Metaphysical Theory In Friday Night Lights

“Texas Forever” is a mantra which Tim Riggins, the main character in the television series, Friday Night Lights, lives by. This show is about an entire town obsessed with football and something they base their dreams upon. However, these dreams do not come without compromise. We can identify ourselves and others with the most the characters in Friday Night Lights, and are pulled immediately into their lives since their situations makes them feel like genuine individuals. In this paper, I will argue that Friday Night Lights demonstrates the metaphysical theory of the basic question: “Ultimately, what is there?” A single word to answer that question, would be – dreams. When we base our life upon a dream or the person we think we deserve to be,

Letting him know that he, the players and fans, will stand behind him in “their house.” The adversity and tribulations that these characters go through are so real that you are right there in the mix with them. According to an article by Scott D. Pierce, “Top 10 TV: 'Friday Night Light's' the top show in a year of zombies, TV families and cliffhangers," although it was the "simplest and most complex show…. it felt like real life, and real life is complicated. Sure, it was about football and family, but it treated both with nuance, intelligence, and heart.” Riggins' character is very much like the metaphysical theory of Aristotle. He acts a certain way because he knows it is the right thing to do without an expectation of a reward. In “The Myth of Sisyphus” Albert Camus claims that an essential battle between what we want from the universe and what we find in the universe. We can only realize that “the struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.” Camus suggests that Sisyphus' punishment of pushing a rock up a mountain, only to have it roll back down, is

An example of this can be how Tim, in the shows finale, "Always" (FNL, Season 5, Ep.13), struggles with moving on and doing something he does not want to do, his move to work on a rig in Alaska. His passion is Texas and football and he knows he cannot life without either. Tim has created a world where only one thing matters and is not aiming for anything else, this makes him happy. Although Tim Riggins is not the absurd hero Camus describes, his “leap of faith” of purchasing land in Texas where he intends to stay forever and not run from himself or his past, but to go forth into his life. This is something that Peter Berg, the creator of Friday Night Lights creates when he uses dialogue and aesthetics to assist the viewers in understanding what the “consequence of actions” can be if we put ourselves “in another's shoes" and therefore we become more aware of those around us and even "our own goodness. (p.10)” I believe during the five seasons for Friday Night Lights, the pilot truly set the stage for what we would experience with every show. No one character was ever focused on for the entire series because it was about family and about