I feel like Ted Lasso has completely shifted over to being written entirely so someone can gif a given statement and a bunch of people online can go "this is so true"
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
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Somewhere along the line I think I realized I find shows that exist largely to be nice and express everything through that singular lens are just as cynical as the most exhausting edgelord shows. Probably around when the word hopepunk first crossed my timeline.
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It’s interesting to compare the state of Ted Lasso to Bill Lawrence’s other current show, Shrinking. I think the most glaring thing is that while both of them have this core of hopefulness and positivity to them, that’s pretty much all Ted Lasso is anymore. Just niceness triumphing over adversity, given a long enough time scale. At least Shrinking offers up some dark night of the soul shit. No one on that show is unflagging or wholly optimistic and good. Everyone’s got their baggage and shit, and they all fuck up and have to apologize. And it’s never presented as if dogged positivity is the only correct way to be. It feels significantly more genuine than Lasso’s pure, uncut, positivity porn.
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Do they ever answer exactly why Ted moved across the Atlantic to coach a sport he never heard of before? And do they ever address the strange coincidence that the last Tinder Strangler murder was the week before he left the country?
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He ran away because his marriage was collapsing/had collapsed
Now why exactly he’s still there after 3 years and still hasn’t gotten over his ex-wife…we may never know
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-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Do they ever answer exactly why Ted moved across the Atlantic to coach a sport he never heard of before? And do they ever address the strange coincidence that the last Tinder Strangler murder was the week before he left the country?
Yes, early spoilers for season 1
He was brought on to unknowingly tank the team Major League style and he accepted because his marriage was falling apart and his wife asked for a break.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Oh is Shrinking by the Ted Lasso guy? That explains a whole lot
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
The annoying thing about Ted Lasso is that it often sets itself up as like, "hey, being positive all the time doesn't always work, you can't optimism your way to winning a soccer game" but then it's like, "yeah...but what if you could, tho."
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
You know who rocks? Red Death. Probably the best late addition character in the VB stable.
Nearing the end of my rewatch. And feeling both stoked to see them get to finish the series out proper within the year. And a bit sad to wave this gang off. Incredible accomplishment all things considered.
And always illuminating how much my own storytelling sensibilities were born from this show. Or more specifically the point where my wild eyed theater major college roommate would watch it on repeat and dissect the hell out of the episodes and then do it again with commentary on. Formative show.
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I don't know what this Ted Lasso show is but I really hope the main character is a cowboy
Finished up season three of Lost last night and I do think that "Through the Looking Glass," is the show operating at its peak in terms of everything the show does. It's paying off long-term storylines and mysteries. The action is great. It sets up wild new mysteries. Most of the major characters get something interesting or cool to do. It's got two of the most iconic moments of the entire run of the show.
I'm going to rank Lost seasons now. I feel like these change every time I do them, but I'm not looking up the old ones I've done: 5>4>1>3>6>2
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My mother, who really liked Ted Lasso and had my partner and I watch two different episodes around Christmas, recently visited and made me watch the first episode of Shrinking, a show she has already watched several times over.
It was fine (as was Ted Lasso), but overall not my jam.
It did give me the fun corollary experience to the parent who asks about everything that's happening in a TV show as it's happening, which was my mom explaining who a character was the second they came on screen, often talking over the actual introduction the show was doing and also telling me things that would happen to them a few episodes later into the show.
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
I think that’s pretty consistent with my ranking but I think 4 and 5 basically switch places depending on which episode I’m thinking of at any given moment
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I’m happy I only ever watched season 1 of Ted Lasso and plan on keeping it that way.
Finished up season three of Lost last night and I do think that "Through the Looking Glass," is the show operating at its peak in terms of everything the show does. It's paying off long-term storylines and mysteries. The action is great. It sets up wild new mysteries. Most of the major characters get something interesting or cool to do. It's got two of the most iconic moments of the entire run of the show.
I'm going to rank Lost seasons now. I feel like these change every time I do them, but I'm not looking up the old ones I've done: 5>4>1>3>6>2
I'm also midway through a lost rewatch! I just finished episode 10 and had forgot how huge a crush I had (and still have) on Tania Raymonde
I think that’s pretty consistent with my ranking but I think 4 and 5 basically switch places depending on which episode I’m thinking of at any given moment
I liked the time travel stuff a lot, and I generally liked it a bit more than the freighter stuff (though I did also like that)
I go back and forth the most on seasons 2 and 6, but I put six ahead mostly because I love the finale, and season two can never quite figure out what to do with the tail section people and also fucks up Charlie and Locke for a bit in a way they eventually just kind of handwave away. I know "Stranger in a Strange Land" is the consensus worst episode of the show, but honestly, I think "Fire+Water" does more damage
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michael giacchino should be tried at the hague for writing "life and death" btw
I still get yelled at for humming the lost marching theme every time I’m on a hike
I once started playing "life and death" on my phone at my buddy when his D&D character was about to die and there was a brief moment where I thought he was going to punch me
Finished up season three of Lost last night and I do think that "Through the Looking Glass," is the show operating at its peak in terms of everything the show does. It's paying off long-term storylines and mysteries. The action is great. It sets up wild new mysteries. Most of the major characters get something interesting or cool to do. It's got two of the most iconic moments of the entire run of the show.
I'm going to rank Lost seasons now. I feel like these change every time I do them, but I'm not looking up the old ones I've done: 5>4>1>3>6>2
my rankings of how much i like a season of lost are directly proportional to how much andrew divof or jeff fahey there is
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
Finished up season three of Lost last night and I do think that "Through the Looking Glass," is the show operating at its peak in terms of everything the show does. It's paying off long-term storylines and mysteries. The action is great. It sets up wild new mysteries. Most of the major characters get something interesting or cool to do. It's got two of the most iconic moments of the entire run of the show.
I'm going to rank Lost seasons now. I feel like these change every time I do them, but I'm not looking up the old ones I've done: 5>4>1>3>6>2
my rankings of how much i like a season of lost are directly proportional to how much andrew divof or jeff fahey there is
Mikhail rules, definitely the best Other (non-series regular edition)
wait, no I forgot Tom, Tom also rules
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
I think it’s great that Lost was sometimes has this wicked almost EC horror kind of means of dispatching characters every now and again.
The annoying thing about Ted Lasso is that it often sets itself up as like, "hey, being positive all the time doesn't always work, you can't optimism your way to winning a soccer game" but then it's like, "yeah...but what if you could, tho."
I'm only a couple episodes into season 2
The show even recognizes how toxic that kind of relentless overwhelming positivity can be, it's a huge chunk of why his wife wanted a break, but can't be assed to actually deal with it and instead just settles on insinuating that she was wrong for not being able to handle it.
He ran away because his marriage was collapsing/had collapsed
Now why exactly he’s still there after 3 years and still hasn’t gotten over his ex-wife…we may never know
Also he has a kid he never sees. Maybe move closer to your son? I haven't watched much of season 2/3 yet, but it kinda bothered me that he just moved away from his kid like that. It's not like the divorce would have ended up with him getting zero custody.
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This is so true.
Now why exactly he’s still there after 3 years and still hasn’t gotten over his ex-wife…we may never know
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Yes, early spoilers for season 1
Yeah, created by him alongside Brett Goldstein and Jason Segel.
Nearing the end of my rewatch. And feeling both stoked to see them get to finish the series out proper within the year. And a bit sad to wave this gang off. Incredible accomplishment all things considered.
And always illuminating how much my own storytelling sensibilities were born from this show. Or more specifically the point where my wild eyed theater major college roommate would watch it on repeat and dissect the hell out of the episodes and then do it again with commentary on. Formative show.
I'm going to rank Lost seasons now. I feel like these change every time I do them, but I'm not looking up the old ones I've done: 5>4>1>3>6>2
It was fine (as was Ted Lasso), but overall not my jam.
It did give me the fun corollary experience to the parent who asks about everything that's happening in a TV show as it's happening, which was my mom explaining who a character was the second they came on screen, often talking over the actual introduction the show was doing and also telling me things that would happen to them a few episodes later into the show.
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I'm also midway through a lost rewatch! I just finished episode 10 and had forgot how huge a crush I had (and still have) on Tania Raymonde
I liked the time travel stuff a lot, and I generally liked it a bit more than the freighter stuff (though I did also like that)
I go back and forth the most on seasons 2 and 6, but I put six ahead mostly because I love the finale, and season two can never quite figure out what to do with the tail section people and also fucks up Charlie and Locke for a bit in a way they eventually just kind of handwave away. I know "Stranger in a Strange Land" is the consensus worst episode of the show, but honestly, I think "Fire+Water" does more damage
He's...not not a cowboy.
I still get yelled at for humming the lost marching theme every time I’m on a hike
I once started playing "life and death" on my phone at my buddy when his D&D character was about to die and there was a brief moment where I thought he was going to punch me
my rankings of how much i like a season of lost are directly proportional to how much andrew divof or jeff fahey there is
Mikhail rules, definitely the best Other (non-series regular edition)
wait, no I forgot Tom, Tom also rules
I'm only a couple episodes into season 2
I had the picture novelization as a young boy and never even knew it was A) a movie or
Also he has a kid he never sees. Maybe move closer to your son? I haven't watched much of season 2/3 yet, but it kinda bothered me that he just moved away from his kid like that. It's not like the divorce would have ended up with him getting zero custody.
Then explain the mustache.
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