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  1. Andy Sheets

    Friday Night Lights season 1 thread

    Normally I don't like product placement but Applebees is such a typical middle-brow place to eat in a small town that I think it's actually pretty charming and realistic that the characters eat there :)
  2. Andy Sheets

    Friday Night Lights season 1 thread

    I was glad to see a Latino player show up this week (supposedly he's been in earlier episodes but they've deleted the scenes). It was kind of odd seeing a show set in Texas that didn't address that side of the population :) I have to think the later timeslot will help at least a little. It...
  3. Andy Sheets

    Friday Night Lights season 1 thread

    Ratings apparently were slightly up this week, and NBC has ordered more scripts. That's not too bad :) I kind of cringed during the kissing-by-the-road scene but otherwise I thought it was another fine episode. Very curious to see where they go with this Katrina refugee kid.
  4. Andy Sheets

    Friday Night Lights season 1 thread

    I think what they need to do is shift it to a 9 o'clock time slot on some night and give it a good lead-in. That would probably be better for the ratings than letting it bleed to death where it is.
  5. Andy Sheets

    Friday Night Lights season 1 thread

    I'm cool with a show not lasting long, provided they finish enough episodes to make a satisfying dvd set :)
  6. Andy Sheets

    Friday Night Lights season 1 thread

    Eh, I've seen numerous complaints about this but my wife is actually epileptic and will get headaches and have to look away during a lot of these new movies that go crazy with the visual effects and editing and we followed this show with no problem. *shrug*
  7. Andy Sheets

    Friday Night Lights season 1 thread

    It's mostly the same, although they've made some tweaks such as altering the fates of certain characters, and they've moved the setting from late 80's Odessa to the present day of a fictitious town. I thought the pilot was excellent but I think the main opportunity the series has is that as...
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