I have evangelized this show (often ineloquently) till I’ve been blue in the fingers. Accusations of a sophomore slump, dummying down and pandering to demographics have all fallen on my deaf ears. Friday Night Lights was the show of 2007 here at Mikey Likes TV.
For the wayward Ghost Whisperer fan whose found their way to my humble blog, FNL is a show based on a movie, based on a book about the real life struggles of a small Texas football town. Clearly this far down in a game of industry telephone, the series is also based on all of no facts. It’s just a miraculously endearing portrait of handful of characters in what could have easily been an obnoxious teen soap or an incredibly boring sports show.
In 2007, FNL had frank portrayals of racism and the grieving process of the recently handicapped and the rarely explored sympathy for the high school golden boy. It may also be the only show in history whose scheduling banishment to Friday nights actually made me occasionally stay in. I’m that invested. I can’t help but feel that Friday Night Lights might not see it through the end of next year, but I’ll continue to write about it in hopes that either god or Ben Silverman ever happen upon it.
Here ye Here ye!
Well, considering I don’t get Battlestar, Dexter, Flight of…, or Big Love (seriously, who do I call to complain about the Canadian cable companies to start putting on some of the US cable shows?), we have a very similar top 5 at least!
The only reason FNL didn’t make my “best of 2007″ list is simply for the fact that I had never watched it. However, after finishing the first season, it is very evident that this is a tremendous show (and certainly one of my favorites).