I started to watch the show on Netflix, the month before it was going to be taken off, to see how middle America is represented and American football(I don't know much about football). I watched the whole show in a month, amazing characters and a must watch show. Doesn't matter if you do not know football or much about USA, the humanity in the show is a treat to watch. Hope this show gets popular internationally as it transcends genres and touches a lot of topics such as race, abortion etc. in a sensitive and intelligent fashion.

Love, love, love this show! I can't believe it's been sitting there, unwatched by us for this long. The acting is incredible, we have completely bought in that these people are real, the stories are real, and the families are real. The casting- you could not have picked better people for each role. The coach and his wife are absolute perfection, probably one of the best cast husband and wife castings that I have seen. I wish they were together in real life!I think what makes this show so amazing is learning that so much of it is wasn't staged or blocked. The freedom of the actors to relate and interact with one another made it real. I sincerely hope FNL gets a reboot like Gilmore Girls (another show I didn't know about until much later- 2016). I would be the first one jumping down all over social media.

Friday Night Lights sat on my Netflix watch list for over a year before I gave it a chance. What a shock! I'm expecting a show about a football coach and a lot of game clips, instead I am quickly introduced to one of the best family drama's of excellent quality I've ever watched! Rare to see a positive drama in any context in recent years, yet this show portrays a loving couple and their family standing up for what is right in the face of a HIGHLY DYSFUNCTIONAL town with many dysfunctional people. But the story grows, and transitions in such an excellent way (excluding the abrupt end to season 2 I wasn't expecting - cut short by writers strike in 2008) the writing and story are excellent. Was casting 25 year old people as high school students a bit much, yes, but not uncommon... and when doing so to portray exceptional high school athletes; I totally get it, some of these high school football players DO LOOK 25 and they needed actors to look and play the part. Makes me give that a bye, along with the exceptionally pretty girls as that is also common practice.The important part was to me was how much of the story was character based, portrayed real life situations that as a parent I've had to deal with regardless of what I do because life happens to us all. As a father of 3 daughters some of it made me LMBO as Eric Taylor has to (try) and hold his temper in check and deal with his daughter growing up. I've said some of the things he said, and been in the same situations with some of my children so it really resonated with me as real. The transition from the Panthers to the Lions was a bit of a stretch as well with the first two seasons not really indicating there was a "wrong side of the tracks" in Dillon, but the shows introduction sequence does show a town with a lot of shuttered businesses, so it is not a stretch that there would be a lot of struggling families. True in so many small towns in this country.The best part was the shows ability to evolve and stay positive and life affirming in the effect this couple had on it and the way they ended it was very satisfying. One of the best quality family drama's I've seen.

Great TV show.The best thing about this TV show is the great acting across the board. Characters are complex, believable and for the most part likable, dealing with realistic scenario's.So many shows are guilty of having characters react in unrealistic ways and resorting to sensationalism to move the plot along, rather than considering what would realistically happen next. Not so here.The writing is first rate and it is shot in a "unique" way. I've seen some criticism of the camera work but this have never bothered me, it just adds character to the show and a sense that you are really spying on peoples lives rather than actors acting out a story for our amusement.Gripping.