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

esp the girl in the band, she was super cute

~*sigh*~

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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.

!!

Julie is on some new CW show, apparently. r.i.p. her chubby cheeks.

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.

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."

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.

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

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

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

I laughed (very) out loud when Amy Schumer did that walking-to-the-house-with-hands-up walk.

right!? best part

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.

1 never goes away, but 2 does. It's very funny at times.

1 actually does ease up a lot 6 or 7 episodes in.

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.

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.

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."

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.

otm

i also really love the way they handle the parenting-a-teenage-girl issues

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

i still adore most of these actors based almost entirely on this show

tyra is kicking ass on Agents of Shield btw

https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/t31.0-8/11187177_10153328246187146_8074973265860351374_o.jpg
ex-roomie's response to this unfortunate pause: "it's comforting to know even she can look unattractive in a photo"

tyra4life

I'm no Tyra stan but she's not even a little bit unattractive in that pic.

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????????

They were working on her own Shield spinoff actually, but it got nixed. Just like her Wonder Woman movie.

she was wonder woman in a david kelley tv pilot. you can find it online. it is... not good, although she did the best she could with what she had.

imo they're the best portrayal of a married couple ever on television.

100% cosign

xp oh that's right. it was tv. there have been so many failed wonder woman projects in the last decade i confuse them.

and we have more failed wonder woman to look forward to! thanks dc!

friday night lights will have a new superfan in ~60 hours

Probably--but much faster. Same with House of Cards; really skeptical at first, got better and better. Six Feet Under and Mad Men were better from the start, but even they didn't hit their peak till three or four seasons in.

Halfway through the second season. A friend warned me that it was the weakest, but so far I've liked most of it. The daughter bugs me sometimes--she mopes around and cries a lot. Riggins, who was such a drag the first few episodes, gets better all the time; him calling the radio station about Jesus and the Turin Shroud killed me. The music, almost none of which I know, usually works; "Now That I Know" is the first Devendra Banhart song I've ever heard, and I love it.

Riggins is my favorite

If nothing else, S2 has one of Saracen's best scenes and a pretty amusing guest star in the finale

Smash is another character who was very one-dimensional for the first few episodes--the vainglorious, refers-to-himself-in-the-third-person show-off (and being black, they caricatured him even further)--but has settled down and gets better all the time. That side of him is still there, but ever since that one girl called him out on it (Waverly; hope she comes back), he almost treats it like a joke, and it's kind of charming; there was also the great episode where he led the boycott of the coach, and that took him somewhere else. The scenes with him and his mom are among the show's best.

I hope they figure out what to do with Landry and Tyra now that the murder's been resolved. They're such an interesting pair.

Finished season two.

If nothing else, S2 has one of Saracen's best scenes

His drunken scrimmage?

Landry having to choose between Tyra and Jean is pretty hilarious--they're like the two versions of everybody's dream girl. The cutting during the volleyball games could be a lot better; every close-up of Tyra underscores how awkward she is out there. The drug dealer guy was scary.

As I tend to do, I obsess over the music. I wrote about Devendra Banhart's "Now That I Know" (season 2) for a movie-music blog a friend and I intermittently keep:

https://heardjustwhatiseen.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/make-them-disappear-now/

That gap from the end of S2 to the beginning of S3 is jarring--I took the DVD out and made sure I hadn't rented the wrong season.