HitFix’s Alan Sepinwall Reviews 5.01 “Expectations”

“Friday Night Lights” is back – at least if you have DirecTV’s 101 Network, which will air new episodes Wednesdays at 9 – and I have a review of the season premiere coming up just as soon as water is meant to be in my brother’s pants…

“I do not like the way this is starting out.” -Coach

As has been the case for these DirecTV seasons of “FNL,” there are a lot of beginnings and endings going on simultaneously in the season premiere. Landry and Julie are spending their final days in Dillon before leaving for college (Lance to Rice, Julie to the fictional Burleson University), and Tim is counting down the three months he has left on the prison sentence he began at the end of last season. At the same time, a new football season is upon us, which brings us a new player in the weirdly-named Hastings Ruckle, Tami proves remarkably tone deaf as she begins her new job at East Dillon, Becky begins a new living situation with Billy and Mindy and Billy in turn forces his way onto Eric’s suddenly-packed coaching staff.

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