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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone watching the latest (and maybe last) season of Ted Lasso?

I was so looking forward to the new season but so far[b] it’s falling a little flat for me. It’s still delightful but it’s trying too hard.[/b] [/quote]

This exactly for me as well[/quote]

Same.  During one Ted-ism I definitely found myself cringing a bit versus adoring it.

They might have made the right decision to stop with this season.[/quote]

Thats interesting. I feel like Ted-isms are a part of how he handles stress. Like its goofy and affable but it comes from a place of hurt or distraction. They get more ridiculous and schticky as his personal life gets worse[/quote]

Also it's going to be hard for him to keep that up when Zava is essentially taking over that role, as great motivator and aphorism-speaker, while also having the immense soccer talent to back it up. Ted is going to face irrelevancy with his own team, as he's going through all these other things - and I think that will be a real struggle for him. [/quote]

The betrayal of having is his former marriage therapist dating his ex-wife isn't going to help.

I actually am not sure I can watch this season because the stuff they are setting Ted up to go through feels a bit too much like stuff I've dealt with and if the take-away is "just go to therapy with your perfect therapist who always knows exactly how to listen and what to say, and lean on your large group of supportive and emotionally mature friends" I"m going to get annoyed because that's no how life works. At all.

This is also something that annoys me about Shrinking (not coincidentally, given the shared DNA in the two shows). Kudos to the show for addressing issues of grief and loss head on, but sometimes it's hard for me to get past the fact that they are doing it with a group of somehow obscenely wealthy therapists in Pasadena who are all friends and have this very cohesive social circle that includes their coworkers, neighbors, spouses, and friends from college. That's literally no ones life. Grief is insanely isolating and at no point do you wind up surrounded by all the significant people in your life you all know what you are going through AND know each other and get to feel supported in real time by that network. And also have no money problems ever.  This is not how life works.[/quote]

I am the PP - and I know just what you mean. I often feel that way about shows - and books - where so much of the plot and development hinges on the person having unending wealth, astonishing beauty, friends and a support network who show up at any time of day under any circumstance to do whatever you need. It was one of my complaints about Lessons in Chemistry, actually - that so much of the plot depended on the main character being just so stunningly beautiful and able to learn new things at the drop of a hat. Something I liked about Remarkably Bright Creatures is that no one's development depended on the whole world standing still for them at any given moment because they are just that irresistible.

Maybe I need more therapy, myself.[/quote]

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