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We are at a moment in time when our toxic political environment has leeched into the way we talk to each other on our social media platforms, our TV, our podcasts, etc in a manner that has normalized decent people expressing vitriol to perfect strangers - Ted Lasso serves as an antidote to all that. The success of Lasso is not how funny, how complex or how odd the characters are - but from living in a world where simple kindness has become so novel that we crave seeing it on display in full throttle. At another place in time, Lasso would be just a syrupy sweet sitcom, no more novel than The **** Van Dyke Show, but in todays world the patience, acceptance and selflessness of Ted Lasso and his unflinching desire to see the best in people rather than the worst is nothing short of uplifting. It's a comedy and a self help guide to remind us we can be happy by making other peoples lives better. All that is driven through well acted characters who can carry an episode or two on their own, put together with Emmy level editing that seems to capture an incredible amount of story in 30 minute chunks and writing that rarely crosses the line of unbelievability to the point of slapstick.