the sleeping zombies, they tip toe around them and OF COURSE they wake up trapping one of their own inside. SHOCKING! EVERY TIME and I literally mean EVERY time a "freak" attacks, they either throw the weapon they have or drop it.

You have actors crying, yet no tears, inconsistencies where clothing changes from scene to scene.

So much promise but just didn't deliver.

To start off, I had all the right intentions when going into this series. It sounded like fun from the synopsis and the premise, but boy was I wrong. First of all the actors and acting are horrible. I understood from later digging that some of them stem from vine(???) fame and got their part through that. Fair enough, it's a dog eat dog world. But this script makes no sense and infuriates anyone watching it. Why is the school air tight? Why has no one responded to what seems like a huge disaster? Why is time sometimes fleeting and most times not? Making it seem like a week has passed but in the end, it's only 2 days? THE WATER RAN OUT AND EVERYONE FOUND A NEW PARTNER IN LESS THAN 2 DAYS? DURING A CRYSIS? This series is really pushing the boundary when it comes to how much stupidity one person can stomach before saying no. Personally, just a few episodes of season one did the trick but I sat through half of season 2 before being so insulted that I could not watch anymore. I feel sorry for the actors for having this sad piece of s**t for a script but somehow it matches their level of skill. Peace out.

Thanks to my auto play settings on my ROKU this show started playing after what I selected previously ended. Don't expect good acting, there is none. Weak, weak, WEAK story and just about every cliché' scenario there is.

---SPOILER---- If your black, your doomed (yeah, your surprised) . In a "leadership" position then your a WEAK leader like the detention teacher, but that's OK he has muscles and lets the kids walk all over him and ends up as the first snack. If your strong black athlete (Whaaaat?) but still alive you can't be allowed to be at full capability, so you have a crippling disease so your a burden on society O.o and you have to make statements about how strong and "badass" your white girlfriend is. You know, the one you "worship". Sigh.....

--Spoiler-- don't worry about our team of heroes, they will be fine. the "middle eastern" looking girl knows how to make THERMITE bombs.... eye roll... yeah, really.

---Spoiler--- the girl that lectures about being irresponsible and carelessness is the pregnant one.

---SPOILER---In one stupid scene, after making "knockout gas" -you know, to knock out the zombies- our heroes tip toe and whisper through a room full of sleeping zombies and waste time fiddling through boxes instead of KILLING the 20 zombies on the floor. -- so they can wake up prematurely while they are still in the room. ---Uugh---

This is a pretty painful piece of work. The only redeemable quality is that it is giving some folks employment.... for now.

Why are people still writing pathetic TV shows like this? This is not 2002 anymore. There are so many things wrong with this. First, all the girls looks so well made up after running around and fighting. Like they all have a professional stylist before every every camera shot. No one looks sweaty or dirty in the face. Second, we have Deshawn's death scene when the freaks somehow can smell his gangrene leg and were trying to break through the windows. But as soon as he was killed by own friend, they instantly stopped trying to break in and went away??!!! Wth!! Lmao. Ahhh hello his gangrene leg is still here!!! Fact is that stench will be even stronger in a few hrs because he's completely dead now!! Third, they're using masked to go outside but as soon as they get into any vehicle all mask comes off and they're all fine to breathe the air inside the vehicle??!!! Sooo does that mean the air in those vehicles are not contaminated? The air in the houses are also safe to breathe? Hmm. Even at the school, do they have some state of the art Filtration System? Smh. Fourth, why doesn't anyone have dust or chemical debris in their hair whenever they come from outside??!! With all the debris flying around out there, there's gotta be something stuck to someone lol. I couldn't make it through the 1st second. It's exhausting to watch. Relieved that it ended and not renewed. Great concept but writing and acting sucks. Best actor was Chad Collins, best "student" actor was Diesel but unfortunately he's been having a rough life with the law I've read. So maybe we wouldn't be seeing him around much longer. Tragic show.

Definitely worth the watch. If you're expecting something similar to the walking dead it's not that. I found this show to be very interesting and loved the initial premise of the chemical spill(expolsion). It is very highschool and some of it is quite predictable. Finished season 1 very quickly and was drawn every episode to watch the next. Season 2 was very well done as well done, the bringing in of other characters was a little off putting at first, but eventually I began to like it. The characters fall into your stereotypical categories, but they all interact so well and are actually quite likeable. Lots of twists. You can tell some aren't the best actors, but I did like them a lot. They were very good at the emotional scenes. One thing that I was honestly surprised with, was how much death there was, I guess in this world with people turning into 'freaks' trapped in something like a school would make it quite hard to survive. Really good teen show that contains emotion, love, drama, death, conviction, teen parent, and honestly just was an interesting watch.