Why Ted Lasso’s syrupy all-American soccer utopia leaves Brits cold
msn.comContains spoilers for the finales of both Succession and Ted LassoTwo of the most talked-about television shows of the past few years concluded this week, in the forms of Succession and Ted Lasso.
Despite the presence of Harriet Walter as a matriarch prone to giving dubious advice in both series, they otherwise have remarkably little in common.
Succession is a misanthropic, cynical show about the worst aspects of human nature that ended, unsurprisingly, with its principal characters all betraying one another and being condemned to a purgatory of their own creation.
Ted Lasso, however, is a sunny, upbeat programme that celebrates the good in people, and posits the belief that everyone has the ability to succeed, as long as they are true to themselves and to their fellow man.
Read more on msn.com
