Lights Out

On Wednesday night, Friday Night Lights aired its series finale on DirecTV, a few months before the entire season will air again on NBC. After five years and five stellar seasons, the under-rated show ended its run, and in characteristically poetic, elegiac fashion.

I remember back in the summer of 2006 when I first saw the pilot for Friday Night Lights. I was writing a Fall TV preview for Relevant and so the networks sent me all the DVD pilots of their new shows that season (including 30 Rock, Heroes & Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip… remember that one?). I had been a fan of the Peter Berg-directed film version of Lights, but I was admittedly skeptical about NBC’s serialized version. The pilot floored me. The characters were instantly real, recognizable, sympathetic. The solemnly nostalgic tone and uplifting ethos were evident from the get go. Coach Taylor and his motivational speeches. “We all fall.”

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Bailout my TV or I'm Thankful for my New Converter Box

First off, I must apologize for not blogging for a while.  I sometimes try to come up with something utterly profound before I allow myself to write it down.  I have decided to try a different approach and do a more traditional blog of just writing what is on my mind.  So at any rate, here goes.

I have found myself rather dumbfounded lately at the Bailout of our TV's.   Seriously, I just read a couple articles in the LA Times this last week giving further details, and do you know that the original alloted ammount for the TV Conversion was 1.5 Billion Dollars?  That's right, 1.5 Billion, all so that each of us who have normal TV without cable can have a $40 subsidy towards our brand new converter box.  I also read another article that said they are actually very concerned because they have run out of coupons and worry that this alloted 1.5 Billion is not enough.  Obama and others are also worried that the public has not been educated well enough to understand this program.

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