Ted Lasso has been a cultural phenomenon for three years, but what's it like from a football perspective and now that it's over, might there be a spin-off? twoht
Ted Lasso has been a cultural phenomenon for three years, but what’s it like from a football perspective and now that it’s over, might there be a spin-off?And so it comes to an end. The Apple TV comedy series Ted Lasso completed its third season this week, and it doesn’t seem likely that it will be returning. It has long been said that the series was intended to have a three-year arc, and that this would be the last.
Reviewers praised it as “comforting” viewing, offering a glimpse of a fantasy world in which the common currency was kindness rather than the increasingly edgy paranoia and cynicism of the real one. If it seemed borderline hokey at times, it got a pass in a world in which we were prevented by law from seeing our loved ones and in which, in all honesty, a good number of us needed a cuddle.
When the owner of the fictional club, AFC Richmond, first announces that she is appointing an unknown college football coach from America with practically no knowledge of the association game 20 minutes into the first episode there is enormous surprise in the wider world, but little of the outright venom that such an appointment would surely provoke were it tohappen. Of course, this coming so soon into the first episode means that our antennae haven’t yet recalibrated.
Ted Lasso himself is a still water with hidden depths and hidden crises going on in his life. Separated from his son and separating from his wife, his loneliness in a flat in Richmond clashes with the ultimate “run the team on vibes” factor and wholesome and home-spun persona that he exudes, especially around the football club itself. When these conflicting pressures start to push against each other, his mental health does start to suffer.
Meanwhile, the backroom staff includes model turned footballer’s girlfriend turned PR guru Keeley Jones, kit man turned tactical genius Nate Shelley, put-upon pen-pusher Leslie Higgins, formidable club owner Rebecca Welton, and Ted’s long-time assistant/best friend/confidant Coach Beard. Along with a strong supporting cast of recurring occasional characters, it makes for a believably unbelievable parallel universe.
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