Television Ted Lasso (Apple TV Football Comedy)

Started watching this over the weekend. Season 1 was incredible, moments where I nearly cried man tears.

What the feck happened between then and season 2?! It’s almost slapstick it’s so bad.
 
Woodzy said:
Started watching this over the weekend. Season 1 was incredible, moments where I nearly cried man tears.

What the feck happened between then and season 2?! It’s almost slapstick it’s so bad.
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Yea, I genuinely liked season 1 and was actually looking forward for season 2 at that time. Season 2 and 3 are just boring. It's like they ran out of ideas.
 
Finished this over the weekend. Season 1 was absolutely brilliant. Then a massive nosedive in season 2 which I was having some thoughts on just dumping it altogether but persevered with it just to see how it ended. Hoping for better in season 3 and despite it not being as bad as season 2, it just was nowhere near as good as the first season. Felt very rushed and just lacking new ideas.

Overall it’s decent but personally nowhere near as good as it’s made out in the media. 7/10.
 
I bailed on finishing season 3. At least season 2 had that angle with Lasso going to the therapist, the classic take on the sad clown which at least was a good thing to talk about in the context of football. Season 3 was more "what if we made Ted Lasso but stopped making it about football or Ted Lasso but everyone else instead".
 
Very late to this as I've never had Apple TV before, and thought it would be American "soccer" shite, but it's actually so good.
 
Big Andy said:
Very late to this as I've never had Apple TV before, and thought it would be American "soccer" shite, but it's actually so good.
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Until they ruined it by playing that scouse dirge when they got relegated.
 
Downtown Abbey with worse football. It was essentially a one season idea, if even that, that had an uplifting message we all sort of needed at the time. Then it became insufferable, and made the Dream Team show look like a gritty Michael Mann movie in comparison. So, so fecking dumb.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Cannot stress enough how much I hated this. Real emperor’s no clothes thing for me, as I’ve had it recommended to me a zillion times. Don’t think I’ve ever sat through an episode of a “comedy” and felt less amused than I did watching e1 of this shite.
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Tagline checks out.
 
On to season 3. It's an easy enjoyable watch.

Have to laugh at how West Ham is portrayed as one of the big boys in football though. Also the football scenes are absolutely dire.
 
Shane88 said:
On to season 3. It's an easy enjoyable watch.

Have to laugh at how West Ham is portrayed as one of the big boys in football though. Also the football scenes are absolutely dire.
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It’s not the funniest thing ever, but it’s got heart and like you say an easy watch.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Cannot stress enough how much I hated this. Real emperor’s no clothes thing for me, as I’ve had it recommended to me a zillion times. Don’t think I’ve ever sat through an episode of a “comedy” and felt less amused than I did watching e1 of this shite.
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And your point? So much hyperbole for nothing!
 
Wouldn't it be great if all managers just regularly drank down their local pub.
 
Spoony said:
He's right, to be fair.
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I think it's a good show, an easy watch. There has been some real poignant moments that hit every now and again when you are going through shit. Real feel good comfort food.... and some genuinely \o/ moments.

Redcafe gon redcafe...
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I think it’s gas. Makes me chuckle every single time. Although helps if you’ve ever been involved in the charade that is an annual appraisal, which it’s taking the piss out of.
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I used ChatGPT to do all my appraisals in October (Our year end) and it's fecking brilliant. Ours is mostly online with a face to face at the end, I like to keep my staff appraisals short and concise as I can't be fecking bothered with the pointless charade when the higher ups just gave everyone a blanket 3.5% rise last year anyway.

Someone got "underachieving on some targets" and I got "Exceeds expectations" and we both got the same pay rise, which is lovely.
 
Big Andy said:
I used ChatGPT to do all my appraisals in October (Our year end) and it's fecking brilliant. Ours is mostly online with a face to face at the end, I like to keep my staff appraisals short and concise as I can't be fecking bothered with the pointless charade when the higher ups just gave everyone a blanket 3.5% rise last year anyway.

Someone got "underachieving on some targets" and I got "Exceeds expectations" and we both got the same pay rise, which is lovely.
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Cunning plan.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Cunning plan.
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Big Andy said:
"Write a performance appraisal for Pogue Mahone for successfully posting on redcafe.net and hitting his target of over 130,000 posts with outstanding quality"
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:lol: we are fecked ain't we
 
afrocentricity said:
:lol: we are fecked ain't we
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Reluctantly giving the final season a chance as my free Apple TV+ is coming to an end. Three episodes in I'm pleasantly surprised it isn't as cringe as season 2.
 
Maybe this time they can qualify for the Champions League and lose the final to Man City, while finishing second to Man City in the league and losing to Man City in the League and FA Cup final while Guardiola ruffles Ted's hair.
 
TheGame said:
Not sure this is a good idea.

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Hmmm.....

I don't feel like it was a show where i wanted more. They tied up Ted's story pretty good and any potential loose ends from the other characters I didn't really care about anyway.

Not to mention that I thought they had run out of material.
 
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