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I Fell in Love with Friday Night Lights

10 Feb

And now, I only have my memories, repeats and DVDs to cherish.

We watched the last episode of Friday Night Lights tonight and I laughed – I wanted to be included in the conversation – I sat jaw-dropped – I felt the reality – I praised the beautifully shot scenes and I cried –  just like I do while becoming absorbed in every episode.

Was it a perfect show during its five seasons? The best? (This critic says it’s one of the “finest drama series in television history.”) I’m not sure I can really label any tv show that way. I just know how it made me feel. It hooked me from the start and never let me down. It captured bits of life that I have never seen on another show. One scene I vividly remember showed Coach and Tami hugging in their room and then they started swaying/dancing and the camera quickly showed us their feet. She had been standing on his. I loved that. They captured something so real and the characters never drew attention to it. They just swayed and talked. It was precious to me.

I’m almost kind of proud that many people didn’t love the show like I did because it makes it more heartfelt for me. I loved something not because everyone else did – but because I did. I’m happy, though, for those who did give it a chance and kept it alive. (Thanks, DirecTV!)  I called the characters by their last names like they did to each other and I’m not ashamed that I actually thought about the lines the writers had Coach Taylor say. (A recent one about building character will stay with me.) I don’t think you have to like football to appreciate this show. The characters, writing, shots and directing take it well beyond a show about football. (Although, there is a lot of football in it!)

Dillon, Texas. It was a pleasure to visit that small town and root for (or sometimes curse out) its people in every episode. I will miss it.

“Clear eyes, full hearts …”

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Commercials

2 Feb

I’m just loving a few of them right now (of the ones I get to watch when Andrew is not fast-forwarding them).

Here are some that make me laugh out loud (in no particular order):

– The Geico one where the caveman is being interviewed by the news anchor.  I like those caveman commercials overall but that one just cracks me up!

– The BK one where the people are dressed up like burgers and junior says “I wish I’d never been broiled.”  Or the one where junior says “you treat me like I’m on the kids’ menu!”

– Some cell phone one where the family is sitting at the dinner table and the dad keeps texting his family to pass him things – I just really like when the dad giggles like a little boy because he loves his toy so much.

– Andrew also got me liking those Peyton Manning ones where he’s encouraging random people.

You know what’s even more funny about these commercials is that they don’t make me want to buy their stuff- I just think they’re funny.  I mean, I can’t even remember what product those last two were selling.

There is one on now that many of you might not see because it’s for Publix Supermarkets but it made me cry the other day.  It was so freakin’ predictable and I told myself as I was watching it, you’re not going to cry – you know what’s going to happen.  That didn’t work though because there I was standing at my stove cooking, spoon in hand, balling into the spaghetti sauce.  It was about a little boy who wants to bake a heart-shaped cake for a girl and asks his mom for help – his mom is all protective like, “who’s this girl?” – well of course that girl turned out to be her.

Do I want to go shop at Publix now because of that commercial?  Well, it doesn’t matter because I shop there anyways!

The I think bothers me the most is one of those “oh I’m just driving along talking when BAM a car slams into me” ones.  I don’t mind them – I actually think they’re kind of funny in a sick way but there’s one with a mom and her baby in the backseat and it just makes me sick to my stomach.  I guess it’s what being a mom is all about – when it comes to your sweeties – nothing worries me more.  I guess that commercial did what it was supposed to do – except make me want to give them money.  (I actually don’t know which company that one was for either!)

Do you have any favorites/most hated?

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