It's an incredibly sweet show, an amazing companion to Schitt's Creek which I've written on at least a bazillion times. It's an ointment for the heart. Watch it.
No matter what happens, how badly things are going, Ted is always so positive, and it makes you want to be positive, it's like a motivational coach for your heart. You always want to be on his side, which makes you consider what it'd take to get people rooting for you always, and you realize the way to people's heart is kindness empathy and just letting go of things. Forgive people, work with them to improve everybody, not everybody is evil and can be worked with. And when you do encounter evil, having all the allies who once sided with the other team gives you a whole arsenal of weapons to vanquish it.
It's supposed to be about football, not the American kind, and you know what this will most definitely increase interest in the sport in America.
Bill Lawrence, the director of Scrubs -- another show that gets mentioned not too infrequently in these pages -- and also Cougar Town, he's done a great fucking job, congratulations man.
The relationship between women characters, the cold-hearted bitch of the boss and Keeley is incredibly warm and considerate and three-dimensional. Much like Schitt's Creek, nobody is a one-dimensional comedy villain, everybody wants to do good and be better, they're all marionettes of a particularly sadistic creator, but they will change their ways every chance they get. And Ted's there to make sure they get all the opportunities to be better, not just as team players trying to avoid relegation, but also as human beings.
Highly recommended. Watch.
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