Friday Night Lights. Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.Front Row Cinema is a nostalgic movie podcast of two lifelong friends revisiting and reviewing movies they saw in theaters as kids.Follow along as we look back on our memories of the film, its hype, box office analysis, critical reception and so much more.