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Michael Jordan wins an Oscar? This is your reminder that he was part of "Friday Night Lights" (with other talented young actors), a must-see TV series.
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Michael Jordan wins an Oscar? This is your reminder that he was part of "Friday Night Lights" (with other talented young actors), a must-see TV series.
'Friday Night Lights: Complete Series' on Netflix, Hulu, and Peacock
‘Friday Night Lights: Complete Series’ on Netflix, Hulu, and Peacock
“Friday Night Lights” was a best-selling book and a well-received feature film before director Peter Berg teamed up with showrunner Jason Katims to bring the project to television for an acclaimed series. Friday Night Lights: Complete Series (2006-2011) never grabbed big ratings but racked up solid reviews and passionate viewers and earned a second life when DirecTV partnered up with NBC for a…
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FYI I still want to know what musical Jason Katims had chosen for the second season of Rise (and even the second production, since he had this idea of maybe do two, a spring and a fall one, if it had gotten a bigger episode order).
Rise
Seriously, unfollow me now because this is all I'm going to talk about every Tuesday for the next nine weeks. This show packed in so much, but made it flow so nicely in the short 45 minutes it had. You can compare it to other shows and movies all you like, but all you need to do is see it standing on its own to see its greatness and potential. Rise is the empowering voice that so many need, and with the people involved, there couldn't be better hands.
Is anyone else mad as hell about the straightwashing of Rise??
Cause I wanna talk about that shit. Please, straight af producer Jason Katims, tell me more about how you “felt like [you] needed to make it [your] own story.” Tell me more about how in a profession that’s supposed to be grounded in creativity and empathy, you needed to make the character a straight white man just like you to have any hope of connecting enough to do it justice. But god forbid a woman do that. Or a person of color. Or a member of the LGBTQ community. Because then we’re projecting. But no, no. Fucking carry on with erasing the legacy of an actual human being whose story you’re co-opting.
Cause guess what? It’s not your fucking story. It’s the story of a very real gay man, Lou Volpe, who fought his ass off to do something positive for his working-class students in a small town in Pennsylvania that wasn’t exactly the kind of place one went to live as an out gay man. And he didn’t just fight--he succeeded! He succeeded against great odds when everyone kept telling him he couldn’t. And to turn him into nothing more than a Will Schuester 2.0 is to diminish his legacy.
LGBTQ fans deserve better.
The Roswell cast reunited at the ATX TV Festival in 2014 where Katims was asked where the cast would be today. “It was funny, last night when we all met and I’m talking to all these guys and they’re starting to tell me about their kids and their families,” he said on the panel. “To me, I’m frozen in time with you guys at a very different part of your life, so that would be the first thing I would think about, if I were gonna tell that story, is what they’ve been through over the last 15 years and catch them at another phase, catch them in adulthood.”
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