This week's episode, "On the Outside Looking In," suddenly felt like an after-school special. A new character, Epic, is the most troubled (girl) we've seen yet -- a smoking, sneering truant who's obviously Tami's next project, other than trying to implement an a tutoring program, in part because of her. (Odd to see a kid actually smoking on this show. A first?) And speaking of smoking, this episode's dark treatment of alcohol makes Tim Riggins feel like Don Draper, in retrospect - Riggs' constant nursing of a beer became part of his bad-boy persona, and we almost never saw him drunk beyond control. It came as close to glamorization as might be tolerable. Rally party time! Jess challenges a rally girl with her eyes on Vince to a kegger drinking match, and winds up incoherent and getting sick. It's disturbing not only for what it is, but because Jess has always been the sensible, no-nonsense kid, the one who takes care of others and never shirks her duties. And her possessiveness of Vince, not only romantically but as his "pre-selected" rally girl, isn't quite working. To his dismay, she refuses to stock his locker with his favorite cookies, and in fact finds the whole thing demeaning to females, so she cedes her rally girl role to her eventual drinking challenger. Not only that, but Jess plain old misses football after spending the summer helping Vince improve his game.
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