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Posted Mar 11th 2009 5:02PM by Hemal Jhaveri
Filed under: OpEd, Pickups and Renewals, Friday Night Lights, Reality-Free
Should
Friday Night Lights come back for another season? EW's Michael Ausiello
is reporting that a deal could be in the works, not just for one season, but for two. The avid fan that I've become wants to root for this possibility, but as a critic, I know this is a bad idea.
Look, I love the show as much as a die-hard fan can. I've gone so far as to inquire about getting my own Dillon Panther t-shirt. I think Tami and Coach Taylor are the best couple on television. I live by the edict WWCTD (What Would Coach Taylor Do). Yet, despite my need to have"I-heart-Tim-Riggins" tattooed onto my forearm, they still shouldn't bring this show back for another two seasons.
Before fans start the dog-pile, let me make my case after the jump.
Update: For folks (like me) who haven't seen the season already on Direct TV, tread carefully in the comments. They contain spoilers. Continue reading Why NBC and DirecTV shouldn't renew Friday Night Lights
Posted Jan 17th 2009 2:16AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
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S03E01) And so begins phase two of NBC's grand
Friday Night Lights experiment. The show kicked off it's third season on NBC Friday night, but all of these episodes have already been shown on DirecTV. Allison
reviewed the premiere back in October, but we thought we'd run it up the flagpole again and see who salutes.
Despite the delay for those of us without DirecTV, the season premiere made it so easy to slip right back into the series. Most of our favorite Dillonites are back, and we were quickly brought up to speed with what each of them has been up to. We also got a good look at where a lot of these stories will be heading.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: I Knew You When (NBC Season Premiere)
Posted Nov 24th 2008 1:13PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Friday Night Lights, Reality-Free
The best NBC drama currently in production hasn't been doing much to help the Nielsen ratings. That's because the show,
Friday Night Lights, isn't being shown on NBC right now. Season three has been unspooling on DirecTV and after eight episodes, the award-winning series is in the midst of a top-notch season.
In fact, after somewhat coming off the rails last season with Landry and Tyra's murder plot, Riggins and Street in Mexico, and Matt's involvement with Grandma's nurse, this year's shows are focused, complex and definitely back on track.
That starts with Tami and Eric. Coach Taylor remains as coiled as ever, only now the pressure to succeed seems even more intense because of the emergence of J.D. McCoy, the phenom freshman quarterback. J.D.'s pushy father and personal quarterback coach tick Eric off, but he likes the kid and has demoted Matt in order to give the more talented player a chance.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: The season so far, part 2
Posted Jul 20th 2008 7:33PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, Friday Night Lights, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
NBC and its various cable stations are making their presentations today and tomorrow. Since it
is Sunday, the critics got a little bit of a break and didn't have to start until noon, when a lunch session was held for
Friday Night Lights. This session had a little bit of added juice, due to the unique deal NBC struck to have DirecTV shoulder the cost of producing the series in exchange for the rights to air new episodes on the satellite service first, before they air on NBC. Thirteen episodes will be produced and will air in October on DirecTV's 101 Network, and they'll air in February on the Peacock network.
Not surprisingly, there were as many questions about the new arrangement as there were about the creative aspects of the show. Show-runner Jason Katims and DirecTV entertainment head Eric Shanks fielded most of those questions, and the cast of the show fielded the rest.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights panel: the DirecTV deal, two departures, and a new school year - TCA Report
Posted Jan 7th 2008 11:20AM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: Ask TV Squad, Friday Night Lights
This week's question was rather easy.
Judy writes...
"I'm trying to find about a tv show that was in the 1990s that was cancelled. It was about a guy living in the city. He would look at the newspaper. The newspaper told the future. He would see a disaster and then save the person. Do you know the name of this tv show?"
I'm sure most of you recognize that the show in question is Early Edition starring Kyle Chandler.
Continue reading Stump the King - Kyle Chandler
Posted Jan 5th 2008 10:22AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews
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S02E10) And we're back. After a month off for viewers to celebrate the holidays, and for the networks to try and figure out how to fill up the schedule as the strike stretches on, our old pals in Dillon have returned. And things picked up right where they left off. Riggins is still wandering from home to home. Buddy is still in denial. None of us are sure just why Shelley is still living with the Taylor's. And Landry has gone from being riddled with the guilt of committing murder to being emotionally pummeled by the fact that he's fallen for a passive aggressive nutjob. It's a lot to get to, but we'll give it a shot, after the jump.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: There Goes The Neighborhood
Posted Dec 1st 2007 9:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews
(S05E08) I know a few people, and I've read comments from a number of others here at TV Squad, who refuse to watch the promos for shows that the networks put out. It usually boils down to them being either full of spoilers or completely misleading. If you are one of those people, this episode was for you, because not only did those of us that saw the promo have the ending spoiled, but we were also completely misled as to what the episode would be about, and I'm really not sure why the network did it. More on that, and the rest of the happenings this week in Dillon, after the jump.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: Seeing Other People
Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:02AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews
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S02E06)
And you may ask yourself - Well... How did I get here?It's a great title for this episode as we find a lot of our pals in Dillon questioning, being questioned about, or owning up to the situation they are currently in. That doesn't make for huge plot points that you can point to and say, "Look at that!" But it does bring up some interesting questions, and pave the way for stories in the future. With so many of the characters getting time this week, all of these changes actually overshadowed the one big, holy smokes, moment of the episode. That little thing you see in the screen cap.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: How Did I Get Here
Posted Nov 3rd 2007 7:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews
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S05E05) "Lance!"
Week five of season two brings us another packed episode. Eric is getting settled back into his role as the Panther's coach, and being with his family. Big changes are in the air for Landry on, and off, the football field. A more assertive Matt is coming to some realizations about Julie. And we find out the result of the great Mexican shark blood surgery road trip. It's a lot to get to.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: Let's Get It On
Posted Oct 27th 2007 9:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews
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S03E04) "The Eagle has landed. It's a done deal." - Buddy Garrity
Another Friday night spent with NBC, and this one came across as a little bit strange. Not bad strange, or good heavens, what now strange. Just that the story here caught me a little off guard. It's a little early in the season for what you might call a pivotal episode. Usually at this point things are being put in motion, or big picture stories are getting a break for a stand-alone episode. Such is not the case in Dillon, as three big stories had big moments this week. To balance it out, we also had more from the shark blood road trip, and the quickly getting away from us Lyla crusade. All that, and some other junk, after the jump.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: Backfire
Posted Oct 20th 2007 9:30AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews
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S02E03)
"What if I told you I could make him go away and you could have your job back?" - Buddy GarrityThat line was the big feature in the promotion this week, and it certainly means a lot moving forward, but that was just a tiny part of what was a jam packed episode three. Really, sometimes when I look back over an episode of
FNL I can't believe it's only an hour long show. When it's firing on all cylinders, they really can deliver a boatload of story. And that's what we got in episode three, with everybody getting involved.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: Are You Ready For Friday Night?
Posted Oct 13th 2007 8:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews
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S02E02) As I was watching the show tonight, thoughts on this post were running through my head. Initially I planned on doing like last week and pushing the Landry/Tyra stuff to the end of the post, after we go through the parts of the episode that actually make some sense. But then I typed out that episode title, "Bad Ideas", and I just can't get over how well that fits.
They may have intended that title as a reference to what is going on with many of the characters. Things like Tami's admission that her insistence that she and Julie stay in Dillon was a bad idea, how Buddy's own actions have created his situation, the experimental Mexican surgery proposed to Street, or even Antwone's trip to the Justin Timberlake concert. To me though,
THE bad idea is nothing that any of the characters are doing. It is this Landry and Tyra story that the writers and producers have cooked up. So we'll get started there, after the jump.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: Bad Ideas
Posted Oct 5th 2007 10:31PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews
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S02E01) And we're back for another season with the Dillon Panthers. You have to think that there is some pressure on the folks behind the show as they kick off this new year. The renewal was great and all, but I suspect it came with some helpful suggestions as to the kind of numbers the network is looking for on Friday nights. It should be interesting to see how the show performs on the new night.
Over the summer we lost eight months of Texas time, but that really doesn't matter. For the most part, we pick up all of our ongoing stories where we left off last spring. Anything we really need to know is handed off to us as we are reunited with these characters again. Since the show kicked off with Matt and Landry at the pool, let's start there.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: Last Days Of Summer (season premiere)
Posted Oct 2nd 2007 10:01AM by Brett Love
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Friday Night Lights, Early Looks, Episode Reviews
Last week was certainly the biggie for the kickoff to the new season, but this week isn't too shabby either. In fact, this week brings us the premiere of my most eagerly anticipated returning show,
Friday Night Lights. Honestly, there is a part of me that is still a little surprised that we are going to get to see season two. The first season was a bit of a bumpy ride in the ratings department, but NBC stepped up to the plate and I'm holding out hope that it pays off for them.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights season two -- An early look - VIDEO
Posted Apr 12th 2007 10:40AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews
(S01E22) Can it really be? We've been through twenty-two episodes of
Friday Night Lights already? Maybe it's just my reluctance to have the show end, but it seems like this season went by awfully fast. Last week I guessed that the team would win the game, Eric would stay in Dillon, and that the show would get a second season. We got answers for those first two, but we'll have to wait a bit longer on that last one. News that the network has ordered
six more scripts is certainly positive. We'll cross that bridge when word comes out.
Throughout much of the season I made a point of noting that this isn't a show about football. Most of the Panther games we got to see were given very short bits of episodes, and were usually not the focus of the episode. This episode altered that balance and gave a lot more time to the game. Understandably so, this was the state championship. It's something that these characters have been working toward for the entire season, so a big payoff was fitting.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: State (season finale)
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