FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: THE COMPLETE SERIES REVIEWED
“Friday Night Lights” was a series that I didn’t start watching until it was almost off the air. Why’s that? Was I late too the boat? Nope. I remain a huge fan of the source material. It’s just that there’s only so many giant Connie Britton giant wine glasses and annoying fanbase members I can stomach. As I spent time going back through the five seasons of the show, I started to wonder when fans felt comfortable turning into douchebags about the show? It’s not like you had faux intellectual douchebags flexing their mouth muscles over stuff like this in the 80s and 90s.
What it feels like to me is that this was a hard-lining of High School football into a soap opera format. This allowed the many stay-at-home online social butterflies to find ways to take back something they didn’t get to have during their High School years. Following plays didn’t matter as much as knowing who wanted to bang whom. As much as it was female friendly, it was very nerd friendly. This allowed nerds to reclaim something they weren’t ever allowed.
While I appreciate that this show made football understandable to new audience, I just hate what its fanbase did with the material. Why can’t a heartfelt story about small-town football be about interpersonal dynamics? For all of the garbage that Rick & Morty fans catch recently, there has not been enough talk about the shitty underpinnings of hardcore Friday Night Lights fans. But, I guess that’s because nobody likes talking to them.
Shots fired, nerds.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Nothing
A/V STATS
- 1.78:1 1080p transfer
- Dolby 5.1