{"id":6740,"date":"2020-08-15T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/ted-lasso-you-dont-need-to-love-soccer-to-love-jason-sudeikis-new-comedy\/"},"modified":"2020-08-15T00:33:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T00:33:00","slug":"ted-lasso-you-dont-need-to-love-soccer-to-love-jason-sudeikis-new-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/ted-lasso-you-dont-need-to-love-soccer-to-love-jason-sudeikis-new-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Lasso: You don’t need to love soccer to love Jason Sudeikis’ new comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ted Lasso: You don’t need to love soccer to love Jason Sudeikis’ new comedy<\/h2>\n

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Take it from a non-soccer fan. You don’t need to like or even know anything about the sport to like new Apple TV Plus comedy Ted Lasso.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The show, streaming now, is executive produced by Jason Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence (Scrubs). The 10-episode first season of Ted Lasso develops the character created in 2013 for two NBC Sports promotional videos intended to make soccer more palatable to the American audience.<\/p>\n

“My partner, Olivia [Wilde], was like, ‘You should do it as a TV show,”https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/” Sudeikis, who also plays the titular role, told me during a video chat. “I’m smart enough to know that I should listen to her.”<\/p>\n

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The premise of Ted Lasso, the show, is both a bit preposterous and kind of hilarious. Lasso is an unconventional yet successful American college football coach who gets hired by a Premier League team in London even though he doesn’t have the first idea what “football” means in the United Kingdom. He isn’t only clueless to the fact that football matches have two halves instead of four quarters and can end in a tie. He also has a lot to learn about passionate fans’ expectations and aggressive journalists.<\/p>\n

The show has evolved from the sketch-type situations portrayed in the original promos. Lasso finds himself in a world where the press is brutal and the fans turn hostile fast when things don’t go well for their team. Ted Lasso’s creators made sure to portray all elements around the revered sport.<\/p>\n

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