“Friday Night Lights”: Series and its final season deserve cheers


Posted April 11, 2011 by Melissa Hayer Comment on this article Leave a comment
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS -- Pictured: (l-r) Connie Britton as Tami Taylor, Kyle Chandler as Eric Taylor -- NBC Photo: Justin Stephens
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS -- Pictured: (l-r) Connie Britton as Tami Taylor, Kyle Chandler as Eric Taylor -- NBC Photo: Justin Stephens

“Friday Night Lights” has always showed even more lessons about the game of life than about the game of football – and done an amazing job at covering both.

Its fifth and final season is no different, and is one of the best final seasons of any show.

“Friday Night Lights” has consistently featured incredible writing, resulting in realistic story lines and multidimensional adult and teen roles, as well as phenomenal acting by the entire ensemble cast, even as characters graduated and/or moved on and new ones came onto the Dillon, Texas high school football scene.

Leading the wonderful cast is Kyle Chandler as Coach Eric Taylor, who is attempting to lead East Dillon to a state championship in the final season, and Connie Britton as his wife, Tami, now East Dillon’s guidance counselor.

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Melissa Hayer is a Moore native and has been an assistant editor/news researcher at The Oklahoman for more than 25 years. Her lifetime love of...


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