Friday Night Lights

By Myles In terms of the other storylines running throughout the episode, I thought that Puck telling Mercedes about being the father of the baby was an intriguing moment, if only because it throws another secret into the mix and it starts to involve characters who aren’t pregnant/virile into th...

By Myles Going into the show’s fourth season, the narrative was drawn as clearly as the zig-zagging border line: with two football teams in town, one led by our fearless hero and the other by the villainous interlopers, this season was going to be about the fight between the Lions and the Panthers. A...

By Myles “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts…” In the very first episode of Friday Night Lights, a “can’t lose” football team became a longshot. When Jason Street went down on the field, ending up paralyzed, the Panther football program went from being a contender for State to being a rudderless ship with a ro...

By Myles Sarah Silverman: I thought that, with no dirty song about Matt Damon, that Sarah Silverman would have no shot here, but she garners herself a nomination against the odds. She’s got no chance of beating the two frontrunners, Tina Fey and Toni Colette, but she should be pleased to be nominate...

By Myles There is no hiding the fact that the end of Battlestar Galactica was, for me, a cathartic experience, a chance to say goodbye to something that has been a fairly large part of both my critical and academic investigations into the world of television. However, there was always that lingerin...

By Myles But I can honestly say that this is the first time that I am entering, albeit late thanks to my vacation, a fan campaign primarily because I love the show involved. Chuck was an engaging series last year, but this year it has elevated itself to an entirely new level: this is not the most intelli...

By Myles TV 08:54) - NBC Bubble Shows: Friday Night Lights [Huffington Post], Chuck Gaming 19:49) - February NPD [Game Sales] Results [GamaSutra] Movies 27:01) - Let the Right One In Subtitles Controversy [/Film] 29:15) - Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on a Cliff gets North American release [/Film]

By Myles Leaping forward about six months at the beginning of the show’s second season nearly killed Friday Night Lights - there was a sense that all the time we missed had been eventful for these characters, and their motivations had changed in ways that were not something that should happen off s...

By Myles If you are a fan of Friday Night Lights, “Underdogs” is going to be mightly familiar: as the Dillon Panthers head off to the State High School Football championships, there’s a quarterback having trouble keeping his focus on the field, there’s a road trip to the big game, and there’s a scen...

By Myles And I don’t want any tragic ends: I want happy people who are going to live happy lives. It’s an odd request, after I just spend a lot of time in the past week talking about how the tragedy of The Wire was so effective, but Friday Night Lights is telling a different story. Yes, it is about the oppres...

By Myles And, really, this week’s episode of Friday Night Lights, airing exclusively on DirecTV’s 101, is the perfect example of both why I blog about television shows in general, and why it would be darn near impossible to not blog about Friday Night Lights ahead of its more accessible airings on...

By Myles There isn't a single piece of drama this season that is unrelated to these qualities: with Tami Taylor (Connie Britton) making the leap from guidance counsellor to Principal of Dillon High School, and Lyla (Minka Kelly) back in a relationship with Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch), there isn...