Hat tip to Jaime.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
More Love For Friday Night Lights
The Los Angeles Times has a nice piece on the great but underwatched show Friday Night Lights, which is easily the best new drama on tv this season, and which I have pimped extensively here and here. You should definitely be watching on Wednesday nights. You won't be disappointed.
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It is my wife's favorite show, if you can believe it.
I can believe that because: 1) Your wife is smart and has good taste. And 2) The show is misconceived of as a football show when in fact it is not in any meaningful way -- it is a compelling drama that at its heart is about towns and families and relationships and people.
dcat
I kind of agree with Rich. I like the show, and watch it, but my wife loves it as in talk-back-to-the-tv loves it. The bad football and sometimes hackneyed story lines take it back into the better than average category for me. Still a top ten Tivo selection for me though.
dcat and I have had many conversations about how ridiculous some of the football scenes are in the sense that anyone with any football IQ would ask "what the hell are they doing"--things like being on their own 35 and needing a TD to win the game and it's the last play and they throw a screen pass that somehow goes for 65 yards when no defenders on the other team have dropped back to play deep on the last play. Huh? But as dcat says, the football is just kind of the thing that binds the characters together, but the show is about the relationships of those players and their families and friends. It's currently my favorite show on network TV over 24 (which has been my favorite show for many years) and I know it's DCat's second favorite show only getting beaten out in his mind by The View.
By the way, Spongebob is the best show on TV. They started a three episode arc this week with Patrick Star running for president of Bikini Bottom. Patrick Star!! How could a starfish be president of Bikini Bottom??!! Man, is that going to be funny.
You guys need to take your skirts off and stop watching soap operas. Maybe give "Men in Trees" a look.
I believe it was Samuel Johnson who once said "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
I love FNL. Love It! Yeah, the football scenes are not great, though as a sad statement about how sports are depicted in drama and in the movies, the scenes are still more palatable than almost anything that has come before it. And of course given the story arc, you sort of know they have to make it to or close to the championship game. But the football is ancillary.
Technically, my favorite show on tv is one I am still watching on dvd to catch up -- The Wire. But given that this is supposedly the last season, I'll never actually watch it on tv, as I won't get to season 5 in time.
dcat
FNL certainly does not depict real high school football, but have you seen your average high school football game lately? And look, I like the kid who now plays qb (Saracen) but there is no way that kid is the starting qb for a state championship cintender in Texas High School football.
But bigger picture, people -- great plotlines, amazing acting, brilliant direction (one of the problems NBC is having is that each episode costs something like 3x the normal amound for a one-hour drama because of the cost of the cinema verite production.
dcat
Friday night lights?!? Good lord, what are you guys, prepubescent?.
Grow a pair will ya'! I hate to admit it but I'm with Special Agent Desmond on this one (weird quotations and all).
Romo --
You're so wrong you wouldn't understand what it meant to be right.
dcat
whatever.
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