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

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.

I kind of loved every bit of season 3, maybe even more than season 1 (but being invested in the exits of characters in season 3 relies heavily on attachments made in season 1, so I can't really appreciate one without the other). I'm mostly bummed that there's no more Tyra, and that her shooting schedule for Red Dawn (ugh!) prevented her from being given a proper exit.

actually like how this season isn't clogged up by endless exits like season 3

minds i dont think they're loaded we're fine

i love that devon is back

7 hunting w/ riggins!

i am liveblogging this ep

o i forgot devon was a lesbo damn

lol re: landry "will y'all look at his shirt?"

lol @ buddy knowin all the eastside ppl

this was a stellar goddamn episode

Landry's sad, charming attempt at getting people to like his music/him was great.

really has me encouraged for the rest of the season

Treading carefully here, haven't seen any of season 4: will it eventually air on NBC? If so, when?

It's supposed to show up on NBC in the spring season, just like last year. But NBC's so batshit now, it makes me think there's no guarantee of that happening.

I think they're actually planning on a summer NBC airing, which is kind of WTF considering it's about high school football.

that episode was extraordinarily well handled. good job.