Friday Night Lights, Season One Reviews

NBC's Friday Night Lights is one of the finest hours of television out there right now, and its excellent first season is available on DVD in a five-disc set.

The TV series is based on the non-fiction classic by HG "Buzz" Bissinger about the 1988 Permian Panthers high school football team of Odessa, Texas and their quest for the state championship.

Bissinger's brother-in-law Peter Berg brought the movie to the big screen with Billy Bob Thornton as the head coach. Berg then developed Friday Night Lights as a television series for NBC, employing the themes of the book and movie in a fictionalized...

I couldn't get enough of Friday Night Lights! This is one of the best shows to hit TV in a very long time.  I was disappointed when it was dropped, and excited when I found it continued this year on directv.  You can find this show this season on channel 101 on directv only. What I love about this show is the "realness" of each character. I substitute teach and I can see "every teen" in this show.  You could take any one of these kids and put them in any high school anywhere and they would fit in.  This is not your Beverly Hills 90210 spoiled brat mentality that your average joe can only despise. ...