Jesse Plemons, best known to many fans as Landry Clarke on Friday Night Lights, will reprise that role in a webseries starting this week that crosses the fan-favorite football drama over with NBC’s Parenthood (and therefore gives it a shared universe with the network’s upcoming About a Boy).The webseries is one of a number of such projects at NBC aimed at keeping fans sated during the Olympic Games, which have hijacked broadcast TV schedules.Parenthood‘s digital series is titled “Friday Night at the Luncheonette.” Amber (Mae Whitman) is tasked with keeping an eye on her cousin Max (Max Burkholder), while also working after hours at the Luncheonette. When the band Crucifictorious shows up, Amber desperately tries to keep things under control while Max documents events with his phone.Guest stars Jesse Plemons and Derek Phillips reprise their “Friday Night Lights” roles of Landry Clarke and Billy Riggins, respectively. The four-part digital series debuts Thursday, Feb. 13. While a number of actors have played roles on both series, up until now, they had played different characters. This crossover, then, could raise some Kevin Smith-style questions–but it also gives Plemons a chance to try out an interconnected universe (if you don’t count Breaking Bad and Better Off Saul) before his expected turn as part of the Skywalker family in Star Wars Episode VII.Since that film is expected to start shooting soon, we should be hearing in the next couple of months whether Plemons really does have that job–and if so, it may not be so cheap or easy to get him to come back for the next of these…
