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  • FOX
  • Oct 6, 2000
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  • Oct 6, 2000
Freakylinks

Summary Derek Barnes runs the Freakylinks.com website, which he took over when his twin brother, Adam, committed suicide. The website is dedicated to uncovering the hidden and often dark and scary truths behind urban legends and the paranormal. After receiving strange messages related to Adam, Derek begins to search for clues to how and why ...

  • FOX
  • Oct 6, 2000
  • FOX
  • Oct 6, 2000
Freakylinks
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 6, 2000
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
43
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Summary Derek Barnes runs the Freakylinks.com website, which he took over when his twin brother, Adam, committed suicide. The website is dedicated to uncovering the hidden and often dark and scary truths behind urban legends and the paranormal. After receiving strange messages related to Adam, Derek begins to search for clues to how and why ...

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Episode 0
Un-aired Pilot
Episode 1 • Oct 6, 2000
Subject: Fearsum
Derek, Jason and Lan investigate rumors of paranormal events for their website freakylinks.com. Someone sends Derek a video shot after his twin Adam's odd suicide that shows Adam waking in the background. Derek calls Chloe, Adam's ex.
Episode 2 • Oct 13, 2000
Subject: Three Thirteen
A pregnant woman believes she might be becoming possessed. Derek is skeptical, but freaky things start to happen.
Episode 3 • Oct 20, 2000
Subject: Edith Keeler Must Die
A guy in "Edith Keeler Must Die" shirt (a reference to Star Trek TOS classic episode City on the Edge of Tomorrow) claims that "mole people" live in New York's subway tunnels and are behind the recent attacks in the city.
Episode 4 • Oct 27, 2000
Subject: Coelacanth This!
Derek suspects that a prehistoric creature has survived to this day (just like prehistoric fish species Coelacanth) and is killing people in the woods near a conspiratorial small town. The locals and the sheriff refuse to assist him.
Episode 5 • Nov 3, 2000
Subject: Desert Squid! Myth or Legend?
Derek and his team are in a New Mexico desert investigating freaky reports of a tentacle creature (dubbed "desert squid") attacking the locals' livestock.
Episode 6 • Jan 5, 2001
Subject: The Harbingers
Derek finally gets a break in the freaky case of his twin brother Adam's apparent return among the living, when he learns that Adam may have been involved with a group of ominous self-proclaimed psychics from Florida.
Episode 7 • Jan 12, 2001
Subject: Still I Rise
Derek and his team investigate rumors of sightings of a dead rapper. It turns out that the rapper isn't actually dead but in hiding from what he claims are supernatural pursuers.
Episode 8 • Jan 19, 2001
Subject: Me and My Shadow
Chloe councils a terrified young boy who claims that his shadow has been possessed by something evil. Chloe believes he's just having psychological issues, but freaky things start happening.
Episode 9 • Jan 26, 2001
Subject: The Stone Room
Jason and his friends investigate the freaky goings-on in his estranged father's Baltimore law firm.
Episode 10 • May 15, 2001
Subject: Sunrise at Sunset Streams
Something is on the prowl in a retirement community. Derek knows this, but a certain financial benefit prevents him from acting in time.
Episode 11 • May 22, 2001
Subject: Live Fast, Die Young
Derek sees a video of an adrenalin junkie surviving an impossibly high fall. The guy and his friends are in fact careless adrenalin vampires, who inject themselves with adrenalin instead of blood and want Derek to join them.
Episode 12 • May 29, 2001
Subject: Police Siren
A cop tries to save a woman from a car but the vehicle explodes. However, the woman's remains are nowhere to be found even though she was clearly seen in the car just before it exploded.
Episode 13 • Jun 5, 2001
Subject: The Final Word
A special news report covers Derek and his team's attempt to try to prove that a man accused of murder is innocent and that the real killer was supernatural.

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
43
6% Positive
1 Review
56% Mixed
10 Reviews
39% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
43
6% Positive
1 Review
56% Mixed
10 Reviews
39% Negative
7 Reviews

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83
Jun 14, 2013
If you're looking for signs of intelligent life in the new fall season, Freakylinks is one of a few blips of light in the darkness. [6 Oct 2000, p.4C]
By Tom Maurstad FULL REVIEW
58
Jun 14, 2013
For me, it's just too much work on a Friday night. [5 Oct 2000, p.E2]
By John Levesque FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 13, 2013
There are some scary moments in the first episode, which is appropriately dark and foreboding. But you can't escape the feeling this is just another X-Files clone. [6 Oct 2000, p.1E]
By Terry Jackson FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 13, 2013
Tonight's premiere goes from spooky to goofy to intriguing to incomprehensible -- in that order. [6 Oct 2000, p.44]
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW
37
Jun 14, 2013
Freakylinks pours on all the visual horror tricks -- the atmospheric lighting, the weird close-ups, the slanted camera angles. All the tricks in the world, however, can't mask the show's failure to master even the most basic storytelling skills. [6 Oct 2000, p.10E]
By Robert Bianco FULL REVIEW
30
Jun 14, 2013
But somewhere during the process of shaping these ideas into "Freakylinks," which premieres tomorrow, somebody forgot about a couple of details: writing and acting. [6 Oct 2000]
By Eric Mink FULL REVIEW
20
Jun 13, 2013
Freakylinks stinks, mostly... Created by a "Blair Witch Project" producer, Freakylinks includes hand-held camera shots that try to add creepy realism. Alas, they only drive home the show's creepy amateurism. [6 Oct 2000, p.D1]
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW

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