Friday Night Lights: Smash and Street say good-bye

Jason Street and Smash Williams are no more. But who will weigh down the show with their moodiness and personal problems? Oh, right. Saracen’s still there.

Friday Night Lights: Back for thirds

Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t be canceled.
Friday Night Lights, the oft-loved, not-watched soap-dramedy on NBC, has been renewed for its third season. The Peacock used a partnership with DirecTV to bring back the show.

NBC has made it official — it will bring back “Friday Night Lights” for a third season, and it will do [...]

Riggins to the rescue

Some might argue that Tim Riggins is already a superhero.  He gets girls, he drives a truck, and he drinks like a fish—mostly all at the same time.  Anyone who can pull off that trifecta must be working some sort of special power.
Well, what Friday Night Lights fans have known for awhile, Hollywood is making [...]

Friday Night Lights: A Look Ahead

The ending to Friday Night Lights season two was a cliffhanger for all the wrong reasons.
First off, the cliff was more like a ledge—a ledge that only dropped down three or four feet. Considering that the episode was not originally intended as a season finale (the writer’s strike made it one), I can understand [...]

Friday Night Lights: Mad, mad world

Poor Smash. He was trying to do good by his interracial relationship, but little did he know that small, hick towns simply cannot deal with such forward thinking. This is why knock-off Dairy Queen does so well there.
In a fair and just world, Smash would get to keep his scholarship and keep his [...]

Friday Night Lights: Spanx for Nothing

The day that “Friday Night Lights: the football show” becomes “Tuesday Night Gym: the volleyball show” is the day that I will no longer watch television. Unfortunately, after this week’s FNL episode, I am one week closer to that fate.
Friday Night Lights has never been about the football. I found this out [...]

Friday Night Lights: The Great Awakening II

“Want to see my quizzing trophies?”
I fully expected to hear this line from the new Christian radio guy as he was listening to Lyla’s tell-all in the church sanctuary.  Or maybe I was just hoping to hear it, considering I had spent a good portion of high school banking on the fact that quizzing would [...]

Friday Night Lights: Family Time

In last week’s episode, Coach Taylor’s advice to Smash Williams was just another example of how great his parenting skills are.  It also got me to thinking:  how would all the fathers on Friday Night Lights rank?  Well, it’s a good thing I have time on my hands, because here is the list I came [...]

Friday Night Lights: I Will End You

Nothing could have ruined the greatest Friday Night Lights episode of season two, but having Tim Riggins get kicked out of the house for a misunderstanding involving taking a go at coach’s daughter
I just got done watching the greatest Friday Night Lights episode of season two, and I finally feel that my faith is restored [...]

Friday Night Lights: Saracen unplugged

I like Matt Saracen because he seems like a real person.
He struggles with things that I would like to struggle with—like football and home life and whether Julie Taylor and I should be more than friends (yes, we should).  He acts the way I would act in certain situations, all self-aware and awkward.  And he [...]