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

love

Some weakness in the middle but it ends well.

DAMN does it ever. Loved the way the Tami/Coach scene outside of the restaurant was shot. LOVED the way State was edited. Glad I stuck with it.

Other points:
Gee, Julie, I wonder what recent events could possibly have led her parents to question her judgment.
I'd kind of like to see another FNL movie if only for the chance to see Connie Britton say more than two lines of dialogue.
Why the hell was the show trying to make Buddy Jr. happen? Buddy Jr. is not going to happen.
In my mind, I imagine that Luke was going off to Chicago to join the CPD.
Glad they let Mindy Riggins be a human for once instead of a caricature.
Was that Mike Singletary playing the Dallas coach where Jess ends up?

I'm not familiar with Mike Singletary but I GIS'd him and I don't think so. The Dallas coach had a goatee and was a little thinner.

Mindy Riggins was one of the best characters in season 5.

That was such a good ending.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/aug/18/very-deep-america-friday-night-lights/?pagination=false

by Lorrie Moore

Man, second season sucks. I Just watched two OMIGOD THEY'RE RACIST subplots in the same episode.

The Moore article is terrific.

It is, except for some preposterous declarations, like the boys are articulate (no way, except for goddamn Jason Street) or that there's too much Billy Riggins (there is never enough Billy Riggins wtf)

just watched s5 on netflix.

*SPOILERISH*
that finale, man. for a minute i felt SO f***ing betrayed by coach t and i was questioning my lifelong love of kyle chandler. but i am so glad they went for the sappy perfect ending.

also i think i am going to start incorporating tammy's 'i appreciate that' into my regular conversations.

now i have to go back and read the thread.

the first season of this has to rank among the all-time greatest seasons of television imo

something about this show that remained true for me til the end was how real the characters were. i think that i could identify one of my high school friends and classmates in just about every character on the show.

rewatching season 1 right now and thread title line is awesome. forgot how great sarcastic Street is. Coach runs into him at the hardware store in "Mud Bowl", asks him what's he doing: "buying WD-40, highlight of my day" in the most teenaged, self-pitying, and yet totally lol way.

something about this show that remained true for me til the end was how real the characters were. i think that i could identify one of my high school friends and classmates in just about every character on the show.

yeah this show managed to seem really grounded even when it was doing stuff that was p ridiculous - i think the writers always tried w/o being obvious or hectoring to keep each characters humanity in sight.

heard the theme song during Dylan Ratigan's show today where he was in Texas and got all misty-eyed.

Just bought the complete DVD. Only four eps into Season 2. Love the show. But JESUS THE LANDRY MURDER STORYLINE IS JUST ALL FUCKING WRONG.

goth your way through season 2 pal. It gets really good again seasons 3-5. There are a few killer eps in s 2 though that are worth it.

season 2 is pretty terrible mainly for that arc; they get ptetty much back on track with season 3. the first season is basically perfect.

GOTH?! uhh *fight

no gothing your way through is perfect

(dead voice) "This totally sucks. Everything is ruined. Life is pain."
*watches intently*

spottie otm - ride it out. it picks up towards the end and S3 repays your debt to society.

I can watch it all day just to have Coach and Tami on screen together (respective crushes for my wife and I). And the team interactions are great. But the Landry/Tyra shit is ridiculous. Tragic couple brought together by attempted rape and murder. I think Gothing my way through that is perfectly appropriate. But even leaving that aside, every time I see them together I think: There is no way that girl is sleeping with Matt Damon's stunted albino brother.

well it says something that the most plausible way the writers could think of getting them together was attempted rape and murder

I guess. And at least they acknowledged it with Landry's dad asking her what she was doing with Landry.

Other Landry stupidness: him being on the team. Right, in the first season he hated football and football players. When he tries out he can do literally nothing right. Surely, a team like the Panthers would have had no shortage of more gifted, more suitable kids lining up for the ancillary benefits of being a benchwarmer for the football team? (As a Britisher, I am working on assumptions here. Would be grateful for anyone with actual knowledge to proffer it.)

small town, football requires a lot of players, so somewhat plausible he could make the squad.

Yeah, that was the writers trying to figure out where to put him. I thought he lost a lot of his character by switching him from the outside-guy who kind of saw football as being a bit stupid to "i wanna be on the team" just so they could give him more conventional storylines (i guess?). Still, Crucifictorius!

no, youre mostly otm

not really a spoiler but in a later season he throws like a 50 yd game-winning td on a trick play to add to the absurdity

I'd rather have Landry in weird preposterous situations than be written out bc they don't know what to do with him. Even when it's weird, I just love him.

plus he looks like my cousin

Shame. I liked him being Saracen's conscience. Also, with Landry in the team, there's surely no way for Saracen to be anything but sucked into full football player wankerdom. Oh well, I find out in the coming weeks.

have a little faith in Saracen. he will repay it.

Saracen is the best. Goddamn I need to watch this again.

Landry U&K for the hott nerdettes he brings onto the show.

otm

esp the girl in the band, she was super cute

The murder thing is awful but I respect the way they eventually follow through on it w/r/t Landry and Tyra. No retconning, they own their fuckup and move on as organically as possible.

(By "they" I mean the writers/showrunners.)

yep

esp the girl in the band, she was super cute

~*sigh*~

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Skoh-lE8sO0/Sayc6FzBR_I/AAAAAAAARtE/u4mP89ltVDo/s400/307+Landry+Devin+Band.jpg

I love how Crucifictorius has an arc all its own.

I went to a conference once and saw an attendee/presenter who looked just like Devin. <3

http://i.imgur.com/3Ma3gkJ.jpg

Julie Taylor (Aimee Teegarden) and Jason Street (Scott Porter) at CW upfronts recently. W-T-F where did Aimee's cheeks go?

noooooo

wow she looks way different

she is a few years older now, maybe she's just growing into her features? idk. it's strange!

seems to be wearing some kind of kevlar evening ensemble too

"I dont want Glen over at the house with his hands in my wife's ice box"

Started this show all over again I'm 3 eps into season 2.

envious

Oh god I finally watched "that show about football" after the 20th person told me I would like it

Started season 1 in january and finished last week

what the fuck, how was this so good

there's now a Parenthood webseries involving the further adventures of Crucifictorius, apparently.