Previously On Friday Night Lights
Last week’s non-homicide related episode of Friday Night Lights was fantastic. I’ll bitch about Landry-on-the-lam soon enough. Before that I have plenty of good story lines to recap from last week, so you’ll be ready for tonight’s episode, “Backfire.” I’ve decided that I want to start including quotes from the episode to introduce my little recaps, this is because these quotes are awesome.
Mrs. Coach: “No, Julie and Matt didn’t break up.” Glen: “Yeah they did. It’s all over the school. It’s huge; everybody’s talking about it.” Ah….Glen the science-teacher-cum-interim-guidance-counselor hilariously reveals that the Taylor parents really have no idea what’s going on in Julie Taylor’s life. Later, Mrs. Coach less-hilariously hits Julie. Shit’s all effed up in the Taylor household.
Buddy Garrity: “I want you to listen to me Tim Riggins. I don’t want to ever hear you say that again. I’ve seen you play with a hangover many times and you played like a champ. This is because of that coach. This is all about MacGregor, and I don’t want you to put any of it on yourself. Ok?” Tim Riggins’ collapse led to this classic line from one Buddy Garrity. Buddy Garrity is on a roll my friends, Buddy Garrity is on a roll. He will get Coach MacGregor, you mark my words.
“Right, but doing laundry helps people.” I’m really excited about Matt Saracen and the live-in care lady. That is all.
“I guess I feel closer to God when I’m with you.” I’m not sure if that was “a line” from Tim Riggins, or if Lyla Garrity really has that effect on him. It could be either and either way, it’s hilarious. Anyways, it didn’t work, but the sexual tension between Lyla and Tim is still palpable.
“Friday Night at last!” - Hey, they played a game this week. Dillon won.
“I don’t have time to take advice from the team mascot.” Understandably, Jason Street quit his coaching position. Him and Riggins had a pretty solid bff/coach fight at the end. (Street couldn’t decide whether to use his coaching language or his friend language. He said he was an “awesome coach,” but he also said he was disappointed in Riggo. It’s little stuff like that that makes Friday Night Lights awesome.) Riggins responded a resounding “Mexico, eh” and the episode ended with the two heading off to Mexico for Street’s stem cell surgery. This leads me to believe tonight’s episode will be the seminal “trip to Mexico” episode which every teen drama is required to have at some point. Also, Riggins in Mexico has some unbelievable potential.
“What’s wrong with y’all.” I’m going to have to agree with Mama Williams on this one. The end of the game fight between Matt Saracen and Smash Williams was kind of ridiculous, but they had been building up to it. It probably would make more sense in the locker room or at practice than on the field, but c’est la vie. Hey, at least Smash actually is involved in a story line again.
“I hope I don’t regret this.” Coach Taylor is in for Buddy Garrity’s secret plan to save Dillon. Excellent.
Once again, the scenes-from-the-next featured the Landry-the-fugitive angle, which was thankfully downplayed in last week’s episode. (The Tyra-Landry morning after was pretty perfect though, as was Landry’s father’s beaming about his son playing up.) Either this is going to become the dominant story line, or NBC is just pretending it’s going to be the dominant story line. Although the latter is preferred, they’re both pretty stupid ideas. A potential good idea from the Peacock? There’s rumors that NBC might move FNL to Monday night at 10, filling in for the woeful Journeyman.
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