#apple ted lasso

[cristinadrawss]

What if Trent could have both NBC Ted and Apple Ted🫡

And AppleTed is so not jealous obvi

Rip the quality 😔

[marmaladebeqr]

WAIT HAS ANYONE DRAWN NBC TED & APPLE TED IN THE SPIDERMAN MEME POSE??????!!!! I NEED TO KNOW

-edit- I just realized I spelled Spiderman wrong 😂💀 how did my autocorrect fail me?

[thenewsfactsnow]

Emmy: Apple's Ted Lasso Wins Best Comedy Award Again

Emmy: Apple's Ted Lasso Wins Best Comedy Award Again #TedLasso #AppleTedLasso #EmmyAwards2022

Apple TV+ “Ted Lasso” Wins Emmy Award for best comedy again. Apple TV+ in this edition struck big honours at the Emmy again winning 9 awards in all, which includes four wins for “Ted Lasso,” and honors for “Carpool Karaoke: The Series,” “Severance,” “Schmigadoon!,” and “Home Before Dark” At 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, the most popular Apple TV+ successful series “Ted Lasso” joined the league of…

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[pynkhues]

youve lost interest in ted lasso, is it ok to ask why? was there a specific thing that turned you off or just generally lost interest?

Of course, anon!

I'm popping this behind a cut though because I know a lot of my mutuals + people who follow me still love the show a lot, and I don't want to be a dick.

It's less that I've lost interest, and more that I've found season 2 extremely frustrating. I could give you a lot of reasons for this – ill-thought out conflicts, bad pacing, a lack of engagement with their own storyworld (the fact that football has barely featured this season is very strange to me given it's a show, y'know. Set in the world of football, haha), but really my frustration boils down to this:

The characters aren't making choices anymore, the writers are making choices.

What I mean by this is that every single development in the narrative has, to me, seemed like something that has happened because the writers have wanted it to happen, not because it feels like an organic evolution or regression of a character's motivation, needs or agency.

We've seen this over and over again throughout the season: from Sam and Rebecca's glossed over connection, to Jamie suddenly having feelings for Keeley again, to the lack of any sort of connection to Beard in a bottle episode that should've given us a firm and profound understanding of his character. It's become a season which, to me, has abandoned its understanding of character for the purpose of exploring certain plots and themes, but without those characters, those plots and themes don't resonate or feel earned, because they don't mean anything.

I think the thing people often forget is that stories aren't about characters, stories are characters. They're the beating hearts of them, and so a lack of clarity and investment in the characters ultimately breeds a lack of clarity and investment in the story.

The thing is, I actually like the overall arc of season 2. I like the idea of unpacking Ted's anxieties and trauma in the wake of his divorce, I like the idea of festering Nate's insecurities and hunger for power, and the idea of Roy navigating a career post-retirement and coming back to coach, but it feels like these are ideas that have been written up on a whiteboard during a writer's room and taken at face value, not explored in a deeper and meaningful way.

Nate's arc has been borderline caricature and frequently the inciting incidents for his moral decline are not present on screen (like saying Ted takes credit for his ideas in the last ep, which we've literally never seen), Ted's arc has been heavyhanded to the point I don't think it works at all, and don't even get me started on the contrived and repetitive conflicts in Roy and Keeley's relationship, or for that matter, both Rebecca and Keeley being reduced to romance plots (the fact that Rebecca's arc this season hasn't been about fixing everything she sabotaged in s1 is baffling to me).

Like I said, the writers are making choices for these characters without writing the circumstances and situations that would instead allow or force the character to make them.

I tend to say that the role sequels or follow up seasons have is to deepen storyworlds, not stretch them, and I think s2 of Ted Lasso has stretched so much that it's tearing at the seams unfortunately. It was an ambitious season, and it gives me no pleasure to say this, but I think they've failed on many levels.

Still - to end on a positive note, I do still enjoy parts of the show, and I especially think it really thrives when it's spotlighting its ensemble and the characters are together (I think separating so many of them this season was also a mistake, but we're being positive now, so I'll stop that thought there). There have been a few really great moments of that, and I hope they re-root in those characters, together and apart, in s3.

[pynkhues]

I haven't been able to watch Ted Lasso yet because I don't have a subscription so I've been piecing it together through gif sets and I agree. As much as I love angst, there's something about a couple that's loved each other for well, a lifetime that gets me straight in the feels.

Ooof, anon! Y.e.s. I think it's one of the reasons Ruby and Stan hit me in such a sweet spot too (or well, Ruby and Stan before Stan got in his s4 feelings) – a relationship that's lived in and complicated but built on so much mutual love and trust is both absolutely magic and tragically rare for TV.

The Higgins' in Ted Lasso are sort of on the peripheral of the story, but I love the way they're this touchstone for the series overall in the way that they really embody the show's approach to relationships broadly, professionally, platonically and romantically. They're not perfect, but the foundation of their relationship is one of kindness, support, respect and love, and they use it to draw so many interesting parallels and connections. It's really lovely, and the fact that the actors who play them are married in real life just makes it extra special.