Critic Reviews

As with most great football stories, there is a tale of redemption underlying all this; you can’t say it isn’t fully deserved.

King Otto features a lot of thrilling old footage from the pitch, along with new interviews that dig into the ways this real-life Ted Lasso used a cultural gap to his advantage, counting on his players to raise their game whenever they couldn’t understand what he was saying. It’s a great story, crisply told.

Somewhat gratingly, King Otto treats its story as a tale of national stereotypes colliding head-to-head.