On the Best Show on Television

April 5, 2007 by maureen.ulrich.

If you have never watched Friday Night Lights, you have no idea what you’re missing. It’s very much like the movie — because it shows the ups and downs of a Texas high school football team — but it goes so much further than the movie.

The fact that it is about football is really irrelevant. This could so easily be small town Saskatchewan and a hockey team.

We’ve watched a handful of high school kids grow up over the course of the season and have fallen in love with every single one of them along the way. Every character is fallible and heartbreakingly real. Every line of dialogue is a direct hit.

Just when you think you know what to expect from a character – think again. The character’s lives just keep on intertwining, yet it is absolutely not a soap opera. In my opinion, it’s the best written show EVER.
My family is the only one I know that watches it so I hope it won’t be cancelled next season. In any case, next week is the season finale, and you can bet I won’t be missing it!

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