The show follows Ted Lasso, an American college football coach who is hired to coach an English soccer team whose owner secretly hopes his inexperience will lead it to failure, but whose folksy, optimistic leadership proves unexpectedly successful. The first three episodes were released at once, followed by weekly installments of the remaining seven. The series has received critical acclaim, with particular praise for its performances notably Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham , Phil Dunster , Brett Goldstein , Nick Mohammed , and Juno Temple , humor, writing, themes, and uplifting tone.
Among other accolades, its first season was nominated for 20 Primetime Emmy Awards , becoming the most nominated first-season comedy in Emmy history. The series repeated all three of those awards the next year. Ted Lasso, an American college football coach, is unexpectedly recruited to coach a fictional English Premier League soccer team, AFC Richmond, despite having no experience coaching soccer.
The team's owner, Rebecca Welton, gained ownership of the team in a divorce from her unfaithful ex-husband, Rupert. She has hired Lasso, secretly hoping he will cause the team's downfall and devastate Rupert, who cared more about AFC Richmond than anything else. Ted's charm, personality, and humor begin to win over Rebecca, the team, and those who had been skeptical about his appointment. Many sports and television entertainment personalities appeared on the show, often appearing as themselves in cameo roles throughout the series:.
Jason Sudeikis originally portrayed the title character in as part of a series of television commercials for NBC Sports promoting their coverage of the Premier League , in which Lasso is depicted as the new head coach of Tottenham Hotspur F.
In about , Sudeikis's then-girlfriend Olivia Wilde suggested that he revisit the character, perhaps in a story in which Lasso found his career direction change. Whereas the original Lasso was more broadly comic, and as Sudeikis described him, "belligerent", he decided to make Lasso more sympathetic for the television series, explaining his reason for doing so in a May interview with The Guardian : [ 22 ] [ 23 ].
