Ted Lasso (character)

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Theodore "Ted" Lasso is the title character and protagonist of the American sports comedy-drama television series Ted Lasso, portrayed by Jason Sudeikis. The character originated in promotional material produced for NBC Sports in 2012, in which an American football coach is hired to manage an English football club. The television version of the character was substantially reworked from this premise: where the original was written as ignorant and arrogant, the series version was reconceived as curious and emotionally open. In the series, Ted serves as head coach of AFC Richmond, a fictional English Premier League club, across three seasons, before resigning and returning to the United States to be present in his son's life. Critical reception of the character was broadly favorable through the first two seasons and became more divided in the third. Reviewers praised Sudeikis's performance across all three seasons, and most found the character's optimism plausible rather than cloying, particularly...

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