'Friday Night Lights' Remains Grounded in the Everyday

By Sean Burns

Philadelphia Weekly | October 9, 2007

The best show you didn't watch last year, this ratings-challenged small-screen adaptation of Buzz Bissinger's book zeroes in on dashed hopes and broken dreams in the town of Dillon, Texas -- where high school football is the be-all and end-all and about the only way most folks can muddle through.

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