Fredagskvälljsljus

Ikväll visar TV6 (kl 21) den finfina filmen Friday Night Lights, som senare blev den ännu finfinare och grymt underskattade TV-serien med samma namn. Slate skrev häromdagen apropå att säsong två av den senare just släppts på DVD:

Friday Night Lights is also America as it's seldom been seen.\nIt's astounding how few dramas depict ordinary, working-class life in\nthe so-called red states--without, say, first giving several of the\ninhabitants supernatural powers. (...)

No one here is enjoying the Bush-Cheney tax cuts. People live in modest\nhomes or, if they're particularly poor, in shotgun shacks. Most of the\nteenagers don't have cars--quite a statement in rural Texas--and must\nwork after-school jobs. They don't have iPods or sport the latest\nfashions; they shop at the Salvation Army family store.