HERE’S WHY TED LASSO MIGHT BE THE BEST SHOW EVER

 Ted Lasso is an American football coach who gets invited to coach a Premier League soccer team in London by Rebecca, a hurt, divorced owner who wants to destroy the soccer club her husband Rupert built for years. Ted knows nothing about soccer, even the basic rules and gets ridiculed by the media and the players alike for being generally incompetent and unknowledgeable about the sport he's coaching. Ted and his coaching partner Coach Beard eventually win over the players by being respectful, focusing on values and even win a few matches for UFC Richmond, their soccer team. 

I finished Ted Lasso's second season a few days ago and it might be the greatest show I have ever seen. Now, there are better shows out there like Avatar : The Last Airbender or The Witcher or even shows with a legacy like Seinfield or F.R.I.E.N.D.S. The reason why I call Ted Lasso to be the greatest show ever is because the humanity, the vulnerability and the inherent qualities that make us human like happiness, jealousy, love, hate, fear, are so ingrained into the show that watching the show is no longer just watching a story, but it's watching people grow into something beautiful. 

Let's take Roy Kent. I love Roy and he could even be my favorite character. His journey from an old, angry player who's constantly being overshadowed by players like Jamie and Dani to a sports commentator to a coach who learns to bond with players and people he doesn't even like that much. Him connecting with Jamie and accepting him as a person in the last episode really showed that he grew emotionally into a mature person. His relationship with Keeley and his niece Phoebe was really heartwarming and showed a really human side to the rather prickly person. 

I also like how they made people's growth arches to be human in the sense that it can also go awry. Nate's growth is the most obvious. He grew from the kit-man no one respected to a "Wonder kid" coach whom people took seriously. His monologue in the last episode where he says "I deserve this and you don't respect me" to Ted Lasso, who basically helped him rise as a coach and as a respected person. It was almost expected and not expected for me. His never-pleased father, his years of bullying and you could see he became genuinely evil when he realized he could push people around just because he was the "wonder kid". 

Ted Lasso's was the best. Apart from being the protagonist, his struggles of divorce, his warming up to Dr. Sharon, his relationship with Rebecca and all the players were so amazing to watch. While his constant positivity reels in the players and even Rebecca, who hated him,  you can see when his over positivity makes his situations worse for him and how it even costs him his marriage. His sadder side shows more and more as the show grows and Dr. Sharon really helps him get over it. He hated therapists as he blames them for his divorce and his separation from his son. His "fish out of water" is probably the best I have seen and while Emily In Paris ruins this, Ted Lasso makes it into an amazing journey full of great story lines.

Honestly, I can go on for hours. They gave this arch to every single character and they are so unique and heartwarming. It's truly an excellent show if you enjoy connecting with characters on a deeper level. I found myself crying several times even in the lesser emotional scenes. It's a beautiful mix of humor and depth which makes it such a better show. It's done so well that it doesn't cross the line for good, but it passes great. I don't compliment too many shows. I'm very picky in what I watch and I avoid sitcoms for the only reason that it's not connectable enough. 

There are several great shows out there. Avatar : The Last Airbender, The Witcher, Game Of Thrones. These are critically acclaimed pieces of media praised for their depth, storytelling and characters, but what I think what sets Ted Lasso apart from these shows is, while these shows have beautiful characters arcs or amazing world-building or great stories, Ted Lasso excels in being human. There's a certain aspect of fantasy or unrealism which determines the decisions made by the characters that may seem unrealistic or immoral in our world. Avatar is the closest to this and its sense of humanity was truly excellent, but the pure diversity of characters, backgrounds and down-to-earth stories told Ted Lasso is something we longer need to imagine, but something we can see around us. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy fantasy shows, but it's almost refreshing to watch a feel-good show that's just as human and honest as you and I.