Anyone still watching Friday Night Lights?

That's a good point, Boobie. The characters in this show, like a lot of real high school kids, I guess, are growing and changing pretty fast and they don't always realize it about each other even if we do. That's because, unlike most high-school-kid shows, these kids aren't obsessively self-aware and constantly explaining their feelings to one another and/or the viewer to a background of swelling pop music. They just are.

One possible explanation about Lyla: The only person who needed to know who did that was her dad, and he probably didn't have the heart to confront her on it. I don't know. But I don't mind that they haven't brought it up since. It was meant to illuminate something about Lyla, not set off a chain of events that would dominate a couple of episodes.

And one thing I loved from the other night's episode: Saracen at this point knows that Coach has taken the job at TMU, but doesn't know how to ask him about it. But you can just watch that knowledge eating him up.

 

what a shocker that you don't understand this show. Go away.

 

I've been through 8 pages of this thread, so I don't know if I'm going to step on anything anyone else said, but I love this show. I'd been DVR'ing it all season and putting it off - but I'm switching from DISH Network to DirecTV today, so I had to watch everything I wanted to on my DVR while I could. So I watched 17 episodes of FNL in the last four days, finally getting to last week's episode at 1:30 this morning.
And I am totally hooked. The acting is realistic, and although the writing is a bit telegraphed at times (who couldn't see Street becoming the QB coach, or Smash getting busted for 'roids) it's mostly hook-you-in stuff.
About the only quibble I had through the whole thing was watching Riggins go hang out with his dad for two days - before the first playoff game - and still start as if nothing had happened.
I don't care for Lyla's character - I cheered when the kids were throwing stuff at her after everyone figured out she was boning Riggins -but everyone else is likeable and realistic. I just hope Landry and Tyra don't hook up, only because it's not realistic for me.
I think Coach and his wife are great, and their daughter and Saracen are a cute couple.
I think in the end, coach comes back to Dillon, although I saw a blurb in SI this week that said they may introduce a second school into the mix, via coach taking another job or Saracen transferring.
overall, though, I can't wait for Wednesday.

 

Very glad I'm not the only one.

 

As much as I love the show, they would have been better off without the "Will he go to college?" storyline or maybe make it so he's a finalist for the job but doesn't get it for whatever reason...

 

From E!:
Jessica in Canton, Michigan: Friday Night Lights!! Any word on a second season?
I don't want to jinx it, but word around town is good. Connie Britton was just at the Entourage premiere and said, "We're feeling really positive about it. The show's gotten such good reviews and you know, Kyle Chandler's favorite thing to say is that there are two kinds of people: people who love the show and people who haven't seen the show! And so we're just hopin' to get more of those people who haven't seen it on board. We're really pluggin' for a second season." As for this week's finale, she said there are a couple of big surprises. It's an episode that brings everyone together more powerfully than ever, but also creates powerful friction and drama. You can definitely expect a cliffhanger, no doubt!

 

I think they win the championship and the season ends with the coach going to TMU. I think it's possible (likely) that he ends up coming back next season, but I really don't see him changing his mind within days of making the decision.

 

I believe he pulls a Dana Altman. His wife having a baby is the perfect out for backing out. Doesn't want to relocate with a pregnant wife. I don't think they win state, as much as I hate Voodoo.

I'm so fired up for Wednesday.

 

Saracen > Voodoo.

 

If they leave us with a cliffhanger, it better not be a hail mary in the air. That's the only intolerable ending. They can do anything else.

 

You know what I'm going back on my prediction, I don't really know what I was thinking. I definitely think they lose the more I think about it. Give the coach some unfinished business, have the tough loss to Voodoo, give Saracen something to come back to prove (I could see a transfer, someone else challenging for the job next year), etc.