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It’s Ted Lasso, folks! Yes, after many years of consternation around this show in the Discourse, many requests for review (and Will watching a bunch of that Good Doctor show and reporting back it was actually pretty ok), we decided to take a look at this footballing Yank and his relentless positivity. So, here’s our review of Ted Lasso and what it’s psychotic cheeriness says about TV and America.

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WillyGetSilly

Hi, I’m gay soccer coach Ted Lasso

Baby truck

Random question; anyone remember the ep a few years ago where they discussed the Big Four (KPMG etc.) and how they covered up corruption and stuff? Bit going down now in Aus with PwC

owen

Eighth

Poppy Chulo

Im not interested in ted fucking lasso. Enough with that show already. This is even more boring than the Tulsa king shit.

Myrmec

Led Tasso

Rene Saller

Few things are as reliably embummening as positivity.

Bob Duvall

Hot take. The overall positivity will rot your teeth but there's some fantastic one liners and jokes. It's not my favorite show but it's better than Will "I haven't seen an episode until now" Meneker and Matt "I watched one ep on a plane" Christman made it out to be.

Joss Jones

Do they just say it’s bad?

Jeffrey Miller

I will always appreciate the references to the porn stars of my 20s.

i guess

No, I agree. It’s not that deep. Libs take it too seriously but its not worth getting this annoyed with.

GL

Yeah. Sometimes a TV show is just a TV show. It’s not that deep.

AbeLinkin

Always had the impression that this show is pure evil

Jeffrey Miller

I kind of like the show, but I agree with most of their criticisms. I'm capable of liking things but completely understanding why a lot of the stuff I like sucks.

lake

Sudeikis is also a sexual predator. Makes me so fucking mad to see him as the face of “wholesomeness.”

KyleMSherry

Felix coming for my boy Ben Folds in this episode :(

The Etymology of Nonsense

Hi, I've been told that Ted Lasso eats pussy. Does he? And what does this say about the contemporary American left?

plainwrap

We're gonna find out in 30 years all of these PMC therapy shows were a coordinated psyop by the CIA to influence white collar Millennials away from anti-capitalist agitation.

Woke Batou

A recently divorced hipster pastor I know loved this show and rocks the mustache. His ex wife has the 5 kids.

sandwich fan

Felix never misses an opportunity to bring up the XXXTentacion video

kenton

It’s rlly cute that Matt says “pussy” like a guy who doesn’t say “pussy” often

NYCM&AHole

Aimee Therese went all beautiful mind on someone’s accounting books (but instead of a regular mental disorder it’s a mental disorder cause by overdosing on meth)?

Major bit me

It’s all cause the CIA PMCs wish they were screenwriters and had entertainment careers. It seems nefarious but they just want to talk to actors and have them say stuff they thought of

Bob

Make Felix watch Mrs. Davis

Luke Witherell

Ted Lasso is entertaining if you aren't only capable of viewing entertainment through a political lens

ploob

👎

plainwrap

Point of correction to Felix: Ronaldo isn't the one with a quasi-incestuous relationship with his sister. He's fairly vanilla...aside from being exiled from America because he's fleeing multiple rape charges and hiring anonymous women to be surrogate mothers so he can raise sons without a wife. It's Neymar who has the quasi-incestuous relationship with his sister.

Snooder87

Man, y'all have to watch the later seasons just for the Nate arc

Daniel Woytek

Ted Lasso= The Berenstain Bears for adults. But less good

Betty Kelly

Feeling very vindicated!!!

Major bit me

God damnit do not remind me about Jesse Lacey

Bilbo Baldwin

I heard Ted Lasso is low key good

Hugo

Very funny episode

Olivia Kali

Only hearing about any sort of new TV via podcasts rather than actual irl friends

Bob Duvall

His ex wife Olivia Wilde is more of a sex pest than he is

Bob Duvall

I missed the part in Major League where Lou Brown isn't a qualified baseball manager. You can hate the show but this ep is on the same level of dreck as Ted Lasso.

Olivia Kali

Ted Lasso is a very annoying name

Dick Wolf

Can’t wait to know more about this show than I should

calvin kilby

u gotta suck the dick sloooow

calvin kilby

especially damaging for me because i distinctly remember going to an anime convention and a guy unprompted just walked up and said wow you look just like ben folds.

Jon

Turns out the people live in the Silo. Something strange is going OUTSIDE. So much cooler and better.

Matelda

I have never seen it but my mom likes Ted Lasso and she is 100% perfect and correct.

Gage

This was so incredibly unfunny.

Nolan

If I kill the guy who pitched ‘Young Rock’ they wouldn’t charge me right?

Nolan

It’s an act of public service.

Ken K.

Ha! Still making fun of Barney after all these years.

Fat_H

Pop off on Harry styles felix

Alexandr

Is there any way I can bring to Chris's attention that everyone is clipping CONSTANTLY on their mics and that it makes this literally painful to listen to? This has been going on for a year plus now where only a few episodes here and there aren't recorded that way.

Jason J

Or if you can have a moment that isn't ruled by cynicism.

Michael Ouderkirk

MVP of this episode is the pharmacist who finally refilled Felix's Vyvanse

Colin S

The season finale should just introduce Todd Margeret as Ted’s replacement

Louisville non native

This makes the Mitt Romney/ Kirsten Sinima Ted Lasso photo all make sense.

Dark Belden

I haven’t listened yet but the what’s frustrating about Ted Lasso is that it wants to be the football version of Major League but is too preoccupied with “kindness” to pull it off. The best parts of the show are when it does dumb guy sports shenanigans but it barely does that after the first season. I think there’s a very funny show in there but it’s just buried in saccharine nonsense. I’ll keep watching that slop though.

CARRIERHASARRIVED

yeah, it might be all that you get. guess this might well be it. but heaven knows I've tried!

Elliot robinson

felix in rare form on this one. always enjoyable when he’s engaged

Eric Young

Great episode. Cyberpunk got unfairly hit with a stray during one of Felix's rants, though: that is a great game, it just has a bad reputation due to its disastrous release.

Doug Cartel

make fun of ted lasso all you want, but thousands of years ago we would shake each other's hands to prove we weren't hiding weapons in our sleeves, and now today we do the same by venting our deepest traumas when we make eye contact with strangers. We're just shaking hands, but it's more civilized

Cristian Coriano

We leftists truly cannot enjoy anything. Tbh I completely disagree that this such a product of our time. Most TV in hbo, Netflix, etc. is cynical. Also there was shit brought up that makes me think they didn’t actually watch the show? Would’ve rather have an episode about the Good Doctor.

Benjamin Cantor

I like the show. A lot of the criticism in the ep is more than fair. The unwillingness to allow tension to exist beyond an episode, the uncompromising charm of ted’s positivity is levels beyond disbelief, and the pop culture references are exhausting. But a lot of this ep felt contrived. I guess I just have no clue what commentary they are responding to, one tweet about eating pussy? Feels like this ep is just responding to some internet discussion that no cares / should care about.

Osborne MOCs

Haven't seen Ted Lasso and I never will but the impression I'm getting is that it's basically Brockmire if he didn't drink

William

There’s something about not having any tension or having tension being resolved really quickly

Doug Cartel

"why does he have a southern accent if he's from Kansas?" buddy, you already know the answer. John Brown let his grand dad go to tell his friends what he saw I've only ever seen photos of Ted Lasso and it just reminds me of the guy who played Maria Bamford's bald ex in Tim and Eric Awesome Show "He could have been in my nook or my cranny, if he wanted"

CARRIERHASARRIVED

I liked it partially because I was on high school and college sports teams so I watch the team moments and I'm like "yeah, I remember this kinda stuff. it was fun. nostalgia brain activate."

Adam Kifer

The fellas haven't cooked like this in a long time 🔥🔥🔥

Drew McGill

Silo fucking rules so far FYI. Hope more people watch it. If it was on HBO it’d be huge lol

Drew McGill

Felix has been waiting for this episode for a long time it seems like lol. I like it but agree with every thing said in this episode about it haha.

sgthombre

oh boy just wait until you all get to season 3, where there is a subplot about a psychic's predictions coming true and another one about the team captain getting super pissed at a closeted teammate and won't speak to him. Not because he's gay mind you, but because he didn't tell him he was gay first.

Jed Levin

Does it matter if I’ve never watched the show? Will the humor in the episode still work?7

Smile

Or!!! The “more than fair” criticism that you described is the reason they didn’t like the show because not everybody likes everything and definitely not for the same reasons.

Of course

I wonder if making fun of Ted Lasso (who tells his audience what they want to hear) and joking about all the very old politicians is Chapo's way of coming to terms with how Bernie Sanders turned out.

Gubriel

I somehow have a 4th position on it, more nuanced than all other takes

Tam Mansilver

Ted lasso is good. Tired of every show being about a depressed real estate agent who sells meth or something

CARRIERHASARRIVED

they probably all binged a season or two while on their phones or something, I think Felix even said he put up a dark souls 2 speedrun while watching. to me, they seemed to have missed a lot of finer details and jokes, though they obviously still picked up a lot. they got the general picture to be sure, but if they think there are No Characters they probably were kind of listening to dialogue and checking back over every now and then to see what was happening. e.g. I would say toheeb jimoh's character of Sam is well defined, if simple: hes incredibly kind and caring, almost overly aware of others feelings, and as a result has developed all these weird, funny idiosyncrasies in his behavior that the other teammates are kind of weirded out by. like when he says he asks girls to delete photos from his phone, it is kinda silly. he could do it himself, but that's how Sam is. he's just that respectful and nice and wants to make sure they know that the "photos" are gone, giving them some peace of mind. or Cristo Fernandez as dani. hes a pretty classic comedic character of the goofball savant. well also probably some kind of racism going on there but I'm not English so I'm not up on whatever their recent anti-hispanic shit is. plus they seem to want this show to be a kind of more contiguous narrative: things are often resolved in the episode they're introduced in is because that's how writing a half hour show works, you introduce a conflict and solve it by the end of the episode. doesn't always work well but that's how the formula works. the tension is in the episode itself, and it is there. it's an entertaining and funny episode of chapo for sure, but I think Matt is probably the only one who actually sat down and focused on the show. but I can't believe they binged it. just a days worth of Positivity.

Doug Cartel

"for some people, this show is like Jack Nicholson saying GooseFrobba to Adam Sandler" sorry im sorry

Petrorenminbi

The NBC Sports commercials were funny. Haven’t watched the show

Michael Coutts

For All Mankind should be watched as the prequel to the Fascist universe from season 2 of Picard. Or alternately a prequel to The expanse.

Matty yglesias

Getting upset about a tv show that is not targeted towards you.

James Browning

Felix's intro killed me instantly! Go off king!🔥🔥🔥 Marinating Melvin! Instant classic this one! Well done fellas

Ethan Jones

Trauma dumping incredibly personal stuff on total strangers seems like poor writing for me

Ben Reed

Ted Lasso. But he's a leftist.

Ethan Jones

Sorry I don’t think trauma dumping immediately as soon as any tension is built is good writing. I mean the avatar the last air bender had better more fleshed our characters. That show has plenty of people who watch it that aren’t the targeted demographic yet because of good writing it transcends its targeted audience.

Matty yglesias

Get this nerd shit out of here, i wasnt defending Ted Lasso. It is a very vanilla show, I do not care about Avatar Last Airbender go talk about it on Reddit.

Mathew Parkhurst

My wife & I watched the first two episodes. We didn’t like it because it felt like they making fun of someone with special needs.

Rakish Tilt 🎩

Felix is right, Deadwood is definitely the greatest show ever

syd

My parents have been watching Ted Lasso together throughout their entire divorce and now they are like dating again and still watching it. Excited to learn what the hell it's about

Ethan Jones

Just like you a presumable leftist not being able to enjoy someone having a different opinion on a show and just enjoying the jokes being made about it. Why do you need the creators that you listen to opinions to line up to yours especially when it comes to stuff like media.

K U

Guys, please watch the season 2 finale. There's this amazing scene with Ted and Nate that I think you'll love.

Bryan

wrong

Emily Richardson

I love Ted lasso but the guys made some great points 🤣

Jared Millstein

the way Felix pronounces “Ja Morant” is wild

Jared Millstein

also I watched the first 2 episodes of the Silo and it’s actually even worse than the boys made it out to be

Jeremy Hawkins

It's very interesting how over the last few years I've heard people talk more and more about "comfort shows". I think they may be trying to come up with shows that already feel like you've watched it in the background 1,000 times the first time you watch it.

Marcus Wrightus

The real life characters of Ted Lasso are a little more interesting. Welcome to Wrexham is American Influence but of course not coaching ownership. Jesse Marsch basically spent more time convincing Brits he wasn't Ted Lasso. More deeply is using Lasso to become a Bobby Robson figure. Look him up, he managed my hometown team Ipswich went on to manage PSV, Porto and Barcelona. Nate's character arc is based on Jose Mourinho who worked as a translator for Robson at Porto and then became an assist manager under Robson at Barcelona. Roy Kent arc started as Roy Keane but has morphed into Pep who was a defensive mid under Robson at Barcelona and is on the record as saying that Robson inspired him to become a manager. Robson brought total football to England, another arc in Ted Lasso character development after going to the Netherlands. Robson brought in two Dutch players to Ipswich Arnold Muhren and Frans Tyson. In short watch the Bobby Robson Documentary instead. Lol

Demented Avenger

This sounds kinda like First and Ten (well, 35 years later, in England, and playing soccer), except instead of the problems being tidily resolved at the end of the episode, the problems are resolved right away. Oh, and none of the cast has killed anyone. Yet.

J.P. McD.

Chapo loves plenty of things that they’d be scolded by libs for liking, they don’t have a uniquely negative view on TV and movies

J.P. McD.

Yea I imagine there’s a Ted Lasso S3 episode about “unprocessed trauma” from 3 years ago that addresses this?

Demented Avenger

Oh, is there an episode about Ted’s porn star past? Because with a mustache like his, he had to have starred in Slobbing the Knob 8.

C. Ries

Ted Lasso feels like they made the anodyne kindness of a flight attendant the spiritual core of the show. Your mind is eating dry nutritionless saltine crackers from a plastic sleeve wrapper.

DK

This may be the dumbest Chapo episode ever. It’s just a silly, easy show and they fucking love it just like everyone else. There is no political drive behind it, it’s just a nice 30 minutes of goofs once a week to pacify your aching American brain.

Scouse

Thanks for your service. Confirms everything I avoided this show for as a British man who loves football. The fact this turdpile wins awards is damning for civilisation. Please do ‘Succession’ which is even worse in that it appeals to libs but manages to attempt at humanising billionaires. Easily more sinister than Lasso.

Dick Van Sexel

I would rather see a show about the two sports broadcaster characters sudekis and will forte played on snl.

Paul F. Holzfäller

The movie is good too. Watching George Hearst get his shit pushed in by an angry mob was a real treat. Had to rewind that part at least twice.

Mike Mariano

Sudeikis is great in the Nacho Vigalondo film Colossal as a selfless friend to Anne Hathaway who turns out to be extremely manipulative. I’d never be able to watch Ted Lasso because I can only see him as sinister.

b-rar

I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder [adjusts retainer]

b-rar

Maybe that's what your loser progenitors were doing. My bloodline greeted friend and stranger alike with a gentle but firm dick tug

Doug Cartel

"Nip-kissing the irish king" should be the name of a chess move Or did Scottish kings make people suck their tits I cant remember

b-rar

I've never seen the show or spoken to anyone who has. I get all my pop culture takes from this one podcast and the weirdos in its comments

b-rar

Limp Tedskit

b-rar

I've gotten both Chad Kroeger and Jack Harlow, so count your blessings

Wumbledorf

i'm so sad that this is what my coworkers like

ZT

All I wanna be is Ted Lasso

Erik

At least now we have some context for Will and Matt's strange nicknames!

MG

They don't really do that on the show.

MG

No. They also use a bunch of bs they read online to say it's bad.

Lunch Dessert

Ted Lasso is the Itchy and Scratchy episode with no violence

Iris Allen

I wont see the Silo show, but I assume its a rendition of the Silo series by Hugh Howey. I don't remember it well, but didn't that end with "The world ended and it was the US's fault?"

Tim Mullen

Asshole Ted Lasso is just such a more compelling show

Kyle Smyth

1st season was fine, wasn't attached enough to any of it to pursue further. I think though that the series finale should be Ted and the boss lady going hog wild, unedited, full penetration rough sex, but through a series of mishaps it gets displayed on the jumbotron during halftime. Then everyone claps

ShutUrMustache

Ned Flanders yes. I thought the same but couldn’t make it far enough to discover Ted Lasso isn’t religious. Also, I knew something was wrong with this show because the psychotic cheery CEO at my last company always name dropped Lasso in our all hands meetings.

greenboots

I can't hear about Ted Lasso without thinking about Jason Sudeikis lying on the ground behind Olivia Wilde's car to keep her from leaving to fuck Harry Styles. EDIT: lol Matt mentioned it

Zach Pierce

Deadwood was such a great duo with sopranos. It’s early cancellation was a travesty. It robbed us of some top notch Powers Boothe work.

Anna

There's a british show from years ago called Footballers Wives that was very trashy and over the top, probably a more accurate portrayal of wag/premier league football than Ted Lasso though.

Erin MacAllister

The only thing I like about this show is the tie in ice cream flavor my mom found.

Paolo Roman

Baseball a better sport than soccer? You MUST be kidding. Outside Japan, Mexico and Cuba NOBODY gives a shit about baseball, compared to soccer it's a dying game. Big L fellas, dead take.

lake

Bosses LOVE this show

lake

I watched a couple episodes of this on an airplane once and multiple dads made me take off my headphones to tell me it’s a good show

Richard

The show is actually good TV.

Scott Grabel

Their counter show to this is “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret”, where an American moves to England and destroys all life on Earth.

plainwrap

Marcos Alonzo killed a girl while drunk driving. Gaddafi's son played in Italy and then took over Libya's special forces. There was a guy playing in Germany I think who got arrested for planning terrorist attacks for Al Qaeda. According to the DEA Rafa Marquez is an associate of the Sinaloa cartel. And there's that Brazilian goalkeeper who fed his ex-gf to his dogs because she didn't get an abortion. I think he's playing again now that he's out of prison.

Mike Mariano

Oh wow looking this up it’s “Biscuits with the Boss” made by Jeni’s ice cream? I can’t believe that guy who beat Paul Pelosi failed to swipe a pint from Nancy’s freezer.

Dan

And they’re all wrong

Richard

Fortunately it’s nearly an hour long!

Rakish Tilt 🎩

I also thought the movie was pretty great. Kind of like when Neutral Milk Hotel got back together after 25 years.

Rakish Tilt 🎩

You're right that was the glory days, when I could lose time most efficiently in depression by watching those two HBO shows and IFC before it sucked.

Richard Perez

New York is the greatest city in the world, and baseball is that city’s biggest sport. I rest my case.

Paolo Roman

What case? One city decides what is the best sport? By what metric? You can only go by numbers, who cares about New York? It'll.be gone in 30 years so good luck with that. Also I grew up in NYC, it's a shithole of misery, like all big cities. Dead arguments.

Harry Russ

Boy you guys are gonna look really stupid when Ted Lasso makes me millions in Iraqi Dinar when he's made Minister of Finance for Iraq at the end of season 4.

Simon

Sounds like Bojack Horseman

Satcomdaemon

Need the Silo review from Matt. Worked on that book series. I can already hear the exact pitch of his voice screeching about the big reveal. It's not what you think folks.

james

Ok, I approve of this ep

Ozzie

Never seen the show, but the audio from the clip you played sounded like bad satire from a SNL skit

lake

Naw Bojack is good

Simon

I mean there's a weird obsession with defining every character by terrible trauma. I think that trend started around that time

William Evans

Pretty sure I killed several budding friendships by admitting that I didn’t like Ted Lasso. They’ve treated me differently ever since. One person got visibly upset.

dan

shut up nerd

Alexandr

Just trying to help. Dunno why the podcast has to be literally unlistenable and of the lowest quality possible at the source when I'm not bitching about the content they choose to make or anything. I'm not a BONDS WOLF dipshit or anything trying to attack them for their politics, which I agree with almost universally. I'm just trying to get a technical fix in place that will make the audio quality better. Because, right now, it's well below the lowest that should be tolerable.

John Mitchell

If you dig down into Apple+ content and contracts you will probably find that about 85% of their total content published this year was written by Chat GPT.

Ian Firstenberg

This is once again the most unhinged place on the internet

Gulb

Comedy is when YOU walk into an open manhole and die

Here, Try This

Ted Lasso serves the purpose of a traditional multicam sitcom for libs who think they are too evolved and sophisticated for the lowbrow hog slop the hoi polloi consume.

Colton Durbin

Soccer is a much better sport than baseball

Ahmed Razick

Most people have mental health issues and are more aware of it.

T.A. Martin

It's a Bill Lawrence show. It's a little better than Scrubs, and not as good as Cougartown. I get that Ted's relentless positivity is a bit much, but it's hardly the darkest vision of American Empire. Try Yellowstone for a truly psychotic vision of America.

J.P. McD.

Prestige TV breaks people’s brains. Every two months a new season of something snows people into believing it’s the best art that’s ever been made, and they get red hot flaming mad if anyone suggests otherwise

nick

have they heard of Severance?

Rusty

The bit with Kevin Costner and those Chinese tourists is the only clip I've ever seen from Yellowstone. I feel like I got a good sample of Taylor Sheridan mindset

dan

naw naw u right. i’ve just invested so much time in ignoring how shitty it sounds and don’t like to be reminded.

Nathaniel Chesterton

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, from what I remember, has a similar dynamic to Ted Lasso but is actually funny.

Kinetics Video

Is he going to want to fuck the nun or the robot?

Kinetics Video

A life beyond slop? I refuse to entertain this

Kinetics Video

Do they love it as much as they loved Dilbert

Kinetics Video

TL is liberal Star Trek. The most enlightened society imaginable (one where a man can get divorced without killing something) going out doing the most important and high minded mission possible (therapy) to the most far flung and alien but recognizably sentient civilization (England).

Malika Nash

Your heart’s not in this one though

etienne

in yurop if you published any suggestion that OJ is a murderer you would be sued and put in a dungeon. which would be okay because OJ is innocent right?

Mfusion

Surprised these dudes have never done a Twin Peaks episode

Gebicca

Felix brings up Mongols no less than three separate times in this episode

ploob

FIRE WALK WITH ME !!

Brendan Holt

I don’t think you understand succession of you think that it’s trying to humanize billionaires. So much of that show is showing how evil and heartless and out of touch with reality people with that much money have.

Tim O'

All of the Chapo patrons who incessantly complain in the comments, folks, you're going in the Silo.

David Andrews

Weak episode. Boring unless you have watch Ted Lasso.

Saga

That show is an underrated gem. David Cross seemed to understand British humour, and the cultural dissonance enough to actually make it funny

Bryce Rodriguez

Just remember this is the show that’s stealing Emmy’s from Barry

ZeeBee

I haven't seen any of the promos for the Silo, but the Chapo critique makes me want to watch it for some reason. What the fuck is in that thing?!

J.P. McD.

Have never watched the show (nor Silo) but episode was a banger. You’re all morons.

buttface

All these dudes do now is watch TV this shit sucks lol

Ben

💤

Sam

^^^ literally no character is ever likeable, its a race to the bottom and they prove it over and over again that their evilness surpasses their little family traumas. Can you still have favorites in it? I guess so. But why should that be a problem? its a TV show not everyone can/should be Ted Lasso-d (instant therapy lesson) or be a caricaturishly evil antagonist. Feeling sympathy for them one scene shouldn’t make you immedeately assume that the character is actually innocent.

Sam

Funny episode but Chapo boys are acting like moral-lesson-sitcoms are a new invention lol

Yacobum

Tv is pizza or potato chips. Ted lasso is goldfish crackers

Damen Irving

Felix really turnt for this one

MKatieUltra

And the dressing recipe wasn’t even that special.

Damen Irving

Any sport where most games end 0-0 is abhorrent. Soccer is like 90 minutes of edging

Bobby Lawn

Extremely good ep with a god-tier Fall song on the outro if you don't like this you are dumb

fried egg

i once worked at a coffee shop that had a ted lasso day and i heard it was one of the most miserable days that my coworkers had ever experienced

J.P. McD.

The difference is that Golden Girls is actually hilarious and nasty in addition to the “friendship conquers all” lessons

fried egg

it was like The busiest it’s ever been bc we sold our usual shortbread cookies in ted lasso themed boxes and also drinks were $1

chronye

what about this ep was good?? am i dumb?!?!

Brendan Carrion

Look, I've studiously avoided watching the show, but everything you are describing here about the kind of flaccid anti-humor just goes back to Parks and Rec. Parks and Rec was the show that delighted its audience by just kind of serving up picaresque vignettes of these quirky so-and-sos just doing stuff and being cute. And Parks and Rec stole that model off the last few (unwatchable) seasons of The Office, which started out being a show about uncomfortability, thwarted expectations, and the despair of work. In other words, it started out being about people at their worst and soon turned into fanfic about lives of contented mediocrity.

Jimmy McMillan

Them and new Twitter blue checks still complaining about getting shadow banned

AbeLinkin

You’re a buttface

AbeLinkin

Yeah if you like scoreless ties and helpless goalies guessing during PKs

AbeLinkin

Time for some new friends

Paul Oberlin

My first impression of Lasso was more “dances with limeys.” Like he may be a American yokel but these Brits have never seen coaching or baking skills like these! I feel like they need an episode where he’s the GOAT of the great British bake off.

T

TV is for boomers. Remember when tv was distainfully referred to as the boob tube and a place where rotting brains go to die? Nothing has changed. And no, your favorite prestige tv show wasn’t good or important.

carl

ill not watch it--any snl players in a show is a major turn off. (I do love 30-rock, tho, and I enjoyed the first season of Barry--but that's saved by Stephen Root) I saw Suckdickus speaking at the White House about health care awareness. I think we're beyond "awareness" (corporate lip service/thoughts any prayers) of mental health or cancer or whatever else--it all means nothing without single payer. im glad Chapo watched it for me, canaries in the shitty culture coalmine--bravo!

Pelican Grief

Matt has said he doesn't get Lynch, which like, same, but that doesn't stop him from being my favorite living artist.

Scouse

I do understand it mate. It’s a comedy. The murdered kid is the only evil thing they’ve done across the series and the rest of it is just ‘look at these funny tasteless rich people’ which is sanitising the damage billionaires actually do. Libs love it because they can think ‘ooh these are awful people’ but just being dicks to each other is not why they’re awful. In the end viewers like you grow to like the characters. That’s humanising. Pure Lib fantasy food. The west wing for Murdoch haters.

Axel H.

Don’t ruin Parks and Rec for me. :(

T

Japan, Mexico, and Cuba are better than whatever countries like soccer.

Mfusion

Fair. I so enjoyed them talking about my 2nd favorite show, The Sopranos, I'd love to hear them riff on TP even if it wasn't all positive

Brendan Carrion

Sorry. I mean, it has its moments. And one of the thing the Chapo guys kept sort of alluding to was how meme-able Ted Lasso seems to be. I feel like The Office, Parks and Rec, and now Ted Lasso exist as some sort of weird semiotic bridge that connect ideas about contemporary life. I will say I like Parks and Rec memes more than I like the show.

etienne

the Independent Thought Haver has logged in

Alex Berkowitz

Golden girls was full of bangers. Ima level tho, the boys are wrong, ted lasso is good

October

I like pie.

Wes

Yeah even though it’s obviously quite popular - specifically zeroing in on this stupid little show that’s trying to be earnest and positive, because of course you’re all so unbearably clever that you’d never be duped by something that didn’t just drag you through the mud and tar and tell you it’s all meaningless. I mean there’s a place for that but my mom has cancer and she’s watching Ted Lasso over and over because it makes her feel better. Not a lot of culture that actually does that is there boys? You think No Country for Old Men is gonna help my mom feel nice after chemo? You think maybe there’s a place in the world for something that’s trying to be earnest and being cynical is actually easier? You guys reference David Foster Wallace maybe read some. Cynicism and pessimism and gallows humour is, sorry to say, fuckin easier. I know you guys closed the last little door of earnesty in your hearts when Bernie won - but I’m dying for an explanation as to why this ok-to-pretty-good show is the target of such vitriol. It’s not prestige and it’s not Bosch or Ray Donovan sulking into their navels, but it makes a lot of people feel nice after the end of history president and the pandemic. Apart from your half assed imperialism comment why do you actually care if people enjoy this thing

Kevin

Ted Lasso is liberal fascist media that imagines Soy American Exceptionalism as the panacea of the world. The relationship of Lasso with the brits is just a representation of the way that Center/Left of Center libs view the "mission" of Woke American Imperialism vis a vis the swarthy hordes of the world. It'll help calm suburban anxiety as we start burning down villages around the world to prevent de-dollarization, or at the very least give them an excuse to be okay with the genocide because people in the Third World keep refusing to use preferred pronouns.

Chris O'Sullivan

I want to know what’s going on with the silo

foxy

That idea of people competing with positivity is literally just a Smiling Friends episode. Highly recommend

Medium Dong Bill

Yellowstone is wildly dark shit. I've noticed some cretinous left-liberals trying to squeeze water out of that stone and it's very puzzling.

Medium Dong Bill

If you ask to leave they have to let you but you're supposed to clean the security camera before the poison gasses kill you.

Medium Dong Bill

I watched some Marinating Melvin after this episode and it's really just a stupid, sincere show that isn't all that unpleasant. Aside from Sudekis being an annoying cheesedick and Nate looking like a muffin, it's on par with something like Tulsa King.

Ari

Ted Lasso: SVU

Jack

I feel halfway the same. Yeah sometimes its nauseating but it has enough scraps of humor or plot to be just ok. I would be more repulsed if we were all watching network television and it was the current "The Office", but for the streaming age its a fine show to throw on with family or passively in the background to numb your brain. I do completely agree that there was potential for an actually good show if Lasso was a psychopath or at least showed these people at their worst instead of best. That's why I gave it a shot because I thought it would be that, but its still serviceable as a television after-dinner mint

Tyler Mourey

My mom recently passed from ALS- the last year of her life was miserable, and anytime that she and my dad (her full time caregiver) had time/energy to watch TV, they wanted to watch something feel-good. They became really into this show because it gave them a lift in the middle of an incredibly dark time. I'm not a fan of the show personally, but can appreciate what you're saying about it being a useful escape for people in difficult situations. Also, sorry to hear about your mom- best wishes.

Jon Lyons

I suspect we're actually gonna see more and more of this kind of bunny soft, stroke-your-back-and-say-it's-OK media going forward as people get just physically sicker with things like stress, unaddressed pollution, banned-everywhere-but-America food additives, and long covid. A growing niche of targeted content for people with chronic illnesses.

Padjoe

I used to think the boys were a little too harsh on 'ol fuddy duddy Lasso but then season 3 happened and I switched between boredoms yet unknown and saccharine induced vomiting during my viewings

Reece Coren

this was such a great episode

Reece Coren

they just referred to jason sudeikis as ted lasso on the nfl london broadcast and I came running back to this like michael b jordan in creed