Switching Channels: Ted Lasso (Patreon)

A few weeks back, Keith and Genevieve sat down to record a bonus episode on Ted Lasso, then just beginning its second season, based on their viewing of advance screeners. Shortly thereafter, the winds of the cultural discourse shifted and the amiable Emmy favorite found itself at the center of a strangely intense debate whose parameters are frankly a little hard to track. Nonetheless, the ensuing conversation has raised some interesting points, points that we wished we could have dug into during that earlier discussion. So we reconvened to examine our responses to the show's second season a little more closely, and consider what some of the critiques leveled at the show say about how the season has been constructed and consumed.