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Well, on the plus side, this wasn’t a genre-specific episode. But once again, the idea behind the episode – at least the A plot, as the B plot on the planet was more successful – was stronger than the execution of it. And that failure of execution can be tracked to two key pieces of […]
This week’s episode of Ted Lasso was a weird one. On the one hand, there were several really lovely sections that went a long way at fleshing out key characters within the season. And on the other, there were moments so outlandish and strange that they went beyond the point of stretching the bounds of […]
I was all set to really dislike this week’s Strange New World installment. Not because it was based on a soap opera*, but because out of seven episodes this season, six have been “very special episodes” based on a different genre of storytelling. As Alan Sepinwall mentioned in a recent review of the series, if […]
I’m starting to get a bit worried about the direction of this season of Ted Lasso. Perhaps it’s a coincidence that this is also the first episode of the season that wasn’t provided for critics for our pre-season reviews, but we’ve hit the halfway point in the season and are rapidly running out of runway […]
I promise I had no idea this episode was coming when I wrote my review of last week’s installment. But wow, I’m really amazed that only a week after I lamented that Strange New Worlds seems uninterested in writing for its deep bench of main cast members, the show turned around and gave us exactly […]
This week’s episode was an interesting one for me to try to review. Because, on the one hand, I certainly laughed more at this episode than any other of the ones I have seen. But, on the other, so much of the episode felt overly contrived and juvenile in its structure. Yes, dealing with cliques […]
The puppet episode. An episode I suspect many fans were waiting for, if only to see if lightning could strike twice and Strange New Worlds could turn in two really strong unique genre episodes (the first, of course, being the shockingly good musical episode back in season two). Alas, this round of pushing the boundaries […]
First things first: I find it hard to believe that someone like Ted Lasso had never heard of Susan Boyle. Her success on Britain’s Got Talent was one of the biggest stories around both the UK and US when it happened and even someone who is as offline as Ted surely would have heard of […]
I’ve watched a shockingly large number of noir-based TV shows in the last several months. It must be a current writing trend. And, as someone who finds noir to be generally fun, I’m certainly not complaining. That being said, aside from the fun use of black and white – especially Uhura mentioning that it’s hard […]
Two things are clear by the end of “Curiouser and Curiouser!” First, this new season of Ted Lasso is very much a retread of season one – for good and for ill. We have Ted returning to take over the reins of a team that is floundering in the second tier of English football, with […]