For me, the third season was as strong as the first. But its brilliance lies in the way it sets up season 4 in the last few episodes and leaves you wanting more. This show is underrated, much like the Dillon Panthers, but once you watch it, the brilliance and quality of this production leaves it well beyond the first down marker when other TV productions should punt and get off the field.
For the not so passionate football fans, Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton, the first couple of Dillon Football, represent a realistic and gutsy couple whose trials and tribulations keep even the most avid soap fan enthralled. Football keeps the show centered in much of the same way that the hospital keeps ER centered. It provides a vehicle for the story but doesn’t require you to love football (I know I don’t love hospitals). But if you do love football, the actual story lines carried out on the field are gripping and hard hitting and never leave you unsatisfied like a poorly done boxing scene.
If you have never watched it, watch it.
If you have watched it, watch it again.
If you don’t own it, buy it.
If you have never heard of it, you are on the wrong site.
In Dillon, winning is always a good thing but the problems remain after the stadium lights go out. Make no mistake, this show is not a teen-centric football version of Beverly Hills 90210 but an often uncomfortable look at the politics and problems surrounding big time high school football. From academic problems, funding, and steroids, it’s all there. Like many, I started watching for the football but stayed for the story.
Buy your copy below. If you are not convinced, please scroll down to the GQ video shoot featuring the Girls of Friday Night Lights. If you are not convinced after that, then there is no hope for you! Go watch Star Trek!
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Check out this footage of the FNL Girls from a GQ photo shoot. No wonder the Dillon Panthers are motivated to win State!
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