"BECAUSE I'M A CRIPPLE AND I WANT TO LISTEN TO NIRVANA NOW!" the Friday Night Lights TV series thread

Coz I have had a mad crush on Kyle chandler ever since middle school because of early edition!

really liked newest episode. side storylines of buddys kids & landry and hot devon are aok w/ me. lol @ the ^^pubic hair^^ line xp

poor Landry...

TWO more seasons!

hot damn

No way, really?!!!

I haven't been watching on NBC because I've already seen all the episodes, but I'll be VERY interested to see how they pick things up next year.

really!

Tyra and Lyla will be back to wrap up their storylines next season, and then they'll be gone. Not sure about everyone else except Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton.

that excited 'really!' should have been an xpost, and was not as sarcastic as it might have read. I'm really excited.

Got it. I just went and read the bit at AV Club. Will miss both of them, but we know now how well the writers can do a worthwhile sendoff.

What about Julie? Isn't she tramping around on BH90210?

Oh no! I don't want a reason to ever watch that show.

She is, but it's only a couple episode guest-starring thing, I think.

OK I just watched the first 2 episodes of this...does it get way better or something? I know all pilots lay on the exposition thick, but I've never felt so spoonfed in my life. Here's a THEME, here's an important CHARACTER TRAIT, here's a CONFLICT, here's a METAPHOR -- like literally two consecutive scenes of uncommonly worldly teenagers going "this town is...a crossword puzzle!" and "Moby Dick is a good metaphor for...this town!" Oh yeah and I can't even remember what the town is called, just that everyone says "this town" 80 times a day. Plus the editing from scene to scene to scene is so relentless that the whole thing feels like one exhausting montage. I don't wanna be all Shakey-on-Wire-threads about this, but should I go on? I don't even know if I can get through the other 2 episodes on this disc before sending it back to Netflix.

the editing and handheld gets reigned in after a few more episodes. stick out the first disc and see how you like it. lots of goodness there.

first episode promises awesomeness for the season to come. that said, wish the would ditch saracen and riggins, as they're too depressing at the moment.

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I'm sure they'll both end up OK. Or at least Saracen will.

Just making way through season 1, and there are some great bits here and there (watch it at least until you see landry's christian metal band! actually almost all of the landry stuff is gold!)
but can't see committing to season 2 unless lesbian seduction of Mrs. Taylor comes to fruition (does it?)

haha, crucifictorious!

season 2 sees a lot of excellent acting on some really duff storylines. the writer's strike saved it by cutting it short. season 3 is quality and is helped by the 13 episode season.

they made the new h.s. age chick look A LOT like an ethnic lila...lol @ her 1st scene w/ riggins having hooked up w/ her mom...dont think ill ever get sick of piling on riggins plotlines

glad they made j.d. into a big cocky jackass, hes embraced his birthrite

I thought there was a strange disjunct between JD last season (generally decent but deeply conflicted because of his asshole father) and now he's suddenly a drunken jock asshole. They seem to be working extra hard to make Dillon High (save Connie Britton) villainous. I imagine the season will climax with the Panthers v Lions game, but it doesn't really ring true with the rest of the show (aside from Voodoo).

yeah idk it's a believable character arc imo. yes they are of course gonna make dillon THE DEVIL and play up some real dichotomy btwn the schools...i thought i was watchin a scifi movie w/ mrs taylor's line @ the school assembly of 'julie's been zoned for dillon high'

also lol @ this i read on a diff borad:

does that one black guy know that landry killed a guy and is a straight gangsta?

like an ethnic lilatyra i mean, dang

new season is looking pretty great - brilliant gambit dividing the town and making the panthers the villians.
that said, the logic of re-opening a second school to save costs and apparently re-segregating the town is kind of WTF. in the book - in reality - the opposite is what happened. the black school was shut down and integrated into permian - and the gerrymandering that happened was to get black kids w/ football skills into the school.

but it's just a TV show - and it was definitely a smart move after 3 seasons to switch it up and bring in some new characters & conflicts.

of course, it does kinda make it a bit obv what two teams will eventually face off in the final episode on the way to state - if not this season then for sure next.

Good last line. Also, Coach's face when listening to Pirate dude.

Find your inner pirate: goddamn that was hilarious.

And I don't know about yall but I'm rooting for the East Dillon Giraffes 100% :)

haha yea coach leach as wise mystic ~ pretty sure he sez stuff like that irl

detail that i just noticed and no 1 cares abt - the taylor's kitchen like the cabinets & microwave and shit is exactly like mine

kind of a dud episode this time. not really digging the crazy artist subplot. also Buddy's renunciation of the Panthers was a bit of an anticlimax - you knew it was coming but they could have let it stew a little longer.

I dunno...I kind of enjoy that even when Buddy's at his all time lowest, I mean as far as we still know he doesn't even have a semblance of a family ATM...that somehow his heart is in the right place.

I could give a crap about the artist story line.

Actually the plots all seem to be in that early-season limbo they seem to get stuck in lately. hopefully it works itself out.

it does seem ridiculous that they have matt delivering pizzas

and now this whole 'julie is thinking about not going to church anymore'...ALERT THE MEDIA

zzzz

haha i dont think thats gonna be an ongoing thing, at least i hope~

I liked that little side plot. I don't want it turn into a thing, but it was a well done slice-of-life.

I loved Landry's lovely gal teaching him the fundamentals of punting. Oh and that newbie kid Vince's balls-out confrontation with Coach on the sidelines was great. I like that kid. Those two plays where he quits on Cafferty and then comes through with the TD...that was CLASSIC fnl. It's still the best show on TV, even if 7 is delivering pizza and Riggins is chauffeur to a teenage poodle in heat.

Also, Coach's face when listening to Pirate dude.

Pirate dude was actually Mike Leach, coach of Texas Tech (I don't know if that's who he was playing in the show, though.)

I've been saving up episodes so I could watch the first three back-to-back-to-back and sort of dive in. It seemed a little disjointed at first with so many familiar characters missing, but I think it's quickly found a balance between newness and comfort. Favorite bit of the season so far was Tammy going into the boosters meeting and basically handing McCoy his ass in front of everybody. When the hell are they going to give her an Emmy?

Mike Leach was playing himself, according to the credits.

I think the season is coming along well, a much better start than two or three had (I loved season 3 but I thought its first several episodes were pretty rough). The artist is the one thing that completely annoys me.

I miss 7's mom. I remember reading she was in the show this season, but three eps in and no sign.

She'll be back for two episodes, is what I read. Hopefully soon. I know she got cast in the new David Simon show, so I'm assuming it'll be earlier in the season than later.

"does that one black guy know that landry killed a guy and is a straight gangsta?"

loooooooooooooool

I miss 7's mom. I remember reading she was in the show this season, but three eps in and no sign.

She was in the beginning of the first episode, wondering why Landry was throwing the ball because she still believed Matt played for the Panthers.

that was 7's grandma.

oh right. i totally forgot about kim dickens.

Lo and behold, Kim Dickens returned! 7's exit story arc has begun, amirite?

Also, Landry is suave.

Oh, and I'm still not buying Alicia Witt as the mother of a high school student.

^^^totally

Season is a bit shakey so far. Still really enjoyable, but I hope it pulls itself together sooner rather than later.

What's the problem, exactly? She's 34 in real life. Assuming she's playing slightly older, and her daughter is 16, that's having the kid somewhere between 18-22. She's more well-preserved than a real life young single mother, that much is for sure.

I think the season so far is on a better track than season 3, which I ended up loving, but... I think it's really rich stuff so far. Love a good underdog story and I think it's coming along well.

Annual rewatch (sparked by a friend and his wife watching for the first time), middle of S2 right now. A couple of lines really made me laugh in E6, both having to do with Riggins:

Tammy - 'Cause it looks to me like your little sojourn, Tim, you missed yourself, oh, two biology exams.
Tim - I don't know what a sojourn is, ma'am.

Later, Smash's description of Riggins, which is almost like a meta-joke about what a cliché the character is (don't get me wrong, one that's great anyway--or at least, for me, until the last season).

Smash - Look, we're different, you and me. Me, I'm the Smash. I'm throwed. I'm prime time, 24-7. And you? You're that brooding, rough...whatever.

Those kids were all so perfectly cast for those roles. Whenever I see them in other things i feel like a parent, just happy to see them out there & working lol

and that “sojourn” line still cracks me up

This is not quite the same thing, but I just started Lansky, which came out a couple of years ago and evidently disappeared into a COVID hole--watching not for Harvey Keitel as Lansky, but for Minka Kelly!

The out-of-nowhere reappearance of Landry's friend--he gets beat up in the second or third episode, then disappears until he turns up in S3 as part of Landry's band--made me laugh. They seemingly bring him back for one minute and a couple of lines--he quits the band, and I don't recall that he's ever seen again.

In S4's first episode (2009), one of the new East Dillon players refers to Landry as "that Opie-looking dude." Four years later, in Breaking Bad's fifth season, Badger refers to Todd--also played by Jesse Plemons--as "that Opie, dead-eyed piece of shit." First in line for The Ron Howard Story, Jesse Plemons.

The hardest thing to write on this show must have been Coach Taylor's motivational speeches--they start to blur together after three or four seasons.

Taylor: "Gentleman, the word of the week this week is focus."
Player: (knocks forehead with palm) "No, no, no--that was the word of the week last week, Coach. You gotta give us something new to work with."

One thing that's weird is introducing Buddy Jr. halfway though S5, then putting him on crutches for the last few episodes. Don't really understand why they turned him into a mascot, basically, with no lines.

Anyway, finished up. I count Tammi Taylor's line in the final episode, about having the grace to say what her husband never said, as one of the most moving lines in any TV show or film this century.

Just heard an interview with Ben Revere, the pesky outfield/leadoff-hitter the Jays acquired down the stretch in 2015 (this is a non-baseball thread, so I'll mention that that was the famous bat-flip season). Honest to god, I thought I was listening to FNL's Matt Saracen. I was hoping I'd find out that Revere was born in Dillon, Texas, but no, Atlanta.

Ben 13 years ago--not exact, I know, but I think he's morphed even closer since then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FedzM1VNcdI

I've listened to that clip a couple of a times now, and I take it back--he sounded like QB-2 even then. I need to hear from VG on this.

not gonna lie, i went in hella skeptical but tbh yr not wrong. he does sound a lot like QB2! it’s kinda weird!

Validation! Ran it by a friend who's a big FNL/Blue Jay fan, and he thought so too. (Inside baseball, but in the interview I heard today, Revere said he was pushed aside because the game didn't have any use anymore for his kind of player, which the old-school nostalgic side of me found touching.)