Friday Night Lights

lt;table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td width=80 align=center valign=top><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/96i-0&...

Whatever you think of the series this season–I've liked it and thought it really found its footing again this week–the scene between Connie Britton and Aimee Teegarden this week was one for the vaults. Britton sounded all the right notes–fear, ...

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 them up (all times based on the DirecTV airing):- Buddy talks to T...

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. It returns this week as two of those characte...

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 Sinqua Walls) Jamarkus’ dad, who can’t make his feelings any clearer than when...

We’ve seen J.D. McCoy, the laser-armed quarterback, who last week supplanted our beloved Matt Saracen as QB1, all season. But until this episode we’ve really only seen him in the margins, quietly looming with youthful promise while D.W. Moffett and Janine Turner did most of the talking. Anyon...

I don’t have much use for Tim Riggins, and tonight’s episode—which splintered off into three (count ‘em,...