Fathers. Can‘t live with ‘em, can‘t live (easily) without ‘em.Perhaps because of its continually tenuous renewal status, and the focus on high school kids, Friday Night Lights (this season in particular) has felt transitory, torn between the rich past and the unknown future. This week, the main story lines involved the new kids, as it should be, I say with reluctance. Damn you, show, for making us care so much about now-gone characters like Jason, Tyra, Smash, Matt...Ah, but we still have Tim, even if he‘s just reacting to those around him. Like Becky, whose trucker dad visits, bearing bad omens for Tim when he implies his now past HS football days are the highlight of his life, and that he should never get married or have kids. Tim overhears him talking about his second family that Becky doesn‘t know about, and that he‘d rather she never does. We suddenly get the sense that something similar happened with Tim‘s dad, and he was the scorned first family.
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