“Friday Night Lights” — Best Laid Plans
Hey, how ’bout Saracen sleeping with the coach’s daughter! … … …
This is it sports fans. One week until the big game! Possibly the last game of our career, not just of our season. So let’s just take a moment, clear our heads, and thank the lord on high that this week’s episode was so damn good. Of course, they’re all good.
Again Tami Taylor proves she’s the pants wearer of the Taylor family (and Connie Britton proves that she’s the best actress on television). The way that speech was delivered during the football banquet was a thing of beauty. Beauty in the writing, the acting, and especially in the emotional resonance the viewer takes away having seen the character in such an intense argument with her husband for much of the episode.
Add that to Landry’s surprisingly heart-felt, honest scenes with both Tyra and Saracen, and the unbelievably hilarious dialogue double-team with Coach Taylor and Jason Street berating Saracen about having to jump off a cliff, and brother… you got yourself a stew going on.
Look, the show could be coming to a close and I’ve been writing about it for 21 weeks, basically screaming that its the best thing on network television and presenting my case that YES! this is something you should be watching, this is why television is great medium, why good narrative story-telling needs hours upon hours to unfold, so if you’re reading this now and you’re not watching this show, I have to say, television might not be a form for you… … either that or you’re soulless. Probably one or the other.
One week to go!
