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Ted Lasso Season Three Now Available on Apple TV+
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Shrinking also the problem of being one of the dumbest shows I have ever watched. I didn’t even make it one episode. That was some trash.
I enjoyed season 1 of Ted Lasso. While I love darker shows like Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, etc., Ted Lasso was a rarity in that most of the characters were basically decent people with good hearts, who sometimes did bad things (like most of us). I found the characters and situations believable overall. Even Ted's annoying qualities were realistic -- I used to have a friend with a heart of gold who was prone to corny jokes and going on and on about things. In any case, season 1 was a breath of fresh air at a time when the world needed it.
I couldn't get past episode 4 of season 2, though. There were just too many hokey cliches from mediocre sitcoms, in which characters say or do unrealistic things for a cheap laugh or a tug on the heart strings. This might sound like a contradiction, but the hokey elements annoy me more than they otherwise would because there are many good things about the show.
Shrinking, on the other hand, is more like season 1 of Ted Lasso, in that the characters behave like believable human beings. I really enjoyed it, and I didn't feel like I was being manipulated by the writers. I assume that most of the people reading this thread know that Shrinking was created by Bill Lawrence (one the the creators of Ted Lasso) and Brett Goldstein (who plays Roy Kent).
Humor, of course, is subjective, and obviously I'm in the minority when it comes to the merits of Ted Lasso, season 2. As for how episodes of a series are released, Netflix spoiled me: I'm for a series being dumped all at once. I wait to watch an Apple series until all the episodes have been released. There are plenty of other things to binge on in the meantime.
I couldn't get past episode 4 of season 2, though. There were just too many hokey cliches from mediocre sitcoms, in which characters say or do unrealistic things for a cheap laugh or a tug on the heart strings. This might sound like a contradiction, but the hokey elements annoy me more than they otherwise would because there are many good things about the show.
Shrinking, on the other hand, is more like season 1 of Ted Lasso, in that the characters behave like believable human beings. I really enjoyed it, and I didn't feel like I was being manipulated by the writers. I assume that most of the people reading this thread know that Shrinking was created by Bill Lawrence (one the the creators of Ted Lasso) and Brett Goldstein (who plays Roy Kent).
Humor, of course, is subjective, and obviously I'm in the minority when it comes to the merits of Ted Lasso, season 2. As for how episodes of a series are released, Netflix spoiled me: I'm for a series being dumped all at once. I wait to watch an Apple series until all the episodes have been released. There are plenty of other things to binge on in the meantime.
Might just be anecdotal experience on my part, but I feel like I’ve dropped way more shows mid-runs when binging compared to watching as they come out week to week. Orange is the new black and Stranger Things are two examples: I watch a new season within a few days, but then the following season is so far away that when it finally comes out, I barely remember what happened, if at all, and I put it on the watchlist to catch up with eventually, but really, I never get back to it.
Don’t know if it happens to a lot of people, but to me that’s a big flaw of the binging paradigm, especially as we have now way shorter seasons (8-10 episodes compared to 20-24) than we used to, meaning an even longer gap between seasons.
Cool! With See and this getting new seasons, the only other shows I'm waiting up on are Foundation and Central Park.
They did. "Check the archives". It was brought up when it got released, and when it won awards (an emmy? Or grammy?)
Most of the streaming services need more constraints. Just need to tighten up most the shows significantly
I really enjoy it, a breath of fresh air.
Any programme or series I don't like on TV (and there are bound to be some) I just don't watch them.
Any programme or series I don't like on TV (and there are bound to be some) I just don't watch them.
Also there are enough good shows that have been made in the past and right now that if no one ever released another show anyone with a job could never hope to watch all the truly great shows or movies. There is so much.
Shows are already only like 8-10 episodes a season. If you cut them down any more they might as well just be a movie.
That’d be 2 where they did an episode each on Coach Beard, Rebecca and one where they concentrated on Nate and his parents. Where we 'almost' feel sorry for him 🤣
Best for binging. Just watched a UK crime/whodunit (Vigil) set on a Trident Submarine which was 6 episodes and perfect for 2-3 nights.
My favorite part of posting this is that it was upvoted enough that it made the top comments under the news story page and the spoiler tag doesn't work there and it therefore spoils everything.
How do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you use a term like “wokevirus”? What does that even mean? The show is funny and delightful.
I can see that, particularly with Shrinking. I think I notice it less in Ted Lasso because of all the British accents but definitely Shrinking. It won't keep me from watching them, but you are right; it does take something away from it.
Yea what is there to watch outside of kids stuff that isn't overloaded with mature content? I think Spirited was the only thing I found so far.
Yea it's not just A WORD. Like on Only Murders in the Building. Steve and Martin swear occasionally for approprate reasons. Not every sentence or worse like Selena. I like Cena but couldn't get through five mins of Peacemake because it was profanity three times a sentence.
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That's like Steve Martin in Planes Trains and Automobile. I think he swore more in that scene than I ever heard him swear total in every other movie of his I watched.
And they can't even come out regular. Instead of yearly, they will be TBD TBD TBD until like 18-24 months or worse.
Had to stop midway through s02 since everything felt off to me, pacing, plot, it didn't work. The show seemed to have moved on from being about the team's growing success -and struggles- to something where some of the characters just happen to play soccer sometimes. I enjoyed watching the relationship between Ted and his boss develop in s01, Ted's gonna show her what they're capable of. Yet the Ted in s02 seems not to be too bothered his team's just bad now.
None of that had anything to do with swearing or "wokevirus" nonsense.
None of that had anything to do with swearing or "wokevirus" nonsense.