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

Those kids were all so perfectly cast for those roles. Whenever I see them in other things i feel like a parent, just happy to see them out there & working lol

and that “sojourn” line still cracks me up

This is not quite the same thing, but I just started Lansky, which came out a couple of years ago and evidently disappeared into a COVID hole--watching not for Harvey Keitel as Lansky, but for Minka Kelly!

The out-of-nowhere reappearance of Landry's friend--he gets beat up in the second or third episode, then disappears until he turns up in S3 as part of Landry's band--made me laugh. They seemingly bring him back for one minute and a couple of lines--he quits the band, and I don't recall that he's ever seen again.

In S4's first episode (2009), one of the new East Dillon players refers to Landry as "that Opie-looking dude." Four years later, in Breaking Bad's fifth season, Badger refers to Todd--also played by Jesse Plemons--as "that Opie, dead-eyed piece of shit." First in line for The Ron Howard Story, Jesse Plemons.

The hardest thing to write on this show must have been Coach Taylor's motivational speeches--they start to blur together after three or four seasons.

Taylor: "Gentleman, the word of the week this week is focus."
Player: (knocks forehead with palm) "No, no, no--that was the word of the week last week, Coach. You gotta give us something new to work with."

One thing that's weird is introducing Buddy Jr. halfway though S5, then putting him on crutches for the last few episodes. Don't really understand why they turned him into a mascot, basically, with no lines.

Anyway, finished up. I count Tammi Taylor's line in the final episode, about having the grace to say what her husband never said, as one of the most moving lines in any TV show or film this century.