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YAY!! FNL is back!!! YAY!

I don't have anything else to say about this episode that I haven't already said, but I loved it so much.

And AHHHHHHH at the preview for next week. But I won't talk about that here because I'm going to the NBC Store and ordering a Crucifictorius shirt. Hot damn! It's about time.

Also, loved the JC Penney recap thing. And the TV Guide countdown clock. Awesome all around.

And we're back.

Great episode. I wasn't really feeling the setups but then it kicked after twenty minutes. Amazing stuff all around.

How the hell didn't these people be nominated for or win Emmy's?
Best premiere of the fall season. My god.

Yay yay yay! The emotional roller coaster is still picking up speed, and I'm so happy it's back. Awesome episode.

I agree Six.
I wasn't feeling the character change of Lila and Julie, but the whole episode went up notch after notch as the show progressed.

Maybe its just me....but I feeling wary about this episode. I don't know, maybe I'm having The OC Season 2 flashback.

Everything seems disjointed. The murder, Lyla and religion, Julie being more of a brat than last season.

Maybe I need to gain some faith in the writers but I really hope this season doesn't become the OC Season 2 (in terms of being disappointing as compared to season 1).

Holy cow. I had forgotten how invested I was in all these people. That was just start-to-finish awesome.

I especially love Landry's newly expanded role (although I am a little worried about where his and Tyra's little adventure tonight may lead them).

Still, awesome sophomore premiere.

Oooh boy. I'm going to ignore The Big Thing and focus on the rest of the episode, which I enjoyed. It's amazing that Connie Britton can kick ass but just entering the pool with her hot shades and her pregnant-ness. I love that woman. I also loved Matt and Landry's conversation, with the shot of Riggins chillaxing on the raft. The Eric and Julie stuff was lovely, and the last two scenes actually made me tear up a little bit--seeing them do the championship ceremony, knowing that Coach Taylor wouldn't be coaching them. I know he's coming back and all, but that ceremony was definitely bittersweet.

Kyle Chandler's Hair was all sorts of "WTF?" this episode. Love.

You know what else I found myself appreciating? Adrienne Palicki's hairstyle. When it's wet, it looks hot, but when it's dry, it borders on mom-ish. Tyra doesn't have super-hot-girl long hair...it keeps the character that much more "real."

Oh FNL writers what have you done to my show? Julie's even more of a brat than usual, the Taylor family is in shambles, Matt/Julie are on the rocks and Lyla's using Christianity to stick it to her mother? Really?

And I just don't even think I could speak about Tyra/Landry. What the hell was that?

The storytelling itself is as awesome as always, as is the acting but I'm just not sure I like the stories they're telling at the moment. Maybe I need to give it another watch.

Still getting the little things right. Loved starting off with a typical Matt/Landry conversation. The Taylors are still the most perfectly depicted family on television.

But this Landry/Tyra plotting smells like network fiddling for ratings.

Wow. Just... wow. Tyra. Landry. A whole lot of me yelling, "NO NO NO JUST CALL THE POLICE!" Hell of a season opener.

As a sidenote - they just totally went in the opposite direction that I thought they would with Lyla. I totally thought she was going to storm in, all full of rebellious teenage feminist anger, and she came in as... a simpering born again Christian. Like, it was as if the writers sat around and were like, "How can we make Lyla even more unlikable? So that her even her supporters are all, '... yeah, I'm done."

What did they do to all the girls, really? I'm so confused.

ETA:


That's what was going on in my head, exactly.

I'm pretty sure having my mother's water break in the pool as I was lifeguarding would be the most embarassing possible moment in my high school life, no matter how cool said mother was.

Oh, Landry. And Tyra. I've been worried about this storyline since I saw the Yahoo premiere two weeks ago, and I'm still worried. At the same time, I have more faith in the people behind this show than any other, so I'm going to hold out hope that it comes together in a logical, non-cliche, non-after school special kind of way.

I'm ready to print up my own WWRD bracelet to wear around. Anyone in? It's good to see the summer hiatus was good to Taylor Kitsch.

I loved it. Compared to the other pilots and season premiere I've watched in the past week this is above the rest with flying colors.

I even teared up (which never happens). I need to rewatch it.

I really enjoyed tonight's episode. I'm eager to see next week, and hopefully see more scenes between Street/Riggins.

Once again, I got to see the amazing relationship between Coach and Tami. And it looks as though Coach is regretting his decision to be coaching at TMU. Please please please, come back to the Panthers. I don't like this new coach at all. He doesn't seem to be a unifying presence- more like a divisive one.

Yes, I'm not crazy about the Trya/Landry killing her attacker n self defense storyline, but I'm going to have faith in the writers- and I certainly hope that neither Tyra nor Landry get written off the show as a result of this.

I loved the season premeire, but hated everything involving Landry, except for the beginning scene!! I HATE that he's on the football team, and I HATE this whole shit storyline with Tyra. However, "WWRD" may be one way to get back in my good graces!! Still want no part of him on the football team.

OK, so the Tyra/Landry murder might be sorta unrealistic and high melodrama...but it totally felt real to me. Jesse and Adrienne totally sold it as two scared-ass kids who made a big mistake and then panicked hardcore. A murder in Dillon might seem unrealistic, but really, these sorts of things happen in small towns as easily as they happen in big cities. It didn't ring false. So for right now I'm ok with it and willing to see where the writers take it. They've never let me down before.

Julie...*sigh*. She reminds me of why, despite wishing everyday for my teenage body back, I'd never, NEVER again want to be a teenage girl. I've been in the EXACT same situation she was in with Matt and the Swede, and it was confusing and upsetting and frustrating. Throw in Dad gone for weeks/months at a time and a new baby when you've spent 16 years being an only child...too much going on at once for that poor girl. No wonder she's acting out.

Lyla, Lyla, Lyla...*sigh*. On a side note there, I never realised before tonight how much Minka Kelly resembles the actress who plays her mum. They really do look like mother and daughter.

WOW.

I'm not sure yet if I like the murder storyline. The show doesn't need a murder - there are so many other intriguing stories.

What I really didn't like was that there was a radio promo for the show where they said there was a murder. So I knew it was coming, I just didn't know which character. I was avoiding all spoilers and hated that the radio promo tried to grab new viewers by having someone say something like "there's a murder on Friday Night Lights?"

I thought it may have been Mrs. Garrity's new boyfriend that was going to be killed.

Hmmmm....let's see how long this new coach is going to last. Gone by Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas?

Oh, I've missed you FNL. And, full disclosure, I watched the whole first season in like, three days on DVD. I just hope all the people I told to watch tonight get the love. Even with limited scenes of Riggins and Jason Street and Saracen's awesome grandma.

I agree that the Tyra/Landry plot moved along much quicker than I thought. They could have spent a good three eps building to that shocker.

Loved the Coach/Julie talk in the car. Every kid's fear is becoming their parents. Well-handled.

I don't like the fact that NewCoach is such a jerk right off the bat. It so clearly illustrates the difference between him and Taylor that it's obvious Eric is coming back somehow.

Buddy completely nailed his scene with his ex-wife and the new boyfriend. That, and Tami holding in her tears before letting loose, were some of the best-acted scenes all year.

I thought the best part of the episode was the acting. I'm still a little leary of some of the plot points. I think Tyra and Tami were the best with Julie right up there as well.

I liked how the new coach is a foul-mouthed hard-ass. A lot of coaches seem to be that way and it's good how its so different from CT.

I liked the new credits, too. It was a little sunnier or something.

I'm just not sure about the ending.

Matt got buff. Tim’s arms are fantastic. Hated the Tyra in a bikini with a popsicle shot; too gratuitous. Welcome back, Coach’s man shorts. New credits look good.

But Matt lost the confidence he had at the end of last season. He has a serious self-esteem problem; Julie blowing off the party warrants at least a nasty voicemail. I don’t know why they have to break up but it looks like it’s headed that way, and I would love to have him just lay it out: “I don’t know why you’re pulling away from me, but if you want to break up, fine.” Take Coach’s advice and grow a pair. I miss the steely-eyed “I was with your daughter” Matt. And why isn’t he the captain anymore?

Why are Tim and Lyla still in high school? That “best I’ve ever had” thing was gross, although I think it was his (gross) way of saying he loved Lyla; he only knows how to relate to women through sex.

I wanted to smack Julie throughout the whole thing. She has no interest in her new sister, no interest in her parents, no interest in Matt, and she was just so unpleasant. Very typical teenager, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. I’d have caught hell from my parents if my mom came home after giving birth and found that I hadn’t cleaned up like she’d told me (I was almost four when my brother was born, but if I’d been sixteen. You know what I mean.). And the Swede is not cute. The scene in the car with her dad didn’t do enough for me. If there’s an explanation for going from “I’ll always love you no matter what happens” to this, I’d like to SEE it – maybe she was feeling burdened by her family situation and Matt wasn’t there for her. I don’t really see them as the It couple; no one seemed to care about them, really. Jason and Lyla commanded attention, and Matt and Julie don’t command the same kind of attention.

Connie Britton on the couch in tears broke my heart – I can’t believe she doesn’t have an Emmy. I’ve never embraced the baby storyline, and it makes the commuter thing much less plausible – short of military deployment or marital strife, I can’t think of a reason to separate with the birth of a new baby (Connie Britton talks to a producer about this on the DVDs, saying it doesn’t make sense), but Connie Britton is acting the hell out of post-partum.

I thought Lyla’s prayer was hilarious, especially the part about skinny jeans. Her mom looks much better without those Shirley Temple curls.

I don’t like the new coach at all, and I miss Coach Taylor’s interactions with the boys.

Grandma Saracen and Coach’s hug was the cutest thing.

I HATED the murder. It’s so far beneath this show. I was into the show, and then I was like, “Uch, I don’t watch One Tree Hill for a reason, what the hell is this?” And I’d been enjoying the levity between them, and now there can’t be any of that.

I’d been nervous about seeing this because I’ve never been on board with the baby storyline so maybe it was a self-fulfilling prophesy, but I didn’t love it. The murder really cast a pall over it for me, as did Julie’s behavior, and it felt disjointed.

When Eric told Julie that if she broke up with Matt no one would think less of her, I yelled at my tv "Bullshit, I would!"

Ugh, this girl has a terminal case of stupid. Why risk messing things up with probably the sweetest guy on the planet for some generic wanna be rockstar who aint that talented or that cute? And in what universe is turning into Tami and Eric a bad thing?

ETA: WTF, show? Eight months ago Julie and Matt were fully committed and totally in love, and our boy had become a man. Now he's mumbling again and she's acting like he smells bad or something? You know that Matt would have spent the entire summer trying to be there for her and totally listened to her vent, so why has she become this resentful little brat? There is no need to break them up. Relationship strife does not always equal good drama, no matter how amzing your cast is. Wouldn't it have been nicer(and much more realistic) to have Julie and Matt work through this stuff (new baby, dad gone, grandma drama, asshole new coach, insane schedules, etc,) TOGETHER instead of sweet level headed Julie throwing it all away on some greaseball and Matt hooking up with hot nurse chick?

Loved that Coach is now firmly in the pr-Saracen camp. And the little details-for example the whole ep he was rocking the I have a new baby at home/haven't slept hair.

Riggins and Lyla were awesome together. I adore how proud he is of his 'godless selfish hedonism.' I'd totally give up Jesus to be a member of his harem (aka the S.S. Tatas. I snorted at that. Nice to know that Matt's still a teenage boy.) ANd nice to know that religion hasn't detroyed the snark. That passive agressively bitchy prayer was a thing of beauty. And show, don't make me feel bad for Buddy. I don't like it at all.

Completly adore Landry and am so sorry that things ended the way they did with the creepy rapist guy. Any other show I'd positively dread this covering up a murder plot, and while I'm not thrilled with it, I have total faith in the writers. Despite the context, the I love you made me melt. I'm kind of nervous though. Fried Green Tomatos and rubbing lotion on her. It seems like Tyra really doesn't see him "that way." Here hoping she discovers the joys of the nice guy. And I totally fucking loved that she absolutely would have eaten all of that junk food. Tyra's my girl.

Eric needs to be back in Dillon SOON!!! Come on, we can't have Tami crying, cause that hurts my heart.

Having watched the premiere two weeks ago and really not liking it, I have to say I've warmed up a lot since then. It went a lot better for me the second time around. The scenes that rocked, like Tami's not crying until Coach leaves, and Coach's little Matt Chat in the grocery store, rocked even harder, and the scenes that bugged (anything with the Swede in it) were a lot easier to swallow. Although I still think the Swede needs to wash his hair immediately.

I'm glad that it's back and everything, but it was kind of a mixed bag for me. This whole Tyra/Landry "murder cover-up" is just strange. It feels less real, and more melodramatic. I just hope the Law & Order crew doesn't show up anytime soon. Oh, and Juila is offically my least favorite character, at this moment. Man, she became a brat over hiatus. Finally, there wasn't enough Smash or Jason.

On to the good stuff: Eric & Tami were awesome, as always. Connie Britton's crying scene reminded me how wrong the Emmy voters are, as did Kyle Chandler's reaction to Julie's problems. Good show, you two. The ring ceremony was beautiful to watch, seeing Buddy just flatout snap was good in a crazy way, and Zach Gilford was great as always.

Looking forward to next week, but I have some worries. I guess I need to put faith in the writers.

I was thoroughly amused by Lyla's pre-dinner prayer. Becoming a fierce evangelical Christian in a conventional Protestant family is far more amusing than, say, becoming a metal-head. THAT they could deal with, but this? deep down, Pam has to wonder if Lyla is right. Because...that's how we're raised down here.

I'm very troubled by the Tyra/Landry storyline. Was anybody else reminded of the scene in the Robert Duvall movie "The Apostle"? Of course the circumstances were different, but the deliberate picking-up-of-the-bat-in-anger reminded me of that moment, and of course I knew right then what was going to happen to that awful man.

Not that he deserved it. I, too, kept yelling, "call your dad! Call the police! This isn't you! You won't be able to live with this!"

Kyle Chandler's hair was wildly over-emoting in the grocery store.

The Julie/Matt estrangement felt a little false to me. I just don't see how, after all these months, Matt would be as afraid of her as he seems to be - afraid to talk directly to her and not be nervous and stammering as he is.

Welcome back, show! I've missed you!

So here's the thing...

I love Friday Night Lights. This is my favorite show on TV. I think the acting is uniformly excellent. I think the Taylor family is brilliant, Matt Saracen is breaking my heart, and I really like what the writers are doing with Lyla Garrity.

However, the one misstep I've seen is pretty big: I think that storyline with Tyra being stalked by her would-be rapist and Landy killing him is the wrong way to go. Adrianne Palicki and Jesse Plemons are acting the hell out of it, but I don't want a standard soap opera storyline.

I want to know how Jason is adjusting to working with someone who is not Eric Taylor and who seems very different from Eric Taylor. Is the town still looking on him with pity or as a productive member of society? Smash is appearing on the covers of Texas football magazines; I want to know how he's handling the fame. Is he still with Waverly? How's she doing?

Believe me, I love pretty much anything FNL does. But if they're going to go with this Tyra/Landry storyline, I want something unexpected. That was one of the defining traits of the first season: The writers, directors and actors took storylines that might seem somewhat trite and put a different twist on them. That made the plots seem more grounded in reality, if you get my meaning.

Of course, I will be back every week unless the show either is cancelled or does something to really piss me off.

I think that is totally believable in eight months, especially the Julie and Lyla story lines. They're both going through a lot of family changes and are reacting to them.

I think a theme we're going to see recurring this whole season will be about not sitting by and watching it happen.

Matt is obviously the first person that comes to mind, but there's also CT and his family life. Can he just stay in Austin and watch his family fall apart?

Can Lyla just stand by and watch Tim destroy his life with alcohol?

Can Buddy sit by while his family is stolen from him by another man?

I'm sure there are more if I think about it harder and once we're shown more of Jason and Smash's storylines.

I'm not all that happy with the murder story arc, but I'm willing to wait and see what happens. One thing I'm sure of, the actors and the writers will make it as realistic as they can, even if the event itself is not very plausible.


ETA:

Hee! And it looked like his five o'clock shadow had a thing or two it was trying to express also.

I want to give Matt Saracen a big hug. Poor guy.

Also, despite the dark place Landry's storyline went, he had my favorite line of the episode:

"Uh...I'm gonna go get some Chee-tos."

Landry's and Saracen's mumblemouth delivery is just so pitch perfect.

What happened to my show? Everyone in it is still great, but did it look different? Where's the bleakness? There's that whole melodramatic plotline, and the bridge looked great but it didn't make me cry. Nothing made me cry except I long for the old uninspiring credits. Aside from the customary Landry/Matt banter, the opening looked like it was pandering to an OC crowd and then the credits looked like Seventh Heaven. Of course I'm still going to watch, but when I remember the opening scenes of the pilot from last season--even just in terms of how it looked, it just seems a different show. I know change is inevitable. But I hope it gets better, not worse.

When Julie and Eric are in the car and Eric is advising about the boy situation, does he say "If you break up with Matt, no one will love you less?" Because that's what it sounds like he's saying but that doesn't really make sense. Anybody catch the exact words there?

I'm so happy the show is back. Even after seeing the preview a few weeks ago and having time to get used to and think about the storylines in this episode, I'm still a little wary of where everything is going, especially after the previews for the next episode, with all the focus on Julie and the crazy Tyra/Landry thing that I pray gets resolved in some resemblence of a believable manner.

I loved the opening scene. I loved the Tim moments, all of them, even the one with Lyla. I love CT running into Grandma and Matt at the supermarket. Loved the Eric and Julie conversation in the car. Loved the ring ceremony. Hoping that those moments mean this show isn't going to go too far from the show we came to love last season.

This show should stay with a cult following, like The Office.

FNL did not need a baby nor a murder.

Coach Taylor needs to quit that job, unseat this new guy and get back to work.

Oh, one other thing: I thought this show was supposed to be about a dismal area of Texas? Where did that huge pool and the party scene with the expensive houses in the background come from?

I agree with some of the other posters...this show is becoming more MTV than FNL....but it's still really great and I trust the writers so far.

ETA that it's probably unfair to say that the whole show is becoming MTV. However, the opening scene was really over the top for FNL. I still love FNL, though and am glad that it's still on the air.

Exactly. I tried really hard to remain unspoiled all summer, so I basically stopped reading anything connected to FNL, and was a little bit distanced from it all until tonight. As soon as the episode kicked in, I got butterflies and remembered just how much I adore everyone on the show.



Interestingly enough, Lyla was never my favorite character but I'm finding myself more and more drawn to her storyline. I see her as really conflicted right now, and going through so much confusion. She's desperate to have something solid to hold onto, and she's grabbed the church at the moment. I'm really interested to see what happens with her this season, much more so than I was last year.

All in all, it took me until over halfway through the first season to cry with this show, and this year? Right off the bat. Tami, on the couch trying so hard to hold everything in, not even able to form any words? Tears.

Lots of great lines, but two of my faves...

"WWRD?" Classic!

"I either just peed in this pool or my water broke!" OMG!

I came into this episode completely unspoiled. I didn't even read the synopsis in advance, so.. let's just say that right now I feel kind of ill.

I still love the show. The acting and the writing was top notch, as always. Right now, everything just feels completely wrong. I realize rationally, that's probably the point, but... the whole Landy/Tyra thing just pushed me over the edge. I was thinking to myself during the show, "oh wow.. I don't know if I can handle the tension of Tyra always looking over her shoulder" and jumping at shadows (or skunks). Now that I see where they went with it, I would have preferred a more drawn out conclusion to the story, I think.

Wow. I'm really kind of stunned.

Watching this episode was an interesting experience for me, since I'm still not done with season 1 on DVD, but I couldn't be sure if this episode would be rerun, so I decided to go ahead and watch it anyways. Couple of surprises, like Lyla's hyperreligiousness and Jason as assistant coach or something like that. I knew about the baby and Coach Taylor's job in Austin, so nothing new in that area. Kinda lost on a few things, but I'm sure they'll make sense once I finish the DVDs.

As for the Landry/Tyra stuff, all I can say is that the more Landry the better, but I'm seriously worried about FNL taking the O.C. route. I thought this show was supposed to be about life, not forced secret murder storylines. I'm actually glad I rented the DVDs and didn't buy them, in case the second season does go downhill. But I'm willing to have a little faith in the writers for now.

God, the scene where coach told Tami he had to go back early was heartbreaking. Connie Britton did not have that many lines this episode, but every scene she is in she is amazing.

I though they did a good job incorporating a lot characters and storylines. There was even the crowd shot of Mama Smash.

The murder storyline is a bit soapy; I am hoping that these writers are able to turn it into something good.

WOW!!!! Tyra and Landry. I love their budding friendship but this is not what they need. Damn promo monkeys spoiling next week's episode! Smart teen move:Tyra driving to the police station.

Tami broke my heart tonight trying to hold back those tears.

Can't wait to see Buddy vs. the new coach. I might actually root for Buddy. Nice to see continuity in regards to the Buddy/Pam divorce. I wanted to see Buddy throw down with the tree hugger.

Speaking of the new coach...total prick. Can't leave fast enough for me.

Lyla's got religion! I loved her blessings prayer. I'm actually interested in what happens with her this season.

Looks like the Julie/Matt train is in serious trouble. Another smart move by a teen: Julie calling her dad to pick her up.

Loved seeing the team get their championship rings.

KC's and AP's hair looked really good tonight. KC's hair was distractingly messed up which mirrors the upheaval going on in his life. AP's hair makes her look younger.

When Coach Taylor was holding precious, little bug-eyed Grace towards the end? My uterus fell out onto the floor and waved at me.

And I loved the Julie storyline. I can remember thinking at age 16, "Oh dear lord, please get me out of Greenville, SC, because I just know there is so much more out there in the world waiting for me!"

Connie Britton is amazing. Her crying makes me cry.

The murder? Me no likey. I'd prefer a herpes outbreak in the high school to this mess.

I think Tim's comment to Lyla about her being the best was his little way of knocking her down. Tim's a drinking man (which, btw, I have a hard time believing he'd be so brazen as to have an open container like that but I guess that's just how "bad" he is) and drinking men/women don't like someone on their back about it. Lyla is always on Tim's back about stuff and now she's on a Jesus trip and she's acting all self-righteous. So, Tim knocks her down a bit by reminding her of her "sins". Tim Riggins is an evil genious.

Okay, first, welcome back show!

So Julie is breaking up with Matt because he's too "perfect" and she's afraid they'll turn into Eric and Tami? Sucks to be her. I would say she doesn't have enough experience, but after all, she had good long look at Nasty Sweaty Buddy Garrity.

Who by the way, I also resent feeling sorry for...

Hate, hate, hate the murder plot. I was delighted to see Jesse's name in the credits, but I don't like what's happening to his character. Like everyone else who hangs with Tyra he seems to be losing IQ points. Not that I don't love her.

I knew this family break-up over a teenager's first boyfriend was ridiculous and it's worked out about like I'd expect.

It was phony, stupid television show behavior by the characters (or something the Menendez brothers would've done) -- usually the type you see on one of those procedural shows, like CSI, L&O, etc. -- and didn't seem to fit in with what this show appears to be.

Too bad

I was actually surprised that eight months later, Buddy still has to sleep in his office at the car dealership and they still haven't gotten divorced. Wouldn't Buddy have his own place by now? Wouldn't Pam have fast-tracked this thing? And while Lyla is her daughter and is allowed to be dramatic about the whole thing, Pam isn't really "recently" separated.

But I did love what they did with that storyline. Especially seeing Buddy lose it in that way. He's slowly getting everything he truly cares about taken away from him. Feeling bad for Buddy is weird.



I disagree. Tim doesn't know how to express his feelings in the "right" way. All he knows to do is get drunk and sleep with as many people as he can. He probably thought he was complimenting Lyla, maybe even his way of telling her he still loved her. ALL those girls and Lyla's the one that stands out from the rest? Maybe he's knocking her religious zealous-ness in a way, but he still cares about her big time.

I think what Julie meant by her "turning into you" comments was that football was consuming her life, like it did Tami's. Matt would be on his way to devote himself entirely to football, and Julie would have to go along for the ride.

I think it's completely understandable that she'd feel some resentment towards her family. Football is why her family is separated; why cling to a relationship that is heading in that direction?

The universe in which Julie is sixteen years old and not ready to settle down into the comfortable path worn by her, admittedly, awesome parents. I really felt for Julie in this episode. Sure, as an adult, it's easy to sit back and say, "Don't mess this up! You don't want the bad boy, you want the good guy! Trust me." But as a teenager, in the middle of all that angst? I think she's wanting to experience so much out of life, and she's scared to death that she's already backed into a corner, labeled as the "sweetheart girlfriend of QB1." She just wants to see what's out there. (Love your username, BTW, Francie Nolan!)



I thought he did say that, or "If you leave Matt, no one will love you less," actually. I thought it was his acknowledgement that Julie's afraid she's already pinned into that relationship for good, and she's not sure she wants that, and he was letting her know that if she wants out, she does have that option.

Speaking of losing IQ points, that has to be one of the dumbest rapist ever, on network television. I couldn't believe the idiot actually walked back to his car slowly, with his back turned. He was pretty much asking for someone to bash his head in.



I agree. He's lost his wife, his family pretty much, and now football. It could be an interesting arc. Speaking of which, I hope we get to see more of this new coach soon, instead of just yelling. Unless they are doing this, so we'll all be happy if/when Coach Taylor returns to coach Dillion.

I really think that Buddy lost his family by his own behavior. I hope they're not going to rewrite history here, and try to convince anyone that he's the victim in this divorce.

Hah! I'm pretty sure that's the exact moment I turned to my boyfriend and said "Let's have a baby."

I am dying. Matt went to shake Coach's hand and Coach pulled him in for a hug!!

They did a wonderful job making KC look like a dad with a new baby at home. And he looked like such a natural in the scene with Baby Grace.

Oh Julie...please don't break Matt's heart. I can't take it. Just like I can't take Tami's tears.

And all I could think when Buddy was yelling about Pam's hippie, tree-hugging boyfriend was "Holy crap...when Eric Cartman grows up, he's going to be Buddy Garrity."

That’s it – what makes this show so good is that all the storylines are real. Family strife, teen pressure, sports pressure. The drama was organic and authentic. The murder SO isn’t, and it’s jarring, in a negative way, to have that lack of authenticity.


I’d argue that Tami’s job (is she on maternity leave?) is why her family is separated, as Coach was willing to stay behind and keep the family together when he learned she was pregnant. Julie wanted to stay because it felt like home, but she’d resigned herself to the idea of moving because she didn’t have a choice. Tami was the one who said she wasn’t going to Austin, and Tami was the one who insisted that he go. I think all that is hitting Tami and she had no idea how hard it would be.