Critical Reception
In 2012, Entertainment Weekly listed the show at #20 in the "25 Best Cult TV Shows from the Past 25 Years," calling it "the proto-Glee and saying it "celebrated the value of outcasts and portrayed overplayed topics - Homecoming Court, sex, and secrets - through an absurdist lens."
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