At first look, this series looks like it will be almost impossibly stupid and cliché ridden: the American rube and the heartless dowager (but impossibly hot!) butt heads over the soul of an ailing football club. You soon bear witness to the fact that the only thing this has in common with other coach-team fairy tales is that they lose games and then start winning. But as Ted Lasso points out repeatedly in his home-spun wisdom, the games they play on the grass don't mean a fraction compared to the lives of the people affected.
If ever people needed a heart-warming and life-affirming (yes, I said life-affirming, and I don't even know what that means) story, it would be in 2020. Ted Lasso doesn't have a cynical or sarcastic bone in his body, and viewers will very quickly be won over to his way of playing and living.
I could have done without any of the jokes about how little he knows about football. Not many of them were funny and some were just annoying. Thankfully, these were few and evaporated quickly as the story got up on its own two legs and ran away from the original TV commercial gag.
I just watched E07 last night and I couldn't even believe how badly I needed what Ted Lasso is selling. After a tough day reading the news, the show went down like good medicine. I've never had that experience from watching a TV show before. Can we have more, please? I hope this starts a trend towards this type of programming.
Don't get me wrong, I love gangster movies and crime stories, but there are so very few stories out there telling us that we really need to treat each other better. I see movie posters on bus stops and almost every one of them has some guy-or guys-with a gun-or guns. There should be a law against peddling this trash in public. You can't have a porno movie poster at a bus stop, yet almost everyone has sex which is a perfectly normal part of life, so why should movies selling violence have such free reign over our public spaces?
If ever people needed a heart-warming and life-affirming (yes, I said life-affirming, and I don't even know what that means) story, it would be in 2020. Ted Lasso doesn't have a cynical or sarcastic bone in his body, and viewers will very quickly be won over to his way of playing and living.
I could have done without any of the jokes about how little he knows about football. Not many of them were funny and some were just annoying. Thankfully, these were few and evaporated quickly as the story got up on its own two legs and ran away from the original TV commercial gag.
I just watched E07 last night and I couldn't even believe how badly I needed what Ted Lasso is selling. After a tough day reading the news, the show went down like good medicine. I've never had that experience from watching a TV show before. Can we have more, please? I hope this starts a trend towards this type of programming.
Don't get me wrong, I love gangster movies and crime stories, but there are so very few stories out there telling us that we really need to treat each other better. I see movie posters on bus stops and almost every one of them has some guy-or guys-with a gun-or guns. There should be a law against peddling this trash in public. You can't have a porno movie poster at a bus stop, yet almost everyone has sex which is a perfectly normal part of life, so why should movies selling violence have such free reign over our public spaces?