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

4 episodes deep now. This will probably turn out to be a pretty good sendoff season.

Billy and Mindy are so funny to watch, like the embryonic version of Eric and Tammy. Also, that's got to be Buddy's irl kid playing Buddy Jr. The similarities are just too much.

really going to miss this show

What's the over/under on this Epic girl's story arc ending in redemption or tragedy?

That's not Brad Leland's (Buddy's) son, but I'm sure when that kid walked in for the audition, they said to themselves "Well, there's no way this isn't Buddy, Jr." It's uncanny.

ep5 was the best of the season yet - lol @ bonding by branding & lions "pride"

Oh good, I'm about to watch it right now.

Hell yes, that episode was excellent!

street back! i welcomed him

like the billy & luke relaish

Ha! I'm in between catching up on eps 6 and 7 right now, so I assume that's a spoiler!!!

yea well i think if u paid attn(i didnt) they mentioned who all was coming back for an appearance or two

Nah, it's cool. I'm about to start ep 7 anyway.

this season has been really good
except for the julie story, which is a little much

I wanted just a little more out of the end of ep 7, like it was cut off three minutes too soon...but I guess that's how they keep people watching.

Agreed that the Julie story is a little *rme* but 18 year old girls do dumb ass things and then react badly when it blows up in their faces, so it's at least believable.

The Vince's dad character is completely frustrating, but in a really good way.

this season's gotten really good over the last three or so episodes

I fucked with this show for one season, and even then thought it was OTT soap opera, but still engaging. season 2=logistical jump the shark moments, and I was off teh boat.

it gets much better after season 2, and the show makes the wise decision to pretend all the ridic shit in season 2 never happened

well that's good. so the dude Landry killed wakes up in the shower, looking somewhat like Patrick Duffy?

season 2 is def the worse

this show is so clear eyed and compassionate w/ all its characters. every single character has value

Season 3 is actually my favorite of the show, so get back on the boat San Te.

over christmas, i noticed there's a titty bar in my home town called the landing strip. wanted to stop in and ask for mindy.

Just got done watching the latest two episodes (#s 8 & 9)...damn, S5 is nearly pitch-perfect.

Also, Mindy has become so cool regardless of whether Billy's around or not. I love the way all the Landing Strip girls act like Becky's big sisters.

glad becky is gonna start strippin but idk i thought the last 2 were pretty wack, could care less abt epych & julie taylor is the most annoying girl on the planet

Are we the only two people still watching it ahead of its NBC run?

i watch it online

I torrent it. Just noticed there hasn't been much talk since it came back from xmas break.

Can't wait for Coach Taylor/Vince's dad thing to come to a head. I'm glad Jess dumped Vince.

(I know that sounds like soap opera stuff to anyone who's not watching, but it's so well done.)

Also, I liked the Epych story, because any opportunity for Tammy to be more awesome than usual is fine by me.

im watching. julie drives me bat shit crazy, vince's dad is a bad ass...i love how he gave that guy a beatdown earlier...but now, he's turning into an ass.

Billy putting the pregnancy test in his mouth was lols.

"I peed on that."

RIGLET

^ !

Agree that Julie is becoming a terrible character, but also completely believable.

series will end with matt and julie together.

yeah she reminds me a lot of my old high school/college girlfriends...fickle.

Sad there's only four episodes left! ONLY FOUR!

I can't wait to see Tyra again.

think my ideal final four episodes would just be tim getting out of jail and chilling on his land, drinking beers, driving around in his truck and saying texas forever.

man i love tim riggins.

maybe he would go see east dillon play.
or visit street in nyc.

mizzell otm

obv vinces dads smackdown is gonna come back to bite him

hope that the show doesnt end w/ coach going to that job in florida (bringing vince?)

Really expected them to leave that question up in the air for at least another two episodes, but I'm kind of glad it's not in the way of wrapping up the show anymore. Three more hours left.

would watch a spinoff of tim riggins in alaska

These last two episodes are so disappointing the way they've manufactured new conflicts and offered generous helpings of emo that I wasn't really anticipating or hoping for. Bleh. Still have hope for the finale (and glad Tyra is back for the end), but...disappointing.

Also, Minka Kelly was on Jimmy Fallon's show last night and *ba-dow* she may currently be the hottest girl on the planet.

yea i'd agree w/ both those statements. this last episode every scene was like THIS IS A MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION idk i'd take an hour long cruxifictorious set as the finale

riggs and tyra get married, julie and matt fuck like bunnies and matt moves to some remote island after becoming a doctor, and luke becomes a cop in chicago.

killed me

just so so good

wonder what the shows legacy will be, given how few ppl watched it? idk if there even is sucha thing as the 'tv canon' but this show deserves to be in it imo

I thought the final episode, like the couple before it, just seemed a little hurried. Not that I didn't like it, and I realize it's television and you can't spend SO MUCH TIME wrapping things up nicely with a bow on top, but I wanted just a little more. Was generally happy with all the resolutions, and I think my favorite thing of all about this final season was seeing the Mindy character finally get really developed instead of just being Billy's loud stripper wife like she'd been in the past. Stacey Oristano was definitely up to the challenge there.

yah i think you have to be satisfied w/ this wrapping up. wish maybe landry got another scene or 2, wish lila came home? i dont even remember what was up w/ her...i guess she wouldve just stood around and not added much probably. wasnt a huge fan of this whole last season but w/e it didnt like damage the show's overall rep

idk i thought this was a fairly good season - def not as weak as s2 - & it might have been the most patient & nuanced but there was just so many stories. at least they were mostly good stories.

i assumed they just couldnt get minka kelly back for w/e reason - did lyla end up @ princeton??? or was it baylor?

baylor sounds familiar tbh

i think i liked vinces dads storyline the most but it and several of the others felt sorta cliched 2 me

the finale was def rushed feeling, but it's what i expected. still good. only think that really bothered me was luke choosing the military over college in arkansas. matt and julie getting married is dumb too, but kinda made sense.

did everyone watch the little 10 min cast wrap/recap interview thing after the finale? feel like i need to pull season 1 dvds off the shelf stat, think i sorta forgot how good that was