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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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