Treq
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Well, it is vastly popular. And I would change the channel from stranger things to watch Ted lasso in a heartbeat… if that was still how you watched these shows. Both of which I love BTW.
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japanime
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And justifiably so. "Ted Lasso" has been nominated for 40 Emmys, and won 11 of them. "Stranger Things" has been nominated for 51 Emmys, and won 12 of them.
Severence is so painfully slow I can't handle it. It's borderline pretentious at best and nothing at all seems to happen for 90% of it. The last episode was good but every other episode could be 20mins long.
It feels like a student film which was given a budget.
JippaLippa
macrumors 68000
Good question. When I was younger I enjoyed fiction. It was often motivating and inspiring. As you grow older, you begin to view the world as less inspirational. You begin to see how real human behavior is repetitive and unchanging even as our environment changes through human technology. I'm an "oldster" now. I embrace non-fiction life. It's way more amazing and bountiful reward than what I stopped watching 30 years ago.
Absolutely agree — the excessive profanity in most of their programs is why I don’t watch them. I don’t understand why they think people talk like this in real life, or that using profanity makes a program more popular. Look at the most successful television shows in history and you will find that they don’t use profanity. Either the writers are completely ignorant of this, or they are lazy, or both.
I was curious what Apple was doing by producing/sponsoring syndicated shows. I've tried to watch "TV" over the past thirty years but I keep turning off the show/news before the end. I like nonfiction stuff which is easily accessible & free as soon as you turn off the TV.
Mrjoedot
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Liaison is also going great so far. so was Echo 3 and some others on the platform
You should come to Australia! 😂😂
boss.king
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This might blow your mind, but here goes: sometimes, people swear in real life.
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Treq
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Good answer. As an oldster myself, I can relate. This show, in my opinion, is more than just a fiction show about a soccer coach who doesn't know about soccer, but a rare thing in modern entertainment... A show that makes being a better person actually entertaining. So much entertainment over the last 15 years has been of the "_____ Housewives" variety or the manufactured drama of people who keep making the same mistakes in dealing with other humans. People being jerks for comedic or dramatic value. Not Ted Lasso. It is truly a show that takes the quote from Michelle Obama: "They go low, we go high" to heart. Ted doesn't win people over by being snarky. He wins them over by being supportive, and forgiving. Anyway, enjoy your non-fiction lifestyle. I read a great non-fiction book a little while back about the hacker Kevin Mitnick. (Ghost in the Wires 2011) Fascinating story about a man on the run, and It all happened in my lifetime and I even remember some of those events. You may enjoy it if you haven't already. All the best.
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They don't want you to renew only for a month, watch everything and cancel. Which is what I might do... once all episodes are out 😛
For a show happening in England - football culture no less - the language is actually pretty tame 😉
Docsta80
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Oh cry us a freaking river. Its just a WORD. If that offends you get a life
Apple_Robert
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Apple_Robert
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I never said I was offended. There is also no need to get acerbic over reading a post you disagreed with.
Edited to add: Listening to people curse over and over is irritating to me because I find it uncouth, lacking in decorum and to the unknowing, a lack of any real meaningful vocabulary that is germane to the subject at hand. The fact that it is written into the script so much leaves me with the impression that the writers lack ability to do any better.
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Canyda
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raziel101
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Ted Lasso needs to end the series with him doing a cooking show, showing us how to make his famous shortbread.
That’s all I ask!! 🤞
That’s all I ask!! 🤞
Canyda
macrumors 65816
It needs to end with Bob Newhart waking up next to Rebecca and saying he had the strangest dream.
sjsharksfan12
macrumors 68030
I enjoyed the episode and now I can't stop thinking about "Poopeh". Also, the scene with Pheobe, Roy and Keeley was a little heartbreaking.
boss.king
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This idea that swearing signals a lack of vocabulary or knowledge is such an outdated notion. Sure, it's good to have a wide vocabulary to draw on and codeswitch as appropriate for whatever setting you're in, but just because someone speaks in simple language peppered with crude words doesn't make their point any less valid than if they busted out the mental-thesaurus every time they opened their mouth.
In fact, the heavy swearing (which really only comes from one character), when contrasted with more "proper" lines from others, can actually make for more engaging dialogue.
Remember, this is TV, not a word jumble. You get audience points for conveying plot and emotion, not using the greatest number of unique words.
bodonnell202
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Razorpit
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While I like some of the Apple productions, including Lasso, modern television stinks. Go watch some of the classics, WKRP in Cincinnati, Sanford and Son, Cheers, Night Court, Firefly, Early seasons of 24, Married with Children, Are You Being Served, generation's 1 & 2 of Star Trek, Deep Space 9, MASH, Seinfeld, Johnny Carson, sane David Letterman. All different eras, genres, there are no shows like them anymore. Writing as an art form is dead. Telling a joke without fear of upsetting someone is dead. (Along with journalism, but I digress.)