Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Friday Night Lights




Friday night lights, first season, is a television show that was developed after a successful book and movie by Peter Berg, Brian Grazer and David Nevins trying to interpret a High School Football season. The season starts off with everything perfect. Perfect as in every student having their own character, every couple being the perfect match, and a football team that starts off the season destined for greatness. In the town of Dillon the High School Panthers are passionate about their football. In this town the football players are the celebrities that get every bit of attention. The Panther football team has their own talk show on the radio, television programs, and town gatherings for the purpose of High school football itself. Star football players, under most circumstance, have the ability to buy alcohol, get away with most crimes, and even have the ability to have people do their school work for them.

The show stars with Eric Taylor as the head football couch, his wife Tami Taylor, and his daughter Julie Taylor, with football player Jarson Taylor the star quarterback, along with a town full of people filled with character.

The season starts off with couch Eric Taylor starting his first year couching for the Dillon Panther football team. Going into the first game everything seems perfect till end of the game that biggest star on the team quarterback Jason Street gets a spinal injury that paralyzes. When Jason was paralyzed the perfect scenario starts to unravel. With Jason out, the entire town had to rely on a player named Matt Saracen to play quarterback. Matt was a more unpopular kid that never thought he would ever see any game time along with the majority of Dillon having little faith in him. The season tells how Jason has to battle the difficulty of being paralyzed, how Matt has to overcome obstacles to meet the challenge, how couch Taylor struggles to pull the team together, and how all relationships and disputes with the town and the student body end up.

The television show starts off as all football, but develops into a more drama show telling about the relationship issues, and how individuals are trying to get through the tough times in their life. Some of the most noticeable repetition in the show is the battle of cheating in relationships. Starting off with Jason streets girlfriend Lila, cheating on Jason with football player Tim Riggins, leading to Tim Riggins girlfriend Tyra Collette cheating on Tim with Brian Smash William’s, leading Lila’s father cheating on Lila’s mother with Tyra’s mother. During the entire season the reputation of relationship issues never ends.

A majority of the football games that the Dillon Panthers won were from comeback victories. Coming down to the last play of the game it seems there is always a miraculous moment where the right play was called, along with, team players pulling together to score a touchdown on the last play.

More reputation can be noticed in the settings, everything all around Dillon, along with the team problems that keep arising. There is problems that keep go back and forth starting with the eligibility of Voodoo, a football quarterback illegally recruited to take over after Jason Street’s injury.

Even through the endless about of drama in relationships, and unrealistic comeback victories I feel that the show is very influential, and for me reminds me of some of the good times in High school.

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