Analysis Of Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights created by, Peter Berg in 2006, is an iconic television show that delves into the lives of a football team in Dillon, Texas and exhibits creativity regarding a sports show, along with content that is tied to social and political issues. The television series that created a phenomenon among viewers who have fell in love with the show, exhibits southern stereotypes of both southern families as well as Texan football players. The audiences love for the show and active audience participation has kept the show running for five seasons. Friday Night Lights, based on the hit movie represents the classic standardization that we see throughout Television. Yet, the show is the perfect mix of the standardization that the producers

Many times when the football team wins, the viewers will feel a sense of happiness, known from personal experience along with fan blogs/reviews. Happiness is not the only feeling that the audience is known to feel, but rather throughout there are many hardships that the football teams faces or that each individual faces, that may make the audience sad or cry. The show truly makes the audience feel for each character. Gray argues that television programs have emotive reactions that affect the audience (Gray, 68). By emotive, Gray explains that a viewer could be scared, worried, happy, upset, etc. Some of these reactions can make us cry or make us laugh, either way they are emotive reactions present when we watch television programs. Gray explains that television can trigger different emotive reactions. Gray also brings up the study of affect and how he is interested in examining the social and cultural roles of television. Gray argues that different emotional responses such as love and dislike change the nature of television. He believes that producers and advertisers are reaching to hit us emotionally and he elaborates on the idea that advertisers and producers today, are going to great lengths in order to hit the central nervous system of the audiences in order to gain close attention (Gray, 69). Throughout Friday Night Lights, the emotional response is extremely prevalent. The conflicts with members of the team, shows the true pressure that southern football teams face. Being that football is such a main part of cultural life in the Texas, the show expresses the real life aspects that the athletes face with the high pressure to win during the football season. Aside from football, the coaches along with the family dynamics are compelling to the audiences as we feel the love they feel throughout the episodes. There is also constant love throughout the football family at