More than two decades have passed since Freaks and Geeks aired its only season, and the cult prestige of the exhibition grew exponentially at the time. Created through Paul Feig and produced through Judd Apatow, NBC’s cancellation of the main school comedy drama in 2000 until the early 1980s is one of the biggest mistakes in television history (fight with us for that, we challenged you). But fortunately some other main bug has been fixed with this screen: Freaks and Geeks will now be streamed on Hulu with its soundtrack (one of the biggest assets in the series) intact.
Now that the series is despite everything that’s available for streaming, it’s getting a new influx of younger audiences for the first time, but Jason Segel, a former Freaks and Geeks fan, is rarely sure that the newest audience will enjoy the iconic series in the same way as its original fan base before the broadcast.
“For a child who sees Freaks and Geeks now, it will be difficult for them to contextualize what happened in [the 1980s], even though we filmed it in 2000,” Segel told EW. what 2000. No know what the pleasure of seeing something would be like 20 years ago. It’s crazy for me. “
The most productive actor known for starring in How I Met Your Mother and films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up and I Love You, Man, experienced the same disconnection when watching Singing in the Rain for the first time. “This film was, I don’t know, 40 years when I nevertheless saw it,” he says. “There was no way for me to contextualize that this film had actually taken position 30 years before it was filmed. , it was just a thing of the past, you know what I mean?”
But Segel is pleased that Freaks and Geeks is despite everything that is being broadcast, although he admits that he would possibly not participate in the show’s top surveillance himself. “I’m not too excited about chasing myself,” he said. I regularly look at things once when they come out, and then I leave them behind. “He will be grateful for the way this exhibition presented his career. “Freaks and Geeks is where many of us start, myself, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Linda Cardellini, Busy Philipps, Martin Starr. It was a really amazing cast before we knew anything. I mean, some of us had made some small paintings here and there, but that’s where they really gave us our teeth. . “
And even though Segel has continued to enjoy a successful career since Freaks and Geeks, not only in comedy but also in drama (lately he stars in the heartbreaking cancer drama Our Friend Unlike Casey Affleck and Dakota Johnson), he still calls it: Season Wonder “one of the most productive reports of my life without a doubt. Somehow he reported everything I’ve done since. “Some of his favorite memories were learning to improvise safely. “The scenes are all superbly written, but most of the time, Judd, Paul and [the writer] Jake Kasdan encouraged us to come out of the script and make us laugh. And that paved the way for the videos we made next. “
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