Sam Weir is a geek. Along with his two awkward friends, they try to survive high school. Sam's older sister Lindsay is trying to find herself and falls in with a crowd of freaks.
Rarely does a short-lived cult TV show have such a long lasting profound effect on the wider entertainment world. Not only that, it introduced us to Paul Feig, Judd Apatow, James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Jason Segel. On the surface, it's a simple teen high school drama about nerds and outsiders rather than the jocks and the popular crowd. It's great start when the camera pans down from the cheerleader and football player on the top of the stands to under the stands where the freaks and geeks can be found. It's taking embarrassing awkward realism to mainstream entertainment. It ushered in the Apatow brand of humor. This is not only a great TV show, but an important development in entertainment. Apatow and his friends would set a new standard of awkward humor that would be spread into TV, movies, and the net.
Rarely does a short-lived cult TV show have such a long lasting profound effect on the wider entertainment world. Not only that, it introduced us to Paul Feig, Judd Apatow, James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Jason Segel. On the surface, it's a simple teen high school drama about nerds and outsiders rather than the jocks and the popular crowd. It's great start when the camera pans down from the cheerleader and football player on the top of the stands to under the stands where the freaks and geeks can be found. It's taking embarrassing awkward realism to mainstream entertainment. It ushered in the Apatow brand of humor. This is not only a great TV show, but an important development in entertainment. Apatow and his friends would set a new standard of awkward humor that would be spread into TV, movies, and the net.