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100Football is the framework for what remains a gritty, family drama with enormous heart.
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Catch up with the series while you can. These are the glory days, my friends.
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By the end of the opening hour, you're already engaged by Coach Taylor's challenge to turn the East Dillon stragglers into guys who can complete the phrase ''Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose'' without mumbling. And Friday Night Lights is headed for more touchdown episodes than you can count.
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100The NBC series certainly has been one of TV's most emotionally honest and stirring works, and it remains so as it enters its fourth season.
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100Quirky, funny, smart, wonderful acting, surprise cameos by cherished actors (Steve Harris, "The Practice"), and a one-two punch by Chandler and Britton that is unbeatable. What's not to love?
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90This new-to-you season of "Friday Night Lights" is more than worth the wait.
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90This show delivers the dramatic goods with painstaking authenticity each week, and even when it isn't trying to make you cry, you can't help but get emotionally involved in the lives of these instantly recognizable and compelling characters.
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On a whole, the new season of Friday Night Lights manages to retain its depth and heart-wrenching warmth despite a sea change in its structure and characters.
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88This year, the challenge is to create fresh, interesting story lines for new and returning high school characters, integrate the post-high school crowd into the show and mix the stories of the East Dillon team with those of the Panther players. It's a tall order, but in the early going, the show seems up to it.
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83The characters carry themselves with the kind of decency, maturity and occasional playfulness that is virtually unseen on prime time.
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80It's a brand new ballgame. It looks to be a winner.
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80The show's minscule budget has turned into one of its greatest assets, using real-life Austin locales and citizens to bring an authenticity that only adds to the drama.
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80The fourth season of Friday Night Lights (which already aired last fall on DirecTV) is as rich and dramatic and satisfying as ever.
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80In its fourth season, Friday Night Lights is just as thoughtful and restrained as it's ever been, with its focus firmly planted on the small-town disappointments of ordinary people.
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80There's definitely a joy to this series, no matter how dire things get for its characters.
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80These are fantastic characters with socio-economic backgrounds we rarely see in TV dramas, and that's one of the many things that makes FNL unique. Whether you can watch the show now or won't have access to it until 2010, FNL continues to be TV worth watching.
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75New characters, new rivalry, same old high quality.
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75Is Lights the show it was when it began? No. But it's still better than most anything else on the TV field.
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BAM10This is one of the consistently outstanding series on TV. Peter Berg is a master and the cast is perfect.
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