![]() Not that a few things haven’t changed in the world of Ted Lasso itself. Those things come into our lives to help us get from one place to a better one.” Ted Lasso’s still got it, in other words, and so has Ted Lasso, which turns what could have been a mean bit of dark humor into a reminder of how moving this show can be and how effortlessly it can shift gears. “It’s funny to think about how the things in your life that can make you cry just knowing they existed,” Ted says, “can then become the same things that make you cry knowing that they’re now gone. In return, he gets a stirring reminiscence of Ted’s youth, how he became afraid of dogs after being attacked by a neighbor’s as a toddler, how he overcame that fear years later to take care of that same dog when his grieving neighbor no longer could, and how he then had to put the dog down when it became ill. In the press conference that follows the game - another tie - Trent Crimm of The Independent (James Lance) asks the tough question about poor Earl. It’s not that Ted has lost his effectiveness. Are some problems too big even for Ted? And where does the man who helps others turn when he needs help? Ted hitting a brick wall with the man who made “Football is life!” a mantra feels as though it may be a preview of the season to come. And no matter how many attempts Ted makes to bring Dani back down to earth with kindness and homespun wisdom, it becomes a huge crisis. Even the world’s longest clothes-on shower can’t wash the guilt away. Randy Johnson might have been able to kill a bird with a fastball, then refuse to talk about it for the rest of his career, but Dani’s a different sort of athlete. What’s worse, it’s the sweet, unfailingly enthusiastic Dani Rojas (Cristo Fernández) who accidentally kills poor Earl. As if being recently demoted from the Premier League to the Championship League and opening a season with a record-setting seven straight ties weren’t bad enough, now AFC Richmond has to deal with a dead, adorable animal and a stadium full of traumatized fans (to say nothing of those watching online). And not just any dog: Earl Greyhound, the lovable mascot of Ted’s AFC Richmond. Ted Lasso’s success has allowed the series to build up considerable goodwill going into its second season, so much so that it feels confident enough to open its second season by killing a dog. ![]() It did so without resorting to easy lessons or simple moralizing, and in Ted (series co-creator Jason Sudeikis) it found an avatar of goodness who was both unmistakably, goofily human and a man of unexpected complexity. Ted Lasso humbly asked some big questions and strived to be a show about what it means to be a good person. ![]() It was funny, charming, and quotable, but it also had a lot on its mind beyond making easy jokes about an unassuming Yank football coach trying to figure out how to coach an English soccer (sorry, football) team despite having no experience with the sport (and being viscerally repulsed by the taste of tea). Something about Ted Lasso struck a chord of the sort last sounded by The Good Place. ![]() The initial reviews were strong, sure, but reviews alone don’t usually elevate a show on a streaming service that a lot of viewers aren’t sure whether they even have into the center of the cultural conversation. At the moment, there are few TV series more beloved than Ted Lasso, a culture-clash comedy that became a can’t-miss sensation largely due to word of mouth.
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