Letters to the Editor
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Friday Night Lights
FNL may have gotten some of the broad strokes wrong last season, but it's still the best show on network TV at the level of fine detail. For instance, the whole body-dumped-in-river plot was misguided, but that didn't make the scenes between Landry and his dad any less true-to-life or heart wrenching.
I've found that once a show has made me care about its characters, I tend to cut it some slack on story-line. Personally, I'll follow Landry, Riggins, Tyra, Buddy, Matt, Lyla whatever places the writers want to take me, even the unrealistic ones (i.e., Matt's affair with the Mexican nanny; Landry dumping a body in the river.) I just love that little show and everybody on it. It's earned it.
By the way, I don't think Landry is any less charismatic than, say, Matt. Less pretty, but equally interesting. That show was in drastic need of a main character with a little homeliness anyway.