Hollywood ‘it girl’ at 47 ‘I DESERVE THIS!’
There are two types of people in the world: those who love Ted Lasso – Apple TV+’s unashamedly feel-good comedy about an American football coach transplanted to the UK to work with a flailing Premier League team – and those who just haven’t watched it yet.
The show launched at the tail end of the first Covid lock-down, delivering desperately necessary bolts of good-natured, hope-infused jolliness that simultaneously managed to be unpredictable, non-trite, genuinely funny and – bonus! – introduced an isolated world to characters who demanded you feel connected to every one of them.
By the time season two arrived this year, Ted Lasso’s signature sweetness and optimism took on new significance, operating as a promise of how decent humanity can be when it tries.
‘It appals me that musical theatre people have been overlooked for years on screen’
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