Lumenskir
10-03-2007, 11:38 AM
Seriously guys, why no love for Friday Night Lights?
Is it because you can't fathom connecting to a world that revolves around high school football? That's the amazing thing, because the characters in the show are completely baffled too, and the characters are the great part because they act like actual people instead of constructs that serve to fulfill the plot. Aside from The Wire I've never seen a show with such detailed people, and FNL has only had one season to dimensionalize them. It got to the point that my friend had to remind me that there were actual writers scripting out the lines and scenes, that this wasn't a direct slice of small town Texas.
Of course, most of the immediacy is due to the camera work, which is far and away the best looking on television, network, cable, or prime. It's all on location and digital, but doesn't fall into the Bourne shaky-cam-bitch-ditch, it's just beautiful. Every episode looks like a crisp 43 minute film, and I think I've gotten kind of spoiled.
And the music! And this is besides the great amount of Explosions in the Sky; Any preconceived notions of strutting in to rodeo catcalls and Garth Brooks are dashed away. Daniel Johnston, Iron and Wine, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, and fuck, they even had an acoustic Killers song in there and I was blown away.
So, yeah, watch Friday Night Lights. It's on at 9 this Friday, and you have nothing better to watch after Avatar is over anyway.
Is it because you can't fathom connecting to a world that revolves around high school football? That's the amazing thing, because the characters in the show are completely baffled too, and the characters are the great part because they act like actual people instead of constructs that serve to fulfill the plot. Aside from The Wire I've never seen a show with such detailed people, and FNL has only had one season to dimensionalize them. It got to the point that my friend had to remind me that there were actual writers scripting out the lines and scenes, that this wasn't a direct slice of small town Texas.
Of course, most of the immediacy is due to the camera work, which is far and away the best looking on television, network, cable, or prime. It's all on location and digital, but doesn't fall into the Bourne shaky-cam-bitch-ditch, it's just beautiful. Every episode looks like a crisp 43 minute film, and I think I've gotten kind of spoiled.
And the music! And this is besides the great amount of Explosions in the Sky; Any preconceived notions of strutting in to rodeo catcalls and Garth Brooks are dashed away. Daniel Johnston, Iron and Wine, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, and fuck, they even had an acoustic Killers song in there and I was blown away.
So, yeah, watch Friday Night Lights. It's on at 9 this Friday, and you have nothing better to watch after Avatar is over anyway.