I am an Emmy voter. And boy was I happy when buried in the mailbox onslaught that included discs for
Gene Simmons' Family Jewels and George Lopez and Lifetime movies and that
Kennedys atrocity, I got the complete set of the 13 episodes of
Friday Night Lights final, fifth season (above). Last night I devoured the last three episodes, which will air in the next couple of weeks on NBC.
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| Kyle Chandler as Coach Eric Taylor |
Well, not devoured, really, I kept hitting the pause button, to wax nostalgic over a familiar face like Adrienne Palicki and Jesse Plemons who had graduated and left seasons ago -- but really, to just extenuate the inevitable final lights-out. Because nothing like it will come this way again any time soon. A realistic show about people with realistic relationships, feelings, hardships and triumphs in this era of
Jersey Shore,
Glee and
Desperate Housewives, was a major miracle.
It's part of the sad saga of
FNL's undeservedly checkered airing career that instead of there being a hugely anticipated finale night like
The Sopranos that everyone tunes into at once, many people will have already seen it.
