Friday Night Lights

By Jason Mittell The show’s main appeal for me in the first season was its sense of texture - you got a feel for both the place of Dillon, Texas, and the relationships between the characters. The way they spoke to each other, the way they spent their days - this felt both dramatically engaging and new for televi...

By Jason Mittell Even more problematic are some of the new storylines moving forward. Tami becoming principal feels like a highly conventional television move - when you run out of stories, change a character’s job (even without rational explanation) to create new conflicts and situations. This move ha...