Ted Lasso (Apple TV) TV Show • Page 17

both seasons

 

I think there's some legit criticism from some of the people Emily cited. But it seems like the most vocal are from fun scolds like Gawker and Twitter. In the end, I think the first two seasons, like Emily said, will age very well.

 

This is where I'm at. Haven't loved a few episodes this season, but I think that it won't even matter when I do a binge rewatch with my family at Christmas.

 

Not that I believe him to be fully CGI lol (and I’m not sure what other talk there has been around the subject), but there was a shot early on, maybe the pilot, that caused me to google Ted Lasso CGI. I don’t remember which scene, but it was Roy and it felt off to my eyes. Curious to see there’s an entire conspiracy around it and I want to go back now and see if I can figure out what exactly made me think that thought.

 

The cast is heavily green screened on the field and in front of TV screens and whatnot. But none of them are like CGI creations. Haha.

 

social media is stupid.

 

That's something a CGI'd chorus user would say...very suspicious.

 

#roykentisntreal

 

I wonder if those people on twitter know what ADR is

 

This is the only place I read fan discussion about Ted Lasso. Kind of surprised to hear season 2 has been getting a decent amount of shit on Twitter, but I really shouldn't be.

 

Also had no idea about the season 2 hate. This season has been fantastic and has brought me so many smiles. Twitter truly is the worst

 

I have another theory, that a lot of people got into the first season after it had all aired, and binged it. And this kind of show works really well binged, you can see the story playout faster, whereas a week to week format does not and so people get hung-up on a little sitcom trope here, or not enough story in this episode, or the one off there, more than they would otherwise.

I look forward to watching every single Sunday, but that, mixed with the loud mad at anything popular/joyful, I think plays a role.

 

I agree. I think binging the seasons in full is the way to go. And I think that's what most people ended up doing, which is why maybe this season isn't shining as much to those people.

Each episode packs in belly laughs and emotion, and ends with some sort of cliffhanger, all in just 20-something minutes. So when you can just keep riding that rollercoaster from start to finish, that's totally when it feels the most special. And that way, you can spend a full day with Ted, as opposed to just 30 minutes over the course of 7 days. It gives the viewer too much time to move on and disconnect between episodes.

Once people can binge season 2 in full, I imagine their tune is gonna change and we're going to get a bunch of tweets with "#ForgiveMeTedLasso"

 

That’s a good point. I’m still a fan of week to week episodes, but it would probably do them good to do like two a week or something.

Either way, I’m excited to see how this forum will react to the final episodes of the season. Some interesting stuff happens.

 

I feel like I'm the only one who likes weekly drops haha, I find binge watching impossible and I like the feeling of okay it's release day so I can pace myself

 

i have not agreed with a single piece of the backlash yet, it all seemed like weird clickbait dork shit trying to dunk on something universally beloved. i didn't like one episode so far this season. the rest has absolutely been on par with season 1.

 

The backlash is mostly dumb. Between this and Loki, I feel like the Netflix release model has fundamentally reprogrammed how most people watch tv and now they get mad when they can’t experience half a season of plot development in one sitting

 

Not only that, but I think the show is trying to compensate for it. In like 5 serialized episodes, the amount of ground that Jamie and Roy cover is insane!

 

I vastly prefer weekly drops over binge dumps as well. I especially hate not being able to discuss shows with friends because you’re all at different spots and don’t want to accidentally spoil anything.

 

I generally prefer the weekly drops primarily for the reasons @Anthony_ mentioned.

The one area a single episode dump stands out is in how you don't need to subscribe to the service for the whole time you can just subscribe for a month when the season drop. Its definitely not a conicidence that Netflix generally drops whole seasons and Apple stretches stuff out. Netflix has enough content they figure you'll still gonna subscribe next month anyways. Apple wants to get their sub numbers up.

If Netflix userbase starts to go down, I think you'll definitely see them transition back to weekly episode releases.

 

i don’t think theyll take Nate and make him work for/coach an opposing team. This show iirc is only going to be 3 seasons so youre gonna take a very beloved character and basically make him an adversary in the last season? You cant break up the diamond dogs!

also, i think both the moments in this episode and his arc in the episode prior are more just showing him coming into his own and growing as a person/coach.

also also, we dont even really know where the rebecca/sam story is heading - it could be a big nothing, but i’m at least a little interested to see how they work through it.

 

Roy Kent is not a bot.

 

Brilliant response.