I'm Italian an although I'm not a football fan, being born and bred in Italy "calcio" is of course part of my culture.
When tne show started I immediatly realized it was clever and well written just from the way football was presented. The writers were using Ted Lasso in a very clever way as the quintessential candid but curious football profane from US landed on Premier League planet as a vessel to explain football's basics and dynamics to a non-football savvy audience, but they were doing it in the most natural and intelligent way so that people like me could still see what they were doing but not feel patronized. That was not easy, but they managed brilliantly to do it and that alone was a seller for me ever since episode one: of course the charachters would have been realtable, of course the plots would have been interesting, of course the show would have been fun, that's inevitable since the writers are good!
That brings us straight to the last episode, three years and a whole tedlassodey later, where the writers reaped all they had sown all along the way. The title sums pretty much perfectly what it is about and I'm pretty sure delivering a hour-long episode almost entirely made of farewells is a task almost impossible to achieve without falling into cheekiness or cliches, but they managed to walk the line brilliantly and gave us a finale which just stands up to all the standards they had set throughout the whole series.
When tne show started I immediatly realized it was clever and well written just from the way football was presented. The writers were using Ted Lasso in a very clever way as the quintessential candid but curious football profane from US landed on Premier League planet as a vessel to explain football's basics and dynamics to a non-football savvy audience, but they were doing it in the most natural and intelligent way so that people like me could still see what they were doing but not feel patronized. That was not easy, but they managed brilliantly to do it and that alone was a seller for me ever since episode one: of course the charachters would have been realtable, of course the plots would have been interesting, of course the show would have been fun, that's inevitable since the writers are good!
That brings us straight to the last episode, three years and a whole tedlassodey later, where the writers reaped all they had sown all along the way. The title sums pretty much perfectly what it is about and I'm pretty sure delivering a hour-long episode almost entirely made of farewells is a task almost impossible to achieve without falling into cheekiness or cliches, but they managed to walk the line brilliantly and gave us a finale which just stands up to all the standards they had set throughout the whole series.