Friday Night Lights
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
I’ve was born and raised in a big city and I have never played high school football so what was I expecting? A simple feel good drama about football and down to earth folks of a small town in Texas called Dillon.
What I experienced instead? A very deep and moving television series that happens to use football as a backdrop as it delves into so many issues of life. Basically it turned into a lesson in ontology, an exploration of our humanity as crazy as that may sound.
Honestly I had no idea that the show was going to stretch so many characters the way they did. What you may see initially seems like standard fare typical characters, two dimensional so to speak. A loud and cocky star running back, a former player who is a successful business man but still lives vicariously through the team as a top booster etc etc. So many of the characters in this show get challenged and tested in ways that any person who breathes a breath can relate to.
During my first viewing of the series I constantly thought to myself, “I love Friday Night Lights.” I would think this as I was cheering, laughing, shaking my head incredulously and so many times, wiping the tears from my eye either from joy or sadness.
I passed on the series when it was on television because I thought it was a cliche show about a small town that revolves around high school football. I’m glad that a compulsive blind buy brought it into my viewing collection. It’s easily one of the best shows I have seen on so many levels and has limitless replay value.
Highly recommended!!
– Gunner76
If you never saw Friday Night Lights (and that would be maybe most of the people reading this) I actually ENVY you, because you still get to discover this nearly perfect series for the first time. Perfect casting, directing, writing, acting. Thrilling, touching, joyful, sad. It’s not just a great show about intense small town high school football (tho it certainly is THAT) but it’s about Life. Life in a small Texas town, Life in America and just plain Life. (It’s also a thoughtful look at white and black people trying to find how to deal with each other in the new century.) There’s not an “off” character in it, from the high school kids to the older generation(s). I also think it’s the most accurate & moving portrayal of a marriage in the real world that I’ve ever seen on TV. Kyle Chandler as the Coach is in the role he was born to play, and Connie Britton (“Nashville’) is absolutely perfect. Almost everyone in this rises to their level, especially Taylor Kitsch as Tim Riggins, the ultimate bad boy with a heart. My wife and I watched EVERY episode when it aired. (I confess I’m not big a sports nut, but that doesn’t matter.I LOVED this show.) At this moment, it’s late Christmas Eve 2013, and a box of the complete FNL series is wrapped and under the tree as a gift for my wife. (Who IS a sport nut.) I know this is a gift she’ll be thrilled to get. (How often can any husband say THAT?) A+++++++
-W. R. Keyes
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
Actors: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Aimee Teegarden, Brad Leland, Taylor Kitsch
Directors: Various
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 13
Rated: PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
DVD Release Date: September 26, 2017
Run Time: 3313 minutes
ASIN: B072RBZ7XX
