As a birthday/novel-finishing present to myself, I bought Friday Night Lights: The Complete Series. I just caught up with the fifth and final season, and it doesn’t disappoint. Although there are a few minor missteps along the way, FNL is one of those rare shows that never jumps the shark. Season five follows the second [...]
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I’m exactly four episodes into two new shows similar in their focus on the intersection of politics and crime, and both starring an actor I’ve only just heard of: Jason Clarke. On DVD, I’m just getting into season one of Brotherhood, which ran for three seasons on Showtime. So far it strikes me as a [...]
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A show I didn’t mention in yesterday’s round-up is Friday Night Lights; I finished season four a couple weeks ago. This is a fantastic show, so I figured I’d give it its own post. One of the problems with television shows set in high school is that the characters usually graduate after a few seasons, [...]
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While Jenn was off in Flagstaff at a novel workshop last week, I was home working, minding the cats, and, uh, watching a boatload of television. I started off with season three of Friday Night Lights, which I burned through in a weekend. I thought it was a major improvement over season two (which was [...]
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I decided to take the weekend off from movie reviewing, partly because I’d been setting a pretty brisk pace for myself in that regard, but mostly because I’ve been marathoning TV shows lately, courtesy of Netflix instant streaming (which, by the way, ROCKS). Hot on the heels of the first season, I leaped into season [...]
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Based on its subject matter, Friday Night Lights sure doesn’t feel like a perfect fit for me: surely I couldn’t possibly like a show about football in a small, religious community in Texas, could I? Well here’s more proof that sometimes it’s worth it to fight through your predispositions. I just finished the first season [...]
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