![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() WADDINGHAM: (As Rebecca Welton) Well, I suppose not. SUDEIKIS: (As Ted Lasso) Is he nice to you? WADDINGHAM: (As Rebecca Welton) All right. 1 - even though it's called girl talk, sometimes it to be more like girl, listen. WADDINGHAM: (As Rebecca Welton) Ted, would you please stop? His name's John Wingsnight, like at a sports night? Like, Monday night's wings night down at PJ Flats (ph). SUDEIKIS: (As Ted Lasso) Well, now hold on a second. What the hell? So this chap I've been seeing, John. You got a fever for the (unintelligible) little girl talk, don't you? Well, shoot. WADDINGHAM: (As Rebecca Welton) Thank you. I wish I was Keeley three or four times a day. WADDINGHAM: (As Rebecca Welton) Sorry, Ted. I haven't seen someone that disappointed to see me since I wore a red baseball cap to a Planned Parenthood fundraiser. WADDINGHAM: (As Rebecca Welton) Oh, hi, Ted. JASON SUDEIKIS: (As Ted Lasso) Morning, boss. HANNAH WADDINGHAM: (As Rebecca Welton) Come in. In this scene, Rebecca is waiting in her office for a visit from Keeley, the team's head of marketing, when Ted arrives instead. Ted by now has bonded with most of his players and even with his boss, Rebecca, who's played by Hannah Waddingham and, like Jason Sudeikis, is nominated for an Emmy. His good vibes usually end up winning the day, even if they don't necessarily win the game.įor Season 2, the focus is less on the field than on personal relationships. He talks too much and throws out too much wordplay and obscure references. But Ted, with his stubbornly positive attitude, keeps on plugging. In fact, she's counting on the opposite just to irritate her ex. That game is as foreign to him as British slang and the traffic flow.īut that's OK with Rebecca, the new team owner, who got ownership in a divorce settlement. But what they call football, we call soccer, which Ted has never coached professionally. Ted Lasso is an American football coach, hired and brought overseas to coach a football team in England. Like the Showtime sitcom "Episodes," which had two British TV writers transplanted to America to adapt their hit comedy for Hollywood, "Ted Lasso" is the story of strangers getting adjusted to a new culture and a whole new set of workplace rules. It also made me happy because of the show's unexpected twists and touching character relationships. Season 2 begins this week, and it's just as warm and just as funny.Įvery episode provided for preview made me laugh out loud. The first season of "Ted Lasso" is up for 20 Emmy nominations, not only for outstanding comedy series and for Jason Sudeikis in the title role, but for two of the supporting actresses and four of the supporting actors. And in these uncertain, uneasy pandemic times, that makes it an almost perfect show to watch. It not only makes you laugh, it makes you feel good. Also like "Schitt's Creek," and unlike most of today's TV comedies, "Ted Lasso" is nice. Like "Schitt's Creek," "Ted Lasso" has a very talented cast and some great scripts. This fall, I expect the first season of a new Apple TV+ sitcom, "Ted Lasso," will do the same thing and for many of the same reasons. ![]() A year ago, in its final season on the air, the Netflix TV series called "Schitt's Creek" - that's spelled S-C-H-I-T-T-apostrophe-S - dominated the Emmy Awards in the situation comedy categories. ![]()
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