Ted Lasso Is No Superhero
He’s something rarer and more valuable.
This article contains spoilers through the Season 2 finale of Ted Lasso.
In an episode halfway through the new season of , Apple’s sweet and strange series about an optimistic American coach thrown into the cesspool of British soccer, the three AFC Richmond fans who compose the show’s dim-witted Greek chorus get ready to watch the FA Cup quarterfinal in a pub. “I swear, if we actually win this match, I will burn this pub to the ground,” one boasts. The landlady fixes her gaze on him. “I will … knock over a chair,” he counters. She raises an eyebrow. He grimaces, deflated. “I will channel my raging enthusiasm into ways to help my community.” The
