This trailer for Ted Lasso season 2 might be as effective as an SSRI
New episodes of the Jason Sudeikis-led series hit Apple TV Plus on July 23
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Ted Lasso is so good. (How good is it?) Ted Lasso is so good that you’ll hear “Under Pressure” in this trailer for season two and not only will you not roll your eyes, you’ll fucking love it. It’ll make you even happier. Because that’s all this dang show is: concentrated joy in a jar. Suck it up, baby.
Ted Lasso finally comes back to us on July 23, when the first two episodes of the second season premiere on Apple TV+, followed by new episodes every Friday. Jason Sudeikis returns as the eponymous, eternally optimistic American football coach leading an underdog British soccer team alongside his loyal assistant coach, played by Brendan Hunt (who truly is so low-key good in this role that you’d think he’s just some midwestern sports guy Sudeikis found in an airport). Also returning for the second season are co-stars Hannah Waddingham, Jeremy Swift, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster, and Nick Mohammed. Sarah Niles joins season two as a new character named Sharon, a sports psychologist working with AFC Richmond.
The first season of Ted Lasso was such a treat during the long, dreadful summer of 2020—between the COVID of it all and the particularly unhinged anxiety leading up to the presidential election, we really needed just one pleasant, uncomplicated thing. At first, the simple optimism of Sudeikis’ character, at a time when cynicism was majorly peaking, may have seemed almost absurd and childish to some. But the series is irresistibly, infectiously nice. Even when Ted becomes his “mean” alter ego “Led Tasso” in the season two trailer, he can’t bring himself to be an actual asshole. It’s endearing! This summer might not be as dumb/awful/ugly as last summer, but we’re still looking forward to another season of this very nice man and his very nice show.
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Awfully weird for the AV Club to make a joke about disabilities in the headline. I guess we can just tell people struggling with depression to get Apple TV+ and they’ll be all better.
In fairness, I would never tell someone else struggling with depression to take an SSRI and they’ll be all better. Lots of different things can help (medications, exercise, therapy, etc.) but there isn’t a magic fix, as I learned the hard way. I don’t think the intended meaning was “this will cure depression,” but rather “this will shoot some serotonin into our pandemic-addled brains.”Still, you’re not wrong to raise an eyebrow here, considering that they could have picked any number of other analogies. “Concentrated joy in a jar” from the article would have been fine! And completely accurate, because LED TASSO.
sounds like someone could use a SSRI
Dont worry, as someone with clinical depression who takes an SSRI – I can assure you there are much bigger things to get up in arms about. Also, Ted Lasso was one of the very few things that made me feel good in 2020. I just rewatched it a few weeks ago and there is something so special about it – because it cheers me up and makes me smile like no one show.
Dont
worry, as someone with clinical depression who takes an SSRI – I can
assure you there are much bigger things to get up in arms about.
Yeah, but the problem is that getting up in arms takes so much fucking energy, and the couch is right here…
Same, all around!
You seem depressed.
god under pressure is such a good song
I could be wrong (I was very young), but didn’t people hate that song when it first came out? Like nothing could have lived up to Bowie + Queen, so it just got trashed? I’m glad it’s appreciated today.
The only people who hate Under Pressure are the stoppers and the collaborators. The listeners know better.
For extra happiness I recommend watching Jason Sudeikis and Kathryn Hahn interview each other. They’re old friends who worked together early in their careers so they go straight to the weird kid war stories.
As someone who suffers from depression and is on an SSRI, I feel qualified to tell you the headline does not lie.
This is such a good summary of what makes this show so great: