EW’s Ken Tucker Reviews Episode 5.02 “On the Outside Looking In”

This week, all the locker-room chatter about rankings was rankling to Coach Eric on two levels: first, because it was distracting his team from concentrating on their next game, and second, because he’s obsessed with the team’s rank, and wishes he could shake that. Thank goodness such inside-football stuff was more than balanced by the sort of TV teen-sex imagery that could land the Friday Night Lights cast its own GQ spread. I’m speaking, of course, about the “rally girls,” essentially volunteer slaves who align themselves with the players, keep their “morale up” (wink, wink), and generally objectify themselves. One in particular, a redhead named, if I caught it correctly, Mara, threw herself at Vince (and threw her underwear into his locker). At first, Jess was okay with this attention being paid to her boyfriend — being a rally-girl is beneath her, and she doesn’t want her man treated any differently than other members of the team. But of course foreign panties in Vince’s locker is, ultimately, highly irritating. And an irritated Jess is someone no one should mess with. I thoroughly liked the reaction FNL came up with for Tami when she learned of the underwear-in-locker stunt: Instead of getting all super-enlightened, politically-correct huffy about it, she responded as a woman in her place might: “It’s part of Texas football.”

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