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Summary: The Best show on TV
Comment: Friday NIght Lights is one of the very best shows on TV, and that about says it all. Everyone can relate to these stories, as we've all gone through high school. But unlike so many other shows, this one is different. The writing is superb, the cast is amazing. They ARE their character. If you haven't started watching this show, you need to. And that will make you want to buy the season on DVD, as I promise you'll want to watch the episodes over and over again.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good but much to be desired
Comment: I was really looking forward to this season. watched the first season and loved it. second season is just as good, however there were a couple of things that really detracted from a 5 star review.
the whole smash williams scandal seemed like [..], they could have figured out a better way for him to have gotten in trouble.
and my major complaint- it leaves you hanging. there is absolutely no closure, I thought this was supposed to be a "season" what happened with the football season, did they make the playoffs or what??? really, it was just a bad place to stop.
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Summary: "Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaw! Leeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzz play us sum Footbaaawwwwl, now, uhhh-huh!" [stereotype of southerners intentional!]
Comment: YES!!!! I've been vindicated by Friday Night Lights' second season!!!! Allow me to derisively clue you in: ever since last year when I authored my incomparably brilliant and much talked-about review for Friday Night Lights' first season, I was unscrupulously berated by clueless, diehard fans of this brutally mediocre Friday Night Lights series. See, my thesis of Friday Night Lights' first season was that the makers of the show didn't love their subject matter of people in a small, Texas town which obsessed about football at all! On the contrary, my thesis made the emotionally powerful argument that the makers of said series actually were hostilely bigoted, anti-Christian ideologues who gloatingly delighted in mocking red-state Southerners with all the most unflattering stereotypes!!!! After the airing of the second season, it can be doubted no more: I HAVE BEEN VINDICATED as the second season took the stereotype-mocking of the first season and made it even more harsh.
This review will single-mindedly focus on persuading especially YOU--that's right, YOU, the clueless, diehard fan of Friday Night Lights--that Friday Night Lights is a series which despises red-staters, conservatives, Christians and in general just southerners. This earth-shattering thesis of mine is based primarily on an examination of how the major characters of FNL are presented during the course of the season. If you're intellectually honest--and I KNOW just how impossibly hard it will be for YOU (diehard and stubbornly clueless, FNL fan) to admit fault in a product you slavishly love--you'll have to see things my way based on the evidence I'll present.
For starters, ALL of FNL's characters communicate in the most unflatteringly low-minded STEREOTYPE of the slack-jawed yokel!!!! Take supposed, star football player "Smash." His lines consist mostly of: "Momma, Momma...I jes wanna' play sum football, aight??!! And his morbidly obese mother replies in her stereotype-of-the-black-mother line: "Smash, mmmmmm...mmmmmmm...BOY! When youse gonna' git some sense in dat head o' yoooourrssee?!" Or, how about the ever bimbo-like Lyla Garrity? Her lines now (after her other stereotype fulfillment of becoming a born-again Christian) consist mostly of "Haaaalleeeeluuujaaaaahhh, Sweet Jesus! Prrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaise the Lord, uh-huh, A-maaayun!" Still, how about that womanizing, continually drunk-and-stoned and underachieving Riggins? Always, he's like, "Lyla...ya'll waaaanna sleep wit me ore whut, huh, geeerl?!!?"
Aside from these utterly slighting parodies of what are normally gracious, southern accents--if ANY minorities' accent was parodied the way FNL's Christian red-staters' were, the TV show wouldn't even get on the air!--the plot development of many of the main characters proceeds in such an unflattering way so as to demean these Christian, red-state characters further. In example, early on in Season 2, the resident doofus-character with the offensively slow, southern drawl (it's Landry I'm talking about!!) actually commits murder! His on-again, off-again, just-a-crush "girlfriend" (it's Tyra I'm talking about!!) actually connives with him to cover-up his murder by dumping the dead body in the river!!!! FNL's moral relativist-writers (flagrantly, all hardcore liberals due to their amoral explaining away of said situation) struggle to justify this by having Landry commit the murder to save Tyra from being raped. However, these Christian, southern Americans are portrayed in a disparagingly horrid manner when they start covering-up the murder. What's worse is that Landry's dad is a policeman, yet when his son confessed the murder to him, he helps in the cover-up by burning the vehicle in which the dead body was transported!!!! Besides this being a liberal smear campaign against a policeman, this character (Landry's dad) is also demeaned further as, while he's guiltily destroying the evidence, he's portrayed as hypnotically muttering, "Jeeeesuuus, JEEESSSUUUUUS!" That plot arch involving Landry, his dad, Tyra and the cover-up of murder was one of the worst character assassinations against Christians, red-staters and policemen ever!!!!
I wish I could stop easily citing all the gratuitous examples of liberal, anti-red state bias, but I'm only just getting revved up! Next up is the blistering character *ss*ssination on southern career-women and wives by the defamatory way Tami Taylor's pregnancy is mishandled by the characteristically agenda-driven writers. After Tami has her 2nd child, her character is degradingly portrayed as a woman who's getting depressed, regrets having her baby, and becoming estranged from her husband, Coach Taylor. Needless to say, this is undoubtedly an elitist, liberal-Hollywood attack on the typical, traditional, suburban family (a real one consisting of a dad, mom and kids, not a fake, Rosie O'Donnell type of "family!"). See, it's like this: by harmfully portraying Tami as withdrawing into depression after having her kid (happens in a MINORITY of cases, by the way), FNL's lib-writers are giving their hurtful opinion about what they think of normal, everyday, American families in the suburbs. They're charging that said families are really dysfunctional and incapable of raising their families properly!!!!
One of the more distressing slurs against red-state Christians occurs in the way Coach Taylor's daughter, Julie, is portrayed as a rebellious, wanna-be hoochie mama who'd make Lindsay Lohan look like a nun by comparison. Throughout the first portion of the season, Julie's relentlessly shown to get more estranged from her parents with whom she'd normally had a close relationship. She's unflatteringly portrayed to hang out with the proverbial "wrong crowd" which includes older boyfriends and poisonous substances like drugs and cigs! She also gets into worse and worse fights with her parents! Now, I ask you, What the hell???? This distinct, hoochie mama-like misconduct by the Julie character sounds way like something girls in blue-state, liberal inner-cities are up to more than girls from conservative, small towns!
The last straw that broke my proverbial Camel's back--and which also proves my thesis about FNL's lib-writers pushing liberal-agenda thoughts--is when the US healthcare system (AKA, the BEST in the world, bar none) is subtly assailed via the Jason Street character's paralysis. In the first few episodes of Season 2, cripple-Jason is shown longing to travel to that illegal immigrant-exporting hellhole (Mexico) for a hazardous, experimental surgery involving the false hope of stem-cells. See, he ignorantly believes said stem-cell surgery can cure him of paralysis...which means he was listening to the Democrats too long. Additionally, this story arch also endorses the liberal ideology of stem-cell research with the audacious criticism being that the US apparently is failing to do enough in that area--which is why Jason has to travel to illegal immigrant-exporting Mexico.
As I've perceptively opined in my award-winning review for FNL's first season, this whole series serves as NOTHING but a cynical and transparent plot to show southerners in the worst, possible light. Season 2 even ratchets up those unflattering, anti-red state stereotypes and makes them into a total parody of Christians. I was so offended after watching Season 2 that I felt like a victim because my own Christianity was derogated through the awful portrayals of the characters. In fact, I ought to lobby to get this show canceled, but because I'm not a minority and a Christian instead (and so won't be viewed as a victim by our PC society), I'll have no luck.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Poor Video Quality
Comment: I have nothing to say with regards to Amazon because they're shipping & service are great compared to other online stores. I have been waiting for the 2nd Season to come out and was glad when amazon got it first and bought it before the release date. But when i receive the DVD i was disappointed regarding the quality of the DVD. It wasn't even in a DVD quality compare to the original season. And that is only my complain about this product. Though i believe that the season will be great as same as the first one.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Maybe not as good as season 1, but still a great season.
Comment: Honestly, season 2 is a great season, but compared to season 1, it has its problems. Season 2 still has the great stories within stories, the serious tone mixed with the playful and humorous writing, and also the heart breaking moments smashed together with the shocking surprises. Even with the season's faults, it's still one of the `must see' TV shows out there.
I don't really want to bash one of my favorite shows, but I want to be honest with people who read this. There are many things that this season could've done better in my opinion. Certain stories just seemed out of place, or maybe even to grown up for just high school kids. For instance, ***Don't read this until you see the asterisk if you don't want to be spoiled.... For instance, when Landry and Tyra kill that guy, they decide to throw him in the river. Why? Why not just call the cops and explain to them what happened. They are just kids, and probably nothing will happen to them. Even if they waited to call the cops after they threw him in the river, they STILL would've probably have gotten off easy if they just claimed that they were scared and confused or whatever. And how come Landry is such a smart kid, yet he seemed like a TOTAL dummy when it came to confessing the murder. Seriously man... just say you were scared for yours and hers life. Goodness. *** I don't know... it just seemed like a forced story line that really got in the way of what is great about this show. Other things that aren't story spoilers that made me mad was Smash's Mom. Seriously...do you want your VERY TALENTED child who is one of the most wanted RB's to go to a college like Whitmore instead of Alabama or Georgia or Miami or USC? I mean... what are you thinking? Sure you want your kid to get an education, but wouldn't you rather him be worth millions if he can be for his sake and yours and his children? NFL and education... or...just education? I tell ya what... my cousin had a chance to play for the NHL. The Chicago Blackhawks. He decided to join the Navy and get an education instead. He got out after 4 years and lives a mediocre life now and wishes to God he had played for the Blackhawks. And then there is a race issue AGAIN. Not only once, but TWICE in this season and BOTH involve Smash again. Give it a rest will ya?
Now, it seems like I'm bashing this show, but I'm only listing things I didn't like and they are very few. Even with what I didn't like, it's STILL better than a lot of what's out there to watch. Anything dealing with Matt Saracen will have me glued. As well as Coach Eric Taylor. Some of the best TV involves these two characters whether they are in the same or not. I only wish Matt's parts were longer this season. I laughed pretty hard when Matt had to go pick Smash up under a bridge once. When he arrived, Smash had nothing on but boxer shorts (he had to run from a party so he didn't get his butt kicked by some psycho college kid). When he pulls up, he just starts laughing and then starts to talk and give Smash crap. It was a really funny part, but at the same time, a really great friendship part. Here's two kids, black and white, and they seems like the best of friends if not brothers.
Sadly this show was one of many that got hurt by the writers strike and you can tell at the end of the season. The show ends, but it's not truly a season ending. They leave you hanging with 2 games to state and many of the story lines not fully closed (or cliffhanger season ending closed at least). I was waiting for the next episode and then saw the menu screen. "You've got to be kiddin me" is what came out my mouth in pist offness.
Ah well. The show is still great even with it's faults. Every episode had me hooked and not wanting to sleep until I just saw `one more' episode. Recommended, but make sure you watch season 1 first.
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