#fnl cast

[mattlauria]

Friday Night Lights reunion on the Netflix to Paramount SAG-AFTRA Solidarity March on September 13! Matt is with Scott Porter and Louanne Stephens.

Both the writers and actors strikes are still going, the studios don't want to go back to the table.

[hiddenramen]

when you see matt stumbling and exhausted burying the casket by himself and then he moves his hand and you see the shovel handle is covered in blood.....

[lindsaybluth]

i don’t know if anyone cares about this besides me but i need to know who was originally going to play matt saracen before the contractual obligations got in the way. the things we know are: 

He looked like sunshine from remember the titans

He filmed a disney channel movie in new zealand in 2005/2006

my current guess is twitty from even stevens 

[salaciouscrumbb]

oh, lyla i wish you had literally any sort of personality

[thosewildcharms]

i was tagged by @theyarebothgunshot to talk about 8 shows to get to know me. thank you for tagging me! putting this under the cut because i ramble.

In no particular order:

1: the oc/gossip girl: yeah okay i’m cheating right off the bat by conflating these two but i don’t care it makes sense! besides being from the same creator/production team, i think in many ways they are natural inverses of each other (west coast/east coast, new money/old money, evolving beyond what people expect of you vs buying into your own propaganda etc). listen i am a sucker for teen dramas, always have been and always will be, and i think these two changed the game in a BIG way. neither are thee mothership of the genre (i think that goes to beverly hills 90210???) but they are both so compelling in different ways and i very often find myself thinking about them (also in very different ways) years after watching them, and subconsciously compare characters on other shows to the main cast of each and they always fall short (you will never be blair waldorf you will never be seth cohen etc). plus the soundtracks! incredible. i can talk about the oc in particular for days and how it has what every other teen show secretly needs (sandy cohen) but this is already too long and i need to shut up.

2. miranda (bbc): listen. LISTEN. i re-watch this show every year without fail. it is the ultimate cozy feel good show that also somehow punches me in the face with how much of an Experience it is. i can’t describe to you what it was like watching this silly little comedy for the first time, getting sucker punched so thoroughly (in the best way) over and over and then to finally have the most satisfying conclusion i could have imagined. references from this show take up a not-insignificant amount of my vocabulary and i quote it daily. it’s so good. i love it so much.

3. friday night lights: anyone who has watched this show knows why. it’s so hard to explain, it’s just good. as someone who has never given even the slightest shit about any sports game of any kind, i think the highest compliment i could give this show is that it made me cry about football more than once. the only people i know who don’t love this show simply have not seen it (actually, people don’t talk about this show enough anymore?? that’s so sad). when i think of my favorite shows, i always have to include fnl because it’s just so sincerely excellent. i own two fnl t-shirts and i will gush about it unprompted if you give me even the tiniest window to do so. texas forever, clear eyes full hearts etc. micheal b jordan you will always be vince howard to ME.

4. gilmore girls: this one actually surprises even me because i never talk about it on tumblr dot com lol but i literally have it on as background noise as i type and it’s almost always my default when i just want to put something on that’s comforting. it’s weird because i can’t really say i LIKE the show as a whole but it’s so cozy (at least the first five seasons) and i do have a LOT of opinions about it, but in a kind of low-stakes way where it’s fun to think about instead rage-inducing. it’s strangely enough, something i can talk about for hours (and often do) without even realizing it.

5. smallville: oh my god the way i was obsessed with this show in middle school lmaoo the way it’s not technically GOOD but also it kind of is? full disclosure i’ve only seen the last few seasons like, once but i used to have the first five or six seasons practically MEMORIZED. it’s a good time, and while i don’t know much about the superman comics (or any comics) it’s my....favorite? iteration of superman that i’ve seen? idk, i thought tom welling and kristin kreuk were the two most beautiful people i’ve ever seen in my life and i loved watching them make out. also michael rosembaum was an incredible lex luthor and i stand by that. i also find myself talking about this show a lot in real life.

6. lost: one thing about me is that i WILL go off about how the lost finale was good actually and NO they were not dead the entire time you idiot -  at any given opportunity. it IS one of the five petty, inconsequential hills i will die on. it’s a good show with a good and fitting ending FIGHT ME ABOUT IT. also sawyer/juliet supremacy their reunion scene in the finale is the scene i compare all other romantic scenes to. nothing compares. scene of all time.

7. hey arnold: i know it’s a cartoon shut up! but consider this: it’s beautiful and good. i legitimately watch it all the time because it’s so funny and melancholy and sad and smart and the soundtrack slaps. also finally getting the jungle movie (which was a conclusion to a HUGE cliffhanger from my childhood) was proof that sometimes you can get closure, actually! this happened before reboots became unnecessary and exhausting leave me alone

8. supernatural: i watched this show after thee november fifth and it accidentally became my whole personality. i don’t even know.

honorable mentions: selfie abc (if you haven’t heard me whine about how it’s the one show in the world i actually want a reboot for you simply haven’t known me long enough); my mad fat diary (i will be thinking about finn writing ‘i love you’ on rae’s back for the rest of my life), ugly betty (i just love it a lot)

tagging: @bisansastarks @buttobstacle @mmaddens @richonnies @dwcas, @coachlasso @wordybee @ilarual @hauntedpearl @burgundyshoes @someoldlady @that-gender-bender @bananaleaves @korralone and anyone else who sees this and would like to do it!

[kabillieu]

Baby had vaccinations this morning, so I took him into daycare later and met Dominic for lunch. Now I'm doing some editing work (mindless necessary stuff) while I'm watching Friday Night Lights and crying over Tyra getting into UT (like a totally sane person).

But seriously, I have really been enjoying rewatching FNL. I don't think I've ever done a rewatch, and it has been wonderful to spend time with the original cast again. I'm on the last episode before it turns over to the new cast, and I'm sad lol. Even though I like the second cast too.

Also, Tami Taylor is just one of the best characters ever written for television.

[headbandsandflats]

okay i know everyone said season 2 was the fnl season i had to “get through”, but i am legit five minutes into season 4 and i’m sad and i hate it and i want to go home. i am notoriously bad with change (i haven’t gotten more than four episodes into the third season of the crown bc i missed claire foy and matt smith too much), so seeing so many cast members no longer in the opening credits is killing me. and coach has no team!!! and no field!!! and matt is still in dillon and delivering pizzas!!! (did i cry no matt!!! out loud at my tv when i saw him get into that car? you know i did.)

it’s so crazy that fnl lasted three seasons and ended with the trashiest wedding in all of texas and we made no new friends and never saw coach in red!!!

[actnatural-ly]

top 5 FNL characters? the people (me) want to know!

ok you got me i love every single character on friday night lights

for anyone unfamiliar, it is a near-perfect show in terms of giving a full ensemble cast complexity and development so that even the characters you initially dislike you end up rooting for and treasuring. truly a gift and my favorite show of all time. it's 5 seasons with a perfect ending, and i don't think anyone i've recommended it to has disliked it except some people say they skip the football scenes, which, fair although i think you lose some plot.

in no particular order:

tim riggins

tyra collette

matt saracen

vince howard

tami taylor

billy and mindy also have a special place in my heart. i'd also say that becky, luke and jess would probably also be up there if we got more time with them, but that their stories were all amazing even shortened. i still love them all so much.

thank you for asking! clearly i love this show and love talking about it lol

[popculturebrain]

Dear Edward Trailer: Connie Britton Stars in FNL Boss' Teary Apple Drama

Get out your tissues, because Apple TV+ has released an emotional trailer for Parenthood and Friday Night Lights showrunner Jason Katims’ upcoming drama Dear Edward, which features FNL vet Connie Britton among its cast.

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[dotthings]

Now All American: Homecoming (the All American spinoff) has been cancelled too. I can't honestly say I am shocked, given the shape of how Nextar CW handles things financially.

But that's another good, progressive series, with intersectional representation, another all black cast, that had a bi lead, and non-binary rep, going under.

I hope to see the cast and creative team show up on other things soon. Maybe some of the cast can guest star on All American season 7, too.

AA:H was about life at an HBCU, using tennis and basketball as the platform for dramatic storytelling. One thing rare about it was it focused on female athletes, not just men. (Something neither FNL nor AA managed to do).

[mattlauria]

Matt was (finally) a guest in the FNL rewatch podcast hosted by Stacey Oristano and Derek Phillips (Mindy Collette and Billy Riggins) for episode 5x07.

The interview starts at 15'30, be careful they talk about all the Luke Cafferty storyline (spoilers!), some behind the scenes and the finale.

[hyenas-art]

pinned post time

we’re Baxter, we use they/it pronouns

we’re working on 2-3 projects(depends on how you’d consider one of them due to it being very connected to another. In order on priority of development:

Lobotomy Corporation FNF mod: “Friday Night Lobotomy”

Lobotomy Corporation/FNaF fangame (working title): “LCorp: Locked Inside”

Potential comic type thing to go with the FNF mod, since we’ve put too much into the side-main characters for them to not have much of their story told

tags

(gonna try to start actually using tags lol)

stuff related to the FNF mod:

“Friday Night Lobotomy”, “Friday Night Lobotomy devposting”

stuff relating to the FNaF fangame(might change as development progresses):

“LCorp: Locked Inside”, “LCorp: Locked Inside devposting”

Until more(any) progress is made on the comic, there will not be a tag dedicated to it. Though as a placeholder for what little we will post about it until then, we will use “comic talk”

dev progress

FNF MOD: Planning is basically done, we have a small team together(if ya want to help, reach out ig, we’ll talk to the rest of the team about it)

FNAF FANGAME: Don’t have much aside from the fundamental ideas/plans for it down. Most is still up for debate

COMIC: The main oc cast of FNL have backstories. That’s about it.

That’s just about all for now ig

if it is shown to be wanted, we may go a bit more in depth to the general setup/setting for how the events of the FNF mod and FNaF fangame are

[tinselaly]

{Taylor} I still have campaigning for a FNL movie on the bottom of my list, so we do have some choices. Maybe you could do a Phil of The Future podcast.

{Taylor} I just want to eat, drink and lay on the sand.

(Text): That's true, and I have moving that up on your list on MY own goals, so that's cool. Oof, I don't think I'd make a very good pod cast host. I love being on them, oddly enough, but I don't think I could be at the helm. I think if I really had to, we could do something Cowbelles related. We're still pretty tight with the mouse for the most part.

(Text): It's the best. We'll do it all. And I fully plan on reserving a boat, too. So get ready there, Captain.

@ctrltaylor

[lexiegreysloan]

conniebritton Happy birthday sugar. #cleareyesfullhearts #coach

[whentherewerebicycles]

my top 10 shows: gif edition

@1000-directions tagged me! I do not watch very much tv but that’s partly because when I do I tend to soul-imprint on shows

charmed // queer as folk // battlestar galactica // friday night lights // doctor who // misfits // luther // fresh meat // fleabag // orphan black

I tag ummm @coldbam @bottleupandexplode @dearmrsawyer @jenkinspoehler @beeintransit and whoever else wants to do it!

[mythoughtsxxblog]

Zach Gilford is precious and so talented. He deserves more acting roles. Hollywood, get your shit together!