Friday Night Lights : Back from the Brink

Last season, Friday Night Lights , the acclaimed show with low ratings, seemed to have been bidding farewell. But it has been renewed. Where does it go from here?

Friday Night Lights fixture Landry Clarke (Jesse Plemons), right, is a familiar face at Coach Taylor's new school

High school dramas, like high school itself, have a ticking clock built in. Time passes, graduation looms, characters outgrow their acne years. Beverly Hills 90210 was fun while it lasted, but eventually Luke Perry and Gabrielle Carteris appeared to be starring in an AARP ad.

Last year, in its third season, the high school football drama Friday Night Lights (loosely based on the book and movie) sent several characters on to college and the wider world, with farewells that stayed true to the show's small-town-Texas realism. In the outstanding finale, coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) was ousted through...

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