Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso
In a shock development struggling English Premier League team AFC Richmond hires American football coach Ted Lasso as its new manager. Lasso knows nothing about soccer/football. With unshakable enthusiasm and positivity he rises to the challenge but little known to him there are forces within the club that don't want him to succeed.
Angel reviewedSeptember 9, 2025
Season 1: 9
Season 2: 0
Season 3: 0
Average Score: 3
A wonderful example of how a company turns a great series into agitprop. Watch from the second season onward at your own risk.
Agitprop (agitation propaganda) is a political strategy, disseminated through art, literature, and other media, using methods of agitation and propaganda to influence public opinion and thereby obtain political returns.
The agitprop used is so intertwined with the script that the series itself forgets the story it was telling you in the first season. It becomes so soaked in the need to sell a political stance that it's neither entertaining nor surprising, and you know perfectly well what they're doing, even in the moments when the overall script no longer makes any sense.
Just watch the last episode of the series and you'll understand perfectly. The principle of agitation mixed with 30 minutes of propaganda and 10 minutes of the main story—yes, that epic main story about love and brotherhood they were telling us back in the first season, which they had forgotten about until they had to cancel the series.
I still laugh remembering how I explained to my friends that from the second season onward, you can perfectly well skip 50 minutes out of every 60-minute episode, on average, and still understand what's happening. The parts you skipped were just side stories meant to tell you something that has nothing to do with the plot but has to be in the series because it's necessary propaganda to boost the ESG.
When will those who are obsessed with imposing their ideas on society learn that this only works in dictatorships under the rule of fear? If there's no fear, when you impose something, you get the opposite effect.
There are entire episodes that can be removed completely and nothing happens; you won't feel like something is missing in the next one. I considered listing every minute where the propaganda starts in each episode from the second season onward here in the review, but I'm afraid I don't have time to index 80% of the series here. Let everyone draw their own conclusions, if there's anyone out there who wants to waste their life watching the second and third seasons.
It is so obvious that they decided to use the series for propaganda for their political ideas and commercial products after the success of the first season that it seems like a completely different series, if it weren't for the fact that you see the same actors (though not the same characters, of course). Each role is changed to fit the ideology of the day, which they follow to keep the money happy.
I've suffered this heartbreak too many times already; it's becoming the norm in almost all series, to the point where I always warn people that after the first season, it's not worth continuing them.
The Mandalorian, Westworld, Mr. Robot, etc. It's always the same: first it's good, it's a success, then the money smells an opportunity and they fill everything with ads, either for their partners or for themselves, without telling you anything that is even remotely worthwhile anymore.
This is not a soccer series, not even in its best moments. It's a series about the values of forming a family in any situation and what happens when you do—how that bond is difficult to break even in the worst of times.
I insist, I'm only talking about the first season. After that, the people handling the money decided that, even though you're paying a subscription to watch it, you need to pay even more by putting up with political garbage and ads for Apple products.