friday night lights ce’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? As we were left to ponder whether Coach Taylor would make the series-finale move to Shane State, we were also left to speculate about Julie possibly holing up in Chicago with Matt for good. How did you think those scenes of the two of them together played out? Matt is pretty casually take-it-or-leave it with Julie at first, but we soon learn that he is still hung up on her.
They spend two days and nights together before they even kiss, presumably because it would mean too much. When Julie tells Matt about her affair with a married man, Matt offers nothing in return: There’s been no one for him in Chicago? Is this plausible? Or are we to assume that there’s been no one who really mattered? In any case, it does seem as though Julie is going to go find herself a Windy City college; Chicago energizes her and she feels as though it is where she belongs. Elsewhere on the teen romance front, we have Luke coming out to his parents about his relationship with Becky, and we have Luke’s crazy mother responding with the predictable unpleasantness. Luke and Becky really fit together, but please “Friday Night LIghts,” do not make Becky a career stripper! It would make no sense; she is too much of a good girl. But I fear that her loss in the beauty pageant last week was meant to leave a wound that would have her looking for a similar kind of attention elsewhere. There was a great scene last season when Beckly encounters Lila outside of Tim’s trailer and she just stares at her and says, “you’re so pretty.” Becky has stomped through the pageant world never feeling like a beautiful girl and so the Landing Strip might have its psychological appeal.
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