Ted Lasso is a comedy/drama about Ted (Jason Sudeikis), a successful American college football coach, who unexpectedly takes the job of coaching an AFC Richmond, an English soccer team, even though he has no experience with soccer. With his good friend and assistant Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) the two navigate a new sport, new players, new culture.

Season one was quite remarkable coming during COVID lockdowns. A very positive show as Ted is always supportive and understanding even when he's going through bad times internally. And that positivity slowly infects the team and its owner Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham), who started out wanting to tank the team to spite her ex-husband but started loving the team and wanting her team to win.

In season three AFC Richmond is back in the top tier league (as an aside, took me a long time to realize that outside the USA pro teams are individuals and can change leagues or even be kicked out of leagues for poor performance, i.e. relegation. American pro sports teams act a bit more socialist in that the pro league is owned by the team owners so adding/removing teams is a group decision).

Anyway, we have AFC Richmond starts out badly, then gets a star player and they win but sort of depend too much on that star, then he retires and they lose again and Coach Lasso and team come up with a new way to play that fits his style. Meanwhile we have various sublots: Rebecca kind of wants to sell the team and do something else; Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) and Keeley Jones (Juno Temple) break up early and will they reconcile or does Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster) have a chance now?; Nate Shelley (Nick Mohammed) starts out the season hating on Ted and moving to head coach of a rival team and his path to reconciliation is slow.

The season is 12 episodes but closer to hour-long episodes whereas season one was half-hour and season two was more like 40 to 45 minute episodes. The series ending is satisfying and leaves everyone in a good place emotionally.