Summer 2011 Winners And Losers - CinemaBlend.com 
Winner: The Legacy Of Freaks & Geeks
You wanna know what the worst thing in the world for a sports fan is? When your favorite team trades away a promising rookie, and he turns into a complete stud. Every drained three pointer is like a little needle prick and every behind the back pass a slow motion fuck you. I actually feel bad for NBC. Eleven years ago, the network was broadcasting Freaks And Geeks, a brilliant, Emmy-nominated show less than seven million people bothered watching each week. They cancelled it, only to watch producer Judd Apatow brand himself, stars Seth Rogen, James Franco and Jason Segel turn themselves into household names, Linda Cardellini land a principal roll in the successful Scooby Doo franchise, Martin Starr destroy on Party Down and Busy Phillips wind up on Cougar Town.
Still, the guilt must have been manageable, at least until this summer when Freaks And Geeks main character John Francis Daley wrote the wonderful comedy Horrible Bosses, creator Paul Feig directed the brilliant and commercially successful Bridesmaids and Samm Levine appeared on Doug Benson’s best-selling new comedy album. What else can you do but laugh now? It’s no longer an issue of Freaks And Geeks having had a few great cast members, every single goddamn person on the show pathologically started destroying life the second it was cancelled. For the sake of decency, I probably shouldn’t mention that Franco’s Planet Of The Apes made a fortune last weekend and Segel’s new Muppet movie looks amazing, but I just can’t help myself.
