EXCLUSIVE: OK, this one hurts. Hulu has canceled fan favorite The Great after three seasons. The series starred Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult. Created, written and executive produced by Tony McNa…
unpopular opinion but I found ted lasso to be poorly paced, and written almost entirely without subtext or nuance. it felt like a kids cartoon, where the mustache-twirling villain is eventually won over with the power of friendship and all is forgiven. it also felt like it was willing to abandon any sense of reality and pull massive story beats out of nowhere to try and bludgeon us into feeling something.
the monologue where Ted tells his mother to fuck off repeatedly and she’s like “wow you must really love me”, the part where Nate stalks a waitress and they both look at each other with their cold dead eyes of a fish serial killer and instantly fall in love without even smiling, when Keeley fucks her boss for money but romantically… it was all harrowing but presented as fluffy.
unpopular opinion but I found ted lasso to be poorly paced, and written almost entirely without subtext or nuance. it felt like a kids cartoon, where the mustache-twirling villain is eventually won over with the power of friendship and all is forgiven. it also felt like it was willing to abandon any sense of reality and pull massive story beats out of nowhere to try and bludgeon us into feeling something.
the monologue where Ted tells his mother to fuck off repeatedly and she’s like “wow you must really love me”, the part where Nate stalks a waitress and they both look at each other with their cold dead eyes of a fish serial killer and instantly fall in love without even smiling, when Keeley fucks her boss for money but romantically… it was all harrowing but presented as fluffy.