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Ted Lasso
PerfidiousPorpoise 16 May 22 09:34
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Very very late to the party. Just caught the first 5 episodes and really liking it. I wasn't really sure about it initially, until I got to the end of the first episode, when Lasso was on the phone with his family back in the US, and then the tone of the show clicked. It is disarmingly heartwarming (although I hate the word) behind the goofiness, without being cloying like US sitcoms can be. Like the Roy Kent character a lot--the slightly over-the-hill curmudgeon who is in some sense the conscience of the team.

Just suspend disbelief and go with it.  

The reason why I like Ted Lasso and Emily in Paris so much, is that the main characters are really hopeful, positive people. Regardless of the blunders they make or the meanness of others they never respond with spite or negativity.

It's so rare in pop culture these days to have sunny main characters - most main characters are messed up, selfish, deliberately written to be unlikeable, messy, vengeful, irresponsible and infantile. Ted and Emily for the most part aren't like that (especially Emily, but then she's still so young).

Ted Lasso is indeed spectacularly middle of the road but FFS don't bring Ever Decreasing Circles into this. EDC was extraordinary comedy. Genuinely funny and with amazing characters. Good tinge of sadness too. Everyone knows a Martin and a Paul. 

I hated it to start - didn’t seem to appreciate how important professional  football is to people - has no feeling for the culture  but in the end i appreciated football was just a backdrop and ended up enjoying it - good mix of British and US humour 

I didn’t like it, and I really wanted to and tried to. I watched the whole first season. It was just boring, rarely funny. I get that Ted is nice and relatable but that isn’t enough for me to invest.

They keep having English players say things like "tied" as well, which is very jarring.  They go all-in on some things that the yanks clearly won't get so why the stupid half-way point on some annoying things?  

heh my favourite thing is how the street ted lives on is absolutely nothing like any street in london and instead is some sort of fantasy small town americana where everyone has terrible british accents

Yes, there’s an actual town called Richmond near London

The first thing to figure out was whether or not Richmond was an actual place and, yes, it is!  It’s located almost equidistant between Heathrow Airport and central London to the west of the city centre.
 

amazing

tbc what i meant pp wasn’t so much the physical location but the fact that it seems entirely unconcerned with the anonymity or general hectic pace of london 

its like some gilmore-girls-esque london where you can be sitting on a park bench and run across your boss walking home from a date and have a heartfelt conversation, or where your employee’s girlfriend will knock on your door at 9pm without calling ahead just to update you about something that happened earlier that day and then leave

heh my favourite thing is how the street ted lives on is absolutely nothing like any street in london

Pfft. Literally worked on that street for two years after uni.  

They seem to have just glossed over the storyline about the Dubai Air sponsorship. Am a bit relieved actually, as delving more into the fallout would have detracted from the comedy bit.

The Coach Beard episode was weird and a bit too long. I like the character (and actor), but sometimes a character works precisely because he is not the main focus.

The development of Nate’s character over the two seasons is so masterly. He ends up completely different, but you can see how it’s in him all along.

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