Particularly disjointed this week. No good reason to go into specifics, just the opening caution that these are disconnected bits that just happen to find themselves in this Friday piece. Thanks to an old friend, I had access to Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso as of this past weekend, and happily binged through the 10-episode season one that weekend, and have since rolled into the 12-episode season two. I believe I have five or six episodes to go. I'm trying to savor them. The foundational premise is that an American college football coach (the eponymous Ted, played by series co-creator Jason Sudeikis) is, to the international sports world's surprise, hired to coach a (fictional) English Premiere League football (which Americans would call soccer) club, despite his having no experience with the sport. The "why" of the job offer is also laid out, as I recall, within the first episode, but I don't wa...
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