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732 - Marinating Melvin (5/15/23)

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

It’s Ted Lasso, folks! Yes, after many years of consternation around this show in the Discourse, many requests for review (and Will watching a bunch of that Good Doctor show and reporting back it was actually pretty ok), we decided to take a look at this footballing Yank and his relentless positivity. So, here’s our review of Ted Lasso and what it’s psychotic cheeriness says about TV and America.

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0:00.0

You can't possibly be serious Ted Lasso.

0:04.3

You coached a football team as like if the queen was an Indian.

0:09.0

Well, you know, I'm not much for fairy tales, but around the time my son was free, we

0:15.8

started watching a frozen and Elsa said, let's build a snowman.

0:21.3

And you know, a lot of the guys in the Me Too movement turned out to be from Jewish descent,

0:27.4

but I didn't necessarily think that made a pattern.

0:30.5

So let's me three this team.

0:32.3

Oh, you're right, Ted Lasso.

0:34.7

I'm sorry.

0:35.9

I'm actually mean because I was molested and I'm going to tell you about it.

0:40.0

Despite us meeting for the first time.

0:42.6

Well, now it's good as time of any to address your trauma that you're immediately telling

0:47.7

me.

0:48.7

By the way, my marriage is over.

0:51.3

This is the first time we've both met each other.

0:54.6

We don't have to write a character when they just reveal all of their formative traumas

0:59.4

and change them instantly after one second.

1:02.2

You know, I'll tell you what, if spreading positivity and optimism were a deadly disease with

1:07.3

no cure, then just call me Fritz Canadian Flight Attendant, gay, tan, do goss.

1:11.2

Cause I'm patient zero.

1:12.2

Hey, Ted Lasso.

1:14.2

Guys, I just spent probably the last like six of my waking hours watching a good chunk

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