Introduction by Will Leitch, founding editor of Deadspin
Talk to any of the millions of devoted Friday Night Lights fans and they'll tell you: it's not just a show about high school football. Its rich, interesting characters and honestly portrayed relationships make the show's portrait of West Texas life compelling and relatable in ways that have nothing--and everything--to do with touchdowns.
A Friday Night Lights Companion celebrates the show, its fearlessness, and what it's meant to those who love it.
- Dave Campbell's Texas Football managing editor Travis Stewart provides a moving tribute to the power of high school football, by way of unlikely hero Matt Saracen - Jonna Rubin shares the lessons she's learned from the best marriage on television: Eric and Tami Taylor's (lesson number one: drink more wine) - Television Without Pity writer Jacob Clifton offers a meditation on one of Friday Night Lights' most fundamental values: being a part of something bigger than yourself - The Washington Post's Jen Chaney reminds us what we love most about all our favorite Dillon residents, from Tim Riggins to Buddy Garrity to Jess Merriweather - And more writing and reflections on Friday Night Lights
A Friday Night Lights Companion takes you from series pilot to series finale, through all five masterfully crafted seasons' worth of love, loss, family, and football.
Introduction by Will Leitch, founding editor of Deadspin
Talk to any of the millions of devoted Friday Night Lights fans and they'll tell you: it's not just a show about high school football. Its rich, interesting characters and honestly portrayed relationships make the show's portrait of West Texas life compelling and relatable in ways that have nothing--and everything--to do with touchdowns.
A Friday Night Lights Companion celebrates the show, its fearlessness, and what it's meant to those who love it.
- Dave Campbell's Texas Football managing editor Travis Stewart provides a moving tribute to the power of high school football, by way of unlikely hero Matt Saracen - Jonna Rubin shares the lessons she's learned from the best marriage on television: Eric and Tami Taylor's (lesson number one: drink more wine) - Television Without Pity writer Jacob Clifton offers a meditation on one of Friday Night Lights' most fundamental values: being a part of something bigger than yourself - The Washington Post's Jen Chaney reminds us what we love most about all our favorite Dillon residents, from Tim Riggins to Buddy Garrity to Jess Merriweather - And more writing and reflections on Friday Night Lights
A Friday Night Lights Companion takes you from series pilot to series finale, through all five masterfully crafted seasons' worth of love, loss, family, and football.
A Friday Night Lights Companion: Love, Loss, and Football in Dillon, Texas
272
A Friday Night Lights Companion: Love, Loss, and Football in Dillon, Texas
272
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781935618560 |
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| Publisher: | BenBella Books, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 08/02/2011 |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.80(d) |