Apple TV+ Ted Lasso - Season 2 (1 Viewer)

[SamT]

 

[SamT]

Hopefully this is as good as season 1. For the moment the teaser doesn't show anything interesting or any plot points. It just shows familiar faces.

 

[Greg.K]

The teaser makes it look like more of the same, though I suspect the team will end up having to win it all eventually.

 

[DaveF]

Anyone have access to the NYT cooking site, can get me the shortbread recipe?

Following the Shortbread Crumbs - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer

david-smith.org

 

[joshEH]

Here you go -- I screenshotted it for you:

 

[SamT]

 

[Greg.K]

Here you go -- I screenshotted it for you:

Going to have to make these for the season 2 premiere party.

 

[SamT]

 

[Clinton McClure]

Unfortunately, season 2 won’t be out until after my free trial of TV+ expires and there’s nothing else on the service that remotely interests me. I’ll have to avoid this thread until the entire season is out then I’ll re-up my sub and binge the entire season over a weekend then cancel again.

 

[SamT]

2x01 Goodbye Earl

What? Nobody is talking about Ted Lasso?

I thought it lacked magic at the beginning and wasn't funny until the psychologist showed up. Then things got fun and interesting.

They should avoid to show them all happy and nice to work with each other. The reason season one worked was because there was conflict and change.

 

[joshEH]

Such awesomeness. I absolutely positively despise all forms of animal cruelty…and yet that kick and then the shower-scene. Fucking hilarious.

Solid start; though my girlfriend was initially a touch upset that “successful-competent-club-owner-is-reduced-to-girly-gossip-for-most-of-the-episode.” They played with that nicely by the end, though.

Curious to see how Ted and his...boyishness finally wins over the doc. (Sorry, “doctor.”)

 

[DaveF]

Watched the premiere Friday night.

I remember a few years ago, the collective-we were arguing about the merits of streaming shows dropping a new season all at once versus broadcast TV‘s weekly episodes. This was brought on particularly by Stranger Things, I think.

I was very much in favor the big drop, because I liked bingeing all of Stranger Things in a single weekend. It was a fun “event” to have with my wife and just immerse myself intensely in the show for a few days. Plus, I was so out of sync on shows that I was often catching shows way after other people watched them.

But I’m appreciating more the weekly release approach of Disney and Hulu and Apple. On some few shows, like Ted Lasso or The Handmaid’s Tale, I now can watch in sync with friends. And it’s good. It’s a bit like how TV used to be 20 years ago.

So I want to have Ted Lasso to watch rapidly. And I’m glad to have it given out only weekly.

 

[DaveF]

Also, good first episode. I had some mixed feelings, but mainly because the first season is so perfect, I’m almost afraid of being disappointed by a second season.

It was fun. I‘m into the setup of Ted’s internal conflict over therapy. I can see this being a good storyline.

And of course Roy figuring out what to do as a retired athlete has promise. I expected he should go into coaching or management. Going into commentary is also a good idea. And Roy the character is totally believable in hating all these ideas and wanting to be left alone.

Obvious but not yet a story is Nate’s apparently very aggressive, hard-ass approach to coaching and employee management. I felt that was surprising and not signaled from the first season. There is more to come on this as the season develops, I expect.

 

[Greg.K]

I did make the shortbread biscuits, btw.

I thought the Dani Rojas thing maybe should have taken more than an episode to resolve, but I do like the addition of the psychologist to the cast. Small conflicts abound, but still not clear what the big conflict storyline for the season might be, if any.

 

[DaveF]

I’ve heard that reviewers also found the first episode a bit off, so maybe it wasn’t just me feeling a bit out of sorts initially.

The second episode however was great all the way through. The premiere episode had Ted only being saccharine Ted — that overly talkative, hyper-Pollyanna version of himself from early in Season 1. Episode 2, we got back to late-season 1 three-dimensional Ted who is upbeat but who also deals with reality and people honestly and practically.

Nate, commenting on how Jaime Tarte tears people down being bad for the team, interrupting himself as he saying that to tear down the new kit kid was just <tear my hair out> I think the show is indicating that Ted and Beard are aware of it, but are letting Nate be Nate to figure out Nate.

Though Ted unilaterally offering up Nate’s office to Higgins was a surprising lapse in Ted’s judgement.

Roy Fucking Kent. Good to have him back.

 

[DaveF]

I’ll also take a second to note:

AppleTV is currently the king of the 30-min, must-see TV, sitcom night with Ted Lasso, Schmigadoon, and Central Park.

 

[SamT]

Schmigadoon is good? Not even tried to try it!

 

[SamT]

How people felt about putting a half eaten stuff back in a box and give it to someone else. And the other person also eating it!

 

[DaveF]

Schmigadoon is good? Not even tried to try it!

Yes, it’s fun! I don’t think it’s Ted Lasso great, but I’m into it.

 

[Sam Posten]

I had no idea the origin story: