The whole thing was just "meh", and nowhere near an 8.7 show.
I mean, I only started watching the show because of the sky-high rating, but boy was it ever misleading.
Honestly I don’t see anything special about it.
share> The whole thing was just "meh", and nowhere near an 8.7 show.
You can have your vote, but apparently you are in the vast minority.
Fifty billion flies can't be wrong.
shareMaybe that is your problem, when you use flies for a poll all you are going to see is ***t.
And when you think of your fellow human beings en masse as flies you might rethink your value scale.
I just wanted to point out that having a majority or being a majority of this or that view is fundamentally not a validating argument.
shareBut usually a large majority has some validity.
When I shop on Amazon the ideal profile I look for is a majority ratings or 5's and 4's, and very few 1's. You will often see many positive reviews, but if there are cluster of 1's, I got and read them because often there are sensible comments made. Ted Lasso to me was a show that I had no interest in. I sort of dislike Jason Sudeikis in almost anything I've seen him in. But because of the overwhelming positive reviews, and because I had AppleTV+ I ended up giving it a try. I'm glad I did because it was well written and funny, delightfully positive in this day of hit-man or super-hero or sci-fi or blow-em-up action movies or any number of cliche, done a million times shows.
Reviews are only a guide, and you have to dig a little to find out if they are on the level, but I think TL got its high reviews honestly.
I would agree in principle, but in times of manipulated votes, bought followers/views, and bias created by relationships within the media circus and overt political pressure, you always have to take a closer look. Personally, I found TL neither funny nor particularly outstanding - on the contrary, rather infantile/mediocre, even boring and lacking any roars for the comedy genre (it is quite unfunny, tbh). That's my opinion for now, but the discrepancy between the critics' and users' ratings and winning endless awards while not being anything outstanding points to a biased view, if not manipulation. I even asked around here if one who said he loved TL could tell me one particular scene where he bursted out laughing. His response was quite telling: he could not tell me one.
share> I even asked around here if one who said he loved TL could tell me one particular scene where he bursted out laughing. His response was quite telling: he could not tell me one.
Not exactly a scientific poll. I remember I was laughing strongly several times, like most comedies that I like, but I could not remember specific scenes. I try not to keep TV garbage in my head for a long period of time. Mostly I thought moments where Ted Lasso would tell people what he really thought, like about tea for one thing.
What was funny about it was that a lot of things happened completely out of the blue, but were interesting takes on things people would mostly never do.
I think there was a lot of hype about the show, which is why before I watched it I had every expectation of probably turning it off in 10-20 minutes.
I remembered Jason Sudekis from that character in "Last Man On Earth", which had a grinding down sense of humor, and his character was a complete "glass bowl" as I just read somewhere. I really don't like him. That was a lot to overcome.