Friday Night Lights: one of the best tv show about life ever
Heard a ton about this show from critics, that has struggled for an audience from day one.... and finally caught it.
This show about a Texas community has very little to do with football, and more about living with shattered dreams in this society, and trying to deal an ensemble of parents and children that both try to secure a happy life, while getting slammed over and over in the face by depressing life realities and disappointments- financially, relationship-wise, and family entanglements that are both a blessing and a burden at the same time.
The show jumps around from character to character--- and it's great, because sticking to any one storyline could have been a bit too claustrophopic--- but the character is the extended dysfunctional family, and how- just like another great show- Six Feet Under---- they deal with loss and fresh pain over and over again--- and its often merciless, just like real life.
A lot of shows that are highly praised often succumb to contrived bits (The Shield and Battlestar Galactica come to mind)--- but FNL has remained mostly free of that.
I rarely get lumps in my throat watching good shows, but this is the first show that had me weeping like a little baby more than once--- maybe the points they hit, hit too close too home at times.
I'm skeptical about the third season, but the first two seasons are incredible. See it!