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Friday Night Lights - The Complete First Season :: 1570068178
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Author: Guest
I was first introduced to FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS via the film starring Billy Bob Thornton which I loaned from a friend following his recommendation. I wasn't particularly bothered about watching it (not being a big fan of American Football) however one night I thought `what the heck' and put it on. I have to say I was completely surprised by the quality of the script and the acting. I was intrigued to learn that a TV show had been produced as well and was about to air on ITV4 here in the UK. I was interested to learn how they could turn the premise into a full length TV show, without it turning into the OC with football thrown in, so I thought I'd give it a go.
With the exception of both THE SHIELD and THE WIRE very few TV shows grip me from the first episode. I have to say that I can now add FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS to that list. The characters are well drawn and fleshed out, the cast are fantastic and all make you believe in the character they are portraying.
Both I and my friend have been strong advocates of this show, often mentioning it to work colleagues and friends alike in the same breath as THE SHIELD and THE WIRE.
Slowly, over the last few months, both critics and viewers in the UK have started to pick up on this little gem which is tucked away on Wednesday nights at 8pm here in the UK.
Without a doubt the best shows on TV are coming from the U.S. and this is certainly one of them. Well done to NBC for renewing it for a second season!
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Author: Guest
I cannot believe I missed this show while it aired. Instead I watched it online, which compromised the raw beauty of this gem. Luckily it is on DVD for a marathon re-watch. I quickly learned that FNL is not a "football show" or "a teen soap". This is an amazing show with great characters, true dialogue, and the humor and awkwardness of life. The closest comparison I can think of is "My So-Called Life". It is intimate and grand at the same time. You won't easily forgot this show after you've seen it. Give it 2 or 3 episodes and you'll be hooked. I can't wait to see all the deleted scenes.
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Author: Guest
I've never posted a review before, but after today I felt compelled to write one. I saw that the Emmy nominations came out today, and was shocked to see that Friday Night Lights was left out of EVERYTHING!!! The acting and writing on this show are incredible. This show has moments in every episode that feel real and true, that make you actully think about issues and topics that face all of us at some point in our lives. Hopefully the ratings for the second season will be better and a ton of DVD sets will be bought, so that the show can continue on. $19.99 is a steal for this show, and I hope that people who did not watch the first season will buy it. I promise you will not be disappointed.
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Author: Guest
A few months ago I found myself sick on a Sunday afternoon with a few hours to kill on the couch. Sadly, there was nothing good in our Tivo and Sunday television can be pretty abysmal. I decided to surf the internet a little and wound up on a link to the NBC website where you can watch full episodes of most of their top shows. I decided to just watch the Pilot of Friday Night Lights. I keep hearing it's pretty awesome and since I liked the movie, and I like Kyle Chandler, I gave it a shot.
Cut to seven episodes later at two in the morning, eyes swollen from crying as I'm forcing myself to shut the computer down even though all I can think about is that I have to get through the other eleven before Wednesday.
I am going to make a bold statement here, I think this is the best show on network television. In the space of seven episodes I became hopelessly attached to Coach Taylor, his family, and his players. I watched the next 11 in record time and by the end of the season, I was practically ready to move to Texas.
The story centers around Coach Eric Taylor in his first season as Head Coach in the "football is everything" fictional small town of Dillon, Texas. His wife Tami is a guidance counselor at the school and his daughter Julie is a sophomore. The Taylors have the kind of marriage I daydream about. There is a scene where Coach is watching game tape in his office really late one night and Tami shows up with food and beer. She looks at his tired face and says, "the field's empty, wanna go make out?" There is a playful sexiness to this obviously well lived in relationship that thrills me to the tips of my hopeless romantic toes. They've been at this for years but it still seems fresh and alive. They definitely argue and disagree but it's the kind of confident fighting you can do when you know the other person isn't going anywhere. And they both have good relationships with their daughter. I like it when TV admits it's OK to like your parents.
And there is the football team. Instead of a parade of stereotypes, we have a bunch of high school boys who seem like real high school boys. Some of them are that teenage boy combination of overly cocky but really insecure, some are just legitimately cocky. The sophomore that gets pushed into the starting QB role when the senior gets injured has a crush on the Coach's daughter and it takes him almost six episodes to work up the nerve to say more than about two words to her. She's smart and a little bookish and he awkwardly drops it into a conversation that he likes Jackson Pollack-apparently trying to show her he's not just some dumb football player. She lightly calls him out for the strange reference but she's clearly delighted that he's trying so hard. Maybe I love their interactions so much because I was one of those smart girls in high school and boy attention was few and far between enough that those moments always felt like out of body experiences for me. I can still get butterflies thinking about the look on a boy's face when he's doing a terrible job of impressing you but the very act of trying is melting your heart.
The Coach loves football and he's out for the State Championship the town is fervently expecting, but from day one-it's these boys he loves more. Head Coach in a small Texas town isn't a job, it's a lifestyle. And because he ends up being a father figure to half the team, he has a scene with a kid in every single episode where I end up in tears, wishing somehow I could get on his team. I don't know how his pep talks manage to sound so sincere and inspiring when they could so easily up as empty cliches but I credit Kyle Chandler with inhabiting his character so completely that you believe he believes every word he says. Whether it's the injured QB who will never play again or the whole team after a hard fought win, he has the right simple words that you just really want to believe.
Anyway, what I really want to say is that this show is tightly written, beautifully shot, tremendously acted, and uses it's fabulous soundtrack to complement-not manipulate-the stories. It's not one bit preachy but there is a definite sense of right and wrong that has really resonated with me. It's careful to make the character three-dimensional enough though that you are just as quick to forgive them as you are to condemn some of their dumb decisions.
Please watch it. I'm a little embarrassed for all of us that Grey's Anatomy-which I fully admit to watching-and all it's melodrama and morally bankrupt storylines won the Emmy for Best Drama when this little bit of perfection was quietly strangled by it's time slot against American Idol. Buy it buy it!
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Author: Guest
The first time my husband and I watched this show, we kept having to pause our Tivo to stare at each other and ask: "Is it just me, or is this show SHOCKINGLY, AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL???" We couldn't believe that a show this good was on television.
I'm a TV buff, to be sure, but my first choice of entertainment is books. I read the H.G. Bissinger book on which this series (and the Billy Bob Thornton film) are based. The book is one of my all-time favorites, right up there with the work of Tracy Kidder. And I ***hate*** football. (If you're skeptical about all this, I'll just go ahead and say it, simply because I want to reiterate what everyone else says -- "Yes, this is show about football. But it's NOT ABOUT FOOTBALL.") Because I loved the book so much, I stayed far away from the film. I still have never seen it. But I learned soon after the TV series debuted that one of its most luminous actors, Connie Britton (who plays Coach Taylor's wife) plays the same role in the film. Now I **need** to see the film.
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