'Friday Night Lights' Reunion ft. Connie Britton, Scott Porter, Jesse Plemons & More | PEOPLE
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- In 2016, Entertainment Weekly witnessed an all-star lineup take the field once more. The cast of 'Friday Night Lights' fittingly held a reunion on a football field, which was accompanied by a tailgate party and pep rally, drawing nearly two dozen stars of the series, including Connie Britton (Tami Taylor), Gaius Charles (“Smash” Williams), Scott Porter (Jason Street), Adrianne Palicki (Tyra Collette), Matt Lauria (Luke Cafferty), Jesse Plemons (Landry Clarke), and more.
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'Friday Night Lights' Reunion ft. Connie Britton, Scott Porter, Jesse Plemons & More (2016) | PEOPLE
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I swear I rewatch the entire series at least once a year. It’s my comfort show.
Same
Yea same!!
I usually watch the series throughout November for some reason around that time it just fits
I'm re-watching with the podcast that Scott Porter, Zach Gilford and Mae Whitman have
Watching it now for the 1st time. We love it.
When Smash got into college and showed up at Coach's house that night to tell him the news.... all the feels. That was among the most emotional times I've ever had at a TV show. Ever.
They last game they play together and the smile. Best smile on FNL.
Smash’s story arc is one of my favs!
When Matt’s dad dies, the scene with Matt and coach in the bathroom. That’s the one for me.
For sure
If there’s any show that I would love to see a 20 Years Later Series/Movie…it’s this one…Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose!
Quite possibly the best TV series ever made!! This show checks every box no matter how old you are. Was a little skeptical letting my newly turned 14yr old son watch this but it deals with EVERYTHING that a teenager will deal with! Gave me a chance to connect with him more and allow him to ask me some tough questions that I know he had been waiting to ask but maybe afraid of saying it
my boyfriend was also a football player who sadly ended up paralyzed due to a diving accident when he was 17, he just showed me the show for the first time and they did such a good job showing the struggles with what jason went through. we love this show ❤️
Did he give it a standing ovation?
@StanStacks you the type that makes fun of people experiencing a disability? seems you have shitty character Stan, you should work on that. Not even a whitty comment.
I hope they do a 20 year reunion too, I want to see them all together again ❤
Grew up in Texas and went to college near Austin. This show was so spot on with the characters I swear I knew each one of these characters from my childhood. Also a bunch of people I went to college had extra or small rolls on the show. Love seeing them 20 years later. Also it’s so trippy to hear them speak without their Texas accents. They all did a really good job with them. Definitely on my top 5 list of all time.
I’m 69 yrs old…lots of shows over the years…Great shows…but NEVER was I more completely immersed in any of them than I was with FNL. The characters and gifted actors who played them were just for The Ages. And thank you to all the brilliant writers, directors and people behind the scenes and cameras who brought this to life. It was beautiful and it perfectly captured an amazing essence of what makes life in America so unique and precious.
I’m 71 and agree with you 100%
I’m 73 and I completely agree!
Same!
I'm 68...Me Too!!!
I'm 29 years old..today I just finished this series for the first time. This show is amazing! I wish I watched when I was a kid.
Still in love with Tim Riggins 😂❤
Grown man and I cried like hell in this. When Tyra and Landry kissed and that great song by the avett brothers played I bawled
And that infamous audio like the background music that they use in the intro too. Iconic.
Jesse plemons was one of the best football players there, and turned out to be arguably one of if not the best actor in the cast🥹
I’ve watched the whole series two or three times but after watching this, I’m gonna have to watch it again. It’s one of my all time favorites
I STILL binge watch this show every year.
Clear Eyes, Full Hearts,
Can't Lose!
Still love that Riggins!
I was folding Laundry at home a few months back and stumbled on this show.... seriously the most wholesome TV show ever made 💛
Now THIS is good television! We NEED to go back to shows like these. Praying before tye games, the kids have manners,real life lessons ect. Reminds me of my hometown of Sumner WA. Really miss this show. I am appalled by most tv now.
I have crushed so hard on Kyle Chandler ever since the late 90’s when he was on Early Edition. He is my LOVE! And he was so amazing as Eric Taylor. The chemistry between him and Connie Britton was unmatched. Best tv couple of all time.
Mine was Homefront I think it was 1992.
@@mbess1968 Mine, too.
Kyle Chandler is the ULTIMATE MALE…my word, still watch every show he appears on repeat!!!
I only hated him once and it was busting Leo in wolf of Wall Street 😄😄
He also was amazing in Bloodline. That series could have turned into another breaking bad if the writers didn’t kill off Ben Mendelsohn’s character in S1.
Ditto!
I literally cried just watching this??? Ugh one of the best shows ever 😭
That scene where Street starts coaching Matt when they're hanging out on the field is possibly my favorite of the whole show!! On a funny note, it took me about halfway through the second season to realize Coach Taylor was Buddy Jackson on Pure Country lol.
Man I was 15 first time I saw this show, and as a former football player I’ll never forget just dreaming of winning a state championship. This show had me in TEARS man. I just wanted to win 😢
Clear Eyes, Full Hearts…CAN’T LOSE!
"Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose" !
I have watched this show on repeat for 12 years now. And I’m about to start again. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen it all the way through but it is simply the most perfect show ever made. It had a way of making you feel like you were a part of it and I love it.
I came late to the party. I saw the show, and wondered, but life with high school kids of my own got in the way. So, I started watching it a couple weeks ago, and JUST COULDNT STOP!!!! I not normally a binge watcher, and sometimes I can't even finish a show or just give up after a 2-3 episodes when it looks off somehow. This show was amazingly great on SO MANY LEVELS!!!!
First, yes, I was one of the captains of my high school football team, and while we were never a great team, (closer to East Dillion that to West, in fact, we were bussed over to the "Eastside" to help integrate the school) I certainly recognized a lot of what was going on: the quiet bus ride back after a crushing loss, the coach yelling and grabbing me by the face guard to shout at me for not getting something done. Yeah there was a lot of those memories. And sure, I did date a cheerleader, although it was not all that serious (those were the days before casual sex!) And again, I remember looking into the stands and seeing that again, my parents never came to a game. In fact, the only game my dad could get to was a freshman game, and i remember blocking a punt in that game, perhaps the only time I ever did that. So yeah, there's a bunch of that.
I also know a little of the intensity of Texas football from my brother who lived there. But, you didn't need any of that to get into this show and learn to love the characters. In the show, Tami Taylor, (who I already loved from Nashville) was said to be the homecoming queen from 1980, and I graduated in 1979, so of course, she was just the perfect wife: supportive, understanding, never bitchy, but always ready to give her man the advice he needed. She was, in all respects, a great character, and as I've known a few woman from Texas and the South, she was very much believable and I never found myself saying "a real woman would never act like that!" Although, I often said "a woman from the east coast would never act like that!"
Yes, the relationships were great, although I yelled at the tv when Riggins walked in just as Lyla was kissing Church-Boy. That was too predictable. Riggins defintly got me mad at times, when he insisted on always screwing up his life. Why in the world he didn't just drop to his knees and thank God for ever bringing him Lyla is beyond me! Perhaps the most beautiful and even more rare, one of the nicest girls in Texas, and he still just couldn't get it together enough to appreciate her. But, at moments like that, I tried to remember how crazy and screwed up it was like when I was a kid, and up to the age of my early 20's how I really didn't know what was going on and what was important. But still, its so hard to watch.
But still, it was Matt and Julie that tore me up so often. Matt was a great kid, sure, but Julie was, in a word: Perfect. She was perfectly cast, perfectly played, and to a heart stopping degree, perfectly caught on film. The camera just loved her and the cinematographer did just what was needed to make her time on film so memorable. Those quick shots of Julie, lost in a moment of deep thought or caught in a second of despair were heart rending to see. Since I grew up a boy, I can't really speak for the special things that the guys in the show might mean to the girls and ladies, but Julie was just perfect in the role of our first girlfriend. The girl who, even though we thought that perhaps there might be more, and better girls out there in our future, she was, in fact, the best, the sweetest, the most honest and romantic girl a boy could ever hope for. I so wanted Matt to figure that out. When Matt went to the Coach to ask for his hand, I paused the show and went to make something, all the while playing out the scene in my head. In reality, Matt could have swayed the coach by telling the truth, in the form of "sometimes I see Julie do something, and she's so like Mrs Taylor! Its just something to see" Matt's eyes go out of focus, as he remembers a story, "like when she told me I was being a jerk for not trying harder, and when she gives me advice, you know? I really listen to her, because I know that she know, and she cares. I know you and Mrs Taylor have, like, the best marriage ever, and even though I'm not you, and while I know you think I don't deserve Julie, I want you to know that I'll do everything I can to live up to her, to protect her and to be the kind of man of that you are to Mrs. Taylor." or something like that. That also would have served to remind Eric what he had, and remind him of what the better choice would be, in the form of Matt unknowingly giving the coach advice. In any case, I was so happy to see that there was some romance left in the world and those kids could see that they had a chance to be that couple that made it, the couple that defied the odds.
It was tough to see Tami deal with the news that the Coach wanted to stay in Dillion, and that she might not get her shot. I could see that change on her face, the beginning of the end of a marriage, when the wife starts to shut down. THAT look I knew well. That is the look of Real Life. It would not have worked for TV, but they would have sat down and compared the big college job in Florida, his dream. What he worked 20 years to achieve, vs her new opportunity to be an admission dean, which was something that she had not bee working toward. She was just ready for something. But, in Real Life, when she was pregnant, that was the time to talk about "do you want another baby? because you're at a time in your life when you're going to want to challenge yourself at work and focus on your career, not on raising a baby" In either case, they could have sat down and went over the offers. Where will the most $$$ come from? If one job pays $200, and the other pays $90, than perhaps that helps in the decision making process. Given that the other person will find something. But Eric's job might have led to a shot, 5-8 years later, to the Pro's. That means millions. But, in the end, he did the right thing and chose his wife, which was the best choice, of course. In Real Life, most people will do whatever facebook tells them and focus on themselves, which is what will undermine, and eventually destroy a relationship. "Loving Yourself First" is of course todays Mantra, but this show gave us all so much in the way of real values.
It gave us a hope that maybe things will work out.
It reminded me that if only my wife and I didn't raise our kids in such a liberal state, at a time when the liberals were pushing the mass brain washing of our kids, if only we had known to move to a more conservative state in time, than maybe our kids would not be so messed up.
Sad, but this series just seems like its from another era, in a good way.
Producers and writers take note: NO MORE WOKE CRAP! The Majority of the people in this country still want wholesome shows like this, with well written characters, that while imperfect, still manage to make the right choices and bring value to the lives of others.
I don’t remember why I was looking forward to the first episode of this show so much. But I loved it, and I cried a lot through 5 seasons.
And that last episode I bawled like a total fool.
When Eric is on the field with the players in his PA school and says,”Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.”
They look at him like he’s speaking in Martian, he turns and says to himself,”We’ll work on it.”
That was perfect, SO perfect.
I used to talk about how wonderful FNL was, and a friend would respond,”I don’t like football.”
I tried to explain it’s NOT about football. It’s about these people that live in a little Texas town, and football is involved in their lives.
That show was beyond belief and beautiful in so very many ways.
I love the family dynamics of this show. For me, it was one of the best TV shows ever.
I’ve never watched a show that nailed my youth, my high school , my friends, the culture … Texas football
I watched this series while in the hospital after my fifth back surgery. Therapy and Friday night lights helped me through the struggle of walking again. This was about 4 months ago I learned about this series. Rewatching it now.
One of the shows that I always rewatch.
Such a great show, and it truly is about the off field families and relationships. It’s not just a football show. It does a great job How they tie in the lessons in life and how it translates to the team on the field in a game or state final.
Same thing how Ted Lasso is not a Soccer/ Football show, but about the relationships off the field.
One of the best shows to ever air on television ❤❤❤
I just rewatched the the series and Coach Taylor is one of my all time favorite characters in there with Walter White, Tony Soprano, and Michael Scott. Definitely my favorite fictional coach of all time.
This show has pulled me out of some tough times ❤
Agree! I've fallen asleep to many many yimes😊
I won't lie I cried. This show was moving for me.
This show was so good and so many actors leapt into starring roles after this....just kudos to the staff that got the best cast for the show.
I literally finished binging this show today. Discovered it after watching Kyle Chandler in his new Slumberland movie, which made me go back and rewatch Early Edition (I'd never watched the entire show before, so now with the internet and all, I was able todo so!) And then came FNL.
One of the best shows I've seen. Great filming, doc style which I loved, great cast, great storylines. I love it when they improvise, or that there aren't any cues and marks.
Kyle Chandler is an underrated actor. Give him a leading roll in a feature film already!
Funny though, been watching a lot of interviews, reading, etc. always seems as though Kyle's not there (as he's not in that particular video as well) It's like once he's done with a project, he doesn't look back.
Watching this I'm going to go rewatch it all over again
I hated that FNLs ended. I loved this show. We need a movie!!! I've lived here in Texas for 51 years, and every summer I wonder why I'm still here. Texas Forever!!
I always heard this was a great show but when it originally aired I was working 2nd shift and every weekend. Luckily The Circle Network started airing this 2 weeks ago for 2 hours each night Monday thru Friday. I have ditched every show I used to watch just to see this incredible show each night. I am so hooked. The writing, acting and cast are superb. This reminds you of how good television shows used to be.
I've never been in love with a drama series and cast the way I am with this show.
"You wanna know where gma is? She's dead!!" LOL I loved that show!!
I watched this show for the first time last year and fell in love. I'm in college now, but it brings back good memories of highschool football for me.
Nothing better than Texas high school football!! loved growing up in La Porte, Texas….going to games on Friday nights! Go Bulldogs!!
I rewatch this every fall ❤️🏈
Mama smash was such a fantastic character
Clear eyes,full hearts- can't lose. 🤗💙💙
Man was this ever good! I just rewatched the series because it was truly one of a kind. Best show ever!
watched the entire show from start to finish in England last year.. best TV show i have ever watched, absolutely loved every episode... gutted when i had finished watching it...
I will forever thank Explosions in the Sky for guiding me to this amazing show. But first, I will also thank Death Cab for Cutie for having Explosion in the Sky as their opener at MSG. Their music unlocked a next level of nostalgia and heart for me.
Man I remember watching the live debut of the pilot my senior year of high school. I loved the movie and I figured the series would be just as great and what I found was a show that will resonate with me till the end of time. I remember graduating and watching the series until I gradtuated from college so this show is a staple of my early adulthood. I’ve put many people into this show and they fall in love with it as much as I did. It’s 2024 and I’m here because I finished rewatching it for like the 10th again this morning. The nostalgia is so real when I see that final episode and scene again. When it was made available in Hulu a few years back first thing I did was call in sick and binged the whole series 😂. Man I love this show and seeing the cast in a video I’m watching for the first time from an event that was 8 years ago, the feels are real because I love this show and how time flies. God bless everyone.
This show and One Tree Hill still are my entire life.
My FAVORITE show of ALL TIME !!!
By far the best sports show. Shows you the real stuff and the sports section actually looks and feels realistic. Not like actors playing roles but like actual football players from texas
Still love this after all these years
I watched the series initially between 2010 and 2011. Watched the whole series again about five years later (2016 or so). On a third watch of the whole series now (2022). It's an easy show to re-watch -- amazing storylines, acting, and verisimilitude.
I have watched this series 10 times. We need a sequel
Connie Britton is still one of the most beautiful woman ever
24m I just finished the show all I got to say is clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose!
i need a lot more Connie Britton in my world
Hey y'all
Loved her as Rayna James in Nashville.
@@mhart78676 I liked her on Spin City.
Friday Night Lights and This Is Us........BEST BEST BEST TV SHOWS EVER!!!!!!!!!!
The writers just knew these characters so well and how’d they react in situations. Every scene of dialogue just sounded so natural coming out of the actors.
I live in South Africa , and we loved it over here.
I loved this show ❤️I looked forward to watching it every week .I feel like the show just pulled you in .loved it .one of my most favourite shows ❤️
That show was just beautiful…..
Dang I was so sad when after the last episode 😢😭😢😭. This is my to go show where I watch all the season once every year. Memories of high school strike back.
My top shows are probably The Wire, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, Dexter, Mad Men, Oz, Banshee, etc. Friday Night Lights is up there with them. Sure, it's not as gritty as some of the best shows, but it does touch on real situations and issies that people deal with. The relationships feel geuine and not contrived. And Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler's chemistry is undeniable. Both deserve the Emmy's they won for the show.
Shows don't necessarily need to be heavy and gritty to be great
I luved this show I miss it , life goes by so fast enjoy it
wasnt target audience, just stumbled upon it back in the days in germany and to this day its one of my top 10 all time favorites. the acting is unreal. they all deserved to bath in emmys.
scotts kitsch impression was priceless
Just finished the series on Netflix. I loved it. Sad I missed seeing it back in the day
Everyone should watch this show!! It’s excellent
My all time fave! Hate that the whole cast wasn't able to be at the reunion 🏈🌃
I STILL have a crush on Connie Britton
I watch this show a lot is so awesome!! They need to do a reunion
Still watching it right now in 2023
Clear eyes, full hearts…..
loved the show, it will keep growing an audience for yrs.
grandma saying “you…. i adore”
gaaaawwddd 😭😭
Her actress doesn't get enough credit. So good
Huge fan of every season but for some reason season 1 and season 4 hit so hard for me 💯❤️
No Eric Taylor, no Matt Saracen, no Tim Riggins.......my three favorite characters. 🙁
They all made it pretty big
It was the first show I binged!
Legendary show
Loved it!!!!
welp time to re-watch this series again
I love this series! So many great moments
The People news was a good read for the day tells the story about People👻😀😍🤩🎂🇺🇸
❤this show! Miss it! Best cast hands down!
GOAT'ed show, hands down
Loved this show
One of the best shows.
"Friday night lights" and "The wire" are my 2 favourite shows
Connie Britton was the reason I watched FNL. Damn she is fine.
Great show, and Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton are amazing
top 5 show of all time
Best show of all time.
Never loved a show more.
There were all great actors and actresses on the show
Texas Forever.