What’s worse, it’s the sweet, unfailingly enthusiastic Dani Rojas (Cristo Fernández) who accidentally kills poor Earl. As if being recently demoted from the Premier League to the Championship League and opening a season with a record-setting seven straight ties weren’t bad enough, now AFC Richmond has to deal with a dead, adorable animal and a stadium full of traumatized fans (to say nothing of those watching online). And not just any dog: Earl Greyhound, the lovable mascot of Ted’s AFC Richmond. Ted Lasso’s success has allowed the series to build up considerable goodwill going into its second season, so much so that it feels confident enough to open its second season by killing a dog. It did so without resorting to easy lessons or simple moralizing, and in Ted (series co-creator Jason Sudeikis) it found an avatar of goodness who was both unmistakably, goofily human and a man of unexpected complexity.
Ted Lasso humbly asked some big questions and strived to be a show about what it means to be a good person. It was funny, charming, and quotable, but it also had a lot on its mind beyond making easy jokes about an unassuming Yank football coach trying to figure out how to coach an English soccer (sorry, football) team despite having no experience with the sport (and being viscerally repulsed by the taste of tea). Something about Ted Lasso struck a chord of the sort last sounded by The Good Place. The initial reviews were strong, sure, but reviews alone don’t usually elevate a show on a streaming service that a lot of viewers aren’t sure whether they even have into the center of the cultural conversation. At the moment, there are few TV series more beloved than Ted Lasso, a culture-clash comedy that became a can’t-miss sensation largely due to word of mouth.
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