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I want to like Ted Lasso, I really do.
Several people whose opinion I trust have told me it’s great. Obviously not Game of Thrones or The Deuce or The Boys From The Blackstuff great but still great nonetheless. A perfectly inoffensive way to spend half an hour of your life.
And a search of this very website for opinions suggests that, yes, lots of other people also think Ted Lasso is great. (Full disclosure: I didn’t read too many of these articles for fear of spoilers. I’ve not completely given up on it.)
Its first series won four Emmy awards, for God’s sake. So maybe it is just me.
Ted is great. Of that there can be no doubt. He’s got good hair and he’s one of the few men who can pull off a moustache without looking like a corrupt Met Police DCI and/or sex offender.
His assistant seems like a pretty good character too. Like he knows his way around the Weezer back catalogue and is from a family which has never voted Republican in its entire history.
The supporting characters is where it all falls apart.
There’s Roy Kent, who is basically Roy Keane but repackaged to look like a shrunken Eric Cantona. The closeness of the fictional name to the name of the real-world person it is based on is about as subtle as a ‘reducer’ from the man…
