now, tastes more like real life

Friday Night Lights is really good.

I've been meaning to write about it for a while and haven't been, because I can't quite put it into words. It's kind of a quiet, slow show - not a whole lot happens in each episode, but it all builds into a really great overall story. It's actually realistic, in a lot of ways - it's about real families facing real problems. Most of the people aren't rich, and they are just trying to do the best they can. Plus, whoever the writer is does a great job of inserting little subtle things into the show to give it that extra human touch. There have been three fantastic moments in the past two weeks - one was when Coach Taylor lectured his daughter about sex, one when Matt Saracen (love him) sang to his grandma, and the best was probably when Tim Riggins' brother handed him the bag of peas to put on his beat-up face - the same bag of peas that he and Tim had gotten in an argument about buying earlier in the show. Other classic moments include the Members Only jacket moment in the last episode and the entire character of Smash Parker's sister.

Watch.