It's not a very good show, but I'm hooked.

ahem, Friday Night Lights has has some of the best writing and Emmy nominated acting on tv today. It is a damn good show. A small part of me is going to die when they wrap up filming for good later this summer.

Season 2 was pretty much across the board horrible, but other than that it's great.

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A small part of me is going to die when they wrap up filming for good later this summer.

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Already happenned.

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Since the show’s been over, everything in my personal life has been moving at such a fast pace—so many things are happening—I don’t really think I’ve sat back and acknowledged the fact that we’re not just on hiatus. One thing Connie and I didn’t get to do was go out and drink a half bottle of whiskey together and talk about all the old times and really mourn the loss of the professional relationship, the show, and the end of a five-year period doing something we love so much. So I don’t think it’s sunk in completely for me.

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http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/08/05/friday-night-lights-connie-britton-kyle-chandler/

To the OP, you haven't gotten to S3 or 4 if you feel the smallest twinge of guilt for watching this show.

It will never happen, but if Connie or Kyle pick up a statue tonight, I will forgive the Emmys for all their stupidity over the years.

Counting down the days until the return to DTV on 10/27...

damn, I didn't realize they had wrapped already. I had been an extra in football crowds for a couple of episodes...I was hoping to go do it one more time, getting to wear the red. Oh well, I will enjoy every minute of these final 13 episodes starting in October.

Yeah- they had an open call for extras for the last football scenes for the series finale (don't click if you would be "spoiled" knowing where they filmed at).

http://texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?forum_id=13&topic_id=1654396

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It will never happen, but if Connie or Kyle pick up a statue tonight

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Are the awards tonight and NBC is just not airing it until next Sunday? or is the whole thing happening next Sunday?

I love this show. The acting is great, the camera angles and how they shot the show was wonderful. I will really miss it, and I don't have DTV, so I get to wait until next summer to actually see it!

That being said, I am not sure how long they could go on with the story line. I do wonder if this next season they will jump ahead several years, so Tim won't be in jail.

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Are the awards tonight and NBC is just not airing it until next Sunday? or is the whole thing happening next Sunday?

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My bad...they had the awards no one cares about (special effects, etc.) last night. I thought the real part was the following night and didn't bother checking the guide. Whole thing is next week.

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I do wonder if this next season they will jump ahead several years, so Tim won't be in jail.

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Riggins is pulling a Smash/Street and going off the canvas next season while Kitsch was off filming a movie. He is only coming back for the last 4 episodes of the series (barring a scene or 2 they filmed while he was shooting those eps.)

They were filming something here in College Station about a month ago. Had Dillon Buses and Dillon police cars driving through town. I figured just some kind of location shot of them driving to a playoff game or something.

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It's not a very good show,

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I'd really like to know what you consider to be a good show, because FNL is one of the best written and best acted shows on TV.

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I'd really like to know what you consider to be a good show, because FNL is one of the best written and best acted shows on TV.

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Agreed. I told my wife there were times it was so authentic it almost felt more like a documentary.

They were drifting over into leftist themes this past season. Painting pro-lifers as a lynch mob, and the whole absurd jungle fever love triangle are both shark-jumps. Hope they can finish this last season with more dignity.

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It's "authentic"?

I don't remember playing with/against guys pushing 30 in high school. It's also supposedly set in a west Texas town, presumably Odessa, so where are the Mexicans? Seriously? I also don't remember seeing too many gang bangers out there either. It's funny how they can typically portray the demographics of LA & SoCal high schools correctly, but not Texas.

I had to watch the episode a couple of weeks back when I was in Texas visiting & they were playing the "rivalry" game the day after Thanksgiving. Uh, High School playoffs in just about every state, especially Texas, are well under way by then.

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Painting pro-lifers as a lynch mob, and the whole absurd jungle fever love triangle are both shark-jumps. Hope they can finish this last season with more dignity.

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Having grown up in a town very much like Dillon, I can assure you there would be people who would have stirred up the exact same kind of crap we saw happen to Tami Taylor this season. Also, whether you like it or not, people do date outside of their race occasionally, even in small town West Texas.

And Syd, yeah some of the little details are off, like the timing of games and playoff situations, but I don't expect them to get every tiny little thing right. What they do get are the characters and the relationships they have with each other. I can think back and pick out each person from my home town that was Street, or Saracen, or Julie, etc.

The acting is top notch - and I think that's one of the reasons you have older actors playing the kids. I don't think you'd have the same quality of acting if you tried to pick that many 15 year olds to play those parts.

The lack of Mexicans is one anachronism with the show, but it by no means ruins it for me. And if you don't think there are bangers in a town based on Odessa, you must have never been to Odessa. It's like Compton but with more sand blowing through the air.

the show is a very good family drama, and has done a very good job at depicting the feel of small town texas. but the football part of it has always been terrible - just so completely and totally unrealistic that you have to just be willing to ignore it and enjoy the rest of the show.

By television standards, it is the most authentic one there is. There isn't one that nails the life of a married couple better. It's not a documentary, but for a bunch of Hollywood guys living and working in Austin, they are nailing West Texas pretty well.

Other than the murder storyline in S2, there hasn't been a shark-jumping thing about this series. It's one of the few shows out there that still depicts prayer, religion, etc. To complain about the show being leftist is pretty ridiculous...

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To complain about the show being leftist is pretty ridiculous...

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I forget who posted it, but someone on Texags recently nailed it with a quote similar to this:

"On Texags, anything to the left of Randy Quaid's character in 'Independence Day' is a total communist nutjob."

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I forget who posted it, but someone on Texags recently nailed it with a quote similar to this:

"On Texags, anything to the left of Randy Quaid's character in 'Independence Day' is a total communist nutjob."

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Nice.

A professor of mine at A&M (the legendary Dr. Joe) observed that "a crazy liberal at Texas A&M is a moderate Republican anywhere else in America."

I love Aggieland.

It is a well written show.

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The lack of Mexicans is one anachronism with the show

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They had that one kid who moved in with Buddy for a while, but yeah I kind of noticed that too.

They had that Mexican who punched landrys friend on the first season... I think he got kicked off the team

I thought they had 2 more? Just 1 more season? Disapointing.

I just finished season 4 last night. Cool show.

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They had that one kid who moved in with Buddy for a while

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Oh yeah, I forgot about him. Was that during the awful second season? Maybe that's why I didn't care enough about him to remember him. How did they write him off the show, anyway?

He just never appeared in the 3rd season, I think.

Buddy actually became one of my favorite characters in season 4.

Santiago was a casualty of the writers' strike, I think. S2 was the one that was cut short, and I think they just abandoned whatever kind of closure they had planned for his story arc.

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I don't remember playing with/against guys pushing 30 in high school. It's also supposedly set in a west Texas town, presumably Odessa, so where are the Mexicans? Seriously? I also don't remember seeing too many gang bangers out there either. It's funny how they can typically portray the demographics of LA & SoCal high schools correctly, but not Texas.

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Dillon is much more similar to East Texas than West Texas. Think Marshall, Tyler, Kilgore, Longview, Crockett, etc. The demographics of the people on the show are much more in line with that part of the state.

Basically they just took an East Texas town and placed it directly in West Texas.

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Basically they just took an East Texas town and placed it directly in West Texas.

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Except that it's in Austin.

Yeah, it's an East Texas-type town, located near Austin, and called West Texas.

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There you go!

I've also never figured out exactly what size of town Dillon is supposed to be. It's supposed to be a "small town," but they play 5A football and have cosmopolitan amenities like Applebees. I suppose it could be a Stephenville/Sweetwater/Brownwood-sized town with dramatic license bumping it up into 5A ball.

Of course, I don't consider that size town to be small, but I realize a set of Hollywood writers will have a different definition of "small town" than someone from my part of the world.

Dillon plays 11 Man football, which for me is what the "big towns" played. The East Dillon stadium looks fairly identical to the one I played in, and we would have gladly taken an Applebees.

Other than name association from the book/movie, I don't recall the show ever using the term "West Texas". I think we just assume based on the title...but quick trips to Austin/College Station made by characters seem to indicate otherwise.

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I think it's been assumed more than out-and-out mentioned, but there have been a few references to Dillon being in West Texas. Just this season, Vince's hoodlum friend (the one that got killed) said something like "man, this here's West Texas."

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You hicks. Brownwood is exactly what I think of when I think of FNL. A mall with 10 stores, etc, and in the middle of nowhere.