The series follows the ups and
downs of a high school football team in the small town of Dillon, Texas – where
every week is built around Friday night’s game. The show focuses on the coach,
Eric Taylor, his family, a few of the key players (Tim Riggins, Landry Clarke,
Matt Saracen, Jason Street, Brian ‘Smash’ Williams, Vince Howard, and Luke
Cafferty), and their friends.
In 2004 director Peter Berg made a film about
high school football in Texas called Friday Night Lights, which was
a surprise commercial and critical success. The series of the same name was
then developed by Berg and Jason
Katims to expand on the idea.
The series stars Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Aimee Teegarden, Taylor Kitsch, Jesse Plemons, Brad Leland, Zach Gilford, Derek Phillips, Minka Kelly, Adrianne Palicki, Scott Porter, Gaius Charles, Michael B. Jordan, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Matt Lauria, and Dora Madison Burge – all of whom
are fantastic.
What makes Friday Night Lights
special is the writing and how much the writing staff seems to care about their
characters (both in developing them and not being afraid to put realistic and
dramatic obstacles in their paths). The show also does something extraordinary
at the end of season three – it completely changes things up, which allows the
series to tell the story from a new perspective. It is one of the most
brilliant network dramas in recent memory. It is a must-see for fans of sports
dramas (and really anyone who loves great TV).
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