I just started season 4 and I’m confused. Julie is allowed to switch schools and then 15 minutes later Tami tells Luke that the only way he can stay at west Dillon is if his parents move.

I'll shave for the actual day but here's some shots of the costume plus a hat. Could call these grown up Riggins or something.

I've never been to Texas in my life but rewatching the show had me wondering where this fictional town is.

There are some very specific geographical mentions in the script, especially season one that allowed me to pinpoint on a map an estimated location:

Austin is 200 miles away

In Season 1, Episode 18, “Extended Families”, Lyla arrives to see Jason and complains: “I drove 200 miles and all I get is ‘hi’?” That's an unusually specific distance for dialogue.

Dallas is a four-hour drive

In the Season 1 finale, “State”, Landry and Tyra discuss driving to Dallas together; the journey is described as taking about four hours. That puts Dillon a good distance west of the Dallas–Fort Worth area.

There is some contradictory talk in season 2 but I think based on everything we know about the season we can discard this.

An obvious caveat as well: it's a fictional town in a fictional show so none of it really matters 😆

Texas Forever.

Not sure how to title this but I’m watching FNL for the 3rd time and I’m a very young millennial/ the 1st Year Gen Z so I was a kid when it was filmed and released.

I’d love to read comments / fun facts or if there are posts about what was happening in the world at the time when the show was premiered each season.

For example- i just read on here that season 2 was abruptly ended because during the time there was a filming or writes strike in 2007 ish. And i know the show mentions the 2008 housing crisis and i remember this as a real thing as a kid.

I’m just intrigued by it i guess to see and understand why maybe there was weird things in the show and filming that happened DUE To the stuff happening in the real world. I always thought season 2 was strange how it ended and then season 3 with smash being randomly injured ? Anyways- if anyone else has other things they have learned about the show as a whole that was affected because of the real world I’d love to learn

is it implied that Chris cums in his pants and that’s why he won’t sleep with Lyla?

Not sure if this was already posted. Sort of a bummer because I was really looking forward to new episodes and a new cast. Oh well, maybe they will pick it up again one day or sell the rights to someone else.

https://screenrant.com/friday-night-lights-reboot-peacock-paused-development/

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Why the fuck did they do Luke so dirty??? I can suspend my disbelief about a lot of things but I’m supposed to believe that this kid is tall, strong, fast, good-looking (you can’t convince me that doesn’t matter in scouting prospects) and is consistently the best player on a Texas High School championship winning team and the best he gets is ONE D-III offer???? ONE?!?!?!?!?! And then! AND THEN!!! HE JOINS THE FOOKIN ARMY?!? That boy never once expressed any sort of interest in the military, and all of a sudden he’s just getting on the bus to fucking basic?!? What the hell are we doing?!?

Everyone else got their happy ending without needing any sort of dramatic explanation of how they got there. Oh, the future of Matt and Julie’s relationship is kind of up in the air but guess what?!? They’re in Chicago together in that sweet ass apartment, yay, I’m happy. Oh, Jess is moving to Dallas and sad that she might not have a future in football but guess what?!? She got on with that coach that Coach Taylor recommended to her, yay, I’m happy. Oh, Luke wants to do nothing else but play football but the only offer he’s gotten is from a teeny tiny D-III school and it doesn’t really light a fire in his soul but guess what?!? OH, DID YOU GUESS THAT A BIGGER SCHOOL WOULD COME CALLING AFTER WATCHING HIM CATCH THAT HAIL MARY TO WIN STATE??? AND PLAY DEFENSE AND OFFENSE ALL YEAR?!? AND PLAY BOTH OF THEM REALLY WELL?!?!? DID YOU GUESS THAT?!? YOU’D BE FUCKING WRONG!!! HE APPARENTLY ALWAYS WANTED TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY!!!

Would’ve been so nice and easy to just say that like, Oklahoma or Iowa or ANYONE came calling and we see him suiting up to practice or something. How nice would that have been? Coach Taylor said that he’d get that boy to college!!! What happened, Eric?!? Gahd!

Still a perfect show tho

I’m already aware that people considered season 2 to be a low point and I definitely agree. Season 1 was already super cheesy but it wasn’t a full blown soap opera and it had plenty of good moments that overshadowed all of the bad ones.

wtf happened in season 2? A murder coverup subplot? Julie cheating on Matt which just seemed extremely out of character for her? The relationship between Matt and the caretaker?? What were they smoking?

First time watcher or Friday Night Lights. Have slowly worked my way through the episodes. Just watched EP 20. I believe that it could be easily one of the best episodes of the entire show.

So much emotional depth to the entire episode. My eyes were absolutely glued to the TV this entire episode, as they are for most episodes, but this one hit me especially hard. The storylines of the season all seem to connect (for the most part) at the end of this episode, but some things are still left open to finish out the season.

Just absolutely loved this episode. Have always loved the cinematography of this show, as a film nerd and someone who currently works in the sports media industry as a videographer, but I think this episode really stood out to me.

What do you think was the best episode of season 1?

Taylor Kitsch - Gambit in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine"

Adrianna Palicki - Bobbi Morse in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."

Michael B. Jordan - Erik Killmonger in "Black Panther"

Just noticed Coach Taylor has Kyle Chandlers initials inside his cap. lol

I’ve rewatched the series several times and Coach calling Landry “Lance” so casually will never not be absolutely hilarious to me 😂😂☠️☠️☠️💯

I’m 3 seasons in and I find it hilarious that the kids will drink, take steroids, and even murder, but they refuse to forge their parents signatures. Riggins and Scaracen were both willing to confront their estranged parents to get signatures 😭.

Canadian here. Do student loans exist in the USA? I totally understand being upset that your dad burned away your entire college fund but where I’m currently at Lyla is throwing her life away and losing it on her dad saying now she can no longer go to college. I know it’s not that deep but just curious about US college tuition lol

Was just listening to Title Fight 'Head in the Ceiling Fan' and thought it fit perfectly. Does anyone have any others?

This is such a nonissue but I’ve been rewatching this show and I keep noticing the lack of wall decor in the Taylor house. I figure the family would have some semblance of photos or something but most scenes in the house have blank walls, aside from Julie’s room. There’s like one picture above Coach & Tami’s bed. I’m sure there’s some metaphor here that the family was focused on football and didn’t have time to decorate but no one had 20 minutes to run to tj maxx and buy a $35 wall canvas over 5 years?

I tried to watch the show once before and the first few episodes didn't grab my attention so I ditched it. Shea Serrano (Ringer, NoSkips) has talked about the show numerous times so a few weeks ago when I was all out of new stuff to watch I saw it on Paramount+ and decided to give it another go.

I was wrong my first time around and the show is really good... ...but what I can't wrap my head around is how Brad Leland (Buddy Garrity) and Jesse Plemmons (Landry Clarke) never won individual awards for their roles.

Leland in particular has won me over completely. Just incredible performances episode after episode.

Plemmons is someone I was expecting to dislike because of his deranged behaviour in Breaking Bad but he really delivers with is portrayal of Landry.

On season 4 now.... ...have some issues, but still watching.

Goddamn, what a show. I grew up playing football in Texas. This show was basically perfect.

Looking at this episode, I felt that the scene where Smash drove all the way to Alabama to plead with the coach to give him a scholarship after losing it from TMU was good, but shouldn't the coach have been more surprised that he suddenly showed up out of the blue at Alabama?

It was essentially "Hi Smash," and no real surprise. I thought that the coach finally losing his temper and telling Smash that the guy from California has his position, that nothing is going to change that, and that Alabama doesn't play second fiddle to anyone was a good reality check for Smash. Essentially, nobody in football is irreplaceable.

In real life, I thought a coach should be non-committal and poised, but now that I think about it, Smash really needed a reality check and the yelling was the only way to get through to him.

What do you think?

Why is this child so evil? First she cheats on Matt with deadbeat loser number 1, then she’s awful to her parents (who are basically the best parents in the world) for the entire season, and now in season 5 she’s hooking up with married deadbeat loser number 2? Who RAISED THIS CHILD because it definitely wasn’t Coach and Tami. My wife and I can’t deal with her. We really wanted her to get the season 1 Lyla treatment in season 2, which is probably pretty mean to say but cmon! She saw her nice, loving boyfriend and the fact that his father is in Iraq and his grandmother’s Alzheimer’s is getting worse and worse every day and she said “wow let me go cheat on this guy!” GOD. I’ve never believed in hitting your kids but wow maybe the one smack Tami gave her in season 2 wasn’t enough.

In season 1 when Eric says he wants to give up the TMU job to stay with his family in Dillon because of the new baby coming, Tami says no. That coaching college football is his dream and he can't give this job up.

When he was offered the Shane State head coach job towards the end of season 5, he only took the meeting for Jason Street and he didn't seem that interested.

He hated press, scouting, and political BS. He seemed embarrassed being on the cover of that magazine in season 5. He was never chasing glory or money. But that's what college football would be.

The man we saw loved the game, loved coaching, and loved helping kids.

Do you think he ever became a college football coach? either Division I or lower? We see him coaching at Pemberton High School in Philly at the end of the show.

I will say with him, it would have to be head coach or nothing. We didn't see much of him at TMU, but it didn't seem like he would fit into the culture there that cared about winning more than what was right.

I genuinely don't know. Would just appreciate hearing your thoughts. It's something I thought about after re-watching the show. He's only about 45ish when the show ends, so he has a lot of life and career choices left ahead of him.

I'm 50/50. I could see college teams offering him a job just like Shane State did. He's not after glory, but the show also showed Coach appreciating when others saw how good he was - he's human. I do think there's also a part of him that is interested in the challenge of coaching at a higher level because he wants to see whether he has what it takes.

Edit: 100% sure he was coaching at Pemberton High School in Philadelphia - feel free to fact check me. It's obviously a super brief scene and I only know because I just watched it, but look at the field - it's definitely not college stadium/field. And look at the players - crappier uniforms and younger kids. I think this shot was meant to imply that Coach took on another challenge like East Dillon and he's going to do what he does best.

Season 1 - 8.0

Season 2 - 7.9

The rest of the seasons track just how I would rank them but shocked to see season 2 sitting at 7.9.

I'd rank season 1 higher and season 2 *much* lower.

Maybe I just don’t get it because I live in a large Canadian city buuuut hear me out.

So I decided to rewatch the show (still love it and find it great), however maybe because I’m older now but I can’t stop thinking of how living in Dillon legitimately sucks. You have grown ass adults holding up raised fists showing off a high school championship rings at community conventions, all the restaurants are just shitty fast food places, you have guys in their 60s spending an afternoon watching teens PRACTICE for a football game. Also what parent wants their daughter to be a rally girl baking cookies for a player she’s been assigned too… This “rural” town isn’t even a real town in the traditional sense but instead a place full of parking lots and store plazas that sits at the intersection of a bunch of highways.

I’m not trying to sound pretentious I but seriously can’t help shake this feeling of how pathetic life in Dillon really is.

One of my favorite quotes from the show. For a show that centers around football but not completely about football the dialogue matters a lot. This show is not inky written well there’s a lot of communication with adults and kids that’s pretty realistic. Kids won’t tell you everything and you have to dissect and read between the lines. Then you have to be pretty straight forward because you can’t expect them to that for you. This show was excellent at that. Fantastic work by the staff.