Don’t get me wrong. I love “Friday Night Lights” and am bummed to no end that I don’t have DirecTV to start watching the show in October, meaning I’ll have to wait until NBC airs it next January or, ahem, find it other ways. But that doesn’t change the fact that this teaser, to me at least, looks straight out of the next Harry Potter flick, and I’m pretty sure that’s not a good thing….
WTFityF? I thought this was supposed to be the best show I'm not watching on TV? Was it bought out by Sci-Fi and turned into the bad-CGI epic of the week?
Got a weird "Big Fish" vibe from that. So which one is Gambit? I know I should watch the show but let's be serious, I played football. I have no interest in locker room politics. Just show me the mutant.
Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at September 23, 2008 11:27 AM
Ugh, they better not fuck up my beautiful, beautiful show. I FORGIVE YOU FOR THE MURDER, JUST COME BACK TO ME. Preferably with free DirecTV.
Posted by: Sabrina at September 23, 2008 11:32 AM
WTFityF?
It just took me like 3 full minutes to decipher this.
I haven't actually watched this show at all, although I have been assured repeatedly that I should, and eventually I will. But this ad makes it look like some kind of Gossip Girls-esque kind of thing, and I feel like that's not the reaction they're going for. Or is it?
Posted by: Anna "Knife Pile" von Beaverplatz at September 23, 2008 11:35 AM
They better not be going for Gossip Girl-esque anything. FNL is nothing like GG (which I love also, but on nowhere close to equal footing).
Don't fuck with my show!
Posted by: abijah at September 23, 2008 11:41 AM
OK, Now I really do NOT want to ever watch this.
Posted by: BWeaves at September 23, 2008 11:46 AM
weird. they use an old daniel johnston song called "devil town", but i have no idea who's singing it. i can't find any info online...
Posted by: glittergirl at September 23, 2008 12:02 PM
I am pretty sure that is a Bright eyes cover of the Daniel Johnston song.
Posted by: Joshie pants at September 23, 2008 12:07 PM
glittergirl
It's by Tony Lucca, and was a version featured in either the pilot or the first season finale, I can't remember which.
And holy fuck, what a terrible promo. Whoever thought that up needs to be castrated with a shoelace.
Posted by: Abe Froman at September 23, 2008 12:08 PM
Well, the promo doesn't make me less excited about watching the show, so maybe that's good? I agree, there was a kind of 'Big Fish' vibe to it. I kind of sort of almost liked it. Ah, who am I kidding....the promos could show Riggins on the can and I'd still get excited about the new season.
Posted by: tt_marie at September 23, 2008 12:38 PM
Wait. Riggins is Jesus, and he can make it rain backwards?!
Suddenly the reason Lyla is born again makes perfect sense.
Posted by: SavageCats at September 23, 2008 12:41 PM
Both the pilot and the finale. But for some reason I thought it was Bright Eyes.
Posted by: coveredinbees at September 23, 2008 12:50 PM
Check it out on iTunes- the Tony Lucca version is on the FNL soundtrack, and while the Bright Eyes version is pretty similar, Conor Oberst sounds like he's singing at the bottom of a well.
Posted by: Abe Froman at September 23, 2008 1:11 PM
Rigginnnnnnnnnnnnnnsssssssssssss!!!!!!!
Posted by: Be Adequite! at September 23, 2008 2:04 PM
I'm a simple man...if I want to watch a show about a football team in small town Texas, I expect there to be some football involved in the advertisements. Or at least a football in the background or something.
I loved the first season of this show....then they started veering towards the shark....the murder subplot was a joke and I don't give a rats ass about the whiny little daughter and yet she dominated storylines left and right. Let's get back to basics this year, and have Connie Britton knock her sideways in the first episode and put her in the coma unit with Rainbow Killer's character in some fantastical Ungrateful Bitch wing of TV Hospital.
Oh, and if Riggins is Jesus, maybe he can fix the Coach's car in the promo.
Posted by: Rubble44 at September 23, 2008 2:07 PM
Oh, and if Riggins is Jesus, maybe he can fix the Coach's car in the promo.
You know, Rubble44, you make an excellent point. Car maintenance has to be easier than backwards meteorological events.
Maybe it was Riggins who poured sugar in the gas tank in the first place. It would be the kind of thing that Riggins would do because it amused him that nanosecond. Then he would just lumber off to be sexy in another direction. "Oh, what? I was just....drinking beer and pouring orange juice on my fruit loops. Oh! Hey, can you spot me some gas money? You clearly won't need it..."
Posted by: SavageCats at September 23, 2008 2:19 PM
Aw, but Saracen looks as adorkable as ever...
Posted by: Mimi at September 23, 2008 6:26 PM
Again, I reiterate:
I know Zach Gilford. I didn't know I knew him until like a week ago, at which point I was reminded that he assistant directed a high school play I was in years back.
Why am I the only one excited about this?
Posted by: Lucas at September 23, 2008 6:39 PM
That football guy is totally that chick from "Carnivale," the one who's in "Heros" now. Obviously a crossover.
Posted by: frumpiefox at September 23, 2008 8:31 PM
There are so many things wrong with this! I get that they need to attract viewers. But come the eff on. First of all Tyra would never wear her hair like that. And how is Riggins a Jesus-like figure? Because he's a wino?
Posted by: Cara at September 23, 2008 9:33 PM
What are the doing to my show??!!!
Posted by: Austin at September 24, 2008 1:23 AM
Dude. I hate that fucking song. They used it twice in the first season, in two different episodes. It really fucking bothers me. WTF. RAH.
Posted by: sarah at September 24, 2008 3:49 AM
Lucas, I'd totally be excited, but I don't really know who that is.
Posted by: Anna "Knife Pile" von Beaverplatz at September 24, 2008 8:58 AM
Again, I reiterate:
I know Zach Gilford. I didn't know I knew him until like a week ago, at which point I was reminded that he assistant directed a high school play I was in years back.
Why am I the only one excited about this?
Because it was a high school play?
I was crew on a play with John Candy's kids in high school, you don't see me running up and down the John Candy thread flailing for people to take notice.
Except for right there, where I accidentally just did. Whatever. No one cares about tangential relationships to stars unless you can use it to find out why and how this asinine ad got produced. Cause I'm a fan of overly stylized ads for shows. I just like when they bear some passing relationship with the actual content of the show. So unless I missed something, and Saracen is gonna start making touchdowns with the power of his mind, or some such, I would like to know how FNL got transplanted to Pushing Daisies. In any event, I'm gonna wander down to the Pie Hole and shut my.
Posted by: SavageCats at September 24, 2008 12:02 PM
Why does my coding keep getting deleted between preview and post?
Oh, well. You people are smart. You get it.
Posted by: SavageCats at September 24, 2008 12:04 PM
mmmm, Tim Riggins is pretty.
Wait, what?