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Friday Night Lights –“Keeping Up Appearances”
“Keeping Up Appearances” November 12th, 2008 One of the concerns I’ve had with the most recent set of episodes in Friday Night Lights’ third season is that the behind-the-scenes planning is becoming...
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Friday Night Lights –“The Giving Tree”
“The Giving Tree” December 10th, 2008 If you’re a fan of Friday Night Lights, “The Giving Tree” is an episode made for you. It’s all about callbacks to past events, to incidents that are three seasons...
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Friday Night Lights –“A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”
“A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” December 17th, 2008 It’s kind of inexplicably saddening to know that my two favourite Wednesday shows, Friday Night Lights and Pushing Daisies, are both in similar...
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Season Premiere: Friday Night Lights –“East of Dillon”
“East of Dillon” October 28th, 2009 “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts…” In the very first episode of Friday Night Lights, a “can’t lose” football team became a longshot. When Jason Street went down on the...
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Friday Night Lights –“After the Fall”
“After the Fall” November 4th, 2009 “What exactly does that mean, start over?” Going into the show’s fourth season, the narrative was drawn as clearly as the zig-zagging border line: with two football...
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Friday Night Lights –“In the Skin of a Lion”
“In the Skin of a Lion” November 11th, 2009 It isn’t precisely a dud, but “In the Skin of a Lion” is certainly the weakest episode of the fourth season thus far. It’s really an issue of premise more...
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Friday Night Lights –“Toilet Bowl”
“Toilet Bowl” January 6th, 2010 Friday Night Lights is a show that, despite various dips in quality, has not fundamentally changed since its first season. It has always been a show about the people in...
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Friday Night Lights –“Don’t Go”
“Don’t Go” January 19th, 2011 If Friday Night Lights had ended after three seasons, I would have been incredibly disappointed. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show have featured some tremendous...
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Series Finale: Friday Night Lights –“Always”
“Always” February 9th, 2011 “Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Can’t Lose.” Perhaps more than any other show on television, Friday Night Lights is actively concerned with the notion of legacy. The Dillon...
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