The shy backup-turned-starting QB juggling football, caregiving and first love — the show's beating heart.
Matt Saracen was the beating heart of Friday Night Lights — the shy backup thrust into the spotlight while caring for his grandmother and falling for the coach's daughter. Zach Gilford made him impossibly easy to root for.
His biggest second act is Mike Flanagan's horror universe — the lead, Riley Flynn, in Netflix's Midnight Mass (2021), plus The Midnight Club and The Fall of the House of Usher. He also holds down a substantial role as Elias Voit in Criminal Minds: Evolution.
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