She'll make a great politician, then.
― Idgi Pop (KMS), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
will miss this show
― jeff, Thursday, 24 March 2011 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
So I guess us NBCers move into this thread now?
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 16 April 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Could not WAIT for the new WR to get off the basketball court because nothing is worse than seeing someone who can't ball.
(Also, Vince looks *tiny* on the field this year, like he's in Pop Warner or something!)
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 16 April 2011 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
hi leee!
i can't remember which season i ended up on because of directtv/nbc confusion.
― tehresa, Saturday, 16 April 2011 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
hi teh!
I think you finished the fourth season, the first one with Wallace and East Dillon? Season 5 (the last one!) just started on NBC tonight!
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 16 April 2011 05:21 (thirteen years ago) link
So I just watched the third episode where Vince's dad comes home -- has the show always had such a glaring small-c conservative streak?
― NoShoutsNoCalls (Leee), Monday, 9 May 2011 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Should I keep going with the show? It's pretty lame right now.
― E.L. Doctorow Who (Leee), Saturday, 18 June 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
yes. how far are you? but yes.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 18 June 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
Through seven episodes.
― E.L. Doctorow Who (Leee), Saturday, 18 June 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
first season?
― Gukbe, Saturday, 18 June 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Final season. This Vince/dad thing is trying my patience, I tell you what.
― E.L. Doctorow Who (Leee), Saturday, 18 June 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
i rate the last season even below season 2 but most ppl seem to like it u know
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 18 June 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Some weakness in the middle but it ends well.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 18 June 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
Never would've thought I'd be so glad to see Saracen again.
― E.L. Doctorow Who (Leee), Sunday, 19 June 2011 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
"If you're asking if I was raped in prison, Tyra..."
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 9 July 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
haha, that elephant in the room.
got a little misty during when "Devil's Town" came back as they heard the decision.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 9 July 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6766070/clear-eyes-full-hearts-lose
Aubrey: I remember Taylor [Kitsch]'s audition in particular. He auditioned on tape from Canada. He had two tall boys of beer, and he was already referring to himself as Rigg.
Taylor Kitsch (Tim Riggins): I brought in a cooler, put a big, black blanket behind me, and my agent filmed it. I found this Texas beer — Lone Star beer — and I was chugging those, just in my introduction.
― johnny crunch, Friday, 15 July 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
from my friend's fb:
Looks like Tim Riggins from the back. So disappointed when he turned around :(
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/263561_630001187245_183404922_33141635_3496795_n.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 July 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
Another movie?
― Gukbe, Friday, 15 July 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, not sure what part of the story is left to tell. They wrapped the series up pretty well, all things considered.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 July 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vihYkEAQ_DY
― mizzell, Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
love
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
DAMN does it ever. Loved the way the Tami/Coach scene outside of the restaurant was shot. LOVED the way State was edited. Glad I stuck with it.
Other points:Gee, Julie, I wonder what recent events could possibly have led her parents to question her judgment. I'd kind of like to see another FNL movie if only for the chance to see Connie Britton say more than two lines of dialogue. Why the hell was the show trying to make Buddy Jr. happen? Buddy Jr. is not going to happen.In my mind, I imagine that Luke was going off to Chicago to join the CPD.Glad they let Mindy Riggins be a human for once instead of a caricature. Was that Mike Singletary playing the Dallas coach where Jess ends up?
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 16 July 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not familiar with Mike Singletary but I GIS'd him and I don't think so. The Dallas coach had a goatee and was a little thinner.
Mindy Riggins was one of the best characters in season 5.
― Jouster, Sunday, 17 July 2011 07:41 (twelve years ago) link
That was such a good ending.
― polyphonic, Sunday, 17 July 2011 07:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/aug/18/very-deep-america-friday-night-lights/?pagination=false
by Lorrie Moore
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
Man, second season sucks. I Just watched two OMIGOD THEY'RE RACIST subplots in the same episode.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
The Moore article is terrific.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
It is, except for some preposterous declarations, like the boys are articulate (no way, except for goddamn Jason Street) or that there's too much Billy Riggins (there is never enough Billy Riggins wtf)
― suckin em down like they name was jack daniels (billy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
just watched s5 on netflix.
*SPOILERISH*that finale, man. for a minute i felt SO f***ing betrayed by coach t and i was questioning my lifelong love of kyle chandler. but i am so glad they went for the sappy perfect ending.
also i think i am going to start incorporating tammy's 'i appreciate that' into my regular conversations.
now i have to go back and read the thread.
― tehresa, Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
the first season of this has to rank among the all-time greatest seasons of television imo
― BJ O (Lamp), Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
something about this show that remained true for me til the end was how real the characters were. i think that i could identify one of my high school friends and classmates in just about every character on the show.
― tehresa, Thursday, 9 February 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
rewatching season 1 right now and thread title line is awesome. forgot how great sarcastic Street is. Coach runs into him at the hardware store in "Mud Bowl", asks him what's he doing: "buying WD-40, highlight of my day" in the most teenaged, self-pitying, and yet totally lol way.
― rob, Thursday, 9 February 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
yeah this show managed to seem really grounded even when it was doing stuff that was p ridiculous - i think the writers always tried w/o being obvious or hectoring to keep each characters humanity in sight.
― BJ O (Lamp), Thursday, 9 February 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
heard the theme song during Dylan Ratigan's show today where he was in Texas and got all misty-eyed.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Thursday, 9 February 2012 05:32 (twelve years ago) link
Just bought the complete DVD. Only four eps into Season 2. Love the show. But JESUS THE LANDRY MURDER STORYLINE IS JUST ALL FUCKING WRONG.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Monday, 25 June 2012 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
goth your way through season 2 pal. It gets really good again seasons 3-5. There are a few killer eps in s 2 though that are worth it.
― Gotye Sports (It's In The Name) (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 25 June 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
season 2 is pretty terrible mainly for that arc; they get ptetty much back on track with season 3. the first season is basically perfect.
― mizzell, Monday, 25 June 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
GOTH?! uhh *fight
no gothing your way through is perfect
(dead voice) "This totally sucks. Everything is ruined. Life is pain." *watches intently*
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
spottie otm - ride it out. it picks up towards the end and S3 repays your debt to society.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
I can watch it all day just to have Coach and Tami on screen together (respective crushes for my wife and I). And the team interactions are great. But the Landry/Tyra shit is ridiculous. Tragic couple brought together by attempted rape and murder. I think Gothing my way through that is perfectly appropriate. But even leaving that aside, every time I see them together I think: There is no way that girl is sleeping with Matt Damon's stunted albino brother.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Monday, 25 June 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
well it says something that the most plausible way the writers could think of getting them together was attempted rape and murder
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Monday, 25 June 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
I guess. And at least they acknowledged it with Landry's dad asking her what she was doing with Landry.
Other Landry stupidness: him being on the team. Right, in the first season he hated football and football players. When he tries out he can do literally nothing right. Surely, a team like the Panthers would have had no shortage of more gifted, more suitable kids lining up for the ancillary benefits of being a benchwarmer for the football team? (As a Britisher, I am working on assumptions here. Would be grateful for anyone with actual knowledge to proffer it.)
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Monday, 25 June 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
small town, football requires a lot of players, so somewhat plausible he could make the squad.
― mizzell, Monday, 25 June 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that was the writers trying to figure out where to put him. I thought he lost a lot of his character by switching him from the outside-guy who kind of saw football as being a bit stupid to "i wanna be on the team" just so they could give him more conventional storylines (i guess?). Still, Crucifictorius!
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Monday, 25 June 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
no, youre mostly otm
not really a spoiler but in a later season he throws like a 50 yd game-winning td on a trick play to add to the absurdity
― johnny crunch, Monday, 25 June 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
I'd rather have Landry in weird preposterous situations than be written out bc they don't know what to do with him. Even when it's weird, I just love him.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
plus he looks like my cousin