Kudos To Peter Berg and ‘Friday Night Lights’

“Friday Night Lights” has won a Peabody Award, a Television Critics Association Award and an Emmy.  We have been watching the show for all four seasons, but last week it really won a distinguished place in the hearts of my family.

That probably doesn’t mean a hill of beans to a whole lot of people, but when you work in Hollywood, in a culture that tends to treat flyover country like the red headed stepchild, and compares your religious beliefs to those of Al Quaeda, it rocks when you can sit down as a family and watch a show that reminds you of how you grew up: A show that honors the core values that you try to raise your kids with.

Peter Berg

My Dad used to say, “Once the kids stop saying “Yes, sir” and “Yes, ma’am”, it all starts to go to hell.” When I was a kid, I just thought he was hard on us. When my kids use “Yes, sir” and “Yes, ma’am” at the mall, the stares that we receive from the other parents lead me to believe that they may feel the same way.

The kids in “Friday Night Lights” speak in the same fashion.  Yeah it is a Texas thing, but those kids show a respect for their elders that one doesn’t always find in Southern California, or many other places outside of small town USA. (more…)