It remains to be seen whether Friday Night Lights season 6 will ever happen in some form, be it a direct continuation or a reboot, but a true revival of the show shouldn't happen. Peter Berg's show - based on the book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger, which Berg first adapted into a 2004 movie - originally ran from 2006 to 2011. Since then, the show has sustained its relatively small but incredibly loyal following, and there's been plenty of talk about more Friday Night Lights happening over the years.
Back in 2013, there were reports of a new Friday Night Lights movie being in the works, which would've taken place in the TV universe and brought back the cast, but that never came to pass. A few years later, a reboot movie was also said to be happening, but again there's been in the way of concrete developments. Indeed, the only actual sequel that has happened is After Friday Night Lights, Bissinger's book sequel that follows the players he originally wrote about, only now as adults.
That itself would suggest material to work with, and it wouldn't be too much of a surprise if more Friday Night Lights did happen. TV revivals are increasingly commonplace, and an IP that has a fanbase and can be turned into either a reboot or continuation can't be ruled out. NBCUniversal has its own streaming service, Peacock, which has already delivered revivals/reboots of shows like Saved by the Bell, so it isn't a stretch to imagine Friday Night Lights season 6 or a reboot happening. But while it's at least a possibility, it would be a mistake. Friday Night Lights had its bumpy moments (most notably in the much-maligned season 2), but its ending was perfect. The finale tied up most of its long-running character arcs in a way that felt fitting, and didn't obviously invite any kind of follow-up.
It's true that Friday Night Lights' season 5 finale, "Always," allowed viewers to bid farewell to the characters in a way that suggested life would go on. It wasn't a closed ending by any means, but the stories that come next are better left to the imagination. A hypothetica season 6, for instance, would likely need to reverse Eric and Tami Taylor's decision to leave Dillon, bringing the couple back to Texas. That's not a stretch, but given the payoff of their Friday Night Lights ending - of how richly deserved and hard fought it was for Tami, and for the reassurance viewers got that it was going to be ok for Coach too - then it's not something that needs to be seen. Likewise, Tim Riggins was given a fitting sendoff as the sun literally set on his story, leaving him in Dillon but at peace, right where he belonged with his family and his future home. It's a perfect image for his arc to end on, and seeing the reality of that a decade or so later likely wouldn't be quite so enjoyable.
If the door to a revival feels closed, then what about a Friday Night Lights reboot? That is perhaps the more plausible and appealing option, since the show itself was a different take on a story told by the movie, and it's easy to imagine a either a full do-over, or a quasi-reboot set in the same universe, where Coach Taylor is referenced as a legend while someone new tries to lead a different Dillon team to glory. But that itself would either mean a strange relationship to the parent show, with some characters appearing, or something totally new that ignores what came before, neither of which quite feel right: it's at once impossible to imagine a Friday Night Lights TV show without the likes of Coach Taylor and Riggins, but their journeys are so complete they never need to return. Should Friday Night Lights prove particularly popular on streaming (the show also released on Netflix on August 1, 2021) then it's even easier to imagine something happening with the property, but it would take more than clear eyes and full hearts for it to avoid being a losing effort.