The Philosophy of Ted Lasso Explained
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This is my video explaining how watching Ted Lasso can genuinely improve your life, by giving us some incredible insight on how to be a good person. This is an aspect especially rare for narrative comedies as it’s usually reserved for lifestyle reality TV.

Thankfully, Ted Lasso is better than any of those shows.

But what exactly do I mean by this insight? How can a show like Ted Lasso actually go beyond its comedic premise to teach us some important lessons on how to be a better human being?

Well, after sifting through the series again, I’ve compiled a list of what I believe are Ted Lasso’s Rules for Life, using quotes and themes from the show, and for this video, I want to focus on the first rule for life, which urges us to be curious and not judgmental.

0:00 Introduction
1:48 The Rule
5:07 Rebecca & Keeley
6:33 Roy & Jamie
9:17 Cam Cole
10:13 Nate & Isaac
10:52 Ted & Sharon
13:06 Conclusion

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What is Ted Lasso?

Ted Lasso is an American sports comedy-drama streaming television series developed by Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt, and Joe Kelly, based on a character of the same name that Sudeikis first portrayed in a series of promos for NBC Sports' coverage of the Premier League. The series follows Ted Lasso, an American college football coach who is hired to coach an English soccer team in an attempt by its owner to spite her ex-husband. Lasso tries to win over the skeptical English market with his folksy, optimistic demeanor while dealing with his inexperience in the sport.

The first season of 10 episodes premiered on Apple TV+ on August 14, 2020, with three episodes, followed by weekly installments. A second season of 12 episodes premiered on July 23, 2021. In October 2020, the series was renewed for a third season.

The series has received critical acclaim, with particular praise for its performances, writing, and uplifting tone and themes. Among other accolades, it has been nominated for 20 Primetime Emmy Awards, becoming the most nominated freshman comedy in Emmy Award history, with Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, and Brett Goldstein winning for their performances, and the series winning the 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. Additionally, Sudeikis won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series.

American Ted Lasso, a college football coach, is unexpectedly recruited to coach an English Premier League team, AFC Richmond, despite having no experience coaching soccer. Lasso is hired by new owner Rebecca Welton in hope that he would be a failure so she could enact revenge on her unfaithful ex-husband who was the previous owner of the team, however Ted's charm, personality and humour begins to win around Rebecca, the team and those who had been skeptical about his appointment.

The series was commissioned in October 2019 by Apple TV+, with Jason Sudeikis reprising his role as Lasso. Sudeikis originally portrayed the titular character in 2013 as part of a series of television commercials for NBC Sports promoting their coverage of the Premier League, in which Lasso is depicted as the new head coach of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Television producer and Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence was brought in to work on a television series based around the character in 2017. The series is co-owned by Warner Bros. Television, where Lawrence's production company Doozer is based, and which controls linear distribution rights to the series, and NBC subsidiary Universal Television, which is a "passive partner".

On August 19, 2020, Apple TV+ renewed the series for a 10-episode second season. It was later confirmed that the second season had been expanded to 12 episodes. On October 28, 2020, the series was renewed for a third season. On an episode of the Scrubs rewatch podcast Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach + Donald, Lawrence indicated that Ted Lasso will likely be a "three-season show" due to the limited availability of Sudeikis beyond the third season. Lawrence went on to say that the story has a planned resolution within those three seasons.

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