I have become an avid watcher of the NBC drama "Friday Night Lights." I loved the movie -- and I love the show. This type of movie to TV show love is rare. I would say I felt similar about "Fame" (though I loved the movie more) and "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," though I loved the show more.

For the uninitiated, "Friday Night Lights," is a drama set in a small Texas town where almost everyone's lives seem to revolve around high school football. The show has a storyline about the star quarterback, who was paralyzed in a football accident, and his devoted girlfriend, who of course is a cheerleader. She was incredibly devoted to her injured beau, barely leaving his bedside, until she ended up sleeping with his best friend, who was crippled by survivor guilt and hadn't even visited the quarterback in the hospital since his accident.

In last week's episode, the school is abuzz about how "Lyla" the cheerleader, betrayed "Jason," the injured quarterback, with his best friend and bad boy "Tim," who is also on the football team. There is a scene where a parent approaches Lyla's father to apologize for a website his daughter put up calling Lyla a slut. We then get to see Lyla in her room looking at the same site. This is a form of cyberbullying Nancy Willard refers to as denigration, or sending or posting cruel gossip or rumors about a person to damage his or her reputation of friendships. Of course the whispers and isolation are happening offline, too, but the website is the final blow that pushes Lyla to quit the squad (her fellow cheerleaders failing to catch her in a basket toss may have influenced her decision as well).

Nobody got in trouble for the offending website, it was really worked out between the two fathers, and Lyla was encouraged by Tim to keep cheering (and basically keep her head up), and it all seems to die down. It's interesting to see this type of teen drama reflected in teen TV drama.