Friday Night LightsHow the Other Half Lives
Original Air Date: Jan 30, 2009
Victoria - TwoCents Reviewer
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Matt is stressing about competing with superstar freshman quarterback JD McCoy. Lyla is trying to get along with Tim’s future in-laws, while Smash contemplates a full-time future at the Alamo Freeze. And last but not least Eric and Tami try to define their new roles at school and at home.
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Matt is stressing about competing with superstar freshman quarterback JD McCoy. Lyla is trying to get along with Tim’s future in-laws, while Smash contemplates a full-time future at the Alamo Freeze. And last but not least Eric and Tami try to define their new roles at school and at home.
ReplyDeleteLyla isn’t getting along with Tyra’s family which is hard because they’re always at Tim’s house now that Billy and Mindy are tying the knot. As if that wasn’t enough friction in the fabulous twosome romance, Billy gets Tim to help him steal copper wire so he can keep Mindy and her mom in steak dinners. It causes Tim to miss a date with Lyla and causes me, to want to punch Tim in the head. Seriously, I love his whole wounded puppy thing but now he’s just a stupid puppy. Luckily they don’t get caught but he almost loses Lyla.
Smash is still working towards a walk-on at a University but when he finds out his mom is going to take a second job to make sure he can go, he starts to have second thoughts. When he’s offered a full-time manager’s position at the Alamo Freeze he wants to take it until, thankfully Momma Smash gives him a piece of her overly blunt but brilliant mind. She tells him that it’s her job to take care of him not the other way around and he’s been an idiot all this time thinking he was her meal ticket. He decides to go for the dream after all.
Matt knows the coach is under pressure to bench him and play JD. The whole town has made it clear that Matt is not who they want to see as QB1 and he lets the pressure get to him. Luckily he has Julie to share his stress with – and I have to say I love how the writers are working these two back together slowly and believably. It’s so great! In the big game, Matt screws up a BIG play and costs Dillon the game. Julie waits outside the locker room for what must be an hour until he finally shows his head and they go somewhere to “talk about anything but football.”
Tami and Eric fight about the annual Pigskin Pig Out that the coach is supposed to hold for the players and their parents. Tami hated it last year and she hates it again this year and when she runs into Mrs. McCoy she jumps at her offer to host it for the Taylors. Eric is furious, and I have to say I side with him on this one. It’s weird that the back-up QB’s parents are hosting the coach’s dinner. But Tami wins and its hosted by the McCoy’s who ever hire valets – in Dillon. La Tee Da! Anyway Mr. McCoy uses it as an opportunity to pressure Eric into starting JD, which backfires of course. And when Eric plays Matt instead that backfires too and they lose.
He and Tami come home to For Sale signs all over their lawn. Gotta love small town traditions.
Best Dialogue this Friday Night
Eric: You know who I miss? The coach’s wife.
Tami: You know who I can’t wait to meet? The principal’s husband.
What do you guys think of JD McCoy – good kid or future Voo Doo? Are you loving the Matt and Julie storyline as much as me? Leave your TwoCents in the comments!