Okay, kids. We're down to the second-to-last episode of our beloved Friday Night Lights. The powers that be have already renewed 30 Rock for a second season, and now all eyes are yet again on NBC, waiting on a decision as to whether or not the Panthers are going to survive to see another year. Meanwhile, on the show, shit is getting critical. Not to mention the fact that I breathed in a bunch of toxic fumes from a tragic trainwreck in the northeast sector of my high school, and that's why the recap is so late. What a week! Let's not waste any more time!
Coach and Tami are asleep in bed. Well, Coach is asleep, and Tami decides to wake him up. He freaks out because he thinks that he missed his flight, but she reassures him that she's fine, she just wants to talk, which causes Coach to get a rather murderous look in his eye. Hehe. She tells him she has a bad feeling about moving to Austin, and begs him not to give them a definite answer at the meeting today. Then the alarm goes off, and he moans, "I'm going to KILL you." Oh no you won't! Because you luuuurve her!
Meanwhile, in another, more salacious bed across town, Tim and MILF are totally getting it on. And I'm totally puking my brains out. Bo starts banging on the door, asking for food (the NERVE of that child), so they immediately jump up and Tim falls OUT THE WINDOW. And I fall too, to the ground, in convulsions of laughter. Nicely done, Mr. Riggins. Several minutes later he knocks on the door, like a respectable gentleman, and Bo answers it with glee, ready for his Killbot lessons of the day. MILF looks on with a disapproving stare. Yeah, that son of yours is really going down the wrong path, lady. Where on earth could he have picked up such deviant decision-making abilities?
The definition of smoothness.
Coach takes a tour of the facilities at TMU. In the meeting, the coaches tell him that the other guy they're looking at is ready to take another job, and since they can't afford to lose their second choice, they're going to need an answer immediately. Coach looks around at all of their inquisitive faces, his hair frazzled as if to say, "My wife woke me up early and did this to me." He thinks for a minute, then accepts the offer.
Landry shows up at Tyra's house, proudly proclaiming that he skipped Calculus. Tyra asks if he's ever done that before in his life, and he mumbles "Yeah, a few times...no." He asks if she has told anyone about that whole business with the attempted rape, and she snaps back that there is no one to tell. AND it's no one else's business and he's not allowed to tell anyone either. Landry looks Conflicted.
Smash and random football buddies are complaining about the fact that they have to attend a Football Roast. Every single week these kids are whining about a pancake breakfast or an awards ceremony or a bar mitzvah they have to attend. You'd think they'd just get used to it. They're the Dillon Panthers football team, for Chrissakes. They should be lucky they're not in a daily noontime Disney parade. Smash tries out a lame joke which some random nerd makes fun of him for, and as Smash goes into SMASH SMASH mode, Waverly pulls him away. She tells him that she can't go to the roast, because it's going to stress her out too much and she can't deal with it right now, with all that she's going through. This displeases His Royal Smashyness but he gives in.
Jason, who I'm sad to report has not repaired his new lame-ass hairstyle from last week, runs into Suzie at the City Clerks office. He's filling out the paperwork for his new coaching job (yay!) and she's paying off some parking tickets, since she's in Dillon for the next couple of weeks, helping her sister move in. Or something. I can't pretend to care. Jason starts drooling and asks her out to a movie, and she accepts, and they make plans for Thursday. Fan-friggin-tastic.
Jason, apparently preparing for his upcoming role in High School Musical.
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Comments (15)
I don't even know if I can handle it. My heart hurt just reading the recap of an episode I saw twice.
1 of 15 | Posted by punkrox | Posted on April 10, 2007 9:07 AM
Great recap! I really hope NBC announces soon that this show is renewed next year - it's awesome.
2 of 15 | Posted by sluggerbun
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Posted on April 10, 2007 9:18 AM
WOO-HOO!! STATE, BABY!!
(glad to see I'm not the only person who's been driving around all week yelling that out the driver's side window at random strangers, screampillar.)
Please god let them renew this show. Not only is it the most coherent, consistent drama on TV at the moment, with the most likable and well-rounded cast of characters, but it manages week in and out to comment objectively and honestly on the 'big issues' without seeming the least bit forced or heavy-handed. Perhaps Tami is a bit too saintly, but her self-righteous streak and her refusal to be a traditional 'Coach's Wife' who subordinates all of her goals and wishes to her husband's career make her uniquely appealing (and Connie B. is just brilliant and should win all the awards and the moon over Texas to boot).
But something just occurred to me: Smash, Riggins, Tyra, Jason, Lyla--aren't most of the kids seniors? Matt, Julie, and Landry (love that the truth-telling nerd of the show is named after Texas' most beloved football coach) are all underclassmen, but how exactly can this show maintain focus without having to send off its young stars? Will Coach Taylor turn down the TMU job (it happens--just last week, a top-level basketball coach accepted a job at the Univ. of Arkansas and then changed his mind the day after the press conference, explaining that the move wasn't right for his family), or will the show try to split its plotlines between Dillon and Austin? I can't imagine having a different Panthers coach, but that scenario might enable to writers to believably keep the characters on the verge of graduating and moving away in the picture.
Of course, they'll probably get kept around by a hard dose of undeserved tragedy like Jason's accident. I can't stand when bad stuff happens to characters we care about, but there's the proof in the pudding: we care. The FNL team has us all invested, as if the kids' triumphs and heartaches were actually happening and we really needed to go for two with time expiring to live to play another day.
STATE, BABY!! WOO-HOO!!
3 of 15 | Posted by jack | Posted on April 10, 2007 10:53 AM
I heard that they decided to renew this show at the same time as 30 Rock, but they're waiting to announce it because they don't know where they want to put it in the schedule yet. I love FNL so, so much, so I'm glad, if this is true.
4 of 15 | Posted by schoonie | Posted on April 10, 2007 10:57 AM
They can't move Coach to Austin. Then the show would be SNL and we already have one! Just kidding. There will be more, have faith.
5 of 15 | Posted by Tony A.
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Posted on April 10, 2007 11:22 AM
Wow, only one more episode left! What a great season it's been. If they don't renew this show, I will be seriously pissed!
Can't wait to see what happens with the Taylors...I don't like to see my beloved Coach and Tami on the outs!
OMG, I cannot wait to watch tomorrow night!!!! FNL rocks!!
Great recap Screampillar! :)
6 of 15 | Posted by Jojobear
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Posted on April 10, 2007 12:14 PM
Okay, so Ausiello at TV Guide now says NBC has ordered six more scripts for FNL. He says it's the "next best thing" and thinks renewal is more or less in the bag.
Great recap! The father/daughter Battle of the Pouty Lips is on!
7 of 15 | Posted by alex | Posted on April 10, 2007 1:08 PM
#8 was me. Damn TypeKey!
8 of 15 | Posted by JasonR
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Posted on April 10, 2007 2:09 PM
Great recap Screampillar! I can't believe this season's almost over, but it's been such a surprisingly awesome show. I just wish more people would realize how great it is and wacth this instead of a lot of the crap that's on tv. I love all of these characters and it still surprises me how every single one is such perfectly casted.
I started laughing at your Crucificotrious references screampillar, haha. Poor Landry, although I do think his words will have an impact on Tyra and her dragged on relationship with Tim.
This show better still be around for a second season because it's hand down the best show on tv right now.
Oh yeah, and I hope that Suzie can just leave because she just sucks.
9 of 15 | Posted by Triks
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Posted on April 10, 2007 2:36 PM
P.S.: SENIORS RUUUUULE!!! TEXAS FOREVER!! STATE, BABY!! WOO-HOO!!
10 of 15 | Posted by jack
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Posted on April 10, 2007 4:48 PM
One of the funniest details in the show: When Tim Riggins shows up for breakfast seconds after falling out the window, the kid is wearing a t-shirt on which he wrote something like "Go Panthers" on the front and "Tim Riggins 33" on the back. Awesome.
11 of 15 | Posted by shimmer | Posted on April 10, 2007 5:17 PM
I think that the only person that has definetly been identified as a senior was Street. It would seem to follow that Riggins is a senior, since they have been best friends, have the whole "Texas Forever" thing going, etc. But, they could always come up that he was a Junior - maybe he got held back in 3rd grade or something!
I'm pretty sure Smash is NOT a Senior. Remember the whole story line with the recruiter and the steroids, etc. I was thinking that there was a lot of "there's always next year" advice to him, which would make him a Junior, or younger.
Lyla and Tyra, we don't know. I think Landry, Saracen, and Julie are definetly younger.
Quite frankly, I could care less if they did a little "90210" or "Grey's Anatomy" time warping. This show is so good, I could believe the kids are in high school for 10 years, if it meant I got 10 years of the show.
12 of 15 | Posted by lawyergal
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Posted on April 11, 2007 6:57 AM
check it out guys! NBC ordered 6 new scripts of FNL for next year! Looks promising! Here's the link, I hope it works...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/11/television.lights.reut/index.html
13 of 15 | Posted by Jojobear
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Posted on April 11, 2007 11:38 AM
thanks for the link, jojobear!
my fingers are crossed - this show is too good to lose
and they also finally showed us some good football last night! (though i will wait for the new recap to comment further)
14 of 15 | Posted by lovedoctor
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Posted on April 12, 2007 6:48 AM
Saw the finale last night....wonderful.....God I love this show.
15 of 15 | Posted by sweetleaf
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Posted on April 12, 2007 8:29 AM