
FreakyLinks
A TV show from the five-member Haxan Films team (consisting of Eduardo Sanchez, Daniel Myrick, Robin Cowie, Gregg Hale, and Mike Manello) collaborated with screenwriter David S. Goyer, whose credits include Blade, Dark City, The Crow: City of Angels, and The Puppet Masters about a webmaster who looks for the weirdness and shares it with his internet viewers. Just like "The Blair Witch" did, 'Fearsum' has a website that Derek Barnes is the webmaster of.
- Metascore43
- 2000-2001
- 1 season
- Fox Network
- Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction
- TV-14
A TV show from the five-member Haxan Films team (consisting of Eduardo Sanchez, Daniel Myrick, Robin Cowie, Gregg Hale, and Mike Manello) collaborated with screenwriter David S. Goyer, whose credits include Blade, Dark City, The Crow: City of Angels, and The Puppet Masters about a webmaster who looks for the weirdness and shares it with his internet viewers. Just like "The Blair Witch" did, 'Fearsum' has a website that Derek Barnes is the webmaster of.
Season 1 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 2001
Episode 0
Un-aired Pilot
Episode 1
Subject: Fearsum
Fri, Oct 6, 2000
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
Subject: Three Thirteen
Fri, Oct 13, 2000
A pregnant woman believes she might be becoming possessed. Derek is skeptical, but freaky things start to happen.
Episode 3
Subject: Edith Keeler Must Die
Fri, Oct 20, 2000
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
Subject: Coelacanth This!
Fri, Oct 27, 2000
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
Subject: Desert Squid! Myth or Legend?
Fri, Nov 3, 2000
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
Subject: The Harbingers
Fri, Jan 5, 2001
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
Subject: Still I Rise
Fri, Jan 12, 2001
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
Subject: Me and My Shadow
Fri, Jan 19, 2001
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
Subject: The Stone Room
Fri, Jan 26, 2001
Jason and his friends investigate the freaky goings-on in his estranged father's Baltimore law firm.
Episode 10
Subject: Sunrise at Sunset Streams
Fri, Jun 15, 2001
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
Subject: Live Fast, Die Young
Fri, Jun 1, 2001
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
Subject: Police Siren
Fri, Jun 8, 2001
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
Subject: The Final Word
Fri, Jun 22, 2001
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.