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.

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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