Friday Night Lights - The First Season

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Actor: Connie Britton, Kyle Chandler, Zach Gilford
Brand: Universal Studios
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: Do yourself a favor and consider watching this...
Summary: 5 Stars

I am not into football at all and hadn't considered watching Friday Night Lights until a friend suggested it. From the beginning, I had a very visceral reaction to this show.

I found the characters to be complicated and interesting, and that there were often "two sides to a story." I know it sounds hackneyed, but it feels like I know the characters -- maybe more like this is a documentary than a fictional TV series. The writing and the acting is very moving, and I found myself very sad when it (Season One) was finished. Satisfied, but sad.

On to Season Two... I highly suggest picking this up!

DVD Review: loving it!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

I just loved season 1 of Friday night lights!!! So much so that I ordered Season 2 and 3 straightaway!
Keep them coming,Just fantastic :)

DVD Review: Football and High School - A Great Combination!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a great series from TV that although critically acclaimed, never got the mass public viewers that it deserves. If you are a high school football fan or just want to see a good series about high school life, this is a great series that I would highly recommend. This series should still be on prime time TV!

DVD Review: Awesome!
Summary: 5 Stars

Most exciting season of the best show on TV. Shipped on time in excellent condition. Very happy.

DVD Review: CLEAR EYES , FULL HEARTS , CAN ' T LOSE
Summary: 5 Stars

Friday Night Lights (FNL) is a must see ! Three season have already been released and two more on the way . This series depicts the human struggle in ways that makes it seems so relevant and on point . It struggles to be what people might imagine it to be . Simply because FNL strives to be more then what is normally aspected of a TV show on network television based on a movie that was based on a game (football) . The show is not about a game , it' s about the PEOPLE whos' lives just happens to evolve around a game .

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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