Tami Taylor

Tami Taylor is the guidance counselor at Dillon High and wife to its new head football coach, which in a Texas town obsessed with the team makes her a public figure whether she likes it or not. She's warm, plainspoken, and unwilling to let anyone's title override her common sense, at home or at work.

Connie Britton refuses to play the coach's wife as decoration; Tami argues with her husband as an equal, calls out bad behavior from students and boosters alike, and does it all with a smile that never softens her point. The show trusts her judgment as much as anyone's, and the performance makes you trust it too.