Posted on 07/12/2010 1:16:12 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
NBC's "Friday Night Lights" wants to tackle more than football players.
In a bold move for scripted dramas, which usually shy away from taboo issues, the July 9 episode of the network drama featured a high school-aged character deciding to have an abortion, declaring it was "the right thing to do." The plotline earned praise from many in the media.
Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker praised "Friday Night Lights" for delivering "one of its finest hours ever."
In a July 10 blog post, The Atlantic's Tony Lee noted that he was impressed by the "nuanced, apolitical manner" that the writers used to convey the dilemma facing this pregnant teenage girl.
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Wait until they set up gay atheist teen whorehouses ... Hollywood will give it an Emmy ...
I remember the movie. I couldn’t watch it to the end. I thought maybe the TV show might improve on it (critics seemed to be insistent). So I tuned in. Watched for, oh, about 10 minutes. Realized it was about teenaged angst for the umpteenth time and would have little or nothing to do with actual wholesome teenaged life, the kind I remember living. Tuned and never looked back.
Yes, never watch broadcast TV.
Oh, really? So they're going to show her in her 50's having felt guilty ever since for taking the life of her unborn child? Or perhaps being sterile because of the abortion? Or having self worth issues for having killed her unborn child? Or the alternative story line where that child develops a vaccine for AIDS or becomes president?
No, they didn't present the story in an apolitical manner, they showed it in the typical leftist manner that the blog poster agreed with and strongly endorses.
Frame of reference: I watch ‘Bones’, ‘NCIS’, ‘Burn Notice’, ‘Leverage and Harry Potter movies (ABC Family was designed by somebody in Hugh Hefner’s family, IMHO). That’s it. Maybe some NASCAR, if it’s Talladega, Lowes or Daytona. Maybe some baseball. Not much else. TV is not for people with forebrains much anymore.
All television. The only way it changes is if people (conservatives) cancel sat and cable TV. If not - accept serfdom.
The worst is sports because that is where your overlords make the big money. The public will accept serfdom in exchange for TV.
Exactly. I’m sorry I watched. I am always attracted to shows with Kyle Chandler, though.
No one in this episode provided a moral point of view to the pregnant teen. She went to coach’s wife for counseling before approaching her own Mom.
The baby’s father finally decided to call her and stand up like a man, said he would help raise the baby, but she had just had the abortion.
It ended that way, with her crying.
Another dead baby while those with no morals cheer. What a stupid program. Glad I’ve never seen it. It’s no wonder viewership on the alphabet channels (ABC-CBS-NBC) is sinking.
http://broadcastengineering.com/news/broadcasting_cable_rates_climb/
“As for broadcast television, the FCC said audience levels continue to decline.”
Notice how she called her baby “it”.
Is it possible for a nation to become any sicker than ours has become?
Adopt Islam as a state religion?
Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton were long overdue for the emmy nominations they got last week for their work on this show.
I haven’t seen this episode yet, but I doubt it is as good as the one earlier this season dealing with the death of of the father of one of the main characters.
No, how about just going back to outlawing infanticide? Now, there’s a thought.
Oh crap! Now I can never watch this show again.
“It ended that way, with her crying.”
Well that’s good anyway. That shows regret.
{SIGH} We have the whole season of this recorded and haven’t watched any of them yet.
Today is just very irritating all around!
Did she have the abortion?
I did not see the show, but the article says that she did.
I just re-read the article and it did not state she did. Rather, she is faced with the decision to go thru with it and I suspect that a future episode will reveal what her ultimate decision will be............
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