So Friday Night Lights ended its fourth (and I think best) season this week and they closed the loop on the abortion storyline that has been a focus of the last several episodes.
When we last left it, Principal Tammy Tami Taylor (Connie Britton) was being forced to make a public apology for her actions (which was written by the school board.) Now, Tammy Tami loves her job, is a great principal and also quite frankly needs the money so she was put in a very difficult position. She got up to make the apology under duress, opened her folder and began to read and then stopped. She stopped. She did not apologize for what she did. She said she did what was in the best interest of the student and that’s her job and that’s always what she will do. And then she walked off the stage to screams of disbelief from the crowd.
She stood up for her convictions and did not apologize for giving a young girl in distress the LEGAL options available to her.
But Tammy Tami knew that by not apologizing she was probably going to get fired. The head of the school board called her to a meeting on the Saturday (of Thanksgiving weekend) and told her she had been put on paid administrative leave. It looked like that was going to settle it but the writers gave her a way out and she told the head of the school board that she was willing to relinquish her position as principal at West Dillon High to head up the counseling program at East Dillon (the upstart school on the “wrong side” of the tracks where her husband is now the football coach.)
This is about the classiest show on TV I think since My So Called Life. I know that next season will be the last, but it is going down as one of the best and not just because of how it handled the abortion storyline. This show is so full of what can best be described as “heart,” and because that is missing from most of TV nowadays when you see it and feel it, it kind of takes your breath away.
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