‘Ted Lasso’ returns for a third season, but feels stuck on repeat

Lili Loofbourow

“I do sometimes wonder what the heck I’m still doing here,” Ted Lasso tells his therapist in the famously upbeat show’s third season. “I mean, I know why I came, but it’s the sticking around I can’t quite figure out.” It’s to the credit and the detriment of Ted Lasso that the show raises this issue before the viewer can in the first episode of the new season. Then again, the comedy about a lovable Kansan football coach who relocates to England to coach a mediocre soccer team has always been a little more interested in self-referential meta-analysis than its actual characters. This, too, is clear from the exchange: The therapist’s reassuring reply (Ted doesn’t like quitting) isn’t sufficient. Not as a therapeutic intervention (is this really a good reason…

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Sunday Independent (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2023-03-19

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