128. Friday Night Lights

This week marked the fifth anniversary of the end of Friday Night Lights, a strong contender for the title of best television show of the past ten years. To commemorate this event, and because Matt has recently watched the entire show for the first time, we spend this episode of the podcast talking about what made it so special, its legacy, and its place as one of the truly great works of television.

Shot/Reverse Shot: Episode 39 - Top Ten Season Finales

To commemorate the imminent and no doubt violent end of Breaking Bad, a show which we have discussed at some length in the past on Shot/Reverse Shot (and which we will talk about even more in a special episode that will air after the series ends), we've decided to look back at our favourite Season Finales and presented them in a nice, neat Top Ten list. It's a whistlestop tour through gritty crime dramas, British sitcoms and comedy masterpieces, but it's also littered with spoilers. Tread lightly.

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Hope Lies On Television #8 - It All Ends

Having spent the last few columns focusing on specific creatives within the television industry - something which I found very interesting and will return to soon, I imagine - I wanted to return to a more conceptual idea by considering Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, which I liked a great deal, as a finale to a long running series, rather than as a film in its own right. In doing so, it allowed me to write a little bit about the finales of Lost and Friday Night Lights, both of which are shows that I love, and which had endings that would have far less impact if viewed by people who are unfamiliar with the shows in their entirety. In much the same way, Deathly Hallows means much more to people, like myself, who have lived with the characters for over a decade, in both film and book form.