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Argh, this one was a killer.
I've been wondering where Matt’s grandma has been, if he in fact didn’t go to the Chicago Art Institute so he could care for her. We finally see her at the end, but first... Matt's been "slinging dough and not 60 yard bombs" (per Riggs), delivering 'za (a Scrabble word he uses later), shlepping scrap for the artist, and hanging with Jules, who’s busy applying to colleges almost anywhere but Texas. He’s working the pizza counter, and Riggs comes in for a slice. (ACK! Tim appears to be wearing a ring on his left ring finger, but apparently it’s his keyring. Phew.) Matt invites himself to go hunting with Tim, recalling the scene when he was motorcycle shopping and Riggs took him out for pitchers before practice and to The Landing Strip for some exercise.
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Tim’s sleeping in the bed of his truck (alone) and a cop tells him he has to scram, after recognizing him. Then he’s in Riggins Rigs at work under a car, hilariously wearing a brand new uniform shirt with its sleeves torn off, muscles bulging. ( Read more... )
It’s August in FNL land, which means the little snowglobe of Dillon’s been shaken up and set down.
Coach's day does not start well. He has a new red "East" hat whose brim needs breaking in. He's scoping out new employer East Dillon High's facilities. The guy with keys, who thinks he’s trying to break in (he is kicking the door), doesn’t know or care who he is.
He has a bunch of misfits at team tryouts—overweight, skinny, attitude-filled, bling-wearing kids who all wanna be QB. They too don’t care who he is, at first. A juvie (the new kid, Vince) fresh from petty larceny, is brought to the field in a cop car. (Hey, there are black cops in Dillon now! Where’d Landry’s dad go?) Vince has only played "Madden" football, not the real thing. But he can run fast, as the cop who chased him attests. Eric takes a 15-year-old vcr to Sears for repair, where an idolizing salesman convinces Eric to hire him as an assistant.
Tami’s still principal at Dillon High. The boosters are yanking her chain, making her do the first game coin toss, which conflicts with Eric's first game at East. Joe McCoy even tells her to choose heads. She gives him the Stink Eye and he says he’s teasing her. The new coach and Joe ride around in a golf cart, with Buddy chasing after them. (He looks like he's dropped a few pounds, btw.)
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After last week’s emotional blowout, FNL is back to daily life, beginning five months later in season… baseball season! And bringing us to weather warm enough for our pals to be swimming and sunbathing: Lyla in a bikini, and Tim Hulking-out of his too-small sleeveless plaid shirt, Tyra swimming with Landry (who as we recall is one of those t-shirt swimmers), and Julie and Matt at the movies. Tim and Billy leaving the formal store with their priceless wedding suits in hand. Eric and Buddy golfing. Life. (Note to self: As in, get one now that the season’s done.)
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I wish I could see this episode in a movie theater, with a huge picture and big sound. It is worthy, certainly. Scenes of sheer visual beauty, not to mention the emotional punch consistent in FNL. And a quick, tight pacing of scenes. Amazing.
This ep revolves around the Panthers’ State Championship game against the Titans, led off by another pep rally with the gym decorated dramatically with a floor to ceiling streamer forest. Tim and Matt lead the team for their final pre-game rally as Tami, just outside the gym, realizes she must call child protective services about Joe McCoy hitting his son after the last game. ( Read more... )
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Tim & Lyla have totally swapped personalities by now. Lyla’s playing video games with Billy, and Mindy says she used to think Lyla was prissy but she’s actually alright. Tim beams a little, stands, does a cute stretch, announces he’s clocking out, hitting the sheets, and asks Lyla coyly if she wants to come in a sweetly fake way that really means “let’s go have sex now.” She grimaces at him, saying she needs to finish a rematch with Billy, and asks for another beer. Her priorities are seriously messed if the list doesn’t start with 1) Tim/Sex.
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Our boys grow spines this week. Stiffer ones, that is.
Tyra’s waaay behind in school, thanks to her Cash-scapade. Guess we’re done with him. So Julie suggests that Tyra take the SATs that weekend and get Landry to tutor her. Simple! You can cram for a huge test like that in a couple days, right? So she interrupts Crucifictorious’ rehearsal to ask him, he says okay, and his band members chide him for being a tool. In fact, during a cram session with Lando, Tyra wants to break for a sandwich and he tells her no, that he has rehearsal, and leaves but not before saying they don’t have a real friendship, that it’s like the book The Giving Tree, where she’s the boy taking everything from the tree until it’s just a stump. You know, he’s right. So Tyra uses one of her other tool connections to wheedle a band gig for Landry that Sat night.
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ROLE REVERSAL! Lyla on a bender with Mindy? Tim goin' to college? Matt’s mom acting like a mother? Cats sleeping with dogs? What’s going on?
Heavy symbolism this week, folks. Tim returns home via cab from accompanying Jason to New York, only to find his beloved truck smashed up. If you doubted this boy’s capacity to love, you need to watch this scene, and the heartbreak he feels seeing his Silverado bent. Suddenly he’s the grown up, everything looks different since his trip to NY. Billy’s slobbering drunk, passed out on the couch in his teenie black bikini. (Flip: Billy stripped down and not Tim.) Wedding’s off, Mindy broke up with him. Tim maturely sets aside his concern for Loretta (what I've named his truck, thank me later) and focuses on Billy.
Time to spread your wings and fly, Dillon! Jason to the big apple with wingman Riggs, Tyra on the rodeo circuit, the Taylors to a new house?, and Matt to a new position…
The house flippers did it – sold it and reaped a $14K profit each! Billy’s gonna rescue Mindy from “shakin’ her ass” at the Landing Strip, Herc’s gonna buy margaritas which Tim seconds, and Jason drops it casually that he’s moving to New York to become a sports agent and be near Erin and Noah. To which Tim says, after a double take, “When are we leaving?”
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The format of a tv show conveniently, if sadly, reminds us of life’s cyclical nature. That nothing lasts forever. Especially with FNL -- high school, whether a wonderful or horrible experience (or both, probably), is over quickly. And if you’re a Panther, the highs and lows are magnified ten-fold. This episode was full of parting omens for two of our favorite Dillon boys, Jason and Tim. It also focused on new kids -- the burgeoning star QB JD, a new valuable fullback, Jamarcus, and Landry’s new bass player, Devin.( Read more... )
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Love and money are in the air! This week it’s between Tyra and the new handsome cowboy in town, Billy’s friend Cash. They meet cute, and impossibly, when Cash has a winning bronco ride at the rodeo, gets up off the dirt, and using his X-ray vision, spots Tyra yonder in the stands. He tips his hat, and the rest is history. It’s convenient that he’s friends with Tyra’s future brother-in-law so they wind up at the roadhouse together, where everybody’s dancing and he calls her a goddess. ( Read more... )
"I Knew You When"
Season 3, Episode 1 Recap. Scenes not necessarily in order. Spoilers galore.
Panthers didn’t repeat as State Champs in 2007, so Coach is feeling heat. Adding to the complicated situation he’s in, Tami is now principal of Dillon High. She introduces him at the pep rally before the school season even begins. She’s now wearing elegantly fitted grey suits and white separates instead of the usual tank tops and jeans. Riggs and Saracen lead the team into the gym, now seemingly co-captains without Smash, who is now managing the Alamo Freeze full-time.
Coach takes reporters’ questions, giving the producers some fun with cut-aways to, say, Riggins shirtless, arm wrestling, beer tossing, and up chucking, as Coach says how Riggs will be a reliable team mainstay. Ark. Tyra consults with the new lame guidance counselor, who reminds me of mine. He tells her the state universities are out of her league, contradicting Tami, and incurring the wrath of Tyra.
Lyla’s now living with her dad in his condo, her mom and the granola guy apparently having moved to northern California, I guess with her siblings. Both Chris and Jesus are out of the scene; her primal needs reign. (There is a god.) Buddy knocks on her door to tell her breakfast is ready, and you just know something’s up when she cracks it open just a few inches. And lo and behold, your wildest imagination is right: Riggins appears like a vision from Lyla’s bathroom, looking sheepish, shirtless and hot. He gathers Lyla in his bulging arms and asks if there’s enough eggs for him, picking her up (watch his back ripple) and dropping her on the bed, saying she needs a workout first. (Sssssttttt! Va-pors.) She giggles ferociously. But wouldn’t Buddy suspect her shrieks and moans, seeing as how he’s about 8 feet away through a crappy wall?
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