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...Last year, in its third season, the high school football drama Friday Night Lights (loosely based on the book and movie) sent several characters on to college and the wider world, with farewells that stayed true to the show's small-town-Texas realism. In the outstanding finale, coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) was ousted through school politics after the Dillon Panthers' heartbreaking loss in the state championships. (See the top 10 TV series...
...where does FNL go from here? The show has an advantage in that it has always been about much more than high school. It's about life in a struggling town where the recession is biting hard, kids grow up early and people rely on faith and football to get by. Also, much more than most high school dramas, it's about the adults - in particular Taylor and his wife Tami (Connie Britton), Dillon's principal...
...Taylor's move, pitting him against longer odds, establishes him as the true protagonist of the show. At a time when many of the best TV dramas feature antiheroes (House, Breaking Bad, Mad Men), he's a rarity: an example of classical virtues - integrity, loyalty - depicted without gush or cynicism. His signature locker-room slogan "Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose" would be moving regardless, but the Gary Cooperlike Chandler makes us see the grit and belief with which Taylor delivers it, even when he's pumping up a team he knows probably will lose...
...including, in the first episode, a game as dramatic and moving as any FNL has shown. But if you haven't yet watched - the first three seasons are on DVD - rest assured you don't need to know a tight end from a split end to love this show. Come to it with clear eyes and a full heart, and you can't lose...
...Bosnia's 1992-95 war traveled by bus to the Hague in the Netherlands to watch the opening day of the trial against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, their trek was in vain. The former psychiatrist and onetime President of the breakaway Serb Republic was a no-show on Oct. 26. Depriving spectators the chance to see the man who had eluded prosecution for genocide and war crimes for 12 years, Karadzic flouted authority once again. Because he is representing himself, no lawyer was present to explain Karadzic's absence. The judge adjourned for the day but ruled that...