Flat Lasso
We are four episodes into season 2 of Ted Lasso. Something is terribly wrong in Richmond, and it ain’t the soccer team. It isn’t even the coaching staff, or the coach. The Christmas episode in August tipped it. It was bad, very bad.
Where are the life lessons wrapped in a blanket of folksiness? Where are the leadership nuggets delivered as straight as a dart going for the bullseye? Where is the hero’s journey build up? Where is the culture clash or the personal conflict?
The episodes thus far have been a serving of luke warm pudding at best. I like pudding, but this batch is nothing to be excited by.
Ted isn’t it. If they wrote it as Zidane in his final days at Real Madrid, they did a great job. Nice Jaimie is awful. You need a good villain, whom everybody hates. Without Rupert or Jaimie, there is nobody to hate. Roy Kent is as behaved and tame as a poodle. What’s up with that? You know his alter ego Roy Keane would have ripped the writers’ head off. Keely was at least a femme fatal in season 1. Now, it is not clear where they will take this. The same is true about the romantic adventures of Rebecca. A little shining light is perhaps Higgins, who is no longer the abused lapdog.
Let’s hope our Fridays will become a bit happier and Ted Lasso will provide us something marvelous to look forward to from now on.