My SO is currently watching it, curious to see what everyone thinks
Disgustingly positive and very addictive. Just what we needed in 2020, just what we need now.
It’s a football show that has very little to do with football. It’s all about the people and how they grow alongside each other. You don’t have to have any preexisting interests related to the show, you will become interested through exposure.
And if you find you like Ted Lasso, also try Shrinking. Same creators, same difference - a show about something you probably have no interest in that you will become interested in through the characters. (A bit more serious than Ted Lasso.)
Shrinking
I love Shrinking!
Same. Can’t wait for season 3!
Slight difference Sudekis made Ted Lasso. Brett Goldstein who played Roy Kent on Ted Lasso created Shrinking with Bill Lawrence.
thanks for the recommendation
First off, it’s a master class in effective leadership. Ted gets the best out of his people by helping them grow as individuals, rather than relentlessly measuring metrics.
The characters are rich and interesting, show prominent growth over the seasons, and a few character arcs are psychologically fascinating rides. They could have been written as professional paint dry watchers and it would still be a great show.
Couldn’t agree more. It really focuses on positive ways of getting people to function as a group. The sports is largely just a backdrop, and it’s all about character development, getting to know all the characters as individuals, and finding their strengths and weaknesses, and not trying to have others fix their flaws, but for them to overcome them themselves through better self-understanding.
I don’t think there was a single character that I wasn’t interested in by the time they were done. It felt like I was a part of the team. It’s is very over the top positive, but it’s more of a “I wish more people were like this” way than a patronizing thing it could have been if it was done more heavy handed.
Exactly! We had very similar viewing experiences. Your second paragraph makes me want to watch it again now. Lol
There were a numbers of characters that I felt from their introductions or betrayals that there would be no way I would ever like them, but they developed them all so well, and coming around to them and basically seeing in them what Ted did all along was so well done. Nothing felt forced, between the characters or by the show to the audience.
I just went back and watched some moments from the big arc in the last season. Nobody forced anyone to apologize or accept any apologies, but all the characters reached those point either on their own, or from a subtle and loving reminder of something personal from Ted. They just did such a great job highlighting the good in (almost) everyone.
Most of the drama in the series either arises through either people poorly communicating at first or from their own personal insecurities and not forced events solely to stir up a storyline. It feels very real, and it’s things that can be realistically solved if people respect each other and show compassion. Ted himself does indeed have magical plot armor to let him say and do the tight things at the right times, but we can defiantly apply the lessons we learn from watching to our own lives and experience our own positivity.
As someone who is usually able to guess where a show is going, Ted Lasso continuously surprised me. It was a breath of fresh air having a show filled with positivity and actual character growth.
That said, I don’t think I could watch it a second time now that I know what happens.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Great fuckin show. It was pretty much perfect start to finish.
I went into it expecting to hate it because I don’t give a single fuck about soccer, but soccer is more of a story telling vehicle than it is the actual focus of the show.
Right now I’m a little grumpy they are trying to make more seasons.
It ends perfectly. There is no need for more. They basically wrapped everything up and left it exactly where a viewer would want them to.
I worry that by trying to add more after the fact it’s just going to tarnish the pretty much perfect track record of the original seasons.
I understand why they are going back to milk that cow. I just wish they wouldn’t.
My wife and I enjoyed it so thoroughly that when we were in London a few months ago we took a Ted Lasso tour of Richmond. It was so much fun to see all the spots that were locations in the show.
Love it! One of the best shows I’ve seen in years. Have recommended to basically anyone I know.
It is excellent but I have grown to build contempt for it as it appears at the top of my watch list in Apple TV every time I open it with a giant banner, even though I’ve already watched it, and is a perpetual reminder of the shit state of streaming services. /rant
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I mean I don’t get it at all. Like they have this huge library of amazing content but they just want to shove the same shit in your face over and over again. How does that make them more money? It’s the same on every platform.
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Advertising…their own shows? That I’m already paying for? And have already watched? If they want to find things that I would like, wouldn’t it benefit them to show me different shows and movies, rather than the same ones over and over?
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they are the provider but not necessarily the content creator.
So you think Apple gets paid money every time you watch it? I dunno that that makes sense from a financial side but it sure would explain why it’s shoved down our throats.
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I watched the first season and a few episodes more, and I didn’t like it. I kept waiting for the show to become worthy of its praise, but I really should have stopped sooner.
The on-the-nose writing did not work for me at all, and I didn’t find it funny where it was trying to be.
The show uses a made-up soccer club as a backdrop, but it felt very arbitrary; it may as well have been set in any other sport or industry. Others may like this about the show, but it just felt careless to me.
I can see why people love it, but the humor wasn’t quite good enough to hook me (yet), everything else seems really good though
My parter (f) really liked it, I didn’t.
Tjwat said,
he’s ‘ere he’s there, he’s every fuckin’ where Roy Kent!
I liked it but as someone who was abused by a therapist — man the fact every show is trying to be “therapy positive” is really meaning I have PTSD when watching most TV shows now, it sucks.
