Alright everyone it’s here.  The Friday Night Lights season 4 finale.  This season certainly started off rough but it had a lot of greatness packed into it and it really went out on a high note.  Between last week‘s episode and this episode, it’s just some of the best TV around right now.  I cannot wait for the 5th and final season.  Let’s get started.

This episode starts off at a press conference being held basically to promote unity through the town for the big Panthers and Lions faceoff.  It’s being called “The Big Cat Clash”.

There’s even a trophy.  Anyway the coaches and captains are supposed to act like they get along so they do.  Meanwhile the Riggins brothers are far from being comic relief this week.

They meet with a lawyer who tells them that if they plead guilty he can get other charges like tax evasion dropped and they could wind up with 1-5 years.  This is pretty bad timing since Billy just had a child.

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Well after a week where I dropped the ball and didn’t get it written on time, here’s the recap for Friday Night Lights Season 4′s penultimate episode “Laboring”.

Everyone feels the pain this week.  This is one of those episodes where they take our beloved characters and just wreck their worlds, which make for some of the best FNL episodes.  In particular Kyle Chandler and Michael B. Jordan both put in some of the best performances on television period in this episode.

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If you remember last week it was discussed that the Lions and Panthers would be playing against each other.  Nope not in this episode (which btw starts off the day after the last episode left off).  But the Panthers have gotten the league to inspect the Lions’ beat up field trying to get the game moved to their stadium.  The Lions field is in sad shape but they give Coach the week to fix it up.

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Another week another Friday Night Lights.  This week’s episode is called Injury List.  It features a surprise return of Matt Saracen and since the season is almost over all of our storylines are coming to a head.  A lot goes on in this episode.  Also for the first time ever I’m gonna try to bring you some video in this one.

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Time for this week’s Friday Night Lights recap.  This week is episode 10, entitled I Can’t. It’s a perfect title for this great episode that shows off some tremendous acting skills from both Michael B. Jordan (Vince Howard aka Juvie) and Madison Burge (Becky).  Also Alicia Witt is back this week and she’s more than just looking pretty.  Before we get started remember to so you can support this site and these recaps.  I’m working on trying to incorporate video clips for the final 3 episodes of the season, so keep your fingers crossed. Basically there are 2 important stories in this episode.  So I’m gonna try to write about those and I’m gonna try to keep this recap short.  Instead of going chronologically and jumping around I’m just going to go through the various plotlines. Let’s start with Virgil.

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Another week another Friday Night Lights recap.  This weeks episode is very “save the rec center”-esque.  There’s some great stuff though.  Alright so let’s get going and learn all about Carroll Park.

The episode starts with Vince (Juvie) applying for a job.

This doesn’t go so well because he’s been arrested a whole bunch of times.  But there’s a lot going on in the beginning of this episode so let’s quickly move to the next scene.

What’s that?  Becky is on the phone with the pregnancy test company asking how reliable the tests are?  Uh oh.  The good news for her is they tell her she should take another test cause sometimes they’re not accurate.  Also can you actually phone the manufacturer of pregnancy tests to ask them things like this?

Umm… Oops.  Looks like Becky is in trouble.  In the meantime Coach is out in East Dillon (aka the ghetto) looking for one of his players who hasn’t shown up for a few practices.  He’s told to look in Carroll Park.  Apparently Carroll Park is not a very nice place however.  Oh also we’re back to the whole East Dillon is the worst place on earth thing again.  I thought we were over this.

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Well we’re here again with another episode of Friday Night Lights to recap.  “Stay” is currently my choice for episode of the season and this couldn’t hold a flame to it, but it was pretty decent.  There’s some character building going on, but I do feel like we took a step back.

Daddy's home

The episode starts with Juvie being made quarterback.  Then we cut to Becky/Tim’s place where Becky’s dad has returned home.  Obviously Becky’s mom is not pleased about this.  We also learn that it’s been 3 weeks since “Stay” and Matt has not talked to Julie since then and she’s pretty much gone insane.

Julie being crazy

She decides to sign up for every single activity, and signs Landry up for the “Academic Smackdown” with her.

The big story starts a little while later when after a practice the cops come to search Juvie’s locker for a gun.

Oh snap!

Clearly this concerns Juvie, and Coach as well.  They find nothing but Coach knows something is up.  Also apparently Juvie’s mom is now clean suddenly?

I’m not sure what she was on but I’m pretty sure it takes more than your son becoming QB1 to kick it.  But she comes to see Coach and thank him.  So Coach is all invested now.

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Well I am incredibly sorry it took me over a week to get this recap up.  I got real busy and for that I apologize.  I’ll have the recap of this week’s episode very soon.  But first, oh man was this a good episode.  Everything you could want and more.

Just like the old days

This episode is Season One good.  Seriously.  As soon as you can watch this, do it.  This is quality television.  ”Stay” is an appropriate title for this episode because you’ll be shouting it at your television, but more on that later.  Like most FNL episodes there’s a lot going on but this week they were a little more focused on a few particular plots.

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Friday Night Lights Season 4, episode 4, “A Sort of Homecoming”, is definitely one of the better episodes this season so far.  Pretty much most of my complaints from earlier episodes have been dealt with.  But it’s not perfect.

So Coach Taylor’s plot this episode is that he is going to hold a pep rally for the Lions.  This like everything else he’s tried to do for the team turns out to be much harder than it should be.  Coach’s plot really takes a backseat though.  A lot of this episode is dedicated to our newer characters.  Oh also everyone hates Tami because she had that kid transferred.

Panther Hater

Speaking of transfer kid (Luke), he’s still not getting along with Juvie.  They get in a fight on the field and then Juvie steals his wallet.  Cause that’s what Juvie does.  Later on in the episode Luke is driving around with the Panthers and JD and they see Juvie walking along the side of the road so they all get out and jump him but it’s really just Juvie and Luke fighting.  The cops come and arrest the two of them.  By the way it was interesting that they took quite a bit of care to show that one of the Panthers was black so as to not make the entire scene a big hate crime, which really it was.  So Luke is white and he’s fine to get out of jail, but Juvie is black and also is Juvie so the cops tell Coach he’s going to Juvie for reals.  Coach makes Juvie and Luke change their story and manages to get Juvie out.  He then leaves the two of them stranded in the middle of nowhere.  They suddenly work everything out and Juvie somehow has Luke’s wallet on him at that exact moment and gives it back to him.

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