Description
Football is one of the most popular sports in America, but in Texas it's closer to religion. The first season of this award-winning show uses the game as focal point for each episode's structure, but the gridiron often takes the backseat to the more pressing issues of life in Middle America. The real star of the show is the fictional town of Dillon, a place that represents the struggle of hard-working-yet-flawed human beings getting through another year of life in a small community. The town's team, the Panthers, may be headed for the top, but can their coach (EARLY EDITION's Kyle Chandler) and the players keep it together as the pressure of their personal lives threatens to knock them down?
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Ultimate DVD (10/01/2007, p.118) 3 stars out of 5 -- "The show follows the wins and losses of the Dillon Panthers, and the texture of the lives affected by the game....[With] some genuine heart."
Empire (12/01/2007, p.230) 5 stars out of 5 -- "Shot docudrama-style with handheld cameras, long single takes and improvisation, it transcends soap and melodrama with rare, spot-on naturalism."
Total Film (01/01/2008, p.167) 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]ntriguing....The is ONE TREE HILL with the veneer stripped off and the dialogue polished up."
