#FNL

[poguelandia]

What's wrong with me?

[c-sand]

it's a tornado! everybody get away from the windows! go, go, go!!

[legendsofamultishipper]

Genre Specific Poll #3

*As a reminder, I'm not including any currently-airing shows in these polls.

[morgansdeb]

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS S01E15: "BLINDERS"

[karihighman]

[ultra-violences]

friday night lights rewatch // s01e02 - eyes wide open

[thelonelybrilliance]

ok you know what I'm going to be a little reckless on the dash. Friday Night Lights subverted tropes it thought it was playing straight, and that only contributed to its timeless power. Landry Clarke was the holier-than-thou-nerd-who-gets-the-girl self-insert (Pete Berg my Eye is on you) who actually is one of the most sinister and entitled "Nice Guy" prototypes I've ever seen on the screen. He insinuates his way into Tyra's life despite her evident lack of interest and actual repulsion. He schemes and plans for ways to get close to her, and when she's recovering from the trauma of an attempted rape he actively incorporates her need for protection into his approach to ingratiating himself with her. When he kills her assailant (lol the infamous s2 "Murder" plotline) he equates his role to the David-Bathsheba-Uriah dynamic in the Bible, aka the king lusting after the most beautiful woman and killing her husband to get him out of the way. (Newsflash bud you didn't kill her HUSBAND and thus get RIGHTS to her, you KILLED THE MAN WHO ASSAULTED HER.)

Anyway, Landry decenters Tyra in her own experience through manipulation, condescension, and outright shaming. By killing her assailant he doesn't rescue her, he further limits her ability to seek help and healing, while constantly negging her for her complex feelings of panic, fear, rage, and relief. His feelings always take precedence. He willingly accepts her sleeping with him as recompense. Whenever she shrinks away from him thereafter, he shames her for not wanting to be with the "good guy." Literally ONE EPISODE after the attempted assault on Tyra, when she reconnects with Tim (platonically, as a trusted, if complex figure from her entire past life--aka someone who actually knows her, unlike Landry), he denigrates Tim's intelligence and character, all but slut-shaming Tyra for wanting to rekindle that friendship. Mind you, Tyra is not dating Landry at this time and in fact shows zero romantic interest in him until after he kills her assailant, which begs the question of how genuine her interest actually was. Their entire "relationship" over the course of s2 and s3 includes Tyra being the one to have to feel guilty and uncomfortable whenever her interests and desires do not align with what Landry wants. This is/was popularly seen in the fandom as Tyra "using" him. There is literally an episode of the show called "The Giving Tree" in which we are supposed to believe that Landry helping Tyra do homework etc is equivalent to the little boy destroying the tree for his own selfish ends. Meanwhile, Landry has had his eye on her since mid-season 1 with the most gross teen-boy-fantasy mindset imaginable, and there is actually no canonical basis to support them getting together had it not been for Tyra undergoing a string of deeply traumatic events. One of Landry's first physical overtures (which she does not appear to pick up on as romantic) occurs when he is staying in her empty house with her becuase she is afraid her would-be rapist is about to return. Landry literally calls Matt for advice on how to subtly initiate physical content, i.e., how to cop a feel on this traumatized girl who has only invited you in to protect her against another assault. On more than one occasion Landry jealously squares off against other men Tyra is interested in, often embarrassing her, or gives another girl attention only to drop her when he thinks he has another chance with Tyra. These behaviors were not cast negatively by the show. At the time (early 2000s), it was likely written as a nerd wish-fulfillment power fantasy that treated Tyra as a conquest, something to be earned, something that was obviously a "hot commodity" (as Landry's own father, a cop, implies to her face). Tyra is constrained by men's objectification, even while she resists her mother's and sister's even more sexualized paths. Tyra is seen as a bad girl, a temptation, a siren-song--but Landry himself does everything he can to ensure she can't get away from him.

And then? She does. Call it actors having other commitments, call it a change in the show's core arcs, call it what you want, but Tyra gets away. Through her own hard-won work, relying not solely on his assistance but also on her own experience, her own life, and her own wits, Tyra gets into college and makes a clean break from Dillon and specifically Landry. Until she returns in Season 5 (to reunite with Tim, the actual love of her life and her true narrative parallel, but that's for another meta), she has avoided Dillon and outright ghosted Landry (~deserved~). Despite being judged, scolded, abandoned, and pressed by almost everyone in her life, she forges her own path and doesn't offer continuing "compensation" to the Nice Guy(TM) just because she was beautiful and sexualized and once had the nerve to resist him. I genuinely don't believe the show intended to write such a commentary on the unfair stakes a girl in Tyra's position takes, but damn it made for a rich text.

[yuplusjin]

those smiles

[acervorevolucionario]

Soldado do Exército de Libertação do Vietnã do Sul (vietcongue) posa abaixo de uma bandeira da Frente Nacional de Libertação do Vietnã do Sul (FNL) carregando seu rifle AK-47. Ele estava participando da libertação de prisioneiros estadunidenses como parte do acordo de cessar-fogo de 27 de janeiro de 1973.

Vietnã, 13 de fevereiro, 1973 /// Foto por Herman Kokojan

[shelbbswrites]

I’ve been reading and watching A TON of slice-of-life, cozy, small-town dramas lately, and MAN, do I wish more of them were on TV nowadays.

They often have such unique and sweet and romantic character studies that deserve a lot of love.

Until the actors & writers get deserved fair deals and a chance to tell MORE stories, I’m grateful for all the creatives who made what we have in shows like Hart of Dixie, Sweet Magnolias, Gilmore Girls, FNL, and Virgin River.

TV is better and more comforting because they exist.

[poguelandia]

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (2006-2011)

[c-sand]

hey, jules. hmm? i think it's time we go. i...i don't wanna go. hey, you wanna...i'll grab you a beer. you're getting beers!? yeah, you want one? can i get a beer? yeah.

[danndelio]

fake it until you make it

[dizziedupthegirl]

im cooking up my fnl dr yall. i love this show. be prepared 🤭

[clarkslana]

TIM & LYLA — 4x06: Stay

Friday Night Lights (2006-2011)

[earthslimandfire]

i can’t keep runnin away, i can’t keep runnin away

i swear i’m coming back one day

..what if i’m wrong and i ain’t got what it takes

and all them people that was countin on me, boy won’t u 🧗🏾 that mountain for me