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‘Brave from the beginning’: 20 years of Friday Night Lights – the sports drama that dared to be different
Source: The Guardian · Published
<p>It launched the careers of Jesse Plemons and Michael B Drama, and let its stars improvise in a way that was fresh and new. This show about smalltown US football was confident, trailblazing – and…
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