Friday Night Lights is a show which is unorthodox glaringly because it focuses on a seemingly boring subject: high-school football in a small, rural, southern town. The reason an audience has eluded this show is precisely because of this seemingly boring premise, yet the ardent defenders of this show will sensitively cite character development, themes and “heart” of the show. Another reason critics dislike the show is because of the jerky camera which resembles amateur camera work, or even a drunkard fooling around behind the scenes. The plan of the producers was obviously to make the show more “realistic” by doing the extreme close-ups and the like, but they failed heavily.

For my money, I refuse to care about the aforementioned criticisms of this show because I feel that my criticism of this show should be the only reason why people dislike this show. In my view, the most obvious affront of FNL is how it disparagingly stereotypes red-state Texans!!!! Whether it’s their Christian religion, their southern accents, their passion for football, or their small-town folksiness, white, Christian Americans are being ridiculed in this show because FNL is an elitist show made by Hollywood liberals. In fact, the only reason this show is so popular among critics (read: liberal shills who vote Democrat) is because it reinforces, in its discriminatory stereotyping, the views of liberals on the coast of people in red-state, “flyover states.”

Here are some abominable examples of abusive, liberal-elitist stereotyping in FNL’s 1st season.

First and foremost is the way many of the actors absolutely parody the southern accent of their characters. Lyla Garrity sounds like a bimbo-ish airhead with her perkiness. The Matt Saracen (does anyone know Saracen means “Arab” or “Muslim”; how PC can you get!) and Landry characters epitomize what liberals on the coast think of Southerners. This is demonstrated inarguably by the way the actors have their characters speak in their southern drawls. Matt’s always insecure and like “Uuuuuh, hi there J-J-Julie (Coach Taylor’s daughter)!” His best buddy, Landry, relentlessly utters lines like “Uuuuuh, h-h-hi there, Tyra. D-d-do you want suuum help wit dat?” The point is that the liberal actors intentionally speak their southern accents to make Texans look as inbred, dumb and uncouth as libs stereotype them to be!!!!

Another maltreatment is how FNL shows these red-state Texans in social/cultural situations which are often at odds with the Christians they are.

For instance, the Lyla character is a Christian as is her dad, Buddy, yet both are written by the liberal writers to be such personal hypocrites with their cheating on their respective significant others. Lyla, of course, cheats with the lowlife miscreant Riggins while her dad is thrown out of the house by his wife after he admits to an affair. These story developments aren’t defensible enough to be cited as mere plot devices; it’s inarguably blatant that they’re meant to derogate Christians as hypocrites, and one can almost imagine the gloating schadenfreude the liberal writers experienced while penning this BS.

In criticizing this shabbiness of a TV show, I cannot omit the egregious exaggeration of “religiosity” that’s skewered by the writers. Again, one can just imagine the sadistic, liberal-slanting writers gloating with malice when they contrive scenes which show the characters in prayer, such as before a big game. The way the mocking writers derogatively portray Texans is almost like the unflattering movie Jesus Camp where Christians are misrepresented as “Jesus Freaks” and general radicals. This is irrefutably established in scenes showing characters like Smash and his fat momma praying with their eyes closed and mouths open as if in rapture.

Yet another unforgivable trespass is the abuse of the Iraq war veteran (Matt Saracen’s father) to make a barely veiled attack against the Iraq war policy!!!! The context of the episode arc featuring Matt’s father was to disparagingly mischaracterize Iraq vets as returning to troubled homes without enough money to make ends meet. Viewers WILL remember that Matt’s father wanted to move the family out of town because he couldn’t afford healthcare for Matt’s senile/demented grandma and even took a job as a used car salesman.

Completing the lib-elitist stereotypes is an episode dealing with racism where Smash is allegedly defamed by one of the assistant coaches due to his black skin color. Of course, subordinating to the liberal ideology, the assistant coach looks like a bigot full of hatred while Smash is doubtfully portrayed as a courageous “martyr” who stands up for his “rights” despite the fact that his actions actually hurt his whole team!!!!

As I lectured earlier in my thesis, the reason critics (read: liberal agents planted in the media) love FNL is because it reinforces all the demeaning stereotypes of white, red-state, Christian Southerners. FNL questionably depicts all characters in Dillon to be basically white trash from broken homes, white trash who drink and copulate excessively, and white trash who are economically destitute. All the lowest, unflattering tangents are here, whether it’s driving pickups or wearing ballcaps or polishing shotguns.

I am a huge fan of One Tree Hill, October Road and The OC so I was hopeful that Friday Night Lights would be on the same level as these titles. It started off a bit slow but once I got into it I really enjoyed it! Is it as good as OTH, October Road or The OC? Well it comes pretty darn close!! Can’t wait to watch Season 2!!!!