As I mentioned earlier, this summer, Courtney and I are watching Friday Night Lights. (Yay for Netflix streaming!)  We’ve gotten through the first season, and it’s a damn fine show. (even if it isn’t nerdy enough for SOME people.)

I’m not the world’s biggest football fan, so a show about people in a small Texas-town obsessed with the local high-school football team didn’t instantly pull me in. But enough people told me that it was a good show worth checking out, and the first season definitely proved them right.  I’m a fan of the “fly on the wall” camera style, and the way the actors play scenes as if they are real interactions and not scenes.  The style is very similar to Parenthood, another excellent NBC show that not enough people are watching.  You feel for their characters, as their struggles tend to feel genuine and real.

My biggest complaint was that an awful lot happened to these people in the span of one football season.  Jason Street suffers a major spinal cord injury, goes through rehab, is released form the hospital, returns to school, sues the school, and is then hired by the school in what, a few months?  Really?  I mean, I get it – seeing him in a hospital bed not moving all season wouldn’t make for compelling television, but it all seemed to be happening rather quickly.  And speaking of things happening quickly, every football play in the show seemed to result in a touchdown!

But it’s a well-written and well-acted show, that we should be able to go through quickly since Seasons 2 through 5 are much shorter. Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose!