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.)
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.
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.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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.
