Comments on: Lessons in Manliness from Friday Night Lights

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:15:25 +0000

This is just beautiful. Thank you!

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:57:18 +0000

Couldn’t agree more with your perspective of the show. Great article.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:20:47 +0000

Simply put… a great article about an amazing show!

By: Jordan winer

Jordan winer — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:22:20 +0000

You nailed it- it changed my life too..

By: jordan w

jordan w — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:20:37 +0000

Watch it again when your kids are older and the experience changes- I watched the whole megillah with my son (10) and daughter (13) so everything Julie was putting her parents through, and everything the hormones were putting her through echoed right into our living room.. you gave me the courage to say it, FNL changed our lives.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:55:54 +0000

the lessons was encouraging reading about about men’s life

By: Ruaan

Ruaan — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:53:13 +0000

It was very good reading and it will build up a man

By: BenG

BenG — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:07:33 +0000

@Tate: I had similar feelings about those same moments in the show–also the whole strip club element which was a bit gratuitous for my taste. But, at the end of the day, there is just too much amazingly rendered life and redemption and sweetness to these characters to let it bring the show down for me. I think the great thing they did was to continue to complicate the characters and not let them be stuck in flat depictions. Sure they pulled some tricks to shake up the show at the beginning of each season, but all in all some of the best tv I’ve ever seen.

By: Tate

Tate — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:58:26 +0000

Congratulations to you, Brett and Kate, for finding the redeeming value in this lousy show. It is amazing that you can find such manly characteristics in such a soap opera. Admittedly, I couldn’t watch any more of it after the 2nd season. Early on, the only two characters who I felt any admiration for were Saracen and Street, but eventually even that faded. Everyone else I can barely stand to even think of. Lyla was a hypocrite (as she doesn’t forgive Street for a lesser act of infidelity, and Jesus was only a 2nd season fad until she jumps back into bed with Riggins), Riggins won’t visit his best friend in the hospital and meanwhile sexes his lady, Smash epitomizes the cocky athlete, Tyra was incredibly selfish, Coach Taylor is lazy (I know at my high school no coaching position was a full time job, including the fact that he had a student manager write her own recommendation for him to sign), and Mrs. Taylor was a statist (stealing booster funds to fund her school) and weak female lead (her inability to be a single parent during the weekdays in the second season demonstrated this). And when Julie turned her back on Saracen it felt like the show’s writers destroyed the only somewhat healthy relationship in the show, simply for the sake of change.

I disagree with the contention that this show was realistic at all. In my high school days (2004-2007) the athletes were not put on so high a pedestal and worshiped, nor were they and the ladies so promiscuous. But I didn’t go to high school in Texas.

Next time talk about a better show, such as The Unit.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:18:10 +0000

Paragraph 3: replace “is” with “it:” “… The acting and writing was so realistic is was easy to forget that these weren’t real people …”