Friday Night Lights (
IMDb)
Network: NBC/The 101 Network // Seasons: 5 (Ended) // Genres: Drama, Sports // Trailer
WOO ****!!! I LOVE this show. The second I finished it cemented itself in my top 5 (by heavenly company I might add). This sports-family drama of sorts focuses on a high school football team + the coaches/team members families. But it's SO MUCH MORE than football. If anything football takes a backseat.
Now, it starts off as a teen drama but this ain't no The O.C. or Gossip Girl. This has way more grit (and better acting + writing + cinematography by x500) to it and is in a class of it's own. Immediately you feel for nearly the whole center cast, especially Mr. no bad blood in his body Matt Saracen + Coach Taylor.
I really don't need to type an essay on why this show is pretty much excellent minus the very shaky & CW'd season 2. It fully recovers and delivers one of the greatest seasons of television ever with season 3, and keeps that quality level for the remaining 2 seasons.
They nailed young adult life, parenting, racism, sport politics, etc,. etc,. with surgical precision. I cried about 5 times during this show and I'm not a crier whatsoever. It being filmed like a documentary (I'm starting to think this is the superior way to make a show) it's extremely intimate and it ain't always pretty. You've never seen a show like this and you're just missing out on greatness if you don't check this out.
It comes fully equip with one of the greatest pilots of all time, as well.
It's on
Netflix &
Amazon Prime so what are you waiting for? If the trailer didn't sell it for you then BOO!
And don't get me started on the damn near greatest television score ever. The post-rock selections gut you
everytime.
Texas forever man
15 | Impastor (
IMDb)
I don't really believe in guilty pleasures, I don't want to feel bad for liking something. I like to call them comfort food instead. I like comfort food-quality music, film & TV depending on if it does it's job.
Impastor is a comfort food comedy. It's about a "loser" con-man who gets the chance to turn his life around and decides to impersonate a Gay priest. Seeing as this was on TV Land I didn't want to pay it any mind but during a Sunday channel surf it caught my attention. And it kept my attention, so I stuck with it.
This season was even a step up from it's Freshman season last year, as Buddy found himself tangled up in some soap opera mess with 2 murders, a sheriff on his ass + juggling his actual life with the person he's pretending to be. And for a TV Land show they drop a lot of bad words and sexual convos on here.
14 | Speechless (
IMDb)
The always lovely Minnie Driver is back on ABCs heartfelt comedy Speechless which center's around a 16 year old boy named JJ who has cerebral palsy + is unable to speak. But even with his hardships this show delivers the laughs (especially JJ!)
The show does a pretty great job of acknowledging JJs condition without begging for the sympathy card or trying to force a viewer to feel bad. JJ isn't here for patronizing either! It also displays the family's difficulties on their own unrelated to JJ and they're all hilarious. The dad is a cheapskate (he literally steals garbage), middle son Ray has girl problems & youngest Dylan is a tomboy who often feels unheard.
While it packs a lot of heart it delivers the laughs, I'm not normally a fan of broadcast comedies these days but I made an exception for this one. It's fire.