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'Friday Night Lights' Still Burns Bright

Despite the uninspired packaging in this complete series set, Friday Night Lights remains an outstanding TV show; one of the best in the current golden age of television.

The Teen Sex Comedy Comes of Age in 'The To Do List'

The To Do List is mostly a straight-up teenage sex comedy, with the requisite crude language and bawdy acts.

Spin City: The Complete Second Season

A rough dry run for Bill Lawrence, who would create a much better workplace drama with Scrubs.

Friday Night Lights: The Second Season

Even with such an obvious misstep as the murder storyline in the second season, this is still one of the most well-executed series on television.

High Redefinition: The 30 Best TV Shows of 2007

In memoriam of a TV season cut down before its prime time, PopMatters staff celebrates the Top 30 TV Shows of 2007. Some are old favorites. Others have barely made their impression felt. But at a time when all broadcast fortunes are up in the air, they definitely deserve the recognition.

Friday Night Lights

The series abjures the usual primetime penchant for suburban gloss or metropolitan grit. Instead, it claimed as its territory lower middle class life in the America of vanishing jobs and diminishing horizons.

The Last Winter

The Last Winter suggests that the Arctic, the environment itself, has a point of view.

Friday Night Lights

In the mundane, in the small and sometimes sad realities of small-town life, the heroic can be found.

Friday Night Lights

Once the football game started in last week's premiere episode of Friday Night Lights, the clichés came fast and hard, but still, compelling.

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Despite the uninspired packaging in this complete series set, Friday Night Lights remains an outstanding TV show; one of the best in the current golden age of television.

The To Do List is mostly a straight-up teenage sex comedy, with the requisite crude language and bawdy acts.

In a new series already packed to the max with confounding conundrums, these are the top tricks in need of treats sooner rather than later.

The 2010-2011 season meant saying farewell to cult favorites Friday Night Lights and Smallville, as well as the ongoing mania surrounding one of TV's most mediocre shows, Glee.

A rough dry run for Bill Lawrence, who would create a much better workplace drama with Scrubs.

Even with such an obvious misstep as the murder storyline in the second season, this is still one of the most well-executed series on television.

In memoriam of a TV season cut down before its prime time, PopMatters staff celebrates the Top 30 TV Shows of 2007. Some are old favorites. Others have barely made their impression felt. But at a time when all broadcast fortunes are up in the air, they definitely deserve the recognition.

The series abjures the usual primetime penchant for suburban gloss or metropolitan grit. Instead, it claimed as its territory lower middle class life in the America of vanishing jobs and diminishing horizons.

The Last Winter suggests that the Arctic, the environment itself, has a point of view.

In the mundane, in the small and sometimes sad realities of small-town life, the heroic can be found.

Once the football game started in last week's premiere episode of Friday Night Lights, the clichés came fast and hard, but still, compelling.