FNL - I Love Ya

[60schic]

I love this show more with every episode I watch. There is just something so *real* about it. The high school angst, the racial issues, the family issues; it's all done with honesty and clarity

Comments

[cianconnell]

This season will seriously rip your heart to shreds, while also mending it, and making you laugh, and cry...simultaneously and for completely opposite reasons...kinda at the same time.

There were very few episodes in the back...whatever, that didn't have me just...bawling. Love. It. While I'll give "The Wire," the title for the best realistic show ever made (and probably the best show, ever, heh, that my dad, a HUGE Wire fan, just sent me, out of the blue, four Pelecanos novels), FNL will always hold a special title close to my heart as well.

Thank goodness we have the last season coming as well, and they all know it'll be the last season, so know to wrap it up...

*waves*

OOPs, apparently, I can't use one of my Riggins Boys icons, since I've missed two re-sign-ups on LJ.

*shrugs*

[60schic]

Wait - do you mean S4 is the last...or S5? I must have missed the memo.

[cianconnell]

When DirecTV picked up FNL the last time, they picked it up for two seasons, 4 & 5, so 5's a given, but it's been pretty well acknowledged by everyone that five will be the last. I don't know if an official announcement has been made, but I think everyone's been released to pursue other options.

With a little GoogleFoo, this pretty much says the same thing.

[60schic]

Good to know I still have another season of a quality program.

[helen_c]

Right with you there.

I loved The Wire, I did, and all the characters in it, but I had a harder time relating to them, because their lives were so far removed from what I know.

It's easier with FNL, because who doesn't remember being a teenager and all the angst that came with it.

(And Julie is awesome. Well, all the kids are, for very different reasons, but I really like her. And the Coach and Tami are wonderful.)

*hearts* show

[60schic]

Julie has certainly grown up since S1. I know she's given her parents some typical teen headaches but sometimes I think her wholesomeness is too good to be true. Still, I like her.

[sarak14]

I love, love, love FNL. Perfection on TV

[famous99]

I do love the show and can't wait to catch up on S4

[rose_in_texas]

Zach Gilford Breaks. My. Heart. Every. Single. Time.

And yet, the show could survive without him. You're correct that Coach Kyle's the center of it, holding the whole thing together.

[60schic]

It's as if there is a very quiet belief system that bubbles judt under the surface and yet the characters are flawed. They deal with real life and show the real liffe frustrations.