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'Friday Night Lights': Coach Taylor's new team is the Bad News Bears of high school football
"Friday Night Lights" returns to NBC for its fourth season this Friday (May 7) and, well, things aren't looking so good.
I mean, the show itself is still solid. But Coach Taylor's circumstances? Not so much. Professionally speaking, anyway.
The family is cool. Tami is managing to stand by her man who has been banished over to the undesirable side of the district (also know as East Dillon High) and keep her job as principal at Dillon High.
Julie, too, is supporting her pops by transferring over to East Dillon. And she and Matt Saracen -- who did not go away to art school in Chicago -- are still kickin' it. Sure, he's delivering pizzas to pay the bills, but he's also attending Dillon Tech, so that's something.
Tim Riggins, however, has dropped out of college and has no real future plans. The good news is he's shirtless for about three seconds of Friday's hour and it is a glorious three seconds.
Seriously. Pretty sure I heard angels singing alleluia as they too stared intently at his six pack.
But that's where the positives end.
Dillon is divided after the redistricting. Tami's dealing with a lot of pissed off parents who don't want their kids going to East Dillon and the "football team" over there, which Coach Taylor is supposed to be shepherding, is pitiful. Just pitiful.
Let's put it this way, Landry Clarke is a key player.
Let's put it this way, Landry Clarke is a key player.
Meanwhile, Coach T's former team over at Dillon High is killing it on the field, and J.D. McCoy, whom we used to know as the naive, young kid with a good arm, has become a real d**k. We don't like him anymore. We're sort of hoping his dad really does beat him up this season.
Okay, that was mean. But really, we don't like him.
Okay, that was mean. But really, we don't like him.
But we continue to adore "Friday Night Lights" and what it's got on tap this season.
So, please, watch the show this week.
8 p.m. on NBC.
It's a great time slot, you can take it all in and still be at the bar by 9:15.
Good plan?
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In honor of the return of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS check out this list of TV's Top 10 Fictional Football Players. http://tvtango.com/news/detail/id/109/kg
I have seen the season already.What gets me is that Coach Taylor has lived in Dillon for years and didn't know there was a bad section of town? It's still a good show but still not enough football.
Adding more football would lose viewers. This is not about football games. Its about the lives of people who are involved directly and indirectly with the sport. Its about politics, love, family, neighbors...its not about watching plays on a field. Viewers who tune in for the drama tune out when there is too much football.
In any other series, the change in J.D. McCoy would be called 'character assassination', but on FNL - being one of the better written (if not, the best) dramas currently airing - it can easily be explained.
With Coach Taylor no longer around to keep J.D. grounded, the new coach at Dillon High owes his job to J.D.'s father, so naturally both are going to pump J.D.'s head with thoughts that he is the best player to emerge from high school since Tim Tebow. Such false platitudes will undoubtedly change a person's outlook to one of cocky entitlement - which is the "new" J.D.
Welcome back FNL. Best show on tv, without a doubt.
No it's called Friday Night Lights-not As The World Turns.But I guess they are trying to appeal to the female viewer because I would think most men would want more football.
Every man/boy I know who watches FNL is in love with it.
FNL fans might also enjoy this May 6, 2010 Mr. Media video interview with new "Lights" star Drew Waters, who plays Coach Wade Aiken on the show: http://www.mrmedia.com/2010/05/video-friday-night-lights-star-drew.html
Seems there are less and less football sequences this year. Everything also wrapped up at the end of the season. So is it gone permanently?
It should now be called fruity night lights...or possibly monday through sunday drama with little to no football...atleast if there was drama in the first 2 seasons it happened over football...noone cares about tim riggins brothers wife, cut them out the show and add atleast one football game per episode...atleast when there was drama before they were talkin about it while throwin a foortball at a tire or somethin.