Top 7 of '07: Best Shows - Friday Night Lights

TheEditor · 12-23-2007, 05:01 PM

Check out all our lists for BuddyTV's Top 7 of '07 to relive the best and the worst of the year in television.

Don Williams ranked Friday Night Lights 1st. He says...

Despite the monumental critical acclaim, I avoided watching Friday Night Lights for the entirety of its first season. I'm not into football, I've never stepped foot in Texas, and I'm usually not big on family dramas. I figured this show just wasn't for me. Boy, was I wrong.

When I finally gave Friday Night Lights a chance, all of my expectations were subverted. This show wasn't really about football, but about characters with a singular, driving passion in life. This show didn't deal in the cloying clichés that most family dramas delve into, but instead handled each situation with a messy sort of honesty found only in real life. What I discovered wasn't just the best show of the year, but one of the best shows ever to air on television.

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TheEditor Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Seattle Posts: 1,051,191	Check out all our lists for BuddyTV's Top 7 of '07 to relive the best and the worst of the year in television. *Don Williams ranked Friday Night Lights* 1st. He says...** Despite the monumental critical acclaim, I avoided watching Friday Night Lights for the entirety of its first season. I'm not into football, I've never stepped foot in Texas, and I'm usually not big on family dramas. I figured this show just wasn't for me. Boy, was I wrong. When I finally gave Friday Night Lights a chance, all of my expectations were subverted. This show wasn't really about football, but about characters with a singular, driving passion in life. This show didn't deal in the cloying clichés that most family dramas delve into, but instead handled each situation with a messy sort of honesty found only in real life. What I discovered wasn't just the best show of the year, but one of the best shows ever to air on television. To read the rest, click here.