#FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS TV THEME SONG TV#
However, when I look back over the past five years, I can see that my stories were very much in conversation with a TV show whose characters became so real to me it was as if they were living lives parallel to my own. I know we’re living in the golden age of so-called novelistic TV, but I still think of books as being in conversation with other books, not with nighttime soap operas. I’ve joked with friends about this line of influence but I didn’t quite believe it until I re-watched the show and saw how much I’d borrowed. The strange thing about watching Friday Night Lights again is that I think the fiction I’ve been writing for the past few years was inspired by it. Like a lot of people who move to New York City, I came here to get away from small town life.
I was also resistant to Friday Night Lights because it is set in a conservative, rural area that reminded me of where I went to high school. I don’t enjoy watching football and I don’t usually enjoy watching teenage actors-or, rather, I don’t enjoy watching actors in their early twenties impersonate teenagers. I now love the show so much that it’s hard to believe there was a time when I wasn’t interested in it, but I remember thinking that it didn’t seem like the kind of show I would like. I had actually never seen the pilot or the first six episodes because, initially, Friday Night Lights was my husband’s show, something he watched by himself.
I recently re-watched the first season of Friday Night Lights-for fun, but also to see how it held up, eight years after it first aired, and probably at least a decade after it was first conceived of and written.
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