Friday Night TV/Catching up

Trying out a new spoiler hiding method. Let me know in the comments if you like it or not. Still no idea about how to hide them for RSS subscribers, but I hope that's not a problem. Behind the jump are possible spoilers if you haven't watched this week's Law & Order and Friday Night Lights, plus some clips from Acceptable TV.

• Law & Order: A rapper is found murdered. She has feuds with other rappers, debts to a jeweler, and was pregnant by married guy. So there are plenty of potential motives.
  
  
  
  Turns out the jeweler knocked her up and confesses with 25 minutes to go. After about a million Law & Order episodes, there are three ways this goes: the confession is thrown out, some crazy affirmative defense, or the confession was fake. But look the hell out, there is a fourth possibility that I had not considered. He makes it look like a fake confession, fingers a rap mogul, but it turns out the jeweler did it anyway. It's still a shadow of its former self, but this was the best episode in a while.


• Acceptable TV: Returning from last week: Mr. Sprinkles, Kitten Calendar. New shows: Yo! Murder, He Rapped, Pedophile Gladiators, Shady Acres, and web winner l33t Haxxors 2. I'm voting for these two:

• Friday Night Lights: TMU gives Coach Taylor a take it or leave it offer, and he accepts? Wow. Julie's a little broken up about it, and spills the beans to Saracen. Tami suggests she and Julie stay in Dillon and Eric splits up or commutes or something, but he shoots it down right off the bat. And the episode wraps up with Tami saying no matter what happens, she's not leaving Dillon. I smell some tension. I guess he hasn't signed a deal yet, but can he back out on his word if the show gets a second season?
  
  Coach Taylor's line about "have you ever thought about coaching?" last week was apparently a firm offer to be an assistant coach, cause now he and Street are teaming up on Saracen to get him ready for the state finals. "You better not rest on your laurels." "You don't have any laurels." Good stuff. But can he really be a high school coach? He talked at some point about getting his GED, but I'm not sure he ever got it. And when they had that alumni day episode, the ex-player asked about a coaching job but I was pretty sure Coach told him there was nothing available. I figure with a government job there'd be educational requirements and a long complicated hiring process. But it's fun to have him around anyway.
  
  Landry does his best for Tyra after the events of last week. He tries not to betray her confidence but in the end he goes to Tami. She and Tyra go to the police and file a report, and Landry's reward for his good deeds is being called "a smelly geek" and generally being hated. You feel awful for the guy, but you also know that's the only way Tyra would've reacted. I really liked how they handled this in the first half of the episode. But then I felt like she admitted her mistakes way too quickly and Landry turned into a dick. I think they wanted it to be his "standing up for himself" moment, but she's like a few days removed from an attempted rape and is in the middle of apologizing to him when he starts giving her crap for her choices in men. It just seems poorly timed.
  
  Things have gone pretty well for Lyla right up to the pilot, and now she's due for life to crap on her. Her boyfriend gets paralyzed, her father's a philanderer and everyone knows it, and now she catches Street making out with the tattoo girl about five minutes after finding out that her parents are divorcing. I guess she cheated on Street in the first place, so maybe this is all karmic retribution?

Still to watch: Jericho.


I was very angry to discover that NBC is running Friday Night Lights promos with big spoilers for the season finale, so if you're spoilers paranoid like me, I'd suggest changing the channel or skipping ahead if you see a FNL commercial start.