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Friday Night Lights

  • Season 04
  • Episode 04
  • A Sort of Homecoming

Friday Night Lights: Do the Right Thing

Tami suffers, Luke and Vince tangle, Landry flirts, Matt and Julia fray, and Tim Riggins ... visits a dress shop?

  • S.04
  • Ep.03
  • 'In the Skin of a Lion'

Friday Night Lights: Under Armored

Coach blows $3,000 of his own money for new uniforms. Problematic! 

  • S.04
  • Ep.02
  • 'After the Fall'

Friday Night Lights: The White Flag of Survival

We see saintly coach Eric Taylor in a new, less flattering light. And much more! 

  • S.04
  • Ep.01
  • 'East of Dillon'

Friday Night Lights Season Premiere: Home-Field Disadvantage

Andy Greenwald introduces the East Dillon Lions. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.15
  • 'May the Best Man Win'

‘Friday Night Lights’: Season Ends, for Now, Mid–Cycle of Life

The Friday Night Lights writers like to keep the narratives cycles as tight as Tyra’s gym shorts. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.14
  • 'Leave No One Behind'

‘Friday Night Lights’: Ah, the Dark Side

As part of their campaign to prove that Friday Night Lights is not a football show, the writers have gone back to the Tyra-in-tight-shorts well. Which is not something we’re inclined to complain about, per se. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.13
  • 'Humble Pie'

‘Friday Night Lights’: Pigskin Versus Volleyball-Player Skin

What does a teenage Christian couple do on their first date? 

  • S.02
  • Ep.11
  • 'Jumping the Gun'

‘Friday Night Lights’: Uh-oh, Things Are Looking Up

Nothing portends collapse, darkness, heartbreak and misery on Friday Night Lights more than a veneer of happiness. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.10
  • 'There Goes the Neighborhood'

‘Friday Night Lights’: This Guy Dickus Is a Total … Jerk

The man is a sine qua non prick, and he gave Coach Taylor the chance to play the hero like we haven’t seen him do in some time. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.09
  • 'The Confession'

‘Friday Night Lights’: All Your Burning Questions Answered

If the TV season were to end here, Friday Night Lights would be totally fine. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.08
  • 'Seeing Other People'

‘Friday Night Lights’: A Killer Confesses, Scores

A series of major inevitabilities got worked out this week in typical rapid-fire style. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.07
  • 'Pantherama!'

‘Friday Night Lights’: Finally, a Good-Looking High-School Quarterback Gets Some Action

At long last, it is raining babes for Matt Saracen, also known as “QB1,” which is Texan for “starting quarterback.” Julie is dragging her broken heart around, wondering why she ever pushed him away ('cause he’s dull and predictable, that’s why, Julie). 

  • S.02
  • Ep.06
  • 'How Did I Get Here'

‘Friday Night Lights’: We’re Not Crying, We Just Have Dust in Our Eye

No, seriously, just leave us alone for a minute so we can get it out. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.05
  • 'Let's Get It On'

‘Friday Night Lights’: Best Light-Beer Commercial Ever

What happened? Good grief, what didn’t happen? 

  • S.02
  • Ep.04
  • 'Backfire'

‘Friday Night Lights’: Young, Hot Love Once Again Tested

Football has been removed from Friday Night Lights in the same way that sex is removed from R-rated movies that run on television. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.03
  • 'Are You Ready for Friday Night?'

‘Friday Night Lights’: Are You Ready for Some Tangled Plot Developments?

A couple of novels' worth of plot developments were jammed into episode three. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.02
  • 'Bad Ideas'

‘Friday Night Lights’: Has Everyone Forsaken Small-Town Values?

After overblown season debut — in which Landry kills the stalker who tried to rape Tyra last season — it was time to restore peace to Dillon in episode two. 

Schedule
Wednesdays, 9 p.m.
DirecTV
Cast
Creator
Peter Berg
Producers
Peter Berg, Brian Grazer, David Nevins, Jason Katims, Sarah Aubrey, and Nan L. Bernstein
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