Entertainment Weekly’s Ken Tucker Reviews 5.01 “Expectations”

“I do not like the way this is starting out,” said Coach Eric Taylor as Friday Night Lights began its run on DirecTV Wednesday night. Make that one of him.

The fifth and final season premiere was energetic with the changes we knew were coming. (SPOILER ALERT if you don’t want to knowFNL‘s episode details.) It’s August, and daughter Julie bustled around getting ready to head off to college. Brother Billy visited Tim Riggins in jail, a quick scene that suggested two developments: Billy has become a more responsible fellow, if only out of guilt at letting Tim take the fall for the chop-shop scheme last season, and Tim has become hollow-eyed and despairing — pretty wrenching, since the Tim we love is a smirking, lovable wise guy. At East Dillon, Tami is once again a guidance counselor, overseen by a principal who was suddenly exhibiting signs of friendliness, a far cry from the sourpuss he was last season. And Becky is living with her mean ol’ step-mom-with-squalling-baby, as her father drives his rig into the sunset, eager to get away from a scene that wouldn’t be out of place in Tobacco Road.

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