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Alas another great show faces extinction. What is wrong with America, I am so tired of REALITY shows. Give me a good drama with REAL emotion any day. Hopefully a deal comes through and we get FNL back for another season. I got everyone I know to watch FNL and they are all fans now, and all mad at me for getting them hooked on something GOOD which is facing the chopping block. WAKE UP NBC, stop trying to be like the other networks, set yourself apart, grow some cajones and be different. You have shows like Medium,ER,FNL, and..........come on now surprise us...
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I have started watched this show because one of my Mass Comm Professors every week started the class asking us about this show. And she made me addicted to FNL.
First of all, I think it's a very realistic, down-to-earth and good-quality show. The script is brilliant and the cast is doing its job very well.
I am so happy that NBC came up with the solutions for 3rd season. And I am definetely going to buy second season on DVD!!!!!!!!
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I agree I admit I just started watching the show this season (although just watched season 1 on DVD)and it is a fantastic show and a lot better then much of the stuff on tv. Also teens and adults can both enjoy the show because it involves both. Hope they keep it on.
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Season two of this incredible, realistic, heartfelt drama proved FNL could be consistently great. The writers built upon last years stellar season and created fresh new storylines. Every single actor on this show has done a scene worthy of an emmy, they're that good! The writing and acting is outstanding every single week. If NBC cancels this show they will be making a huge mistake and letting go of one of the few truly fantastic shows on television today. Please check out the website savefridaynightlights.tv for information on how to save this show!
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Update: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS has been saved!!! I promised to keep posting updates on FNL and I finally have an exciting one. Multiple sources are now reporting that FNL will be renewed for a 3rd Season! According to Mike Ausiello, a deal with DirectTV is in place, but not signed. To their credit, NBC, although they knew they would no longer broadcast the series exclusively, went out and sought a partner to keep the series alive. It isn't clear yet how the deal will work, but most likely DirectTV will pay NBC for the rights to broadcast new episodes first and then NBC will rebroadcast them a few days later. I personally hope that DirectTV will show it earlier in the week and NBC on Friday evening. It just seems appropriate. So, if this story is true, FNL truly has been saved. I'll come back later an reedite my review as a whole, excising completely the memory that we very nearly lost this brilliant show.
I write this only a few minutes after the final episode of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS was broadcast on NBC. This past week Ben Silverman, who took over as the head of NBC this past summer, threw ice water in the faces of all those who hoped that this extraordinary series might have a future on NBC. For years NBC has been my favorite network, just as FOX, which has killed shows at the drop of a hat, was my least favorite. The irony is that the former head of NBC, who was responsible for keeping such critically acclaimed shows (but ratings challenged) like FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, THE OFFICE, and 30 ROCK is now one of the powers that be at FOX, while my formerly favorite network is threatening to pull the plug on this absolutely brilliant series.
Here is the situation as we know it: although 22 episodes were contracted for the 2007-2008 season, only the 15 episodes that were completed before the strike will be broadcast and no new episodes will be made this spring. Tonight's episode is the end of Season Two for certain. And given Ben Silverman's gruesome statements (in essence he was asked repeatedly and pointedly about FNL, but each time deflected the question instead talking about how great 30 ROCK is -- other NBC insiders say FNL is dead at NBC).
Before I write about Season Two it is fair to ask, is there any hope for FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS? According to Mike Ausiello at TV Guide, many people inside the industry still believe in FNL. There is a chance that it could resurface on another network. Surely the CW could use a teen-oriented show this extraordinary. It would instantly become the best show on the CW by a gigantic margin. Heck, it would immediately become the best show on Showtime or HBO if they were to pick it up.
In the meantime, what can we do? One thing we all can do is buy these DVDs! Right now multiple sources are reporting that the DVDs will be released in April 2008. That is not very far into the future. If you haven't bought Season One, do so immediately. Right now it costs only $18.99 on Amazon. That is dirt cheap for one of the very best shows on TV! The other thing you can do is hit the FNL boards and see what kind of fan organized Save FNL efforts are taking place. If a show like JERICHO, which is 20% as good as FNL, can be saved, surely a show as splendid as this one can as well.
Last year I told everyone I knew that this was the best show on network TV. A couple of shows on cable -- BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and THE WIRE -- were as good or better, but nothing else on ABC, NBC, CBS, or FOX could top it (though LOST at its best could come close). This year I feel that it was one of the two best shows, along with the utterly extraordinary PUSHING DAISIES. To be honest, Season Two is not quite as good as Season One. There were a couple of missteps, but they were not fatal (well, one of them within the context of the show was literally fatal, since it concerned an instance of accidental murder) to the show. Most of the things that made the show so brilliant in Season One either continued at the outset of Season Two or returned within a few episodes of the start.
In brief, the situation at the start of Season Two was this: Coach Taylor has left Dillon High School to become an assistant coach at TMU (Texas Methodist University) in Austin. His wife Tami has given birth to Little Gracie as she is called. The state champ Dillon Panthers are not flourishing under their new head coach. Finally, the utterly unpredictable romance between Landry (who has adopted as his personal philosophy the principle of WWRD, or "What would Riggins do?") seems to be evolving in unexpected ways when her stalker/attempted rapist from Season Two reappears while she is waiting for Landry outside a convenience store. Landry grabs a pipe and smashes his head in, killing him instantly. This plotline is in the opinion of most the weakest aspect of Season Two. The other is the way that Coach Taylor's job at TMU keeps him away from home for the first few episodes. But Buddy Garrity brokers a deal to fire the current coach and bring the increasingly discontent Taylor back to Dillon. And so on. The truth is that Season Two has a host of small story arcs, most of them brilliant, a couple of them amiss. But all in all this is a stunning season.
If you want a scene that demonstrates just how great this show could be at its best, there is no finer moment than the next to last episode. Saracen, who has been going through some really bad emotional times, has in an attempt to deal with his grief (his grandmother's live in nurse, with whom Matt has had an affair, has left the country) gotten profoundly drunk at a strip club with Riggins. When he is summoned to go to the hospital to get his grandmother, he is physically incapable of doing so. Coach Taylor gets them both home and then explodes in the direction of Matt, grabbing him, yelling at him, and throwing him in the shower, which he turns on him. Then Matt, sobbing, asks Coach Taylor why everyone he loves leaves him, asking if he is worthless. Taylor, completely stunned, tells him, "No, you're not worthless." It is an extraordinary scene, as Coach Taylor suddenly becomes aware of the unbearable amount of pain that Matt is experiencing.
My favorite part of Season Two might have been the ongoing, improbable, but mutually empowering relationship between school beauty/hot girl Tyra Collette and brainy Christian nice but ugly guy Landry Clarke. This is one of those relationships that makes a lot of unexpected sense. When the series started Tyra was basically one of the school sluts, a smart but underachieving girl dating teen drunkard Tim Riggins. But after Tami Taylor becomes the school counselor, she convinces Tyra that she can be more. Though her mother is an aging party girl and her sister a stripper, Tyra is motivated by Tami's confidence in her and goes to Landry for some tutoring. There is a fascinating divergence between Tyra and Riggins in the show. While Tim continues to struggle with drinking and other forms of irresponsibility, Tyra begins to do well in school and forms a healthy friendship with Landry, who idolizes her. Eventually they are thrown together by the stress of her stalker/attempted rapist, but it is still obvious that Landry is really, really good for her. But the brute fact is that Tyra is stunningly attractive while Landry is just not a good-looking guy. And she is from a bad family while Landry's dad is a sheriff. Still, you can tell that Tyra and Landry are really good for each other. One of my favorite moments of Season Two is when Landry's Dad asks Tyra, who is obviously way hotter than any woman than Landry should end up with, what she sees in him. She talks about his intelligence, his decency, his sense of humor. She helps his esteem while he provides her with a relationship better than any she has ever experienced. But two things intervene. First, Landry's Dad, concerned with the quality of Tyra's family, asks Tyra to stay out Landry's life. In one of the most heartbreaking moments of the season, Tyra tells Landry that it is absurd to think that they could be together and orders him to look in a mirror to know why. Meanwhile, she goes back to her car and begins sobbing hysterically. In the end, love conquers all. Some speculate that if the series had continued that Tyra wouldn't have stayed with Landry. But I see the central theme in her character the possibility of redemption. Just as I think she would continue to be serious about her studies, I think she would have stuck with Landry. In an earlier episode, just before Landry declared that anything between them was over, she told him she needed time, that she had never been in a real relationship before. When confronted with the possibility of losing Landry, she finally makes a commitment, even to the point of holding hands with him at school. Tyra is the great redemption story on FNL.
This show suffers from an embarrassment of riches. There are an almost endless number of tremendous storylines on the show. There is Smash Williams and the blows to his dreams. There is Buddy Garrity, who started off as a minor supporting character and grew to become one of the most appealing characters on the show. There is Lyla Garrity's discovery of Christianity (and her involvement with new boyfriend Chris, played by THE GILMORE GIRLS's Matt Czuchry) and Tim Riggins's ongoing pursuit of her. More to mention than there is room to mention.
If this show is dead, it releases a staggering amount of talent for other shows. Kyle Chandler should have won an Emmy last year for Best Actor in a Drama, just as Connie Britton should have won Best Actress. Canadian actor Taylor Kitch not only made a convincing Texan as Tim Riggins but also displayed wonderful acting talent as well as impossible good looks (my female friends all gush when they talk about Riggins, though they also want to give him a shampoo). Adrianne Palicki managed to communicate both incredible sexiness as Tyra and some vulnerability as she came to depend emotionally on Landry. It is so hard to portray strong and needy at the same time, but she pulled it off. I could go on, but it would entail naming every member of the cast.
BTW, series creator Peter Berg shows up in the series finale as Tami's former high school sweetheart. He is the guy Coach Taylor has a fight with near the end of the episode. A huge THANK YOU to him for developing this astonishing show. And a big THANK YOU to executive producer Jason Katims for doing such a magnificent job on this show. I worry sometimes about American TV. In the series finale there were constant gestures toward mediocrity. There was a persistent ad during FNL about a new NBC garbage show entitled MY DAD IS BETTER THAN YOUR DAD. And at the very end, after the last shot of Jason Street brought the series to a close, there were ads for ONE VERSUS ONE HUNDRED and AMERICAN GLADIATORS. What is wrong with America? What it is that makes trash like those three shows possible while a masterpiece like FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS is left without a home? And what is wrong with NBC? As I mentioned above, this was formerly my favorite network. But now it seems driven to become as mediocre as CBS. Though in the end perhaps the problem is the American TV viewer. We get garbage on TV because Americans turn out en masses to watch garbage. Television is poised to give us some of the greatest popular works of art ever seen, but our culture won't sustain it because of our fascination with junk. We watch shows like VEGAS and TWO AND A HALF MEN and OCTOBER ROADS and let truly great shows die. In the end, maybe FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS was too good for us. Maybe we deserve the endless CSI and LAW AND ORDER spin offs. If we were worthy, we would have embraced FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. Maybe. Though NBC shares equal blame for not promoting this gem of a show by putting it in good time slots and promoting the heck out of it. Either way, the best show that NBC has is no more. Or at least is no longer on NBC.
I hope to god that this is not the end of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. I hope that the CW scrambles to pick it up. Or perhaps one of cable networks will try to make a home for it. All I know is this: FNL deserves a chance to tell more stories. We need to find out what happens to all these wonderful characters. American television needs to make a space for shows this good.
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