I'm so torn about Friday Night Lights these days. On the one hand there are characters I love and I can see the building blocks of the pitch-perfect show I fell for in Season One. But there's definitely a change in tone in Season 2--but inconsistently. The show still delivers some great scenes that feel completely true to life, but then it also pulls out... random tornado melodrama.
Excellent summation. I'm rather 'meh' on this season. I still adore some of the characters, but the plotting seems rather slip-shot. (And what happened to the Matt/Landry friendship???) The highlights for me were the Eric/Tim ping-pong game at 5:00am. I would hazard to guess that Eric was enjoying a 'son' to hang out with. And his excitement over the coffeemaker. Hee! But then all the great Eric/Tim bonding was ruined at the end by the cliched misunderstanding.
Great analysis of the Tami/Shelley dynamic. Tami's comment about Shelley still being single was out of line, but was a reaction to Shelley's attempts to, essentially, take over. And Shelley was so flirting with Tim and needed to be called on that.
The ping-pong was very cute and I did get the impression Eric was enjoying a kind of father/son bonding there--it was lovely subtle work. But yes, ruined by the (forced, I felt) ending. :(
Excellent summation. I'm rather 'meh' on this season. I still adore some of the characters, but the plotting seems rather slip-shot. (And what happened to the Matt/Landry friendship???) The highlights for me were the Eric/Tim ping-pong game at 5:00am. I would hazard to guess that Eric was enjoying a 'son' to hang out with. And his excitement over the coffeemaker. Hee! But then all the great Eric/Tim bonding was ruined at the end by the cliched misunderstanding.
Great analysis of the Tami/Shelley dynamic. Tami's comment about Shelley still being single was out of line, but was a reaction to Shelley's attempts to, essentially, take over. And Shelley was so flirting with Tim and needed to be called on that.
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The ping-pong was very cute and I did get the impression Eric was enjoying a kind of father/son bonding there--it was lovely subtle work. But yes, ruined by the (forced, I felt) ending. :(
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