Season four of Friday Night Lights is showing on NBC in America right now (it's already been on cable). They're up to episode four. Slate did a recap. Without spoiling anything, I liked this statement.
At some point Tami says to Eric about the pep rally, "Hey, if it's not great, you still get to come home with us." I love this line. I plan to use it with my husband in the future. But it's also very particular to the Taylors. Their family is a portable down comforter, something you get to carry everywhere for warmth and support. For everyone else in Dillon, family and home are complicated and overwhelming forces that can drag you down.I think there are stacks of reasons why people connect with Friday Night Lights, and family is one of them. Another one is location. Coming from Tasmania, growing up here in the 90s, it wasn't an awesome place to be. We were in recession, there weren't a lot of jobs. Dillon feels similar. Family can be a good thing or something to escape from. Football means so much in Dillon because there is nothing else.
Damn I miss Friday Night Lights. Season five... can't wait.
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