Books, Documentaries, Reviews: January 23, 2012
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
John and I love stories. In the evenings, we watch movies or television series. We love nothing better than getting hold of a long television series which we can watch night after night. We don’t have to wait to see what happens next because we can always sit up later to watch and see. And there are no ads. And I can knit or sew quietly to my heart’s content.
We just finished FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS–which ran for 5 years. There are 76, wonderful episodes. We both loved the series.
Now, neither John nor I follow sports, and this series is about high-school football in West Texas. Only, it’s also about problems that people struggle with every day: politics, race, parenting, acquiring and keeping good jobs, and so forth. The characters are wonderful–not a stereotypical one in the bunch. The stories compelling, and we are still grieving that it’s really over, that we’ve watched them all.
Warning: watch the first episode, and you’ll be hooked.
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