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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 13
Thanksgiving
February 10, 2010 - 10:02p.m.
I did a little math toward the end of the game at the center of tonight’s episode—a sequence with some of the best football action this series has seen—and figured out both the numbers and the dramatic ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 12
"Laboring"
February 3, 2010 - 11:02p.m.
Like every season apart from the show’s murder-and-tornado-filled second year, Friday Nigth Lights’ fourth season has been slow to build. This isn’t a show that doles out big dramatic moments on a weekly basis. It takes its time ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 11
"Injury List"
January 27, 2010 - 10:01p.m.
“When I picked you up in that bar I had no idea what a good guy you were,” Becky’s mom Cheryl tells Tim Riggins. The spirit of the compliment is nice, but it’s the sort of praise/come-on ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 10
"I Can't"
January 20, 2010 - 10:01p.m.
Maybe we should start by focusing on the two people who didn’t have it rough this episode: Virgil and Jess. The former’s started coming around on football and, in the process, reconnecting with his buddies in the slowly ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 9
"The Lights Of Carroll Park"
January 13, 2010 - 11:01p.m.
“As far as the Great White Hope coming in from the football field to save the day,” banger-turned-convict-turned-helpful-advisor Elden says this week, “those kids can’t see you as an outsider. They’ll smell that a mile away. You’ll ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 8
"The Toilet Bowl"
January 6, 2010 - 10:01p.m.
“We won! We won a game!” There’s pure joy, and more than a little surprise, in Buddy’s exclamation at the end of the so-called Toilet Bowl. It’s a feeling reflecting by everyone else on the field and ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 7
"In The Bag"
December 17, 2009 - 08:12a.m.
This weekend I watched The Blind Side. For those not familiar, it’s a new movie about Michael Oher, currently an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, once a poor kid from Memphis. Except it’s not really about Oher ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 5, episode 6
"Stay"
December 9, 2009 - 10:12p.m.
Any episode short of one in which the giant sandworms from Tremors invade Dillon would have to be less intense than last week’s. (And thankfully, that seems unlikely to happen unless Comcast’s purchase of NBC leads to some ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 5
"The Son"
December 3, 2009 - 11:12a.m.
When you lose someone close to you, no one knows what to do. There are plenty of pat, socially accepted responses depending on the person who has died—“They’re in a better place” or, in the case of tonight ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 3
"A Sort Of Homecoming"
November 18, 2009 - 11:11p.m.
If Friday Night Lights has an unofficial theme song it’s the Daniel Johnston-penned “Devil Town.” “Devil Town” opened and closed the first season and served, in a version sung by Tony Lucca, as the soundtrack to the third season ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 3
"In The Skin Of A Lion"
November 11, 2009 - 11:11p.m.
So far there haven’t been a lot of outright villains in the Friday Night Lights universe unless you count abstract concepts like “entrenched prejudice” and “youthful myopia.” But D.W. Moffett’s Joe McCoy has given Dillon a proper ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 2
"After The Fall"
November 4, 2009 - 10:11p.m.
“You’ve lost your inner pirate,” cameoing Texas Tech coach Mike Leach tells Coach Taylor at a random encounter at a gas station in the second episode of the fourth season. Being a casual, at best, football fan, I had ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 4, episode 1
"East Of Dillon"
October 28, 2009 - 11:10p.m.
Hello and welcome back to Dillon, TX. If you’re reading this, you’re probably as grateful for a chance to return as I am. For three seasons, being a Friday Night Lights fan meant watching the show in a ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 13
"Tomorrow Blues"
April 10, 2009 - 10:04p.m.
For those just tuning in, I watched the third season of Friday Night Lights when it aired on DirecTV last fall. All, that is, except for the season finale, which ran during a time when DirecTV decided it didn’t ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 12
"Underdogs"
April 3, 2009 - 09:04p.m.
[For those just tuning in: I first covered Friday Night Lights here at TV Club when it ran on DirecTV back in the fall. I'm rerunning those posts as it runs on NBC to a much larger audience. I ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 11
"A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"
March 27, 2009 - 09:03p.m.
[For those just tuning in: I first covered Friday Night Lights here at TV Club when it ran on DirecTV back in the fall. I'm rerunning those posts as it runs on NBC to a much larger audience. I ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 10
"The Giving Tree"
March 20, 2009 - 09:03p.m.
[For those just tuning in: I first covered Friday Night Lights here at TV Club when it ran on DirecTV back in the fall. I'm rerunning those posts as it runs on NBC to a much larger audience. I ...
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Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 9
"Game Of The Week"
March 13, 2009 - 05:03p.m.
[For those just tuning in: I first covered Friday Night Lights here at TV Club when it ran on DirecTV back in the fall. I'm rerunning those posts as it runs on NBC to a much larger audience. I ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 8
"New York, New York"
March 5, 2009 - 04:03p.m.
[For those just tuning in: I first covered Friday Night Lights here at TV Club when it ran on DirecTV back in the fall. I'm rerunning those posts as it runs on NBC to a much larger audience. I ... -
Friday Night Lights: season 3, episode 7
"Keeping Up Appearances"
February 27, 2009 - 09:02a.m.
[For those just tuning in: I first covered Friday Night Lights here at TV Club when it ran on DirecTV back in the fall. I'm rerunning those posts as it runs on NBC to a much larger audience. I ...
