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Ted lasso season 2 episode 15/6/2023 ![]() ![]() They are learning a lot of ball skills and even more Anglo-Saxon. Roy is figuring out what to do in post-injury retirement, and coaching his niece’s under-10’s football team with his customary intensity in the meantime. ![]() They include handsome lummox Jamie (Phil Dunster), initially in a new situation that is so perfect for him I shall not spoil it here, and his nemesis and hard-bastard-not-really Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein, also executive story editor and writer of the sixth episode). ![]() Photograph: Colin Hutton/AppleĪll our favourites are back. sports psychologist Dr Fieldstone comes to teach Ted Lasso a thing or two. But all obstacles gradually fall before Ted, his optimism, his energy and his unshakeable belief in humanity, regardless of the fact that his own marriage is breaking up and that he is now in an unfathomable country which greets triumph and disaster alike with cries of “Wanker!” and keeps trying to make him like tea.Ī sprinkling of grit. In fact she hopes his lack of experience will cause them to fail, thus punishing her horrible ex-husband who loved the club but lost it in the divorce settlement. The title character, played with unfaltering lightness of touch and an utter lack of cynicism by Jason Sudeikis (also a co-creator of the show), is an American football coach brought over by an English football club’s manager, Rebecca Welton (a resplendently icy Hannah Waddingham), to transform the team’s fortunes. By the end of Ted Lasso’s first episode, the show that kept so many of us going has found its feet and is racing up the league tables towards its rightful place once more.įor those of you who have not yet had the pleasure (and please do indulge yourself as soon as you can I would be surprised if it did not improve life for you at least a little), Ted Lasso is – simply put – the tale of a good man doing good things. Mark this and mark it well: yea, though the first 15 minutes of the season two opener be a charmless thing though thy soul shall start to shrivel at the thought that the one good thing 2020 gave us, the one balm to the psychic wounds endlessly inflicted, is losing its way – keep the faith and thou shalt be rewarded. I feel it is incumbent upon me therefore to begin with an assurance. L ike Schitt’s Creek, whose equally warm-hearted comedy about overcoming adversity helped to inoculate us against the first panic of the pandemic, the first season of Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) offered succour to many as we moved through the year. ![]()
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