I don't even know if I can handle it. My heart hurt just reading the recap of an episode I saw twice.

Great recap! I really hope NBC announces soon that this show is renewed next year - it's awesome.

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!!

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.

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.

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! :)

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!

#8 was me. Damn TypeKey!

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.

P.S.: SENIORS RUUUUULE!!! TEXAS FOREVER!! STATE, BABY!! WOO-HOO!!

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.

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.

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

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)

Saw the finale last night....wonderful.....God I love this show.