Last season:

This season:

I see red and I likey.
Go, Coach Taylor!
From time.com:
And Taylor's move, pitting him against longer odds, establishes him as the true protagonist of the show. At a time when many of the best TV dramas feature antiheroes (House, Breaking Bad, Mad Men), he's a rarity: an example of classical virtues — integrity, loyalty — depicted without gush or cynicism. His signature locker-room slogan "Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose" would be moving regardless, but the Gary Cooperlike Chandler makes us see the grit and belief with which Taylor delivers it, even when he's pumping up a team he knows probably will lose.
Taylor can be stubborn, hot-tempered and petulant. But he is an actual hero, someone whose virtue is to be respected, not subverted. And he and Tami — whose role is also prominent this season — have one of the most mature, combatively supportive marriages on TV (not to mention, for a 40ish husband and wife in a medium obsessed with young couples, an awfully hot one).
1 comment:
I, too, trade my Panther blues for the Lions red and white.
I love the new tales of survival, desperation, and most of all, the purest love for the game and those who play it. S04E01's "Clear eyes, full hearts..." was the most sincere way I've ever heard him say it.
It just stirs me.
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