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Bissinger followed the team for the entire 1988 season. However, the book also has a number of secondary political and social issues existing in Odessa, all of which share ties to the Permian Panthers football team. These include socioeconomic disparity, racism, segregation (and desegregation), and poverty.
Friday Night Lights is a feel-good movie, but it's not real. It's a hard-hitting Hallmark greeting card. It's no wonder it appealed to Larry King %u2014 it's safe, easy, conventional, and feigns incisiveness.
Friday Night Lights is the real deal, a grim, in-your-face expose of one West Texas school's fanatical sports program.
October 12, 2004
Window to the Movies
What Friday Night Lights offers is the perspective that, for the people and young players caught up in this whirlwind, football simultaneously means everything and ultimately nothing.
The script spends at least as much time exploring the psychologies of the young players and the problems they face at home as it does rallying the audience behind their efforts on the field.
April 14, 2007
Film4
Had Billy Bob Thornton not been so good in so many films, people would be talking about this as his greatest role.