Best. News. Ever.

Three posts in 1 day = boss in 3 consecutive hours of meetings.

Anyhow, I might be late to the party on this one but I just heard the best news of 2008. Friday Night Lights will be back for a 3rd season. Other than Lost, this is the only show I religiously watch. Compare this to 2006 when I had a solid 7 definite shows per week along with a few I would watch under the right circumstances. Thank you writers strike for limiting my choices and forcing me to watch more college basketball. Out of any show I have watched in my 26 years on this planet, FNL is the best. There is not a close second. The sad part is, I don't know anybody that watches it. The show has consistently averaged 6+ million viewers over the past two seasons and I don't know one of them. It has been critically acclaimed as the best sports show to ever hit prime time yet I can't convince a single friend, coworker or family member that its worth an hour per week.

Whatever, the fact remains its coming back for season 3 and I couldn't be happier. With that news, I couldn't really care less who watches it. If you don't want to watch now, your loss.

Some other FNL reviews -
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/nbc-picking-up-friday-night-lights-after-partnering-on-it-with-directv/

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2007/10/08/071008crte_television_franklin

Bill Simmons

From Chuck Klosterman -
Friday Night Lights is such a brilliant, effective TV show that -- sometimes -- I don’t enjoy watching it. Very often, I will feel on the verge of tears throughout an entire episode; it is the most emotionally manipulative show ever made. Part of it has to do with its brilliant use of music; if you play Explosions in the Sky loud enough, the process of hanging drywall can be a life-altering experience. But the larger reason Friday Night Lights is so moving is the way it taps into all the conservative impulses most mediacentric intellectuals try to ignore. The show’s moral code is so traditional and pure that it borders on cliché. It’s reactionary in the best possible way. Whenever I watch it, I find myself thinking, I bet my parents would love this. Which is probably why I was certain that FNL looked like CBS.

I watched Friday Night Lights exclusively on DVD. I am now aware that it’s an NBC production, but I didn’t know that when I saw the pilot. And it absolutely looked like CBS to me. It looked a little like Dallas or the NCAA tournament. And it still looks like CBS to me -- because I made that happen. Perhaps thirty seconds into the first episode, I interpreted positive depictions of conservative ideals in its presentation, I associated them with the tradition of CBS (Murder, She Wrote; Barnaby Jones; etc.), and I tricked my optic nerves into seeing FNL the same way I might see Cagney & Lacey or CSI: Miami. I don’t know how, but I did. And the fact that I was wrong once indicates I was never really right before. My ability to tell the visual difference between networks was both true and false. What does that mean? Maybe nothing. But maybe this: The relationship between success, experience, and reality is less concrete than logic might dictate. For years, I was able to see a difference between networks, even though they were identical; I was getting the right answer, but I was asking an unrelated question. This happens all the time, to everyone. We will never know how we know what we know. Which is why you should never place your faith in the hands of a person whose greatest strength is answering his own questions.