BLUE MAG

I’m tempted to say that this is another of those great shows nobody is watching. If you love American football and can stand a little melodrama this is the show for you.

This week we got the conclusion of a little racial dynamics plot thread that started last week, and I think most people would agree that the show’s handlers resolved this tension very well. I would have loved for Smash becoming a team leader to have been a more crucial and longer-burning subplot, because it would have been nice to have it come to a head with this controversy. However we have to remember that Smash is only a sophomore, if memory serves.

At first it didn’t sit well with me this week was Landry going ga-ga at the strip joint. Landry is a fantastic character–acted really well by Jesse Plemons (well no wonder, dude’s IMDB is chock full o’ roles)–and part of what makes him fantastic and funny is that he is an interesting kid full of controversies. He is a smart and sensitive young man who is in a death metal band called CRUCIFICTORIOUS. So it makes sense that, although you expect him maybe to be the one high school kid capable of rising above the attraction to the strip joint, he actually becomes the one who succumbs.

I wonder what is in store for the Panthers playoff drive. If they hope to keep this show going, they can’t possibly just win the state championship every year, can they? So I think it might be a good play to have them lose in year 1 rather than go all the way and come back with a Texas-sized chip on their shoulderpads.