In the years before streaming, extremely niche TV shows faced uphill battles against cancellation. As a result, TV history is littered with the corpses of shows struck down before their time. InAccording to researchers, bullying in the United States seems to be declining since the government first purported to care about it back in 2005 .
Lindsay is making a play to hang out with the freaks: those outsiders who are too cool for school, always ready with the hook up, and who disdain membership in any clique. Sam is one of the geeks; dorky kids who are more interested in watchingagain than anything having to do with the messy world of real relationships with real people. Their parents look and sound so much like every baby boomer parent of the time that it’s uncanny.
Paul Feig created the show, and several episodes were also written and directed by Judd Apatow, who has gone on to work with Segel, Rogen, and other members of the cast in hit after hit. If you want a look at their careers just before they all hit it really big,is a delightful curio. There are scenes where Segel in particular shines in a way where people watching at the time had to have known he was destined for bigger things.