Know what I love more than our new best friends at After Dark, LLC? (No it's not some skeevy 1-800 number "for singles"--- it's the HVAC repair people who show up within 60 minutes of calling them on a Friday evening when your house is freezing cold, expertly disassemble your furnace and get it back to tip-top shape in short order, all with good humor and quiet voices and at a reasonable price.) So, back to what I love more than them...Friday Night Lights. Best Show on TV.* I was searching for an image to poach and couldn't find much beyond the cheesecake/beefcake pics of Lyla (Minka Kelly) and Riggins (Taylor Kitsch). Admittedly, there are some VERY attractive people on this show, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. To say the show is authentic is to use a word that has been cheapened beyond acceptability. Let's just say good. Damn good. [The Landry-Tyra storyline of last season was the only one that seemed to go beyond the pale.] The two adult anchors of the show are Coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), who's married to new Principal Tami Taylor (Connie Britton), whose new principal-ness adds a powerful dimension to their already complex, fiery yet solid-as-a-rock marriage. My favorite exchange between them thus far this season, right after Tami took the principal's job (she was a guidance counselor before):
Eric: "You know who I miss? The coach's wife."
Tami: "Huh. Well, you know who I can't wait to meet?"
Eric: "Who?"
Tami: "The principal's husband."
This show reliably makes me tear up every Friday night, in a good life affirming way. Not like the tearing-up caused by the abrupt shuttering of Domino magazine, about which I remain too sad to blog coherently. I think my friend JK summed everything up nicely here.
*[My friend PD recommended "FNL" ages ago. Come to think of it, she also recommended "The Wire," for which I take some credit because I loved "Homicide" and read all the David Simon books. But back to my point... how does someone who DOESN'T WATCH TV get the inside scoop on all the best shows???]
This used to be one of our favorite shows for the past few years (are you sure I didn't recommend it too?), but I thought it went off the air a year ago? I found out yesterday that the star jerk running back is a CMU drama grad.
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought this was a picture of Walt Harris! I was excited about that! But this is actually much more exciting. Total crush on this one.
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