Not really

I never realized Darabont is a dead ringer for Salman Rushdie

Into the Wild is great, an amazing biopic about a true hero who went to survive in the wild without a compass, adequate supplies, common sense, or even telling anyone what he was doing. He died of starvation because he couldn't cross an impassable river (which was passable 1/4 of a mile from where he kept failing to…

Freaks and Geeks found the right tone and hit the ground running before the opening credits even ran; its cast completely gelled and found the right chemistry within the first 40 minutes. This show has no excuse.