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‘Friday Night Lights’ (NBC/The 101 Network, 2006-11)
From left: Kyle Chandler and Zach Gilford in ‹ Friday Night Lights. ›
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Every once in a while, you’ll hear somebody — usually in an attempt to sway a sports-phobic potential viewer — claiming that Friday Night Lights isn’t really about football. Tell that to the pilot, written and directed by Peter Berg and cramming and paraphrasing large chunks of Buzz Bissinger’s 1990 book (which was definitely about both football and a small Texas town) into a perfect hour of TV. Tell that to the episode “Mud Bowl,” a series highlight dominated by gridiron action. Tell that to Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler) and the rosters of the Dillon Panthers and then the East Dillon Lions and then to Buddy Garrity (Brad Leland) and the entire fictional community of Dillon, Texas, living for each week’s game. Friday Night Lights is all about football. It just happens to also be one of TV’s greatest teen dramas; a portrait of possibly TV’s greatest marriage, between Coach and Mrs. Coach (Connie Britton); and an impeccable examination of faith and blue-collar life made for a medium that generally shies away from religion and socioeconomic critique. Friday Night Lights is thrilling, heartbreaking, hilarious and — as illustrated by the regular reinventions and constant rejuvenations of its young cast — one of the most resilient shows ever made.
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