There are certain rites of passage that I know I will have to stand by and watch while my children endure them. However, this one seems too cruel and too soon. Rory, Hurley and I have become addicted to Friday Night Lights (which inexplicably airs on Tuesday...well not so inexplicably because theoretically their target audience would be at their high school football game on Friday night and I think actual football airs every other night). From what I have read, Friday Night Lights is having trouble finding an audience. I have no idea why...but then again I love football, love the realism, love the drama, love the high school angst...oh and there's Kyle Chandler who, because he reminds me in a lot of ways of Hurley (and no, Hurley does not read my blog, so I am not sucking up to get a new purse or something), may replace Patrick Dempsey as my "pass guy" (if you don't know what that is, let me know and I'll explain in a future blog...if you do know and also know that it is only recently that I threw over Kevin Costner for Patrick Dempsey, what can I say, I'm fickle).
I told Rory what I had read about the precarious position Friday Night Lights is in and he was outraged! This is a kid who has handled with aplomb the Dolphins deplorable season, the vicissitudes of Daunte Culpepper's performance and the self-inflicted meltdown of Ricky Williams. But the potential cancellation of FNL is really pissing him off. I even went on to explain that NBC's ploy of showing all three episodes in a row on Sunday night was a desperate effort to get someone, anyone, interested in this continuing saga. So last night when the show ended and they said, "Watch Friday Night Lights next week at a new time, Monday at 10 p.m." Rory pounded the bed in fury. "That's it...it's the beginning of the end." He knows they are putting it up against Monday Night Football. Maybe they are hoping by 10 p.m. the game is so boring people will switch, but I think, to their credit, NBC is trying to capitalize on the lead-in of Heroes which has done quite well.
He's too young for this. I remember that Amy and I lamented the loss of Freaks and Geeks and Hurley and I were apoplectic about the cancellation of Sports Night. But we were adults, we could handle it...kind of. When we were kids, they didn't cancel The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family or Mork & Mindy. They let them go on and on until we were ready to let them go. My precious child should not have to go through this at the tender age of 10.
Someone please do something!
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So, let's do a letter-writing campaign to save the show! (personally, I watch The Amazing Race. Even forgot about my hero, Dog the Bounty Hunter, last night in favor of finishing the book I was reading, so I'm not a TV girl anymore. Sorry.)
Posted by: Susan Helene Gottfried | October 25, 2006 at 03:21 PM