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The third season of Friday Night Lights premieres tonight on NBC, although the entire season has already run on Direct TV. I’ve seen most of it, and if you are already an FNL fan, SPOILER ALERT this season might be the best yet. Whoops. Sorry to have ruined it all for you. If I could build a time machine, I would go back in time and KILL HITLER, but instead of coming back to the present, I would come back to right before I ever watched season 3 of this show so that I could have the pleasure of watching it again. I don’t know how that would work, actually, because just because you construct a functional time machine doesn’t mean that your memory of great seasons of an underappreciated show about high school football but actually way more than just high school football is suddenly erased. But I’ll leave the details to the scientists. Who will build my time machine FOR me.
In any case, it’s all very exciting. Not that Direct TV didn’t throw a tiny wet blanket on the excitement in today’s AP article about tonight’s premiere:
Neither side will discuss how much DirecTV paid for the first rights to the third season, but Silverman calls it a “real, meaningful partnership” that has given the network “a larger tolerance” for low ratings from the show.
The first half of this experiment over, Shanks says DirecTV is very pleased. DirecTV has other exclusive agreements with several sports leagues, and had been thinking about exclusive entertainment programming, too. They contemplated saving “Arrested Development” when Fox canceled it in 2006.
OK, change of plan. First I’ll kill Hitler. Then I’ll go to the board meeting where they decided not to save Arrested Development when Fox canceled in in 2006. I’ll enter carrying Hitler’s dead body, smoke billowing out around my ankles, and I will drop his corpse on the tray of cheese danish and walk out, but pinned to his blood-stained uniform will be a note that reads “TIME (MACHINE) TO DO THE RIGHT THING.” (What?) And only then will I return to just before I watched season 3 of Friday Night Lights, hit the touching drama memory erase switch, and enjoy it all over again.
9 PM. Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t wait.
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Because of your enthusiasm and love for FNL, I started watching season one on Netflix yesterday. I’m so behind and thus cannot watch the S3 premiere tonight. Take me with you in the time machine and I’ll grow a brain and start watching the show when it starts (started? Time machine tense is hard).
So much Hilter. Are you feeling hemmed in by the Sales team who transformed the site into Conchordgum today?
SNF, Dolf.
Sunday Night Football? Skilled Nursing Facility?
texas forever.
The best show on television.
Finally! I somehow avoided watching season 3 online (willpower, I has it).
Please don’t let there be a random, unnecessary murder in the first few episodes.
Let it go, Elaine. PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES!
(People=TV shows)
Oh, well, this is the best show ever. Seriously.
Had to Google that one: http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/SNF I’m gonna go with Spent Nuclear Fuel.
Full disclosure: I work in advertising (on TEH INTERNETS!) so I’m not above it, I promise. Keep the dollars coming in, so the site is still here and I can continue avoiding work.
One of the smartest statements I’ve ever read about television (outside of Videogum, of course) was in an article from Esquire (I think — maybe GQ) (don’t make fun of me) that reviewed the debut episodes of both “FNL” and “Heroes,” both NBC shows that debuted about the same time. The statement was something like this: On the surface, FNL appears to be a show about football. But it’s really a show about human beings. “Heroes” is actually a show about football.
FNL is up there with “The Sopranos.” Seriously. One of the best dramas of all time. I command everyone who is reading this to start watching it immediately.
Clear eyes, full hearts, CAN’T LOSE!!
I was so happy to be able to see this show again. Also, Tim Riggins for President of Earth.
I was so sad that I had to work tonight, though I’ve seen the current episodes online anyway,
It’s too bad a fourth season would make no sense, cause this season is really killing it. These guys just don’t stop. TEXAS FOREVER SIX.