Ted Lasso is the show we need right now. It’s on Apple TV, which I know makes it unavailable to some of you, and I’m sorry for that. I wish I could shove it into all of my friends’ faces.

 

Ted Lasso, our main character, is a successful football coach who takes a job coaching a failing soccer—i.e. football—team in the UK.  Now, this description would not interest me at all. Thank goodness for my husband for saying the show was getting good buzz and let’s check it out.

 

Ted is kind of a good ol’ boy from the Midwest. He’s ridiculously positive—but it’s genuine. He learns everyone’s names, and gets a sense of who they are. It becomes clear over time that he’s an expert at reading people. Still, his good-naturedness is genuine; he’s not using it as a weapon (okay, kind of maybe once, but it was deserved, and he did it in a way that made my heart sing). He sincerely wants to make people happy, and show them how they can be better than they are.

 

Fact is, I aspire to be like Ted. To bring positivity and joy wherever I go. Watching the show—which is more complex and hard-hitting that I’m describing here—leaves me deliriously happy. If you can find a way to watch it, do. It’s the kind of positive shit we need right now.