Very Deep in America ~ Book Review Center

Thursday, 28 July 2011

Very Deep in America

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Lorrie Moore

Friday Night Lights, Seasons 1–5
a television series created by Peter Berg

Friday Night Lights
a film directed by Peter Berg

Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream
by H.G. Bissinger

Bill Records/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank

Taylor Kitsch as Tim Riggins and Madison Burge as Becky Sproles in Friday Night Lights

On my way to a Manhattan book party recently my mind was wandering to cultural guilty pleasures: sprightly but inane movies, or half-baked television programs no sophisticated person would admit to watching, as well as other aesthetic uncoolnesses, such as, say, Josh Groban, whose precariously belted tenor, crossover repertoire, and passable Italian have made him a secret darling of vulgarians like me. When he sings "The Prayer" with Celine Dion, is the listener not in the private ocular mists of kitsch heaven? Is not one of those pearly gates real pearl? And might one pay for admission to this slum-paradise with a parterre ticket stub from Wozzeck? So it was, then, with great and satisfying surprise that almost immediately upon arriving at the party, I found myself locked in enthusiastic conversation in a corner with two other writers, all three of us, we discovered, solitary, isolated viewers of the NBC series Friday Night Lights.