![]() Of course, the secret sauce of Tim Riggins is that, as easy on the eyes as Taylor Kitsch may be, his vulnerability is what makes him lovable. When Tim Riggins Ordered SquabĪlison Herman : Has any scene in modern TV history captured class anxiety as acutely as the one where Lyla takes Riggins to the country club? The setting instantly activates a more vulnerable, palpably insecure side of a character we’re used to seeing as a self-assured ladies’ man. In this moment, we see Riggins’s best qualities: bravery, loyalty, and profound emotional intelligence. Riggins knows that he needs to play along, to a point, in order for his best friend to get closure. ![]() Would it have been better to talk Street out of going in the first place? No, because when you get so bent up that you think sketchy Frankenshark surgery will grant you the power to walk again, like Street does, nobody’s talking you out of it. Much of what Riggins does in this instance - cutting school to tag along, bringing Lyla with him to remind Street of their love triangle - doesn’t seem responsible, but he senses immediately that Street could die about 50 different ways on this trip, and he has Street’s back. Michael Baumann : For most of their relationship, Jason Street is Bert and Riggins is Ernie - except for when Street gets it in his head to go to Mexico for experimental shark entrails injections. When Tim Riggins Went to Mexico With Jason Street (and Repeatedly Saved His Life) ![]() Kate Knibbs : Tim Riggins had plenty of terrific moments, but for my money, nothing can possibly top his first truly great action: when he looks his best friend, Jason Street, in the eyes and says, “Texas forever, Street.” This short, koan-like cheer summarized both the brilliance of Riggins and the brilliance of Friday Night Lights as a whole - the idea that the ordinary pursuit of high school football excellence could also be, on a spiritual level, a quixotic striving toward a permanent, golden state of being, where all you need for maximum happiness is a campfire and a cold one with your boys. When Tim Riggins Coined the Slogan “Texas Forever” Below, we kick off the celebration with a collection of Tim Riggins’s best moments. ALIENS! Yes, given the expanse of the universe, it is just as probable that aliens exist as Tim Riggins exists.Because Taylor Kitsch has a new show premiering Wednesday night - Waco, a six-part miniseries about David Koresh’s 1993 standoff with the FBI - and because in our (full) hearts, Taylor Kitsch will always be Tim Riggins, we hereby declare January 24 to be Tim Riggins Day. Coach Taylor would have been so proud.īut, whoa, turns out that finding a father figure is the least of his worries, there are aliens in this Naval battle. He even dramatically interrupts Admiral Liam Neeson by finishing a quote from Homer. As his mother in True Detective says, “All the girls are nice to you.” Other themes, like flirting with alcoholism and making the wrong decision for the right reasons and interrupting authority figures. His sex appeal gets him both into trouble and out of trouble. Tim Riggins, in every setting, always has a stroke of bad luck and always gets lucky. There, as in FNL, he is contending with his beautiful hair in his eyes, an obnoxious older brother trying to tell him how to live, the lure of a job in construction, and the distraction of confident, strutting babes. Oh, Tim Riggins went to California and worked as a true detective and everyone wanted to have sex with him.įrom New York, Riggins decamps for Hawaii, hoping another beach will sooth his soul and his hard-drinking will heal his emotional wounds. Oh, Tim Riggins went to army and then started a pot farm in California and everyone wanted to have sex with him. Oh, Tim Riggins went to army and everyone wanted to have sex with him. Kitsch’s roles following Tim Riggins could be best described as: oh, Tim Riggins went to army. Every character Kitsch has played since Friday Night Lights, conceivably, is a grown-up Tim Riggins. It was a part characterized by Kitsch's long hair, long eyelashes, and longing looks. Starting in 2006, Canadian actor Taylor Kitsch played American high school football player Tim Riggins in a television show called Friday Night Lights. This could be a song about the faceless ubiquity of evil, but actually it’s a song about the character that Taylor Kitsch has never successfully jettisoned. ![]() In the moody song that opens True Detective Season Two, Leonard Cohen growls, “I live among you, well-disguised I had to leave my life behind… I have a name, but never mind.”
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