'Friday Night Lights' recap: Separations and betrayals

I thought Smash’s mom didn’t want her son dating a white girl for the same reason Noelle’s parents.
They have had a few dangling threads this season: Julie’s teacher, Street, Santiago. I’m hoping they get rapped up before the eps run out.

I love everything about this show and watch it every week. I agree that this season is slightly less good than the first season, but it’s still a moving slice of life look at a small Texas town. I didn’t recognize Logan as the Christian kid. All I thought when I saw him smirking at Lyla is, uh-oh, this kid is no Christian. The way he put the moves on her at the end of the episode just proves it. Santiago and Buddy are my two favorite characters. I really like how they are trying to rebuild their lives. The episode when Santiago moved into the apartment and saw his room and bed just about made me cry. That’s what I like about this show. The acting never feels like acting; the writing is so good that the actors can really dig into their characters and come up with meaningful, authentic scenes. So much better than a good 90% of t.v. now. Oh,and Beachmom, I watch Lost, Ugly Betty, Amazing Race, Biggest Loser and have rediscovered Law & Order this season.

I agree that this episode was kind of all over the place. The way Carlotta just left was really weird, but I’m not sure where they were going with that relationship anyways. I don’t know if Lyla’s quick transformation and taking on of Christian responsibilities is realistic, but I think it’s one of the more interesting story lines on tv right now. Santiago’s storyline also has a lot of potential if done properly. I just wish FNL would focus on a few key storylines per season rather than going all over the place trying to garner better ratings. The ratings will come only with proper promotion. They should stick to what they do best – adding subtle and human details to regular, every day storylines in a small town.
But like everyone else said, the worst FNL episode is still better than the best Grey’s episode or any other crap out there.

The “thug” Santiago beat up was Weevil from Veronica Mars, another show that got the ratings shaft. I hated Logan on GG and on FNL too–the guy plays everything smarmy, even Christian. The thing is, Lila’s not new to “Christianity,” as some were saying. She went to church with her family, as most small-towners do (or at least in the South, they claim religious upbringing), as evidenced when Buddy got caught cheating. Lila just got involved with the uber-church after her parents’ divorce, which everyone knows is a whole different ballgame from the small country church. Anyway, I was thinking maybe Carlotta was married or pregnant or something–hope not. Please no more crazy drama–just pure, real moments of pleasure like Tammy and Eric fussing over how to open a fence door. I could watch that for hours. They are the best things on TV, ever, ever. (Sorry, Pam and Jim. You’re runners-up.)

in response to your loathing of logan hunsburger:
in all honesty, i think if you are going to attempt, or at least claim to attempt, to ‘put aside’ any personal loathing, i think it would be best to refrain from saying something along the lines of “I’ll try to put aside my personal loathing of Czuchry’s repulsively arrogant Logan Huntzberger character on Gilmore Girls, the rich twit who led Rory Gilmore into more bad subplots than any other Gilmore character.”
perhaps your idea of ‘putting aside personal loathing’ is different to most people’s, but to me that seems more like you are letting this personal opinion influence your professional opinion. the boy is a good actor, who made money on a show that may have given him some bad subplots, but that paid him and looked after him for years.

so you put aside your opinion on logan huntzberger by putting it out there for everyone to read? makes total sense, aye