Up for 20 Emmys this September – a record for a comedy series in its first season – Ted Lasso was also one of the unlikeliest television hits of 2020, when it debuted on Apple TV+.
In one review after another, critics expressed surprise at how good this sweetly optimistic show was – perhaps because of its modest premise, which imagines a small-time American-football coach being hired to lead an English Premier League team despite being clueless about soccer.
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