Feb 11,2010
NYMag Reviews 4.13 Thanksgiving
Posted by Kaitlin with 2 Comments
We’ve come to the end of the road, my friends. As the final episode of this stirring fourth season dawns it’s Thanksgiving in East Dillon. And, presumably, in West Dillon too, although it’s probably a lot fancier over there. But over on our tarnished side of the tracks, Thanksgiving is a time for the traditional “F”s: Food, Football, Friendship, Family, Felonies (and Fallout From Committing Them) and, of course, Freaking Out About Abortion. Nothing says the holidays like Friday Night Lights!
As others have noted, this is a strange sort of finale to process for the FNL faithful: unlike the three previous season-enders, it’s the first to be broadcast without the threat of cancellation looming. So while the first season completed a near-perfect story of a championship year and season two … well, let’s not talk about season two … and season three ended by giving us just the right balance of closure and intriguing possibility, this week’s episode left us feeling — okay. Seriously: just okay. Maybe it’s due to this bizarre lack of panic we’re experiencing, this unfamiliar knowledge that at least one more year in East Dillon is guaranteed. Or maybe it’s because — and we hate saying this, we really do — the promise of a truly great season wasn’t fulfilled by its finale.
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I hope this comment does not end up being a spoiler. A thought just occurred to me – - – Jess Merriweather and Vince Howard are brother and sister.
Think about it . . . Virgil Merriweather (Steve Harris) does not like his daughter consorting with Vince; Merriweather tells Coach Taylor that “Vince is like me . . . the best athlete on the field;” Jess confronts her dad about his lack of support for her and her three younger brothers “but you are there for Vince.” Also, I found it curious that there is never any mention made as to the mother of Jess and her three younger brothers. There is also the difference in hue between Jess and her three younger brothers, suggesting, perhaps that Jess and the boys have a different mother. This all leads me to believe that Vince’s mother (fair in hue) got together with Virgil and conceived Vince.
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