No, you're not imagining things. There have been a whole lot of coaches on your TV and/or laptop screens over the past year — a boon for a captive audience desperately craving inspiration to avoid getting bogged down in society's bleakness.
There are the real-life, obscenity-spewing gurus of Netflix's Last Chance U; the animated, obscenity-spewing trainer of Netflix's best-forgotten Hoops; the reticently returning Gordon Bombay on Disney+'s Mighty Ducks: Game Changers; and the grieving NHL veteran at the center of HBO Max's Beartown.
Then, of course, there is the dean of this pack: Jason Sudeikis' eponymous hero in Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso, a man so boundlessly uplifting that his actual knowledge of the sport he's coaching is irrelevant.
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