What podcast was this? I can’t find any record of Olivia Wilde calling Jason Sudeikis toxic or saying anything about him berating her…
I think you’re confused or just making this up.
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I think you’re confused or just making this up.
I agree with you, especially in season 2. The first season went more for laughs as Ted was portrayed as a fish out of water, unfamiliar with football and British customs and practices. As time progressed, the show has delved more into the characters' personalities and failings, still interesting to me but less outright comical. (The recent episodes about Nate were a good example.)
As with any entertainment, some love the show while others don't understand the hype. I'm in the former camp, though it will be challenging for the writers to maintain into a third season.
BTW, Physical, also on Apple TV+, is even less of a comedy, despite its classification as one. It hasn't gotten the attention it deserves, I think. That may be because viewers expect to laugh out loud, and there's very little of that because it's so dark.
Great show, great for Apple. They finally get the hit they have been looking for. I've been really impressed with Apple TV+ and the content so far so I think this is a win for the service as it will only keep pushing Apple further into this space.
My partner called Season 1 a perfect little gem of a television season. Once we got to Episode 3, it just got better and better and better. I'm finding Season 2 to be fascinating but in a different way. I admire the way the show goes against tropes. Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes less so.
I also feel that it takes some guts to do a couple of things I've seen it do:
NATE: "Did you sleep here?"
BEARD: "Perchance to dream here."
I also feel that it takes some guts to do a couple of things I've seen it do:
The potential romance between Rebecca and Sam, though I saw that coming by the end of last year, is a potentially uncomfortable watch for the power dynamics involved. Were it the other way around, with a male boss and a female player, it would clearly be played as bad news. This one might yet be so, and I am very interested to see if they go that way. That feels too obvious, maybe. By now I trust the writers to avoid the big tropes and to delve into subtle examinations of these kinds of things.
I also feel that having Rebecca appear to need a partner for validation is a choice that would be a non-starter these days. The show already has a strong, independent female character in Keeley Jones, but that doesn't mean there can't be two, for goodness' sake. I look forward to Rebecca struggling with this. I'd hate for Sam to be the one to teach her that lesson.
I also feel that having Rebecca appear to need a partner for validation is a choice that would be a non-starter these days. The show already has a strong, independent female character in Keeley Jones, but that doesn't mean there can't be two, for goodness' sake. I look forward to Rebecca struggling with this. I'd hate for Sam to be the one to teach her that lesson.
NATE: "Did you sleep here?"
BEARD: "Perchance to dream here."
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These stand alone episodes are fine IMO but would cause less of a stir if the entire season released all at once.
It grows on you. I've known a few people who started it but thought it was too over the top in the first couple of episodes. But it gets deeper and you realize he's not just some overly optimistic goofball all of the time. Each of those "few people" stuck with it and are now hooked on the show.
He's here.
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He's there.
He's every *****-where. Roy KEENNNNNNT
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I haven’t begun watching season 2 yet, but based on what I’m reading about the last episode, maybe it was a bottle episode? But it’s not like Apple has any budget constraints so that would be odd.
LOL! How does that differ from any other Apple product. Occasionally Apple gets a bit innovative, introduces a popular new product, then year after year following they give it lackluster, incremental updates, and they often screw up the OS and FW in the process. It is just another
product. 
As good as Ted Lasso the show is, that's how bad the last episode was. The coach beard episode felt like a completely different show. I kept waiting for it to get better but it never did.
It was a bottle episode, as was the Christmas episode. The creative team had planned a ten-episode season, like Season 1, and they were taken by surprise when Apple ordered 12 episodes. Rather than rewrite all the arcs, they opted instead to create these two bottle episodes.
We thought he “drank from the wrong kettle” again and would wake up from his hallucinations in a heap on the floor with his iPhone text alerts from Jane going crazy.
(At least I think that’s how he phrased it when he said he accidentally got high on mushrooms before coaching a game).
I personally didn’t appreciate the violence of the scene with Jamie Tartt’s dad. And it also didn’t seem plausible outside of a dream or hallucination that he’d run into him, or that the other guy would find him at all let alone in such a fortuitous manner. I didn’t even think the dad lived in the area, but another town over or something. (Edit: I didn’t realize this was a reference to The Fight Club. I still don’t like it but it’s at least got context now for me. Thanks @bigheaddoug )
But Morning Show has a scene with a psychic that gets all intense and serious for a moment so maybe weird, implausible and jarring is “in” now.
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In the Beard episode, the Fight Club gag was made awesome by their use of the original soundtrack.
Oh is that where they got it? I never saw that movie. That’s the thing, this show is so chock full of references to other things in pop culture and memes so if you’re not familiar with what they’re referencing, it can fall flat or seem really out of left field!
I purchased a Richmond FC shirt from wbshop.com and it was shipped from the UK to the US. Is it not available in the UK??
As long as we're confessing things, I know a handful who do, and we enjoy it quite a bit. I admit it also helps that a couple of us are huge English Premier League fans and a show based in that environment is interesting anyways.