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Every Episode Of "Friday Night Lights" Ranked From Worst To Best
After H.G. Bissinger’s thorough look at football in small town Texas with “Friday Night Lights” and Peter Berg’s film adaptation, Friday Night Lights took the general ideas from both these versions and made a television show that surpassed its predecessors. By modernizing the basic themes from the book and film, Friday Night Lights could let this world breathe and grow week to week, creating a show not about football, but about a community, their relation to the sport and each other. Friday Night Lights was ambitious, groundbreaking and brilliant. The show allowed for a unique cinema verite style rarely seen in television, and the scripts allowed for large chunks of improvisation, so that these actors could bring their own visions to the characters they portrayed. Throughout Friday Night Lights’ five years, the show discussed religion, family, abortion, discrimination, racism—amongst other topics—with a care and beauty that felt realistic and insightful. Eric and Tami Taylor became one of the greatest married couples in television history and both Dillon and East Dillon became two of the most fully realized high schools ever shown on TV. Over a decade after the Friday Night Lights’ premiere, let’s take a look at this exceptional show by ranking all 76 episodes of Friday Night Lights