Hexbear told me Ted Lasso is a manic pixie dream guy, which is what I suspected given Apple’s brand image, which is why I refused to watch it despite my liberal peers insisting that I do as an antidote to toxic masculinity.
Eh, I haven't seen this show but I don't give lib media much credit for saying "punch (blatant) Nazis!" It's pretty easy to advocate for punching people with literal swastika tattoos, everyone hates them (unless they're in Ukraine). Thing is they're fine with fascist behavior when it had the cloak of western liberalism over it.
It's like a dude who gets really agro about how he wants to murder pedophiles but then doesn't give a shit about his guy friend creeping on barely legal girls at punk shows. Yeah it's easy to hate the guys who literally yank elementary school girls into white panels vans bro, everyone gets that's wrong.
It's just a show whose value is in the expression of soft power projection of the American state. It's kind of a stretch that Ted Lasso, both show and character, are the "adorkable" American face for empire - that trope Citations Needed identified as "always bumbling military" - but it makes for innocuous propaganda of Americans as honest idiots.
I think it's a stretch but it might just bee a bad show and character.
Just average lib show that libs love with a message about having a positive outlook or whatever. Another feel good american sitcom designed to be on in the background to drown out your existential dread.
I refuse to watch it as I am 95% sure that the football bits of it would piss me off.
I just don’t like smarmy feel good bullshit, especially when it’s present in such a didactic and heavy handed manner. The show is just pure cringe from start to finish, pre-flanderized before it even began
Ted LaSSo is inspired by university of michigan (aka scUM) head football coach and cheater and fraud, Jim Harbaugh. Fascist are well known for cheating and lying, especially in matters of sport, so by association, Ted LaSSo is a fascist.
what does ted lasso have to do with fascism? i have no idea. i'm not a fan of the show though, balanced drama and comedy poorly, and the sports part of it all never made sense to me. then the last 2 seasons become preachy nonsense, on top of horrible plot structure (ENTIRE plot moments happen between episodes!!! why the fuck would you do that) or the most ridiculous character development of all time (i'm talking about nathan)
anyways, terrible show, but somehow the cast of ted lasso ended up at the white house and talking to joe biden for some reason? joke country tbh
I'd say the character of Ted Lasso is very relatable to me but that may be more of an indictment of my childhood than anything. It is fascist in that it takes place in
I thought Ted Lasso was some quirky cowboy celebrity type like the Tiger King that people just hyped up because they’re incapable of turning on their front facing cameras to talk to friends while locked in their homes
If you've actually watched the series, which had a definitive ending written before production, then you know the major theme of the show is mental health.
You'd also know that the main character's endlessly chipper attitude is revealed to be a coping mechanism passed on by his mom after his dad committed suicide.
Some people out here be reading into shit they haven't seen like they're my 8th grade English teacher pretending they understand the alcoholic mind of a famous author that's been dead for 50 years.
I’m confused, I watched the show all the way through twice and didn’t ever really catch anything like that going on. Just a pretty funny show that was refreshingly unproblematic (and also, they knew exactly when to end it before it got stale).