Ms. Scanlon's Tan Lines

I was peer pressured into watching Ted Lasso

I try not to make it a habit to crap on the things I don’t enjoy. I mean other than maybe Bob Dylan’s voice. But I am usually of the mind that if one does not like something one can simply not watch/listen or scroll on past it. So, I never made it a point to say that I am not a fan of Jason Sudekis. It’s nothing personal, I am sure he is a lovely human being… I just never got him. His brand of comedy just isn’t my thing and I always feel like I am watching him play a character as opposed to watching a character as its own entity. Make sense?

So Ted Lasso was never going to be my thing. Not when all my friends bugged the hell out of me about how awesome it was. Not when the people that know me best insisted I would love it. Not when I saw that Juno Temple was a co-star. Not when I became smitten with Hanah Waddingham after watching her perfect French during Eurovision. I was almost swayed when I started seeing reel after reel of Brent Goldstein as Roy Kent in some part because, again, p…