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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 3
"A Sort Of Homecoming"
November 18, 2009 - 11:11p.m.
If Friday Night Lights has an unofficial theme song it’s the Daniel Johnston-penned “Devil Town.” “Devil Town” opened and closed the first season and served, in a version sung by Tony Lucca, as the soundtrack to the third season ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 3
"In The Skin Of A Lion"
November 11, 2009 - 11:11p.m.
So far there haven’t been a lot of outright villains in the Friday Night Lights universe unless you count abstract concepts like “entrenched prejudice” and “youthful myopia.” But D.W. Moffett’s Joe McCoy has given Dillon a proper ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 2
"After The Fall"
November 4, 2009 - 10:11p.m.
“You’ve lost your inner pirate,” cameoing Texas Tech coach Mike Leach tells Coach Taylor at a random encounter at a gas station in the second episode of the fourth season. Being a casual, at best, football fan, I had ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 1
"East Of Dillon"
October 28, 2009 - 11:10p.m.
Hello and welcome back to Dillon, TX. If you’re reading this, you’re probably as grateful for a chance to return as I am. For three seasons, being a Friday Night Lights fan meant watching the show in a ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 13
"Tomorrow Blues"
April 10, 2009 - 10:04p.m.
For those just tuning in, I watched the third season of Friday Night Lights when it aired on DirecTV last fall. All, that is, except for the season finale, which ran during a time when DirecTV decided it didn’t ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 12
"Underdogs"
April 3, 2009 - 09:04p.m.
[For those just tuning in: I first covered Friday Night Lights here at TV Club when it ran on DirecTV back in the fall. I'm rerunning those posts as it runs on NBC to a much larger audience. I ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 11
"A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"
March 27, 2009 - 09:03p.m.
[For those just tuning in: I first covered Friday Night Lights here at TV Club when it ran on DirecTV back in the fall. I'm rerunning those posts as it runs on NBC to a much larger audience. I ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 10
"The Giving Tree"
March 20, 2009 - 09:03p.m.
[For those just tuning in: I first covered Friday Night Lights here at TV Club when it ran on DirecTV back in the fall. I'm rerunning those posts as it runs on NBC to a much larger audience. I ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 9
"Game Of The Week"
March 13, 2009 - 05:03p.m.
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 8
"New York, New York"
March 5, 2009 - 04:03p.m.
[For those just tuning in: I first covered Friday Night Lights here at TV Club when it ran on DirecTV back in the fall. I'm rerunning those posts as it runs on NBC to a much larger audience. I ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 7
"Keeping Up Appearances"
February 27, 2009 - 09:02a.m.
[For those just tuning in: I first covered Friday Night Lights here at TV Club when it ran on DirecTV back in the fall. I'm rerunning those posts as it runs on NBC to a much larger audience. I ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 6
"It Ain't Easy Being J.D. McCoy"
February 20, 2009 - 03:02p.m.
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 5
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn"
February 13, 2009 - 03:02p.m.
[For those just tuning in: I first covered Friday Night Lights here at TV Club when it ran on DirecTV back in the fall. I'm rerunning those posts as it runs on NBC to a much larger audience. I ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 4
"Hello, Goodbye"
February 6, 2009 - 04:02p.m.
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 3
"How The Other Half Lives"
January 30, 2009 - 03:01p.m.
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 2
"Tami Knows Best"
January 23, 2009 - 03:01p.m.
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 1
"I Knew You When"
January 17, 2009 - 03:01a.m.
[For those just tuning in: I first covered Friday Night Lights here at TV Club when it ran on DirecTV back in the fall. I'm rerunning those posts as it runs on NBC to a much larger audience. I ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 13
"Tomorrow Blues" (kind of)
January 15, 2009 - 08:01a.m.
Ack. I'm going to have to make this an open thread. My DirecTV connection failed during the snowpacalyptic weather Chicago is enjoying at the moment so I wasn't able to watch the third season finale and won't ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 12
"Underdogs"
January 8, 2009 - 04:01p.m.
Need I say huge spoilers for storylines concerning the whole season are ahead? Well, I'll say it anyway. Huge spoilers ahead.The first season of Friday Night Lights was about struggling and winning, but not in the usual scrappy-underdogs-buck-the-odds ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 11
"A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"
December 17, 2008 - 10:12p.m.
It would probably take more time to confirm the notion than it's really worth, but I would venture that tonight's episode of Friday Night Lights had more earnest, heart-to-heart talks than any episode before it. Let's count ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 10
"The Giving Tree"
December 12, 2008 - 08:12a.m.
[Note to DirecTV viewers: Sorry this is late!]
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 9
"Game Of The Week"
December 3, 2008 - 09:12p.m.
First things first, my DVR messed up and didn't group this episode in with my season pass, which seems to be a common complaint. So I hopped in on the credits, apparently missing Billy breaking up with his fianc ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 8
"New York, New York"
November 19, 2008 - 11:11p.m.
Half rallying cry, half vow, the phrase "Texas forever" popped up in the first episode of Friday Night Lights shortly before the friendship of the three characters saying it–Street, Riggins, and Lyla–would be tested by mishap and infidelity ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 7
"Keeping Up Appearances"
November 12, 2008 - 10:11p.m.
Dads and football: That's what this week's largely about. On one end there's J.D.'s dad, well established as a fanatic. On the other there's the new-to-the-show (unless I'm forgetting a previous appearance from ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 6
"It Ain't Easy Being J.D. McCoy"
November 5, 2008 - 09:11a.m.
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 15
"May The Best Man Win"
February 9, 2008 - 12:02a.m.
And so the well finally runs dry.
Tonight was the last script for Friday Night Lights completed before the writer’s strike, and even if the writers get back to work soon (as several reports have indicated), there’s very ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 14
"Leave No One Behind"
February 1, 2008 - 10:02p.m.
Our regular man in Dillon, Scott Tobias, is celebrating the birth of his very own Baby Gracie this Friday night. Let's give him a week of paternity leave before the wrenching scene where he drops the helpless infant off ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 13
"Humble Pie"
January 25, 2008 - 11:01p.m.
So any episode that opens with The Replacements’ “I Will Dare” has at least something going for it, right?
Coming off possibly the worst episode of the season—just edging out “Seeing Other People” from Week Eight—Friday Night Lights ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 12
"Who Do You Think You Are?"
January 18, 2008 - 11:01p.m.
Dealing with racial and ethnic tensions and stereotypes is tricky business for any medium, and nearly verboten for network television, so to a certain extent, tonight’s episode of Friday Night Lights deserves some credit for the attempt. This season ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 11
"Jumping The Gun"
January 11, 2008 - 11:01p.m.
Even ardent Friday Night Lights fans like myself can agree that the show has its peaks and occasional valleys—though based on the VBM, we can’t always agree on what those are—but if there’s one reliable thing ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 10
"There Goes The Neighborhood"
January 4, 2008 - 10:01p.m.
With the VBM finally resolved—at least on legal grounds—at the end of the last episode, tonight’s hour was a chance to see what Friday Night Lights would be like without the weight (some might say, albatross) that ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 9
"The Confession"
December 7, 2007 - 10:12p.m.
“I wanted to kill him, sir.”
Thank goodness for the Texas good ‘ole boy network, because there’s not much ambiguity in that statement. It’s funny: The staging of the scene where Landry brains Tyra’s attacker was filmed ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 8
"Seeing Other People"
November 30, 2007 - 11:11p.m.
Aside from “Let’s Get It On,” the near-perfect fifth episode (which included Coach and Mrs. Coach rediscovering their lost intimacy, the touching conclusion of Street and company’s misadventures in Mexico, Matt rejecting Julie, Tyra’s forced break-up with ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 7
"Pantherama"
November 16, 2007 - 10:11p.m.
Hey, who knew Smash’s real name was Brian?
I did, but I had to search somewhere in the deep recesses of my brain to recall it, which is an indictor of just how long Smash—and more importantly, Mama ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 6
"How Did I Get Here?"
November 9, 2007 - 10:11p.m.
Oh VBM, why did I defend thee so vigorously?
After last week’s glorious episode, we’re back in the soup again with this strong but somewhat problematic hour, which was hampered mainly by further developments in the Landry situation ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 5
"Let's Get It On"
November 2, 2007 - 10:11p.m.
Was there ever any doubt?
Coming after four hours of stumblin’, bumblin’, and fumblin’, tonight’s episode offered resounding proof of why critic-types like myself (and a too-small cadre of disciples) have been declaring Friday Night Lights the best drama ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 4
"Backfire"
October 26, 2007 - 11:10p.m.
“Character is who you are when no one’s watching.”
It isn’t often that Coach Taylor’s actions are ever called into question on this show. Sure, he can be a little bull-headed at times and often needs his ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 3
"Are You Ready For Friday Night?"
October 19, 2007 - 11:10p.m.
I don’t have much use for Tim Riggins, and tonight’s episode—which splintered off into three (count ‘em, three!) Riggins subplots—now gives me plenty of reasons to articulate why. A lot of it is casting: Taylor Kitsch ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 2
"Bad Ideas"
October 12, 2007 - 10:10p.m.
How about that for a first kiss, huh?
Throughout much of his adolescence, it’s likely Landry’s fantasies revolved around a scenario like this: His impossibly gorgeous object of desire slipping unannounced into his room, sidling up next to ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 2, episode 1
"Last Days Of Summer"
October 5, 2007 - 10:10p.m.
Apologies in advance for the length of this post, but there’s a lot of business to get through tonight.
As the end of last season was drawing near, Friday Night Lights fans (the dozens of us there are, anyway ...
