Product Description
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TV's hottest new drama, Friday Night Lights, touches down on DVD
with all 22 Season One episodes in a 5-disc collection! In the
small town of Dillon, everyone comes together on Friday nights
when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game; and
the charismatic players, new coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler),
and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and
obstacles come off the field in the compelling day-to-day dramas
of their tight-knit community. From producers Brian Grazer (The
Da Vinci Code) and Peter Berg (The Kingdom) comes the critically
accled TV series based on the best-selling novel and hit
theatrical movie. Discover why The Associated Press calls it
"breathtaking in how it captures ordinary life set against
extraordinary passions."
Bonus Content:
Disc 1 - Friday Night Lights The First Season:
* Deleted Scenes
* Behind The Lights: Creating The First Season of Friday Night
Lights
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Disc 2 - Friday Night Lights The First Season:
* Deleted Scenes
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Disc 3 - Friday Night Lights The First Season:
* Deleted Scenes
*
Disc 4 - Friday Night Lights The First Season:
* Deleted Scenes
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Disc 5:
* Deleted Scenes
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The first season of Friday Night Lights accomplishes something
that few television dramas are able to do: It betters the 2004
film (starring Billy Bob Thornton) on which the series is based.
Set in Dillon, Texas, where football--even on the high school
level--is everything, Friday Night Lights is a compelling drama
with a football subplot. Poignantly and effectively touching on
racism, rape, steroids, jealousy, infidelity, and life-changing
injuries, the series presents the inhabitants of Dillon as real
people who are flawed, but remarkable in their ordinariness.
Though the series struggled to find an audience during its
inaugural year, it was a critical favorite thanks to some fine
acting by leads Kyle Chandler (as Coach Eric Taylor) and Connie
Britton (who portrays his wife, Tami). Coach Taylor's career
depends on his ability to get the Dillon Panthers to the state
championship. If the team suffers a losing streak, he knows his
family, which includes daughter Julie (ee Teegarden), will no
longer be welcome in Dillon. Britton, who also played the coach's
wife in the film version, is a phenomenal actress who shares
simmering chemistry with Chandler. Not content at just being the
coach's wife, she lands a job as a counselor at the local high
school. That position plays a pivotal role in the season finale,
which leaves viewers wondering whether Eric will leave Dillon to
accept a coveted coaching job with a university. Though the
majority of the twentysomething actors appear too mature to
portray high school students, they have the mannerisms of teens
down pat. Gaius Charles is perfect as cocky running back Brian
"Smash" Williams, who'll risk his to make sure he gets a
football scholarship to college. Local sweethearts Jason Street
(Scott Porter) and Lyla Garrity (Minka Kelly) are the high
school's golden couple. When a football injury leaves him
paralyzed, he finds strength in what the future holds for him,
but Lyla finds herself in a short-lived affair with Jason's best
friend Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch). Once the relationship comes
out in the open, their classmates' reactions to the "traitors"
show that sexual inequality is rampant even in the teen set.
Tim's teammates briefly ostracize him, but just as quickly
forgive him, especially since he's so valuable on the football
field. But Lyla becomes persona non grata to the girls at school
who take too much glee in calling the head cheerleader a slut.
The hits she takes verbally are no less lethal than the ones the
boys take on the gridiron. And the tentative relationship between
Julie Taylor and Matt Saracen (Zach Gilford) is the best
depiction of teenage love since Angela Chase fell for Jordan
Catalano on My So-Called Life. The actors do a wonderful job
conveying the sweetness, pain, and hurt of falling in love
without really understanding all of its implications. Peter Berg,
who co-wrote and co-directed the film, has a strong presence as a
writer on the series and evenly distributes the storylines
between the kids and the adults. Friday Night Lights is a drama
with teenage characters at its core. But the stories are
universal. --Jae-Ha Kim