"Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose"

Why is this the best show ever?

The acting is great. The music is great. The storylines are great. It feels real. Coach and Tami have the best marriage I have ever seen on television (a realistic marriage, at that), which is so refreshing since almost every other show seems to poke fun at marriage in one way or another.

It's about heart. It's about love and family and community. It's about giving of yourself to help other people grow.

I have never teared up so much throughout a whole tv show. And I also laughed a bunch, too.

When I came out of my bedroom last night and explained my red, teary eyes, my roommate asked if the finale was sad. The thing is, it wasn't—it was perfect. It was definitely the most satisfying series finale I have ever seen.

I think the funniest thing about Friday Night Lights being my favorite show of all time is that I don't even really like football (although I now understand it 10x better than I did when I started).

I found this description of the show in a review I read (which has spoilers, so don't read it if you haven't seen it), and it sums up how I feel better than I know how to say:

"There's a level of honest, raw humanity in "Friday Night Lights" that few TV dramas have ever achieved. Over and over and over, the show and its characters wore their hearts on their sleeves, in a way that somehow made them more solid than characters on other series of comparable quality.

"That rawness made the show great, but it was also likely one of the aspects (along with the high school football setting) that kept the show from being a hit, as most viewers don't turn to TV to be confronted by emotions as powerful as the ones this series brought up. Watching "Friday Night Lights" often felt like being put through a ringer. You felt like part of the town, and the team, and you bled with the characters and cried with them, and on occasion you got to soar with them, too. And a lot of people simply don't want to get that close to the fictional characters they watch - don't feel that experiencing the devastating lows is worth also getting to share in the glorious highs."

Yes, it is just a tv show. But I think it is a tv show that rises to the occasion, a tv show that exemplifies why I am passionate about the humanities and all forms of art. 


Does anyone want to move to Texas with me?