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cstu
Footballguy
The perfect woman doesn't stay behind when you take a new job, which you then have to quit and return to your old job (where you're forced out the next year) because she's pregnant.
cstu
Footballguy
The entire series was jarring between seasons because there was huge storylines they just forgot about the following season. Very aggravating and one of the things that keep me from rating the show a 10/10.So, just finsihed season 1, popped in season 2 and watched the first episode. Um, WTF? Is this even the same show? I know it's always a little jarring watching seasons on DVD when there was really a 9+ month time difference in reality, but this is just weird. It's like the bizarro Wire, where Season 2 switched to the docks, only FNL switched to a bad parody of The OC.
cstu
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NutterButter
Footballguy
Just started it all from the beginning. What an awesome first episode. Really forgot how good it all began. Amazon Prime has it for free for those who haven't caught it yet.
parrot
Footballguy
Been watching from the beginning again on Pivot. Season one really is some awesome TV.
Landry owns every scene he is in.
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Swing 51
Footballguy
I never watched this back in the day but watched the first four episodes last night. Very strong pilot. Not sure how they can keep this up for multiple seasons tho...
bigbottom
Footballguy
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
I actually can't stand Mrs. Coach. I like looking at her boobies, but I dislike her character. She convinced coach that they had to stay behind in Dillon when he got the TMU job, yet throws a hissy fit when he doesn't want to move for her job.
Apple Jack
Footballguy
I guess you missed the part where she revealed that she had gone along with what his career dictated up to that point and it was her turn? Or maybe she should just #### and go get you turkey pot pie?
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
I didnt miss that part at all. In fact that makes it even worse. It shows that she was being passive aggressive the whole time and didnt actually think what she was doing was best for their family. She was only being submissive because she was waiting for her "turn".
She implies that raising their daughter was not very important and not her choice. She simply did it out of obligation.
When you have a family you should make decisions that are best for the family. It isn't about whose turn it is. That is childish behavior. That is keeping score. Any wife that keeps score, sucks.
Buddy Ball 2K3
Footballguy
Apple Jack
Footballguy
Their only kid is leaving for college. And what's best for the family is the family being something in the neighborhood of happy. No, it's not childish behavior. It's called living. How much has she put up with so that he could at his little game?
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
Except for their other kid.Apple Jack said:
Apple Jack
Footballguy
Forgot about baby Grace. Man, that was an ugly baby.
I still don't see anything even a little off about what Tammy did.
Apple Jack
Footballguy
Shocking addition to the shut up ##### go fix me turkey pot pie column.
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Politician Spock
Footballguy
Rigs is popular amongst feminists? Wow! I never knew that!GordonGekko said:
Swing 51
Footballguy
So in episode 16 ("Black Eyes and Broken Hearts") when Saracen is trying to get Julie back he makes her a mixed cd. He and Landry go to the cafeteria to give Tyra the cd to give to Julie and Tyra says something like mixed CDs are cheesey and they (Landry/Saracen) should go back to the lab and cook something else up 
Flash forward 7 years and Todd Landry is cooking meth with Walter White.
Flash forward 7 years and Todd Landry is cooking meth with Walter White.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
I know you and apple jack don't really want to listen to what I am saying because you have an agenda, but you are missing the whole point. Mrs. Coach convinced them in season 1 that DIllon was supposed to be their home and she didn't want to move away for the TMU job.She was basically tired of moving and wanted to put down roots and couldnt abandon her job as guidance counselor. Then she was freaking out being there by herself so coach quit his job at TMU and came back to Dillon. Coach eventually gets won over by the town of DIllon and passes on a D1 head coaching job to stay.
Mrs. Coach suddenly sings a different tune when the move would be for her job and brings up how she has been willing to sacrifice so much for his job, even though in reality she pretty much killed coach's entire dream career path.
pollardsvision
Footballguy
I liked Season 2, but I don't think it's "far superior" to 4 & 5. 4/5 was great, and imo, a pretty big achievement.
They brilliantly cast the first set of HS students, lost some, and turned around and might've cast an even better set. Jordan, Smollett, Lauria, and Burge were phenomenal. Jordan and Smollett, imo, were probably two most talented teenagers from a show that paraded great teen actors.
pollardsvision
Footballguy
I prefer to think that they spent a year in Philly, then both end up at Penn State.
Season 6 would've ended with T-Tami making the lateral move as Dean of Admissions to PSU, with Coach Taylor being tapped to come in and pull the PSU football program out of the mess.
HS to big-time college football seems like a big jump, but Taylor would've had 3 State Championships by then, at 3 different schools (of course, he'd take Pemberton there). He'd come in as a hero in HS football in both Texas and Pennsylvania. He could recruit like a mad man.
You want a man to turn a program in shambles around? Screw Bill O'Brien. You want Eric Taylor. O'Brien couldn't have turned East Dillon around.
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DocGonzo
Footballguy
Apples and oranges, imho. A lot changed regarding their standing in Dillon in between these events.
Phil Elliott
Footballguy
I enjoyed the show while it was on. I really just watched it to listen to the music which I thought was outstanding! I always thought it would have been more popular if they wouldn't have started with the injury to Jason so quick, and kept building the relationship between him and Lyla. Yes, you never know when injuries are going to hit, but you do when you write the script. I thought they did a good job of portraying the main family dynamics of coach wanting to just coach and not wanting have to do all that "family/parent" stuft and Mrs Coach bringing him into the conversations and decisions. Mr. Garrity was a hoot!
pollardsvision
Footballguy
2nd season is fine apart from the worst storyline in the history of modern television.
Emerson Biggens
Footballguy
What's the bad storyline, Landry killing the dude (which I agree was terrible) or something worse I haven't seen yet?
The Noid
Avoid me!
It's the cover-up, more than the killing. It was clearly protecting Tyra/self-defense. All they had to do was, um, call the cops. They still could have had storylines about how the incident affected them, their relationship, etc. But all of the convoluted events around hiding everything was dumb.
And the whole season was "off." The lifeguard/90210-like stuff, Lyla's Jesus stuff, Santiago, the maid, the Mexico trip, Riggins/Julie, Mrs. Coach's sister, volleyball, Smash's girlfriend, etc. Just a big swing and a miss from beginning to end.
All that said, I wouldn't recommend anyone skip over it. It wasn't horrible, just a sub-par season for that show.
And the whole season was "off." The lifeguard/90210-like stuff, Lyla's Jesus stuff, Santiago, the maid, the Mexico trip, Riggins/Julie, Mrs. Coach's sister, volleyball, Smash's girlfriend, etc. Just a big swing and a miss from beginning to end.
All that said, I wouldn't recommend anyone skip over it. It wasn't horrible, just a sub-par season for that show.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
You bet a lot had changed. They now have lived there for 5 years instead of only one. Coach had a guaranteed contract and the backing of the entire town. It makes it even worse. Mrs. Coach's argument to not leave after season 1 was incredibly weak when you think about how short of a time they had been there.
bigbottom
Footballguy
Uprooting a high school girl is a lot different than uprooting a toddler. I can see why Mrs. Coach would have been reluctant to put her teen daughter into yet another new school.
Swing 51
Footballguy
pollardsvision
Footballguy
AV Club is going back and doing reviews of each episode. It's been a good read for other shows they've done this way and this one seems like it will be too.
http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/friday-night-lights-pilot-203051
http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/friday-night-lights-pilot-203051
rockaction
Footballguy
Wow. I'm envious. Have fun.
Wait until they huddle in the locker room a ways into the season and then tell me you aren't chanting along with them.
BowieMercs
Footballguy
FNL? Im just here to look at Connie Brittons rack.
The Big Donkey
Footballguy
Binge watching this on netflix, just starting season 3. Disappointed that I didn't watch this a decade ago.
I'm hopeful that Tyra goes back to her season 1 hair and that the Guatemalan caregiver comes back to Dillon.
I'm hopeful that Tyra goes back to her season 1 hair and that the Guatemalan caregiver comes back to Dillon.
Raider Nation
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rockaction
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ren hoek
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