'Friday Night Lights' Watch: Hubris and Tension Reign at East Dillon
11.06.11
So the East Dillon Lions lose a game, hubris is afflicting the team and tension reigns. Is the loss of humility the worst sin to be committed on “Friday Night Lights?” Vince’s big head causes so much friction with Luke that the two can barely speak to each other, and when Coach tries some disciplinary fence mending, asking Vince to help Luke with some plays, Vince doesn’t even bother to show up. I loved that Jess, who is also beyond fed up with Vince’s self-infatuation, steps in for the job of football tutor. Will she become East Dillon’s first female football coach? Her database is enough to make any girlfriend of a football lover step in and start watching game tape. Vince’s punishment for skipping out on the tutorial with Luke is getting benched — Coach wants to teach him a lesson. And this raises the question of whether Coach is really cut out for S.E.C. football , doesn’t it? He likes to beat the opposition but his allegiances are to character-building above all. How would he fare in the dirty-recruiting, winner-take-all world of college football?
Source: New York Times (blog)