History YMMV / FridayNightLights

* {{Tearjerker}}: ''The Son'', aka 'Why didn't Zach Gilford get an Emmy Nomination after this?'.

* TheWoobie: Also Jason Street (kinda, see WheelchairWoobie) and, to a lesser extent, J.D. [=McCoy=] in Season 3.
** JerkassWoobie: Tim can be a real asshole but His life sucks a lot.
* WheelchairWoobie: Subverted to hell and back by Jason Street. He doesn't want your sympathy, doesn't want your pity, [[DontYouDarePityMe doesn't want to be your mascot]], but grows to fully embrace his situation and makes the best of it.
* IronWoobie: Matt Saracen

* IdiotPlot: Tammy being fired over a complete misunderstanding in Season 4. Yeah, it's entirely possible that knowing the real story wouldn't make a difference to such militant pro-lifers, but as far as we can tell she never even tries to correct the impression that she personally took Becky to an abortion clinic against her will.

* {{Tearjerker}}: ''The Son'', aka 'Why didn't Zach Gilford get an Emmy Nom after this?'.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Smash's speech about he doesn't have to take offense to somewhat racist comment Mac says and how the implication that he should be is racist in and of itself.

* InformedWrongness: Smash is painted as being in the wrong when he doesn't initially take a stand regarding Mac's racist comments in "Blinders". However, he brings up some good points. First, he points out that the black players say some things about the white players that could be considered just as racist without any controversy. Next, he points out that him being expected to be offended by the comments is racist in and out of himself.

* IronWoobie: Matt Saracen would be a regular Woobie, if not for the fact that just about all of his suffering could have been helped if not for his desire to play martyr

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Matt Saracen's actions have been seen in a very un-woobie light in a lot of peoples eyes, as far as showing him as someone who for all of his angst about "people leaving him", he wilfully shoves people away from him in order to play the poor pitiful me card to the hilt and will do so in the most vile way imaginable. He slept with his grandmother's caregiver and caused her to leave when he tries to force her into a relationship and most alarmingly, the fact that he sent his father TO HIS DEATH as far as hating his father for returning to help him take care of his grandmother.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Matt Saracen's actions have been seen in a very un-woobie light in a lot of peoples eyes, as far as showing him as someone who for all of his angst about "people leaving him", he wilfully shoves people away from him in order to play the poor pitiful me card to the hilt and will do so in the most vile way imaginable. He fucked his grandmother's caregiver and caused her to leave when he tries to force her into a relationship and most alarmingly, the fact that he sent his father TO HIS DEATH as far as hating his father for returning to help him take care of his grandmother.

** In ''Bloodline'', Kyle Chandler hates a guy named Eric.

* UnfortunateImplications: In "The Right Hand of the Father," Maura getting victim-blamed for her being taken advantage of while drunk, and the show expecting us to agree with that.
** Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that. Mrs. Taylor was only laying into Maura, who was totally OK with being taken advantage of, in order to get her to improve herself.

* SophomoreSlump: The Tyra/Landry murder plot, Julie becomes a brat, Matt boinks his grandma's caregiver, etc. This has led to some CanonDisContinuity in the third season, as the show itself seems to be ignoring a lot of these things ever happening. Seriously, two of the main characters murdered someone and confessed to it, but after season two it's never mentioned again.

* HilariousInHindsight: Landry's season 2 story created a gag among the fans that he was a serial killer and whenever a character inexplicably disappeared, he'd done them in. Then came Jesse Plemmons' role on ''{{Breaking Bad}}''.

** Averted again in 2011 (the show's final season), where Connie Britton was nominated again, the show finally received a nomination for "Outstanding Drama Series", and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Kyle Chandler actually *WON* the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama!]] We can be quite thankful that ''{{Breaking Bad}}'' didn't have a season that year. Jason Katims also won an Emmy for writing the Series Finale.

* TooGoodToLast: A notable [[AvertedTrope aversion]]; despite being near cancellation about four million times, strong viewer and network support -- ''[[NetworkToTheRescue network support!!]]'' -- kept it going for a respectable 76 episodes.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Tami with the whole redistricting plot. It's never really evident that East Dillon High got noticeably better because of it, and it seems like the only thing that came out of it was Joe [=McCoy=] became an even bigger {{Jerkass}}.

* KarmaHoudini: Julie got grounded every other episode, but it never seemed to stop her from going wherever and doing whatever she wanted. All she had to do was cry a little bit and her parents completely let up.

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