May 31,2010
May 31,2010
Jesse Plemons Performing “On My Side” with band Cowboy and Indian
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May 30,2010
New York Magazine Reviews Episode 4.04 A Sort of Homecoming
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Real talk, people: With this dizzyingly great fourth episode of the season, it’s time to step up and call Friday Night Lights what it is: the Best Show (Almost) on (Network) TV. Mad Men andBreaking Bad are gone till 2010, Lost is still months away. And don’t even get us started on Glee. Nothing currently on the air comes close to matching our friends in Dillon, Texas — we’re talking emotional honesty, character depth, acting prowess, and Tim Riggins in a dress store. Wait, what?
This week opens with Tami continuing to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Texans for her role in sending Luke Cafferty over to her husband’s team at East Dillon. It seems as if even talk radio has turned against her, which is truly something, because talk radio is usually so fair-minded and even-handed! Also, Julie is hard at work on getting the hell out of Dillon finishing her college applications. Over snacks, she explains to Matt that she’s applying to Brown, Mount Holyoke, Berkeley, etc. Man alive, Julie! What’s your safety? The Sorbonne? But Matt is too preoccupied to make this exact joke because he’s finally realizing what we’ve already realized: It’s nice and all that he stayed around for Julie instead of going to the Art Institute of Chicago, but she has no intention of doing the same for him. If the wheels for Matt’s departure weren’t already turning thanks to the truth bomb dropped by Beatnik Mr. Miyagi last episode, then they are now. But jeez, Jules — you couldn’t even consider Northwestern?
To read the rest of this review go to: Vulture – NY Magazine
May 30,2010
New York Times Reflects on Season 4 and Episode 4.04 of Friday Night Lights
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If you saw Friday’s episode of “Friday Night Lights,” you might share my instinct to work backwards, the final moment having brought Matt Saracen another occasion for heartache. Returning to Dillon from a hunting trip with Riggins, he stops off to see Julie before going home and she has some devastating news: Matt’s father has been killed in Iraq.
When he greets her at the door and she is crying, we are meant to think that Matt’s grandmother has died. I confess to having felt a few seconds of relief for him anticipating that outcome. Dismissed of the burden of caring for his ailing grandmother, wouldn’t he finally be able to get out of Dillon? Couldn’t the Art Institute of Chicago take him for the next semester? Matt gets beat up by life nearly as intensely as Riggins, maybe that is why the episode paired them — to remind us. Like Lyla, an ambitious student who left Riggins for Vanderbilt, Julie, also an ambitious student, will leave Matt for Brown or Amherst, or, if he is lucky, the nearby University of Texas in Austin — except that he isn’t lucky.
To read the rest of this article go to: Artsbeats.blogs.NYTimes.com
May 30,2010
Happy Birthday to Stephanie Hunt (Devin)!
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A very happy birthday to the lovely and talented Stephanie Hunt!
May 29,2010
Tim Riggins Makes EW’s List of Top 100 Characters of Past 20 Years
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On a list that includes: Harry Potter, Homer Simpson, Jerry Maguire, Tony Soprano, Don Draper and Red (from Shawshank Redemption) Mr. Tim Riggins stands at the 100 spot in Entertainment Weekly’s Top 100 Characters of the past 2 decades. I’m so glad that Friday Night Lights was able to get some recognition in a list that included characters from TV, books, movies and stage! Below is the full blurb:
100. Tim Riggins- Gridiron Giant. It’s had not to envy Tim Riggins, the not-s-elegantly wasted Dillon Panthers football star on NBC’s Friday Night Lights. “I live vicariously through the cat,” admits actor Taylor Kitsch. “He gets the gal, he gets the winning touchdown, he does what he wants. He just reacts on instincts, which aren’t the best ones at times. (But) a lot of people are scared to take a risk, and Riggs just does it. I think that’s commendable. Most of the time.”
May 29,2010
Film.com Reviews 4.04 A Sort of Homecoming
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It’s a high praise to the writers of Friday Night Lights that even with a practical episode like “A Sort of Homecoming,” which is meant to set up next week’s tear-jearker (”The Son”), they still managed to make a vital episode in the show’s canon.
Part of what makes “A Sort of Homecoming” work, in spite of its perfunctory purpose, is how a couple of interesting themes tie the episode together. First is the odd duck “wingman” theme, where one character is accompanied by another in a surprising way. The alpha-male pissing match carried over from last week ends with Luke joining Vince in a jail cell; Julie provides support for Devon at “a gay place”; and my favorite — Riggins helps Becky pick out a pageant dress, like some Texas football-themed episode of Project Runway. There were even a couple of throwback wingmen — Matt inviting himself to go hunting with Riggins (loved the #33 embroidered camouflage hat), and Buddy finally getting on board and joining Coach in creating the beginnings of an East Dillon booster club.
To read the rest of this review go to: Film.com
May 29,2010
Quotes from 4.04 A Sort of Homecoming
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Julie: did you hear that Brown used to make people hand write their essays?
Matt: That’s how they’d weed out the serial killers.
Tim: (walks in with hunting rifles) Lets get after it!
Mindy: This is how accidents happen!
Tim: I don’t think they’re loaded.
Mindy: I don’t want you to miss the ultrasound!
Billy: Tim and I can go hunting any time.
Tim: No we can’t, that’s why it’s called HUNTING SEASON.
Coach Taylor: What makes you think he stole it?
Luke: It’s obvious.
Coach Taylor: Well, you’re gonna be a damn fine lawyer.
Tim: Seven!
Matt: Hey Riggins, what’s up?
Tim: Slinging dough instead of 60 year bombs now, huh? No Chicago?
Matt: I live in Dillon and people in Dillon, this is what they do. They go hunting and shoot animals.
Tim: We can’t go, we’re here, we gotta pick something, and what’s that saying? Doesn’t the dress find you?
Becky: Can we please just go, this was a dumb idea.
Tim: I’m gonna tell you something, alright? And you can’t tell it to anyone else. My mother never took me shopping for a pageant gown and because of that I never placed at Miss Texas. That’s why I got into football. That’s fact. This is what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna start with the wheels and then we’ll work our way up, by then, hopefully they’ll have a new shipment of dresses in.
Buddy: It’s over. I’m not a Panther anymore. And it makes me ill. I feel ill. I don’t know why I’m saying this to you…you know what it’s like to be a Panther and have it taken away from you. I’m sorry about it. I’m sorry about all of it, Eric.
Buddy: You can’t fake boosterism Eric, it comes from the heart. That’s the beauty of it.
JD: Look Luke, I know East Dillon is like a prison and all, but I didn’t think you’d become someone’s bitch.
Tim (to Matt while hunting): Keep the eyes peeled, light feet.
Matt: What about Lyla…you miss her?
Tim: I think we had different paths.
Matt: So you miss her?
Tim: Yes.
Matt: I knew she’d be applying to colleges, I knew that would happen, I just never realized they’d be on the other side of the country. Now I’m resenting her and getting mad at her for no reason…she never asked me to stay, that was my decision.
Lions Alum: What is a group of Lions? It is a pride. And we stand before you today Lord, your pride. We need pride in this world and what do we have here? I SAID WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE? We ARE the Lions! And we stand together. Who are we?? Who are we??
May 29,2010
A Compilation of Reviews for 4.04 A Sort of Homecoming
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Here are all the reviews we previously posted the first time 4.04 A Sort Of Homecoming aired on DirecTV:
L.A. Times Reviews 4.04 A Sort of Homecoming
Entertainment Weekly Reviews 4.04 A Sort of Homecoming
