Most things Apple produces are over-designed, stubborn contraptions which are about 40% more expensive than other virtually identical devices.
When the tech giants moved into streaming the worry was they’d make shows similar to their Fisher-Price-For-Adults phones: expensive, flashy nonsense.
The Morning Show, Mosquito Coast and Losing Alice certainly all gave me the feeling of trying to update my iOS last week in that it seemed like something was going on but in reality nothing was happening.
Oddly Apple+’s biggest success is a cobbled-together comedy that isn’t trying to do anything showy.
Ted Lasso has returned for a second season at Richmond FC and there are more soccer shenanigans centred on the old trope of Americans grappling with the beautiful game.
The eponymous American Football coach, played by Jason Sudeikis, still doesn’t understand how many quarters there are in a match.
Ted lacks nuance in the dugout almost as much as his fish-out-of-water punchlines lack real originality yet both the character and the show make up for it with plenty of heart. It’s a quality lacking in a lot of both comedy and football these days.
He may be clueless but Ted is shaping up to be the Sir Alex Ferguson of comforting comedy.
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