Friday Night Lights 5X3: The Right Hand of the Father

Okay, so the party from last episode is circulating on social media, and parents are calling the school asking for the football players at the party to be expelled. (You know, the same parents that Tami couldn't get on the phone two episodes ago). Anyway, Eric convinces the principal to let him handle it.

He tries to stress to the players that they need to be better, have integrity, whatever. So his solution is to make them wear suits on game day and do some community outreach stuff (which they immediately abandon). But when two of the players are caught making fun of the drunk girl in the video, Eric kicks them both off the team.

Tami tries to hold a lecture about the dangers of alcohol, but it's super boring and no one is paying attention. However, we do get to see Tami completely lose her shit on the students, so that was fun.

Meanwhile, Vince's dad is out of jail on parole, and is trying to act like things are normal. Vince is not having it, and when he finds out his dad is staying at the house, he leaves. His mom tries to ask him to try, for her, but Vince is still upset. Later he and his dad get into an argument, where Vince makes some good points. His dad ends up going to see him at the game (even though Vince told him not to) and he tells Vince he's proud of him. He also apologizes and packs up his stuff and leaves.

Over in college, Julie gets a C- (for what I think is a completely bullshit reason- and I've graded a crazy amount of college papers) on a paper. Afterwards, her TA invites her to a salon and they end up drinking a little too much and have sex. I do think this was all orchestrated by the TA though. He's being sneaky about it, but this was totally his plan all along. They agree this was a mistake and they aren't going to say anything about it. We'll see.