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

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.

Their best ever? Could be!

That was seriously heavy.

Yep, seriously heavy. What a great episode. Didn't flinch. Losing a parent, or feeling useless when it happens to someone you care about... don't think I've ever seen something on TV that was a s clear-eyed and full-hearted about that.

Even coach didn't have a big inspiring speech for Saracen when he breaks down, just "I'm gonna walk you home, son." Heartbreaking.

In other developments: JD continues his quest for a massive beatdown from somebody, anybody. Buddy is back in the boosterism business. Coach still thinks Landry is named Lance. Riggins passes up jailbait.

I know new guy has a terrible homelife, and it's hard to get out of, but I don't like where this grand theft auto idea is going. Also, ex-Dillon-nu-East farm dude... bravo for stranding JD in at a gas station, at night, with a paintball rifle. I hope the police picked his ass up. Furthermore, bravo #7 for slamming the door in JD and JD's dad's faces!

Yeah, I finally started liking Luke when he kicked those guys out of his truck and showed up shirtless in the convenience store.

So is East Dillon going to play against West Sillon this season or what? Obviously not in a play-off situation or anything, but maybe an exhibition game?

In the book, the two local teams play once a year.

How could they not?

Lyla's swift return and exit was disappointingly unsubstantial, but I like that #7 just took off. He's never done anything for himself as long as he's been alive.

Obviously East Dillon isn't getting to State, so the natural climax of the season would seem to be a Panthers/Lions game.

I think Lyla's appearance was good in that it reinforced how miserable Tim is when it comes down to it. Hopefully this will lead to him improving his situation, somehow. I saw a TV critic complain how Tim went from in the s3 finale saying that he didn't want to hold Lyla back to pretty much begging her to stay in this episode, but I thought it made sense considering his circumstances (shitty trailer, working at the not-quite-successful Riggins Rigs, pretty lonely apart from some one-night stands and the annoying daughter of his landlord begging him for rides).

I liked Luke from moment one. I like his earnestness, if that's the word. He apologized to Tami for lying about his address because he genuinely felt guilty about it! That's pretty great. Good dude.

Predictions: Lyla won't be back. Tyra will almost assuredly not be back. Saracen will be, if not later this year then next season.

I think Tyra is definitely not back this season, but she might be next.

Luke just seemed a little one dimensional to me at first - and I thought he was going to be a too-obvious Saracen replacement, the nice hard-working respectful kid who gets tossed all the bad breaks, but it looks like I was jumping to that conclusion too quickly.

As far as the Panthers-Lions exhibition game, I guess it does have to happen this season because Lions are going to State next year, right? They can't not.

wait, so is Saracen really gone? Because damn that happened fast.

I figured he just drove off to that school in Chicago. Maybe not, though.

yeah, i don't feel like he would leave julie without making it clear, but that last scene seemed like he was leaving.

never thought i'd say this but i wish they'd just move it along w/ gettin lyla (& saracen but less so) out of the picture

I thought the Smash and Street send-offs last year were both extremely good, as was Tyra's story. This season, Saracen's story has had peaks, but not all the time (which is why I'm kind of hoping he just took off). Lyla..pfffft, who cares.

I really hope Tyra does come back for a send-off next season, as she became one of my favorite characters by the time S3 was over.

Yeah, I love 7 but it was definitely past time for him to go - the last two episodes were the only time this season where his being on the show had any purpose. that bukowski sculptor artist subplot went nowhere. Shoulda had more raymond carver-esque hunting trips with riggins.

The only thing that didn't really make sense was him splitting on Grandma without saying goodbye. Can't really see him doing that.

Biggest flaw lately is the absence of Buddy. That dude ruled last season.

holy cow this episode rocked, not only because there were abt 40 storylines packed in there but that didnt hurt

so is riggins gonna become a shepherd?