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!
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Monday, 25 June 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Monday, 25 June 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Monday, 25 June 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
have a little faith in Saracen. he will repay it.
― mizzell, Monday, 25 June 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
Saracen is the best. Goddamn I need to watch this again.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Landry U&K for the hott nerdettes he brings onto the show.
― Moves Like Zappa (Leee), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 26 June 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
(By "they" I mean the writers/showrunners.)
yep
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
~*sigh*~
― Moves Like Zappa (Leee), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Skoh-lE8sO0/Sayc6FzBR_I/AAAAAAAARtE/u4mP89ltVDo/s400/307+Landry+Devin+Band.jpg
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
I love how Crucifictorius has an arc all its own.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 26 June 2012 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
I went to a conference once and saw an attendee/presenter who looked just like Devin. <3
― Moves Like Zappa (Leee), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 18 May 2013 06:24 (ten years ago) link
noooooo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 May 2013 06:44 (ten years ago) link
wow she looks way different
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Saturday, 18 May 2013 06:49 (ten years ago) link
she is a few years older now, maybe she's just growing into her features? idk. it's strange!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 May 2013 06:52 (ten years ago) link
seems to be wearing some kind of kevlar evening ensemble too
― j., Saturday, 18 May 2013 06:56 (ten years ago) link
"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.
― caek da killa (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 11 July 2013 03:10 (ten years ago) link
envious
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 July 2013 03:22 (ten years ago) link
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
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Friday, 14 February 2014 03:24 (ten years ago) link
there's now a Parenthood webseries involving the further adventures of Crucifictorius, apparently.
― Simon H., Friday, 14 February 2014 03:38 (ten years ago) link
!!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 February 2014 06:42 (ten years ago) link
Julie is on some new CW show, apparently. r.i.p. her chubby cheeks.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 February 2014 07:01 (ten years ago) link
Got my sister to start in on this show knowing she would love it, she was skeptical to start but finished the whole thing within like 3 weeks.
She finished last night and basically called me in tears haha. We had some massive text chains going back and forth so I started watching certain parts again.
― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Monday, 21 April 2014 23:54 (ten years ago) link
Giving it a third try, made it pretty deep into the first season and I'm starting to get into it.
Still bothersome stuff, like Coach Taylor talking to Matt in the second episode and covering the whole "Grandma with dementia, no parents, etc." thing then telling him to FOCUS ON FOOTBALL DAMMIT. I could understand that conversation with Smash or pre-injury Street but Saracen was never anything but backup before and showed no indication that football was important to him. Plus the Odessa-Permian coach (essentially) being clueless and appalled by recruiting the guy from Leverage.
As I type this, it just got to "my Panther wants me to do a three-way."
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 27 April 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
I know it's the nature of the beast but it's hard to suspend disbelief on 90% of the players being high school sophomores.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 27 April 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
thought id hate this having gone through smallish town texas hs and having thus had first hand exp with every trope they hit but man i have nothing but love for fnl.
second ep of the first season is one of my favorite tv experiences of all time
― head clowning instructor (art), Monday, 27 April 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Any Schumer did a pretty awesome FNL parody- did anyone else see it?
http://youtu.be/TM2RUVnTlvs
Her Tammy is hilar + Josh Charles as coach <3
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 April 2015 23:13 (nine years ago) link
xp these days and esp in big football programs, there are a lot of kids that are pretty physically advanced (is there any non-creepy way to say this). like the most physically imposing kids / kids with the best shot at the college game are groomed early and its not uncommon to find groups of them on the same squad.
in any case i thought they did a pretty decent job at the casting, knowing that acting ability had to be considered
― head clowning instructor (art), Monday, 27 April 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link
I laughed (very) out loud when Amy Schumer did that walking-to-the-house-with-hands-up walk.
― Who M the best? (Will M.), Monday, 27 April 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
right!? best part
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 00:41 (nine years ago) link
Just starting this--three episodes in. I know it's very early, but two things are really getting in the way so far. 1) The way it's shot: cinéma vérité , endless close-ups. 2) How grim everyone is. I'm generally simpatico with the friend who bought it for me, so I expect I'll start to warm to it at some point.
― clemenza, Saturday, 2 May 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
1 never goes away, but 2 does. It's very funny at times.
― Jouster, Sunday, 3 May 2015 02:41 (eight years ago) link
1 actually does ease up a lot 6 or 7 episodes in.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, 3 May 2015 03:50 (eight years ago) link
I'm just past the thread-title episode, and I am liking it better. Still new to these prestige shows (or whatever) of the past few years, but in the four that I've watched, it takes them a few episodes to get their footing, then they get better.
Like the coach's wife a lot; her gentle mocking of the coach is always great ("Our daughter is now interested in football--good job, honey.") Smash gets better and better; when he's really hammy, he's funny, but lately he's added some shading. I thought Smash's mom telling him about his father was the first really great dramatic scene thus far. Landry and Tyra are really good, and even Riggins has loosened up. Haven't connected with much of the music so far, though.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 01:08 (eight years ago) link
I always thought the thread title was a joke until I got to that episode. Getting the feeling that this was initially planned with Street and Lyla as much bigger players before they realized that everyone else in town was more interesting, including the Mayor and her partner (how the fuck does the mayor of a 10k person town hide their live-in gf?).
Kinda weird how the Internet fervor was about how wonderful Coach is and generally he seems to be a bit of a compromised dick - not firing the racist coach, etc.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
Street and Lyla are still front and center where I am right now. (The lawsuit has just been launched.) Minka Kelly is gorgeous, but she's...not a great actress. If her part gets smaller henceforth, maybe that was a factor. The episode or two where she became a total pariah was moving anyway, and she had that one great line to the cheerleading judge: "Yeah, it's me, the slut with the website."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 01:17 (eight years ago) link
Like the coach's wife a lot; her gentle mocking of the coach is always great
imo they're the best portrayal of a married couple ever on television.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 01:45 (eight years ago) link
i also really love the way they handle the parenting-a-teenage-girl issues
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 02:07 (eight years ago) link
we loved this show, just finished it a month or so ago.
this show is so clear eyed and compassionate w/ all its characters. every single character has value
― ⊚ ⓪ ㉧ ☉ ๏ ʘ ◉ ◎ ⓞ Ⓞ (Lamp), Friday, January 7, 2011
so true
― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 02:22 (eight years ago) link
i still adore most of these actors based almost entirely on this show
tyra is kicking ass on Agents of Shield btw
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 02:26 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/t31.0-8/11187177_10153328246187146_8074973265860351374_o.jpgex-roomie's response to this unfortunate pause: "it's comforting to know even she can look unattractive in a photo"
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 02:29 (eight years ago) link
tyra4life
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 02:40 (eight years ago) link
I'm no Tyra stan but she's not even a little bit unattractive in that pic.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 04:27 (eight years ago) link
everything clemenza said leads me to believe that friday night lights will have a new superfan in ~60 hours
tyra is kicking ass on Agents of Shield btw wait whaaaaaaaaaaat that's her????????
― Who M the best? (Will M.), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 06:51 (eight years ago) link