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Article: 'Friday Night' Kicks Off With A Great Formation
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 3, 2006
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Extraordinary in just about every conceivable way -- but
especially in the quality of its cast -- NBC's "Friday Night
Lights" expands upon and extends the 2004 movie of the same name
about high school football in a Texas town where the game is only
nominally a game. It's also a community obsession, a religion, a way
of life, a source of energy and an excessively cherished
institution.
Onto the harshly lit field of dreams each Friday night come the
young Panthers -- the No. 1 team in the state -- in whom the
townsfolk place entirely too much importance. Even though "Friday
Night Lights" exposes the banalities of the central ritual and its
reverberations, it isn't judgmental or prone ...