My SO is currently watching it, curious to see what everyone thinks
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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.
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.)
Slight difference Sudekis made Ted Lasso. Brett Goldstein who played Roy Kent on Ted Lasso created Shrinking with Bill Lawrence.
Shrinking
I love Shrinking!
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.
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
