NYMag: Friday Night Lights Season Premiere Review

All in all, a rip-roaring start to a new season of a consistently brilliant show, one that feels both familiar and completely new. Building a school (and a football team) from scratch is a bold play for the series, but it seems like the right move, assuming they’ve cast all the new characters as well as they have Vince (we’re looking at YOU Santiago, from the Season That Shall Not Be Named). And while it’s strange to see the familiar Dillon Panther blue look as menacing as it does here (and it’s even MORE strange to see Coach decked out in not-all-that-flattering East Dillon red), it makes sense: For all the hardship this show has documented, the Dillon Panthers always had it pretty good: making the playoffs, getting a jumbotron, Lyla in a cheerleader outfit. Switching our allegiance to the underdog works dramatically and it just might allow the show to grow and survive past its current two-season renewal.

Read the full recap and review at Friday Night Lights Season Premiere: Home-Field Disadvantage — Vulture.

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