The season premiere of "Friday Night Lights" comes to NBC tonight at 9 p.m. and since it first aired we've hoped that it would eventually get moved to Fridays. Not because we think it's a particularly good night for the show (or any show, for that matter) but because we're slightly anal and it annoyed us that a show with "Friday Night" in the title did not, in fact, air on Friday nights. But we're going to admit something else here: we aren't actually big fans of the series. Yeah, yeah, it's basically blasphemy to admit that since almost every TV fan or critic out there were basically falling all over themselves with praise for it last season. So let us explain. Firstly, the show is shot in an exceedingly annoying jerky-cam style that they tried to pass off during the first episode as being the result of a "documentary film crew" following the football coach around all year; they basically dropped this notion by the second episode, and yet, the shaky-cam remains. And it remains extremely distracting.

Secondly, there's just way too much football in it. No, not all of us are football fans. In fact, some of us loathe football. And yes, the human drama surrounding the town and its denizens is realistic and moving, but still. The whole town lives for football, and it's just not something we can relate to in any way.

Despite all that, we watched the entire first season, and we watched the second season premiere last week, and were a little perturbed by one plot development that just seems like it was taken from a different show entirely. We're hoping it plays out in a satisfactory way come the second episode of the season, but if it doesn't, it doesn't bode well for the direction the series is going. The characters on the show are what kept us (barely) watching, so if they start to screw their stories up in ridiculous ways, they may just lose us completely.