The best show on television that I know you're not watching is finally back: Friday Night Lights. Season four debuts (when else?) Friday night on NBC. I've done some thinking, and there are pretty much only three reasons why you would have never seen this show:1. You probably think that it's a show primarily about football. And since you can't tell the difference between a running back and a wide receiver, why would you ever watch the show? But FNL is not a cliched football show. More than anything, it's a social commentary of Middle America and small town life. The decisions that the characters make and the results of those choices are often influenced BY football, but very little of the show actually takes place on the field. Plus, it's dramatic as hell.
2. You might have been interested in watching it, but you never knew when it was on. This is a pretty legit excuse. When FNL first came out, it was slotted against Dancing With the Stars. And because America was then developing an obsession with watching semi-celebrities dance, it didn't work out so well for FNL. Then the show was moved around tons of times, weakly promoted, and eventually threatened with cancellation. Hope seemed lost, but DirecTV came to FNL's rescue. Because the show was so critically acclaimed, DirecTV agreed to pick up some of the production costs for the show with the stipulation that the new seasons (only 13 episodes long) would be broadcast on DirecTV first, and then later shown on NBC. The ideal situation? Of course not. But sometimes you gotta take what you can get. Just ask Mariah Carey about Nick Cannon.
And the final reason why you aren't watching this show...
3. You don't own a TV and you don't have Internet. And if that's the case, we probably have some other things we need to talk about besides you not watching Friday Night Lights.
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