Friday Night Lights - The First Season

Friday Night Lights - The First Season

Friday Night Lights - The First Season
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Actor: Connie Britton, Kyle Chandler, Zach Gilford
Brand: Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, Dolby
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 955 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios

DVD Reviews of Friday Night Lights - The First Season

DVD Review: Friday Night lights, Season 1 DVD
Summary: 5 Stars

The product is exactly as described. The service lacked--I didn't get the item in the delivery time frame and no one would answer my emails. Finally after getting Amazon customer service to intervene, I got the DVD.

DVD Review: Best Written; Best Acted Show
Summary: 5 Stars

The cast of this show blows my mind every week - how they are not sought after actors/ actresses is a complete mystery though I am grateful for now that they are in Dillon TX! This show is beautiful - so many moments in this show bring me to tears every week. If I could rate this show a 10 I would. Absolutely brilliant! When this show reaches its conclusion (which I hope is many years from now) I hope I will be seeing more of these actors; they are the very best.

DVD Review: Best TV Show Ever
Summary: 5 Stars

So many have written wonderful reviews of this show, I'm not sure what more I can add. I just know that I get very frustrated every time someone complains about the lack of quality television, but then they say they don't watch FNL. What gives? It doesn't matter if you hate football, Texas or teen dramas, because this goes way beyond any of the stereotypes. It's about the people. Regular people who don't have any super powers and are not filthy rich. The stories told are ones we can all relate to. I think the problem with the lack of ratings is that the plots do sound ordinary and even boring, but it's how they are presented on FNL that is so magical.

If you haven't see the show and you're worried that you might not like it, don't worry. I have yet to meet anyone who has watched a few episodes and wasn't hooked. One note though, these episodes must be watched with your full attention. You can't chat on the computer, text message, or do anything else while watching. If you do, you'll miss so much. There are so many emotions conveyed by the characters with just a look, or twitch of the mouth, and the camera zeros in on even subtle actions, like how a person is standing, or a hand movement. Not giving your full attention would be like looking at a Monet with sunglasses on.

DVD Review: I'm addicted
Summary: 5 Stars

The first season of Friday Night Lights has got it all: drama, romance, comedy and action. Even for someone who has no knowledge about Football what so ever, this show proved to be quite addictive.
The acting is amazing, the stories are gripping and I don't even know how to begin to describe the camera work. I always get the feeling of being right there, in the scene with the actors. It's great. People who haven't seen it, should go and see it. You really don't want to miss out on this show.

DVD Review: friday Night Lights the first season
Summary: 4 Stars

Arrived very quickly, and in perfect condition. I was very satisfied with my purchase. I would certainly buy from Amazon again.

Description of Friday Night Lights - The First Season

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 acclaimed 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."
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 (Aimee 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 health 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

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