SummaryIn the small town of Dillon, Texas, football is everything. The team to beat is the Panthers, who are coached by newbie Eric Taylor. Coming back after winning the State Championship, the Panthers will need all the help they can get once the next football season arrives, amidst all the personal dramas and injuries.
This series is based...
SummaryIn the small town of Dillon, Texas, football is everything. The team to beat is the Panthers, who are coached by newbie Eric Taylor. Coming back after winning the State Championship, the Panthers will need all the help they can get once the next football season arrives, amidst all the personal dramas and injuries.
This series is based...
What's not to love in Friday Night Lights? This is a place, and a show, I will never want to leave. It feels like family. But we're lucky to have been given this much of their story. Underdogs to the end, these are my TV heroes.
FNL's final season begins with one person staying put (Taylor Kitsch's Riggins is still in jail) and others moving on (Aimee Teegarden's Julie and Jesse Plemons' Landry are college-bound). Meanwhile, Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler) heads to the basketball court to find his next star player. [Oct 22/29 2010, p.107]
Beautiful, flawless, gorgeous, authentic, realistic, artful, seamless, masterful. That's what the final season of the poignant, ever so thoughtful FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS is.
This is an absolutely unbelievable show. This last season, last episode, and especially the last 3 minutes of the episode brought me near to tears. Trust me, I am not someone who this would usually occur to. I would strongly recommend you take the time to watch this show because it is so great. Clear eyes, Full hearts, Can't lose.
Much of which transpires in the first few episodes seems familiar, if not a little predictable, and what saves the Taylors from being impossibly virtuous are the flaws the writers give them and the consistently great performances that Chandler and Britton give.
As in past seasons, a few moments this year may seem made for TV. But this is a show that's scored way more than it has faltered, and the opening episode suggests that streak will continue.
The show, and its survival, offers proof that quality can triumph in an industry driven by quantity and that even though necessity is the more fertile of the two, poetry can also be a fine mother to invention.
The first few episodes don't always click (strangely, the Tami story line doesn't feel real), but even when the storytelling hits a rough patch, there's enough raw emotion and drama--on and off the field--that hits the right note, saving the hour.
Overall, a solid but not riveting premiere. No goosebumps ala Eric in the halftime locker room last year, but as always, it's good to be back in Dillon.
Having almost been cancelled following each of its first three seasons a last minute deal between NBC and DirecTV fortunately saved the show allowing one of the best drama series of all time two more years to finish on its own terms. The concept of a TV centred on a high school football team in Texas will always be a hard sell to audiences here in the UK but anyone who has watched Friday Night Lights up to this point will know it is about far more than that. Continuing the development of Dillon’s residents, including many of the new East Dillon cast members that were introduced in season four, each and every storyline is able to reach a natural and emotional conclusion.
Of all the great dramas I’ve watched I might just miss Friday Night Lights the most of all.
Very sad to see this show end. Friday Night Lights may be one of the most under appreciated television shows of my generation. This show is less about football and more about life, character struggle and the pursuit of finding your place in the world. I wasn't sure if FNL could hold my attention once the initial cast moved on, but the writers & producers did a great job bridging the old with the new all the while keeping just enough pieces to keep you caring what happens. I'm glad I got to be a part of this show while it aired. A toast to one of the best.
I am not a diehard football fan; I did not see the movie "Friday Night Lights" (mainly because I wasn't interested in seeing a football movie, or Billy Bob Thornton, or Tim McGraw); and, I will probably never see the movie "Friday Night Lights" because Jason Katims' television series has put Dillon, Texas high school football on a pedestal, and nothing else could ever live up to its greatness.
"Friday Night Lights" is not really about football. Yes, football is the driving mechanism behind the characters and the plotlines, but, truly, this is a show about people, about heart, about integrity, and about life. Of course, at the center of it all is the Taylor family - Coach Eric Taylor, his wife Tami, and their daughters Julie and Gracie Belle - which is a family that embeds itself into the very heart and soul of the town. The writers do an amazing job of fleshing out all of the characters that inhabit small-town Dillon, and the show is about transformation and evolution of those who grace our screens. Over five seasons, beloved characters have come and gone, and some have come again. Some characters were introduced, but never fully explored.
Character development is one of the strengths of FNL. My personal favourites of this season (returning and/or supporting cast members not included) included the strong female characters in Jess Merriweather, who is smart, witty and grounded, and of course, the ever-gracious Tami Taylor who is my personal idol. Also, we have Coach Taylor whom I love on every level, sweet Luke, and local town hero Vince.
Katims has always been adamant that stories drive the show forward; "story" determined whether we saw a lot or a little of any particular character. While some were underutilized (Hastings Ruckle, Epyck),, the stories themselves were satisfying and little more could have been squeezed into this final season without diminishing some of the other narratives that were front and center.
On a final note, and with the series finale fresh in my mind, I must say that Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler play Eric and Tami to perfection. Their scenes together in "Always" were simply amazing. ...
Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Can't Lose.
The first 3 seasons were great, but during the 4th season the show started to loose some of its shine, and this season it is just straight up covered in rust. I'll watch the remainder of the episodes for the sake of closure.
Too much overhyped, this series tells a cliche story, with not bad cast, but bad characters. It's just people saying how they're unlucky, but don't do anything to change it. At all, it would be a great series if the charatecrs and the plot change, because the dialogues are just too boring for me.