“Friday Night Lights”: Series and its final season deserve cheers
Connie Britton as Tami Taylor and Kyle Chandler as Eric Taylor of "Friday Night Lights" - NBC Photo by Justin Stephens
“Friday Night Lights” has always showed even more lessons about the game of life than about the game of football – and done an amazing job at covering both.
Its fifth and final season is no different, and is one of the best final seasons of any show.
“Friday Night Lights” has consistently featured incredible writing, resulting in realistic story lines and multidimensional adult and teen roles, as well as phenomenal acting by the entire ensemble cast, even as characters graduated and/or moved on and new ones came onto the Dillon, Texas high school football scene.
Leading the wonderful cast is Kyle Chandler as Coach Eric Taylor, who is attempting to lead East Dillon to a state championship in the final season, and Connie Britton as his wife, Tami, now East Dillon’s guidance counselor.
The Taylors also have two children – young daughter Gracie and oldest daughter Julie (Aimee Teegarden), who is heading off to college.
The Taylor marriage, and family, is as authentic as it is loving.
The most enjoyable aspect of the final season is that a majority of the former major characters return, being woven in suitably for the show’s ending narratives.
Though this final season has already been broadcast on DirecTV, due to a co-production deal between the subscription satellite service and NBC, it will make its premiere at 7 p.m. Friday on NBC.
Coach Taylor’s motto is “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose!”
Though you may not be able to watch every episode with clear eyes because of the show’s moving, yet never manipulative scenes, you will be left with a full heart.
And if you’re a TV fan, you can’t lose by making this series a favorite.
– Melissa Hayer
mhayer@opubco.com
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