Tuesday October 3, 2006
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A newcomer coach Eric Taylor finds himself helming a promising high school football team, the Dillon Panthers, that has a real chance to make it to the top.
Read Full Recap » (warning: possible spoilers!)The series premiere of Football Night Lights was really enjoyable, which makes me think that the series will be quite good. hide show
The series premiere of Football Night Lights was really enjoyable, which makes me think that the series will be quite good.
We had the Panthers who were favourites to take the Texas Championship. They had a newcomer as a coach who wasn't much experienced. Meanwhile their star quarterback, Jason Street, was being mentioned as one of the best quarterbacks in America.
It was the first match of the season and it was supposed to be an easy game for the Panthers. But after a disastrous performance, with 3 minutes left on the clock the Panthers were trailing 24-14. Then in order to stop a fast break Jason Street made a huge stop, but in process he injured himself seriously. He had to be taken to hospital with suspected spinal injury.
The Panthers had no other option but to put the reserve quarterback Matt Saracen. He was very anxious and in fact he made two mistakes with the first two balls he played. Then after talking with the coach, a remarkably change of fortune was in place for the Panthers. Two great plays by Matt Seracen led for two touchdowns which gave the Panthers a 27-24 win.
The question now is how seriously is Jason Street injured? And how will this effect the Panthers?
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What a wonderful pilot for Friday Night Lights. I can't follow the show during the season, so I watch this season during my holliday. Sorry for my english but i'm french so I'm doing a lot of grammatical mistakes.
Excellent Pilot, Emotion, Action, All the ingredients for a good series are reunite in this show. The cast looks good too. Kyle Chandler is important in the show and this change the possibilty for him to play a better role thaht in other show.
I love the intrigue, the game, the caracters, I love this pilot. I wait the second episode.
10/10 for me. Thanks NBC
Overall, this was a good pilot, which although had a rocky start, once you get through it, you won't feel disappointed. hide show
The reason I started watching this show was the hype. Not by the network, but rather, by the fans. They said, this is a good character drama, and even if I'm not interested in football, I'll enjoy it.
So I gave it a try...
The first 15 minutes were awful. I almost wanted to turn off the whole thing. Unfortunately, the show does what many other shows do: jump right into the middle of the story, without introducing the characters, jumping from plot thread to plot thread.
One of the biggest problems with this can be reflected by an example: so we see a practice on the field. Fine. Then, next scene, one of the players in civil clothes, kissing his girlfriend. Obviously, this was a romantic scene. However.. without knowing the basic things about the character, it's pretty much a waste.
However, the episode (luckily) slows down, and the last 30 minutes prove the fans right: this is really a great show.
It's not the football, rather, the characters. The interactions, their real-ness factor. Because they feel real. Only a few show accomplished this, and I'm very happy that I can say even after the first episode: FNL is one of these shows.
The big "game" was not a let down either. Although it was a galore of clichés(the usual... good start, bad 2nd half, big difference in the end, best player falls, worst players get a chance to play, but eventually leads the team to victory) BUT, you really couldn't analyze WHILE watching - at least not in that depth.
The reason is, that, it's intense. Very. The music and the agressive camera shots help that. Alot. Overall, this was a good pilot, which although had a rocky start, once you get through it, you won't feel disappointed.
Yah it is a pilot episode but I thought that it was pretty safe. hide show
It was quite safe to me because it was too quiet, the story was good but the execution is a little awkward because of the camera angles well it is okay as a start and pilot episodes are usually like that so I guess it could be a good start for this show, hope this show would go on and God Bless!
Shows with a football theme have come and gone. Iv'e acually liked a couple of them. There was ESPN's "Playmakers", which I thought rocked, but the NFL didn't think so. I don't like MTV's "Two A Days" because of the interviews between segments. I know it's supposed to be reality, but we don't need to hear half the crap that they talk about.
I think Friday Night Lights may actually stick. It's filmed like Oliver Stone's "Any Given Sunday", which is cool because that movie was great. The character's are good, and anybody who lives in a "football town" can relate. high school football is taken VERY seriously in some parts. It amuses me, Iv'e always thought that it was just a game.
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