“Ted Lasso repudiates the idea of Television as an art form,” is a banger.
The changing definition of what “comedy” means really hit it on the head for me: not jokes or even funny situations, but an ambient pleasantness.
I was watching Ted Lasso with my parents and I just left because it was so bad
I managed to get through Ted Lasso mostly because it was very funny to watch a positive portrait of England, especially all the weird stuff. I have not watched the last season because I haven't got around to it, but probably won't.
That said, I had a full on screaming match with the television when the owner of the club felt the need to have her relationship with one of the star players on the team she owns (!) validated by the daughter of one of her best friends (!!) who had a crush on said player, and the daughter is like "You go for it lady, bang that athlete who I have a crush on!" (!!!) and I shit you not, the entire thing is played completely straight, with the 'joke' being that they are too loud and talking about dirty stuff in the chapel for her parent's funeral.
Just absolute wtfuckery going on.
