This is the last season of Friday Night Lights and after watching the first two episodes we are sure to ask why it must be so. This is one of the best shows on televsion. A show about football that really has very little to do with football. This show is about relationships, characters that are much more than the usual one dimension we often see and often about loyalty.
Watching Coach Taylor manuever through the minefield of Texas high school football and still maintain his ethics and sense of what is important is a great thing. One can wonder how in state with the worst record of public education a school can afford to have a full time football coach that to my knowledge does nothing else for the school district and make a living is another question. It is Texas however. As close to a foreign country as we can imagine here in the Northeast.
The actors in this show are the best you will see on an ensemble. This series is also an unfortunate example that good shows do not get ratings and in most cases do not get the chance to mature. By ratings alone this show should not have made it past one season. NBC stuck with it and it is an example of what can happen when a network is patient.
We will miss it
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