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Thursday, May 26, 2011

What will happen at the end of Friday Night Lights?

As we near the end of Season 5, the final season of the totally likable "Friday Night Lights," it will be interesting to see not only how the story ends, or, said another way, where the characters are in their lives when we can no longer live their lives with them, particularly to what degree will the series go for soft endings, in which things work out, more or less, for everyone, and to what degree will there be some edge, ambiguity, and unresolved tensions and issues - typical, even necessary, in the concluding seasonal episodes for a returning series, but problematic for a finale. Well, they're not going to blow everyone away, as in The Sopranos. But, having finished episode 10 with three to go, I predict: Coach Taylor will take the college job at Shane State - it's the only way to truly bring some closure to his coaching career in Dillon, leaving him there seems to beg for at least one more season of FNL; I worry that the black kids will be the only ones totally screwed and am hoping that Vince does lead the team to State and pursues a college scholarship. I suspect his dad, however, is heading back to prison. Not sure what will happen with Riggins now out of prison - will Becky ditch her current boyfriend and go for Riggins? I think so, but I think Riggins will leave town. Suspect that Julie will find her place in college. Hard to say about other peripheral characters - have just seen the troubled Epic dragged off campus by police, and would like to see her back in school - but they may leave this unresolved. Buddy - he'll endure.

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