Possible Spoilers

 

Recap from Ran Cansley

"I FIND YOU INAPPROPRIATE" -- We've got a couple of storylines that fit the inappropriate bill this week. Let's start with the Taylor family: Julie and her much-older hottie teacher Noah have become so close that he's loaning her sexually explicit books and she's making him take-me-now-baby Jose Gonzalez CDs.

 

Tami, who's still swinging wildly on the post-partum pendulum, over-reacts, pulling Noah aside, bending him over and applying blunt pressure where no man wants it. In her now famous whisper-yell, she spits that she could get him fired, get her husband to beat the crap out of him, and send him to prison.

 

 
Her ramblings were met by the equally famous Austin Nichols look!

 

Whoa, there, mamabear, he's just playing with your cub!

Maybe they'll prove me wrong, but it looks like Noah and Julie are just enjoying each other's attention, and nothing more salacious than that.

 

And yeah, it's probably inappropriate, but there's ways and then there's ways, and Tami's way rebounds on her bigtime. Their conversation's overheard through an open classroom door, and the story spreads like wildfire through a dry canyon, bringing a furious and humiliated Julie to Tami's office, where she screams at a wide-eyed and shocked Tami, who's so sure she's right she can't bring herself to see the situation from Julie's perspective. Aunt Shel plays peacemaker, which Tami hates until Shel quite rightly points out, "If Mom had done that, how would you have felt?"

 

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Hope it is not the last we see of Austin on FNL.

Update: Vesperlynd, did you mean this look? 

Friday Night Lights: Pantherama! (Episode 107)

 

Recap by Ran Cansley (contains spoilers)

 

 

Who's Noah? That would be Noah Barnett, the new English Lit/Speech/Creative Writing teacher, who serves as faculty advisor for the school newspaper. He's also a vegetarian, a Libra, and he likes imported beer, long walks on the beach, and smarty-pants blondes with polysyllabic vocabularies.

 

Noah's played by Austin Nichols, who made a great impression on me as Morgan Earp on Deadwood, as a man who could say a lot without saying a lot. I was such a fan, in fact, that I even tried to watch John from Cincinnati, but, well, since I tend to like my dramas to be both well-acted and nominally comprehensible, let's just say I'm glad he's found his way to Dillon. 

 

Despite the strong "Don't Stand so Close to Me" vibe I'm getting, he's still way less creepy as Noah than he was as John. He's young enough that Tami confuses him for a student. He's got that scraggly beard thing going on that the Sweaty had, too, where it looks like he shaved in the dark, once, about a month ago, with his mom's disposable Bic, which for some reason Julie seems to find appealing. Aside from the squirrel that died on his chin, he's pretty cute, with hot eyes and killer cheekbones. He'd be a great match for someone not in high school.

 

Noah and Julie bond over everything from journalism, where he advises, "Don't use a ten-dollar word when a nickel one will do," to the woes of being dumped. Julie writes an unflattering feature article in the paper about where the money raised by the annual "Pantherama!" (I'm getting to it! Keep your pants on! Whoops, was that a spoiler?) goes, whether it's evenly distributed, and who decides which activities benefit from the event. The article does not please her papa.

 

But that's nothing compared to the hell that will rain down upon the head of the young teacher, the schoolgirl fantasy, once Tami Taylor's done with him. She's already got her suspicions. I guess finding your teenage daughter necking in the driveway with a sweaty, pot-scented college boy would raise the hackles on any mama, so her radar is ratcheted up so high bats are bouncing off it. Either that or Julie's ridiculously transparent in her awkward, flushed crush, and it's like she's wearing a blinking neon sign that only her mama can see that reads: "THE SWEATY WAS JUST KIDSTUFF." These latest inappropriate romantic tinglings make Tim and Miffie's furtive dalliances look downright staid.

 

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Link to another recap - Thanks Jandafan

 

 After watching Friday Night Lights I have to admit Austin put down a very convincing school-teacher.

No John From Cincinnati this time, no 'Some Things I Know, Some Things I don't', no 'I don't know Butchie Instead', instead he was really articulate (see, I follow his advise and use a nickel word) and incredibly gorgeous.
In the light of recent events, it was nice to hear he went to the Columbia School of Journalism.

His fashion sense in this first episode was immaculate; he was a pretty sight in all of his different outfits.

Make a choice for yourself: Austin in pink, in yellow, in blue or with a checkered shirt.
To me he looks gorgeous in each and every one.









Austin still has work to do concerning his popularity. Let's follow this silly discussion on FNL's IMDB-board

Who is that actor?

Does anyone know who the actor who plays the new school paper editor is? I feel like I saw him in someting else and its DRIVING ME NUTS!!!!!!! His name in this episode was Noah Barnett. I just wanna know what the actor's name is !!??? If anyone can help, it would save me from going insane!!! LOL Thanks!

Austin Nichols
Vanilla Ice
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the hair. Everytime he was on the camera, I kept wi-ondering why they'd gone back in time and cast someone from 90210.
Well I like him. He's from Austin so it's nice that's he's on a show that's filmed here.
You Rock!!! Thank you, Thank you, thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And i figured out now where I know him from ... Wimbledon and as sad as I am to admit this ... Holiday in the sun . I knew I saw him before!
He was on 'John from Cincinnati' on the HBO series
... And off course the obvious...:)

I couldn’t resist and had to make a blonde Austin.

The image of a Billy Idol look-a-like was too haunting in my mind.

On second thought, let’s better wait for the real thing.

Furthermore links to two new interviews where Austin talks about his role in Friday Night Lights and The Informers.

 

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Thanks to OMG and Hjulia for finding the interviews