-tons of gratuitously hot people.  doesn't josh whedon get awards for being feminist/progressive?  why does he exclusively cast hot women?  dushku is plainly EYE CANDY and this is the opposite of what he's regularly lauded for

See he's making a statement about women and how they're sexually exploited! (Basically all you have to do is say you're making a statement and that makes it ok to have Dushku prance around half naked for 44 minutes)

wait, what was ep 1 about again?  im not sure i got all that out of it

friday night lights isnt that good.  it's very HIGH SCHOOLISH.  "believe me...........your all i have in this world jason........." ~ high school cheerleader with loving, wealthy family, tons of friends, and great prospects.  yep.  also it's riddled with archetypes.  heh look at me im the cocky black athlete *showboats*.  hey look over here im the brooding badboy *sinks into a depression, drinks to console self, somehow doesn't come across as pathetic while doing it but rather tragically romantic, is playing football throughout this entire process for some reason*.  also there are about five different characters who are completely bland and have two defining traits: a) nice, well-mannered southern boy, and b) good at football.  this includes the main character

i mean it's a high school drama; there's only so good it can be.  my brother suggested it but he likes smallville, so you know.  its saving grace is that a good portion of its cast is adult but even their characters can be kinda dumb and the kids are genuinely insufferable a large portion of the time.  the coach's daughter especially is really just fucking awful.  remember that family guy cutaway where they were making fun of one tree hill and the one dude was like "i've got so many problems. . ." and the other was like "nothing in life will ever be more important than what's happening right now, by these lockers"?  it is like that.  except that was parody and this is earnest.  i watched a season and a half before coming to the conclusion that it's dumb for a lot of reasons.  it's watchable and it's a step above the other HIGH SCHOOL DRAMAS but it still suffers from the same stereotypical characters and melodramatic writing that make all those shows stupid!!!

also the setting is really irritating.  like a show based around high school football.  why.  everyone in the town takes it so seriously and the only people who have any business doing so are the players who're trying to get scholarships and the coach who'll get fired if he loses too many games.  the rest of them are just pathetic and absurd and it's difficult to overcome this.  it's funny when koth does it because it's a comedy but when a serious drama does it, you just kinda wanna roll your eyes.  i heard the movie version and that other movie, varsity blues, handled it well but to make it into a high school drama series that should be on the wb is kind of different and the setting is ill-suited for it.


and nah im not gonna talk about dollhouse in this topic.  fuck dollhouse, fuck joss whedon.  show blows The End!!!