Friday Night Lights
Feb. 14th, 2007 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxAw, man, I squee about this show too often. It's just... it's good. Like really, truly, actual quality good TV with such incredibly spot-on characterizations and organic storytelling. And, did I mention that it was good?
The Taylor family is made of win. All of them. Each and every one. Eric going to Tami's office for advice was perfect both in characterization and in hilarity with his first talking to "School Counselor", then to "his wife" and then "is there anyone else I can talk to?"
And Tami's freak-out about Julie in a strip club (IN A STRIP CLUB!) was also spot on. Again with the hilarity with Tami and Coach sitting in the car with her saying that "their perp" can stay in there and think about what she's done. And the mother/daughter fight? Dear god, was that realistic or what?! (As was Daddy not putting his foot down on his little girl much to Mom's outrage.) Oh Julie, you are SO grounded!
And speaking of Julie, how about the total awesomeness of the Matt/Julie pairing? Is this not an incredibly adorable teen pairing? Landry helping Matt pick out an "I screwed up" gift (with the jeweler asking whether he's screwed up diamond big or gold big) was so funny. And then the utter wonderfulness of Matt picking out that sweet little amethyst heart to give Julie. Awwwwwwwww. And, of course his "officially" asking Julie to be his girlfriend at the end of the episode. So sweet.
(And I have to mention Landry in the strip club. Now, THAT was hilarious!)
The central story of the ep, wasn't funny, but was incredibly intense as it carried on last week's confrontations about racism. Yet again, FNL doesn't pretend to have answers. Some things are. It's not right. It's not pretty and you have to deal... which is pretty much what Smash's totally awesomest of awesome Moms was trying to say about this imperfect world. Stances are good. And Smash wasn't wrong (at all) in this. On the other hand, she's his mother and he has to think of his future.
And they didn't paint Coach Mack with a totally bad brush either. When he threw himself on his sword with his resignation I did feel bad for him because, as Coach Taylor said, it's giving up half his pension. And the confrontation with the other team, then the police at the end was scary (did love Matt telling Julie that in fights he just stands in back and yells.) But... yeah, those kinds of brawls are scary and the implications of the police coming for Smash was also scary (and I half expected Tim to stand up and say that he threw the first punch.)
Tami was right in her advice to the coach, but when dealing with people, sometimes it's really difficult to draw lines because it's complicated and difficult and there are so many things to take into accound. Als Coach Mack knew he screwed up. Big time. And his background was famliar and scary and that would have been really difficult for that man to admit. There's just no easy way out of this one.
And, I could swear that the music when they were leaving in the bus was from Deadwood! I half expected "Fucking Hearst" to show up.
Anyway, as always, FNL manages to combine drama, relationships, substance, and humor in a totally awesome, emotionally true, and wonderful way.
The Taylor family is made of win. All of them. Each and every one. Eric going to Tami's office for advice was perfect both in characterization and in hilarity with his first talking to "School Counselor", then to "his wife" and then "is there anyone else I can talk to?"
And Tami's freak-out about Julie in a strip club (IN A STRIP CLUB!) was also spot on. Again with the hilarity with Tami and Coach sitting in the car with her saying that "their perp" can stay in there and think about what she's done. And the mother/daughter fight? Dear god, was that realistic or what?! (As was Daddy not putting his foot down on his little girl much to Mom's outrage.) Oh Julie, you are SO grounded!
And speaking of Julie, how about the total awesomeness of the Matt/Julie pairing? Is this not an incredibly adorable teen pairing? Landry helping Matt pick out an "I screwed up" gift (with the jeweler asking whether he's screwed up diamond big or gold big) was so funny. And then the utter wonderfulness of Matt picking out that sweet little amethyst heart to give Julie. Awwwwwwwww. And, of course his "officially" asking Julie to be his girlfriend at the end of the episode. So sweet.
(And I have to mention Landry in the strip club. Now, THAT was hilarious!)
The central story of the ep, wasn't funny, but was incredibly intense as it carried on last week's confrontations about racism. Yet again, FNL doesn't pretend to have answers. Some things are. It's not right. It's not pretty and you have to deal... which is pretty much what Smash's totally awesomest of awesome Moms was trying to say about this imperfect world. Stances are good. And Smash wasn't wrong (at all) in this. On the other hand, she's his mother and he has to think of his future.
And they didn't paint Coach Mack with a totally bad brush either. When he threw himself on his sword with his resignation I did feel bad for him because, as Coach Taylor said, it's giving up half his pension. And the confrontation with the other team, then the police at the end was scary (did love Matt telling Julie that in fights he just stands in back and yells.) But... yeah, those kinds of brawls are scary and the implications of the police coming for Smash was also scary (and I half expected Tim to stand up and say that he threw the first punch.)
Tami was right in her advice to the coach, but when dealing with people, sometimes it's really difficult to draw lines because it's complicated and difficult and there are so many things to take into accound. Als Coach Mack knew he screwed up. Big time. And his background was famliar and scary and that would have been really difficult for that man to admit. There's just no easy way out of this one.
And, I could swear that the music when they were leaving in the bus was from Deadwood! I half expected "Fucking Hearst" to show up.
Anyway, as always, FNL manages to combine drama, relationships, substance, and humor in a totally awesome, emotionally true, and wonderful way.
