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Friday Night Lights: The Fourth Season |  | Actors: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Minka Kelly
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Running Time: 60 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.8
MPN: MCAD61111737D
UPC: 025192043635
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ASIN: B0032UYFAQ
Theatrical Release Date: January 1, 2010
Release Date: August 17, 2010 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/17/2010 Starring: Kyle Chandler Connie Britton Rating: Nr
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Best season yet February 15, 2010
Lala (Ohio)
36 out of 39 found this review helpful
I just finished watching the last episode of Season 4 - it has been an amazing season. While I did miss some of the show's regular characters, the addition of new characters and new story lines is simply a reflection of reality. People move in and out of our lives all the time, we meet new people, we lose track of others. As much as I adore the people in Dillon Texas and irrationally think of them as real people, I don't know if I've ever been moved so deeply as I have been this season watching new character Vince. I wanted to reach in through the screen and give him a hug and tell him that he was doing the right thing and that I was proud of him. That's how real this amazing young actor was. The story's shift to a less affluent side of town was also eye-opening and dramatic. Coach and Tammy Taylor continue to show us the most natural and real depiction of married life on television. I just can't say enough good things about this show. I'm so grateful that DirectTV and NBC continue to bring this to us. I consider the best show on the air - on any network - and still can't understand why it apparently has such a limited following, unless people are scared off thinking it's just a sports show. Friday Night Lights is not about football; it's about life, the choices we make, and our struggles to do our best. Looking forward to it finally making its way to NBC in April and will be first in line to purchase the season DVDs when they become available.
Still the BEST Show on Television May 27, 2010
Dolphin (Vancouver, WA USA)
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
The writers had quite a task in Season 4 in a short 13-episode season. Unlike so many of the teenage shows, FNLs actually allows its key young actors to move on, sometimes come back ... just as in real life. And it introduces new characters into the lives of the people of Dillon. This coming and going of people in their lives is just as it is in high schools across America.
Season 4 centers around Coach Taylor's exile to dilapidated East Dillon High school, while his beloved wife, Tami, remains Principal of Dillon High. The re-districting creates a schism between the Taylors, the Panthers and the Lions, the students of the 2 schools, the Boosters, and the town make for some interesting story-telling. It also creates a further schism between the races and economic classes ... the "haves" and the "have nots." This season mirrors the Great Recession where everyone but a very few struggles. Tami is now the major breadwinner in their family, Coach is still out on a 2 year "non-compete" from his contract with TMU, there are no jobs in Dillon. Buddy is no longer the richest man in Dillon, as his car dealership struggles. The richest man is now Joe McCoy, the Stud of Suds. (In real life, beer sales are in fact at an all time high during this recession ... so this seems very fitting). McCoy is oblivious to the suffering of others, as his family is unaffected and his eye remains on making his son the greatest quarterback in the history of Texas.
This divide is going to cause the same conflict that so many re-districted towns experience ... all anchored this season by the Coach and his family. The writers throw everything but the kitchen sink at Taylors this season(as well as some other key characters). As Coach said in the Pilot episode, now, they will all be tested. In the backdrop of this unrelenting economy ... I thought the writers did an excellent job of tapping into what is happening in America today ... how we are all being tested.
This season plays special homage to Matt Saracen and Tim Riggins, in the same thoughtful way that Smash and Jason Street were showcased in special episodes. Compelling new characters are introduced, most noteworthy: Vince, Jesse, and Luke. An episode called "The Son," is one of the stand out episodes of the entire 4 years of the show.
This was a lot for the writers to take on in 13 episodes. For the most part, I thought they were very successful! In fact, I put this season on par with Season 1 in terms of story-telling, acting, casting. In my very honest opinion, Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, and Zach Gilford (for 'The Son') are deserving of the Emmy for their performances in Season 4 ... not the nomination, but the actual statues themselves. They turned in outstanding performances, time and time again. Taylor Kitsch, Brad Leland, and Amy Teagarden also turn in some very, very fine performances.
This Show Deserves More Praise!!! February 21, 2010
Reconnecting To My Childhood
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
***Spoiler Free Review of the Season***
The fourth season of Friday Night Lights was fantastic! It's a very important season of transition for the show as it attempts to move from the show we knew into the show it has to become. Rather than allow it to become a standard drama that repeats the same stories with the same characters the writer's decided to work on having characters we love move on in realistic fashion at the same time as they introduced us to and tried to make us care for new ones. To help ease the transition the writers wisely cheat to keep familiar faces Landry and Julie around for one more year of high school. Meanwhile Matt Saracen and Tim Riggins are both still struggling to get their lives started this season and they each hold some of it's strongest scenes in a season partially designed to give their amazing characters proper send off.
The show can never exist without the continued presence of Eric and Tammy Taylor at it's core to hold all the pieces together. This year finds the happily married couple facing much more daunting issues and problems than they have in any previous season. They constantly struggle to keep their lives, and the lives of the kids around them together. All the while Eric and Tammy seem to be continually punished by the community simply for doing what's right. The best thing about the Taylor's is rather than dealing with conflict within their relationship the writers keep them a united loving couple dealing with external conflict caused by life, which is much more relatable and realistic.
The fourth season consists of thirteen very strongly crafted episodes spanning one high school football season in the town of Dillon:
East of Dillon
After the Fall
In the Sking of a Lion
A Sort of Homecoming
The Son (*Fantastic Episode, deserves an Emmy)
Stay
In the Bag
Toilet Bowl
Lights of Carrol Park
I Can't
Injury List
Laboring
Thanksgiving
Special Features Included On This Set:
- Deleted Scenes
- Peter Berg Intros: Three short interviews with Peter Berg as he talks about directing the season premiere, the unique shooting style of the show and where this season starts off.
- Commentary on 'East of Dillon' by Executive Producer Jason Katims
- Friday Night Lights...Camera, Action! - A featurette that goes on set and finds the cast and crew discussing the unique shooting style and the amazing staying power of this fan adored show. (Runs just over 7 minutes)
- New Faces, New Places - A featurette that explores the new characters on the cast by talking to the actors who play them and Jason Katims. (Again runs just over 7mins)
- Playbook - Learn more about the shooting of a football game scene for Friday Night Lights. Cast and crew discuss the work and some of the complications that go into creating game scenes. (Runs just under 5mins)
The special features are great and will be entertaining for any fan of the series to watch. While I wish there was more that doesn't mean we aren't getting our money's worth. I do however strongly wish there had been some mention to the individual storylines they crafted for the season, and I would have loved commentary on episodes 'The Son' and 'Thanksgiving'. Still, I'm very happy with what we're given here knowing that they made these special features specifically to please the shows die hard fans.
The Packaging: A small note on the new packaging, the series' last two releases were both 4 disc sets with slip covers that held four slim DVD cases. This season to save on packaging costs the set is only half the size and contains 2 slim cases that hold 3 discs. I only mention because the picture at the top of this page doesn't make it appear that way. It still lines up with the previous sets just not as well, the box artwork looks fantastic though.
There are a lot of new faces this year with Vince, Luke, Becky and Jess but I find them to be great replacements for the cast that has moved on and honestly feel they may hold stronger storytelling possibilities than the original cast did. Vince is a complex character who slowly earns our respect. He and Jess already clearly have unspoken history together and Becky and Luke by seasons end have gone through one of the most difficult experiences that two teens can go through. Though no one will ever replace Matt Saracen as a wonderfully crafted and instantly likable character, these characters quickly grow on you.
I have always loved this show, even in the messy parts of season two, but this year was particularly great. They were able to tell so many different levels of stories and all while keeping the drama involved in them at a completely realistic level. In comparison with the fantastic first season of the series that taught us the uplifting message that "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts Can't Lose" this season goes out of it's way to teach us in the same uplifting way that "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts Can Lose" but what matters is how you deal with it and how you let it define you from there.
As the show moved to DirecTV and 13 episode seasons I found the writing return to the greatness we expected in the first season and with the excellent handheld camerawork and character acting that makes you feel as if you are right there watching what you feel are real people, Friday Night Lights now feels like a cable series that could become as great as The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men or Breaking Bad. This is a fantastic show and I'm ecstatic that this season has been released on DVD with some special features. I've already watched this season three times and now plan to watch it over again, it gets better each time I view it. I can't wait to watch the already signed fifth season when it airs this fall on DirecTV.
Hopefully many others will buy this set and watch the fifth season too and the series will get picked up for sixth and seventh seasons (Supposedly the fifth season will be its last but NBC won't give the final word which means there is still hope). Let's keep this quality family/football/small town drama on the air, thanks for your time.
*On a small note I'm usually okay when shows have to change music for a DVD release but was really disappointed that they had to change Bob Dylan's "Don't think twice, it's alright" to another song at the end of episode 'Stay'. Guess I'll have to keep my downloaded version of that episode.
***Afro GT has informed me Friday Night Lights Season 5 will premiere on DirecTV this October 27th, and will then once again air later in the year on NBC.
Amazing Drama July 6, 2010
Mike (North Lauderdale, FL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read where some feel the series is regressing, I beg to differ. Times change, especially in a small town. People do come and go because some try to escape the small town for bigger and better things. So for me, this adds to the realism.
The acting on this show is truly amazing for such a young cast. What a talented group of young actors. We'll be seeing more of them in other things I am sure.
Kyle Chandler is so wonderful as Coach Taylor. He is exactly what a coach should be. A positive role model who has his finger on the pulse of his team, and a compassionate fellow who will go out of his way to help better the lives of his students. All the while fighting the system that seems to want him to fail.
If you like emotional TV, and real life issues you can't, and shouldn't miss this show. Although it is Football that holds the people together, this series really is not a football intensive show. So you non-sports fans are missing out on something special for no reason :)
Best show on Television by a mile August 12, 2010
carol in williamsburg
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Friday Night Lights continues to deliver quality shows each and every week. At first I did not think I would like the new characters and was disappointed by the loss of Tyra and Lyla. However, I think this was THE BEST SEASON. While I hate the way our world is going, it is a fact of life nontheless that gang violence is on the rise, kids who would otherwise be good kids, get caught up in it because of living in poverty and I think the story line with Vince was excellent. I too wanted to hug that kid. I really hope that Direct TV and NBC will continue to allow it to be on the air alot longer. I was so sad when it ended last week to know I must wait another year to see it again. Coach Taylor and his wife are such a great couple. I have always been a Kyle Chandler fan though and will watch whatever show he stars in. I have loved him since Homefront. (also an excellent show that was cancelled before it's time. Seems like they will go all out for ridiculous reality shows but quality shows don't stand a chance). Sad... They don't advertise FNL enough...I haven't seen any real previews for it this year. Though it makes sense to put it on, on a Friday perhaps it could be rerun on another night to give it more exposure. Just a thought.
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