The deliberate reshaping of a public professional identity — new genres, new mediums, new kinds of roles. After an iconic part, reinvention is the alternative to repetition. Britton’s post-Friday Night Lights path, from Nashville to 9-1-1 to Phony, is a masterclass: each role unfamiliar, each choice a refusal to be only one thing. It requires saying no to easy money and yes to uncertain art.