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FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
( NBC )
Call it an underdog, a dark horse, a seventh-round draft pick — just don't ignore the fall's best new series (based on the book and movie) any longer. This high school football drama is a moving, warts-and-all portrait of life in hard-up Dillon, Texas, nailing the fine points of small-town politics and faith that TV too often romanticizes or ignores. It's the best TV treatment of high school life since Freaks and Geeks, and it does for jocks and cheerleaders what that show did for burnouts and dweebs; it makes them into fully realized people. With an acute sense of the stakes that ride on a kids' game in a town with few opportunities and few other sources of hope, this is a poignant picture of what a championship team means to a town that can't afford to wait till next year.
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