Friday Night Lights: Extended Families

The Subletter put it best when he said that Friday Night Lights is not only one of the best dramas on TV, it's also turning into one of the best comedies. Buddy Garrity crashing with the Taylor Clan? I felt like Jason Street laughing at drunk Lyla, only to realize her heart is breaking. And then Buddy has to get in the last word and leave us with the image of his head on a spike in his front yard like one of the town's ubiquitous letterman signs.

And Tim Riggins playing hungover male role model to a chatterbox kid? It's only a matter of time before Bo's bespectacled single mom makes Riggs her boy toy and fulfills the not-so-secret fantasies of nearly all my female friends.

Speaking of mugging down, Waverly's suddenly very sexually aggressive. Smash ain't complainin', but her dad's worried and asks Brian to notify him of any changes in her behavior. Like reciting poetry at full volume at the Alamo Freeze or sneaking into Smash's room to entice him to skinny dip? Nah, Smash says she's been normal. Right up until she calls him to come babysit while her dad's at church and instead of a sex bomb, he finds a scared little girl off her meds and crying on the kitchen floor.