A Little Love for Friday Night Lights
I’m kind of a serial monogamist with television–but I’m the really annoying kind who plays the field looking for the replacement lover while still with the other lover. I started watching Supernatural when it first came on because it came on right after Gilmore Girls, starred Rory’s best boyfriend ever (Jared Padalecki), and could possibly help me fill the hole left by the long decline and eventual end of the X-Files. Plus I thought my then-boyfriend (now hubby) would enjoy watching it with me while we talked on the phone in our long-distance-relationship days. He liked it so much that he started recording it for us to watch together on the weekends when we were at his place. So, when it made the move to the timeslot of death (9pm Thursday against the ratings juggernaut that is CSI), it didn’t matter to me because we watched it every other weekend anyway.
When in season 2, every good show was moved to 9pm Thursday (and when I say good show, I don’t mean CSI, which I would rather die than watch, but The O.C. and Grey’s Anatomy), I will admit that I forgot about my Winchester boys. DH still recorded Supernatural on the downstairs DVR, but I almost always forgot to make time to watch it. (I spent most of my time upstairs watching tv with the dog.) So I missed at least half of the season.
I watched the first episode of Season 3, as it premiered one week before The Office began, but no other eps–until the writer’s strike took The Office off the air. With my Thursday nights free once again, I went on a binge of SPN DVDs and reruns sure to make me completely obsessed with everything Winchester. Now that I’ve watched all of Seasons 1 and 2 and gotten caught up on Season 3, I’m floundering a little. I’m looking for the next great thing as I long for the new episode of Supernatural that they will play this Thursday.
Which is a really long way of saying that I had a mini-Friday Night Lights marathon last night when I couldn’t sleep. The joy of seeing the episode that guest starred Logan from Gilmore Girls (Matt Czuchry) AND Weevil from Veronica Mars (Francis Capra) was almost more than a little insomniac tv fan could stand. I know that the overly dramatic storylines that are being interspersed this season are not fan favorites, but I am willing to overlook them for the joy that is the rest of the show. I don’t know how the writers and actors manage it, but everything is so real. The way that the teens interact with one another is achingly realistic, and the way that the Coach and Tami interact as husband and wife is so understated and human.
So, if you haven’t seen this wonderful show before, do us all a favor and pick up the DVD os S1, find a way to get caught up on S2, and start watching this show regularly. Then convert all of your friends and family members. (Yes, I am relying on Sprint’s marketing tactics from the late 80s and early 90s. Or was it MCI?)
If FNL is not to your taste, then perhaps you will enjoy my other potential new love: Chuck. Geeky electronics store employee becomes clandestine CIA/NSA supercomputer. What’s not to love?
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January 28, 2008 8:45 pm
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By Carrie, February 7, 2008 @ 6:42 pm
I adore all of these shows. Apparently, we both have fantastic taste.
So glad to hear you are caught up with the Winchester boys, although how you could ever give up the HOTNESS that is Sam and Dean I do not know.
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By Jen, February 13, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
Carrie, I gotta say, during my marathon, I was wondering the same thing.
So how excited are you at the thought that we will have 3-4 new episodes this season? And, with the strike being over, Kripke and Co will be able to give us good features on the DVD set.
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By Carrie, February 14, 2008 @ 12:05 am
I am just so glad the storyline won’t be a complete mess, like it would be if they had to just stop the season now without new eps!
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