It took a pandemic, the untimely deaths of a Bollywood star and the founder of Zappos, and the courage of Simon Biles and Naomi Osaka for the world to slowly understand Jim Carry’s perhaps most famous quote- “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”
And as I was watching the second season of Ted Lasso, I couldn’t help but wonder the perfect timing and positioning of the wonderfully cast Sarah Niles who plays the therapist in the second installment of the show that has swept the Emmy’s.
If at the end of Season 1, somebody said that Ted would see a therapist in the second season, you may have been forgiven for cracking a bad joke. But as we learnt later, this exact humanizing of the ever funny and happy/optimistic/trying to please Ted Lasso (that also reminded me of Robin Williams in some way) in the second season makes us realize that we all could benefit from someone to talk to, even if they are paid to listen to us.
Proving the adage that if you want people to take you seriously, you have to first make them laugh, Ted Lasso serves up the perfect entrée of football, relationships and mental health for our weekend streaming binge buffet that us asking for more. So Yes, Ted Lasso is coming back next year to win our hearts and goals for their final rodeo.
