Why Friday Night Lights Season 2 Was So Much Worse
Following the first season's moderate success, Friday Night Lights spent season 2 attempting to raise the stakes of the critically acclaimed sports drama to new levels but ultimately presented a vision regarded as worse than what came before. The response to the creative decisions of the show during the second season is mixed to this day. The series embraced the motto of "clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose," but FNL's second season proved that they could.
Friday Night Lights grounded itself in the fictional town of Dillon, Texas, where almost everyone had one goal: getting their beloved Panthers that championship ring. For many, this high school football team seemed to mean more than love, god, or life itself. The show followed the coaches, players, and local community who found themselves wrapped up in small-town dreams of stadium lights leading to eternal glory. One such character was Landry Clarke (Jesse Plemons), the geeky but wise-cracking best friend to quarterback Matt Saracen. Season 1 of the show was happy to let Landry mostly play sidekick until season 2 changed his story arc shockingly and suddenly. Trying to protect tough-girl Tyra Collete (Adrianne Palicki), Landry accidentally killed the man assaulting her, and both characters spent the season trying to live with what took place.
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This odd storyline involving Landry and Tyra was completely unexpected forFriday Night Lights, a series that, just the season before, established its interest in showing characters whose lives were grounded in a kind of graceful realism. The subplot was a choice that felt out of place for a show more concerned with representing small-town truths than
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