Friday Night Lights: 5 Couples That Are Perfect (& 5 That Make No Sense)
Friday Night Lights was one of those once-in-a-generation shows. It united those viewers who loved teen dramas, sports stories, and primetime soaps into one cohesive group of television fans. Set in the small town of Dillon, Texas, the series followed a high school football team through the trials of the season, but the entire show wasn’t about what went on on the football field. The family drama had its fair share of romantic relationships.
Over the course of the show, high school kids hooked up and broke up almost as often as Julie Taylor shed her tears. A lot of the couples in the series are great fits, which is what made us all want to root for them. Others, however, make no sense for the show.
10 Makes No Sense: Luke And Becky
Luke and Becky both joined the series in later seasons. A member of the next football generation, Luke was a nice kid from a farm and Becky was a good girl who often had crushes on the bad boys.
It seemed they only ended up together because they were in the same place at the same time. They didn’t really know one another at all, and Becky spent a lot of time following Tim Riggins around. Their relationship formed from absolutely nothing.
9 Perfect Together: Matt And Carlotta
Yes, Matt and Carlotta might have been the most boring couple on the series, it’s true. During the time that the two of them met one another, however, Mat and Carlotta made perfect sense - on paper.
When Matt couldn’t care for his grandmother on his own anymore, he hired Carlotta to be her nurse. Though there were a few years of an age difference between them, the two appreciated the caregiver instinct in one another. They each found someone who understood what it meant to put someone else’s life before their own.
8 Makes No Sense: Derek And Julie
This is one instance where the age difference between two characters was a definite hindrance to a relationship. When Julie went away to college, she fell for Derek. The trouble was, Derek was the teaching assistant in one of her classes.
Derek and Julie didn’t have much in common. Julie was one of the least mature characters amongst the teenagers, making her incredibly impressionable. Derek was a married man who took advantage of her interest in him.
7 Perfect Together: Landry And Tyra
This is one of the few relationships in Friday Night Lights that no one saw coming. Landry, who never seemed to get any time on the football field and was best friends with Matt Saracen, somehow became one of Tyra Collette’s most trusted friends.
Initially, Landry clearly had a crush on her, and Tyra pretended she didn’t feel the same way. She continued to ask him for help, knowing how he felt about her, without completely letting him in. It wasn’t until Tyra let her guard down around him - and they bonded over an ill-conceived accidental death storyline - that the audience realized they really were perfect for one another.
6 Makes No Sense: Mindy And Billy
Tyra’s big sister and Tim Riggins’ big brother were a fun pairing on the show. Fans watched the two of them get married and have a daughter. They also watched Mindy continuously stress out about her relationship with a man who couldn’t get his act together.
As much as Mindy cared about Billy, these two should never have lasted. Billy was all about get-rich-quick schemes that landed him in hot water. Mindy was trying to create a stable home environment for her family. They didn’t mesh as well as they thought they did.
5 Perfect Together: Vince And Jess
Before Jess got to know him, she wanted nothing to do with Vince. She thought he was an arrogant troublemaker, and she didn’t want that in her life. Much to the joy of the audience, however, Jess eventually saw Vince for who he really was, and the rest is history.
The two had a lot in common. Both considered from the “wrong side of the tracks” in their small town, they worked hard to achieve their goals. They were also heavily invested in their families, trying to do right by them. Jess and Vince bonded in ways that surprised her and made them one of the best couples the show had to offer.
4 Makes No Sense: Riggins And Tyra
Tyra Collette was going places. She wanted nothing more in life than to get out of her tiny Texas town and leave the obsession with high school football behind. Tyra wanted people to get to know her for who she was, and not because she was a Collette woman. That’s why it’s so odd that she spent so much time with Tim Riggins early in the series.
Riggins was the embodiment of “Texas forever,” never really wanting to leave his home behind, and that wasn’t necessarily a good thing. He never even wanted to do much more than what people expected of him. Riggins would have held Tyra back if she decided to stay with him.
3 Perfect Together: Matt And Julie
Julie is one of the Friday Night Lights characters that many fans liked to hate. That hatred was born from the fact that Julie was just very immature. Her immaturity, however, was just what was needed for her relationship with Matt when it began.
Matt spent so much time alone with his parents gone and having to take care of his grandmother made him grow up very fast. He didn’t get a lot of time to just be a teenager outside of football. His relationship with Julie allowed him to be a normal guy experiencing the ups and downs of first love. It’s no coincidence that these two kept finding their way back to each other throughout the series. Julie loosened Matt up and Matt made Julie think about the consequences of her actions. They complemented each other.
2 Makes No Sense: Buddy And Angela
If there’s any relationship that made fans wonder just what the writers were thinking, it’s that of Buddy Garrity and Angela Collette. Buddy was one of the most powerful men in town and used to getting his way. Angela was the perpetually down on her luck mother of Mindy and Tyra. When she really needed the money, she got a job as Buddy’s assistant.
That job somehow led to a romantic relationship. Now, there are plenty of times that employers have fallen for employees and worked out just fine. Considering Buddy tried to pay $700 to Angela so she'd keep quiet about their relationship seemed ill-advised. The power dynamic just didn’t work.
1 Perfect Together: Eric And Tami
The series might have been centered around high school football, but Tami and Eric Taylor provided the emotional foundation for Friday Night Lights. These were two people who loved one another so much that they never let obstacles drive them apart.
The audience watched the two of them struggle with parenting disagreements and issues with how their school handled things, but they always found a way to discuss their issues and come together as a united front. Tami and Eric never strayed from one another, unlike nearly every other pairing on the show. In fact, that was a sticking point for actors Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler for their characters. Tami and Eric weren’t necessarily always a perfect fit, but they made sure to work to maintain a perfect relationship.
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