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mother of his child and slammed the door in his face. Brooke tried to persuade Hope to get back together with Oliver. Days of our Lives Fake Rafe threw Fay down the stairs, ripped the cameo necklace from her throat and hid. Sisters Nicole and Taylor were horrified to find their mother unconscious. They rushed her to the hospital, where she eventually came to and started to piece together various clues. Carly swore to herself that she would never self-medicate again.
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‘Friday Night Lights’: All roads lead to Dillon By Kate O’Hare © Zap2it Deeply rooted in the American psyche is the idea of a young person, itching for adventure or fortune or transformation, leaving a small hometown and setting out into the wide world, usually landing in a big city, perhaps finding what he or she was looking for ... and perhaps not. And if not, the idea of having to abandon the city and return home elicits decidedly mixed emotions. But in today’s economy, with many of America’s urban centers facing high unemployment, high taxes and a high cost of living, the prospect of going home may seem a lot more attractive. In NBC’s “Friday Night Lights,” returning for its fifth and final season on Friday, April 15, that choice is a lot easier for many residents of the fictional small Texas town of Dillon (played by locations across Austin, Texas). Many never left, and for some of those who did, nothing feels better than being back home. “That level of community and family really resonated with audiences,” says star Connie Britton, calling in from the Austin set of the movie “When Angels Sing,” “even audiences who don’t live in that kind of world. Interestingly, our demographic wound up being not necessarily people from small-town Middle America, or the small-town South.
“There’s a pure sense of community that people respond to and maybe even aspire to.” As the season opens, the community of Dillon is still split between east and west. Highschool football Coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), who led the now-West Dillon Panthers to a state championship, continues as coach of the less glamorous East Dillon Lions, who spoiled the Panthers’ chance of returning to State last season. His wife, Tami Taylor (Britton), is struggling as guidance counselor to the tough East Dillon kids, and their daughter, Julie (Aimee Teegarden), is heading to college (at least for a while). Former star Panther Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch) is in prison, where he took the rap for his new-dad brother, Billy (Derek Phillips), and football booster Buddy Garrity (Brad Leland) has a second chance at fatherhood. While the show is superficially about football, executive producer Jason Katims has always believed it’s about a great deal more. “In a way,” he says, “the whole idea of football, and the obsession with high-school football, the beauty of that is that was a way for this town to come together. That’s really what it was all about. “It was something that they shared, and the strength of being part of a community is irreplaceable. That’s another reason why it’s maybe not the best thing to grow up and move away.” One thing that helped to make Dillon real for fans of the
“So we were really able to go in and get to know, in a deep way, the families and the lives of these characters in a way that, in other shows, would be impossible to do for as many characters.” “Austin became a home to us,” Britton says, “and more than that, it became a backdrop for this town we love. Those of us who are die-hards, we just go back to Austin and pretend that we’re living in Dillon.” “Friday Night Lights” had a rocky history on NBC, and only a partnership deal with DirecTV afConnie Britton and Kyle ter its second season allowed the Chandler star in “Friday Night show to continue, airing first on Lights,” returning for its fifth DirecTV’s Channel 101 and then and final season Friday on NBC. on NBC. After so much struggle, it’s going to be hard to let go. “It was really hard to say show was the way it was filmed goodbye to the show,” Katims in Austin. says. “I know that, when we “We shot the show on all practical locations,” Katims says. were editing the last episode of “We never built a set.” the show, I was sitting in the edUsing real houses and busiiting room, and there were movnesses also helped the writers ers literally carrying the furniture to get to know the characters out of the editing room. better. “It was definitely not an easy “That allowed us to do things show to say goodbye to.” that I didn’t even anticipate from Somewhere, perhaps in a storytelling point of view,” another dimension, there will Katims says. “It allowed us to do always be a Dillon. things that I never even thought “Life goes on in Dillon,” Britof. “For example, we were able to ton says. “That’s the beauty of it. We felt so fortunate having five go into every character’s home years of the show, we were so that we wanted to. It wasn’t like grateful for that, but at the same you had to build the set for that time, it really felt like something home, and it cost you a lot of money. You weren’t building any- that could last forever, because that’s the beauty of the place.” thing anyway.
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