OT Ted Lasso, greatest sports TV show ever?

[BoBoBREWSKI]

I'll tell you what... Shoresy (on Hulu, from the makers of Letterkenny) has been perhaps my favorite show of the past two years. It's about a senior league hockey player/team in Northern Ontario. It's fantastic! The cadence of the show is a little more stylized than some are used to (Letterkenny fans will get it), but once you get the pacing, it's sublime. Its language and presentation is a bit rougher than what you find in Ted Lasso, but it has similar heart. I really recommend it.

Go Blueberry Bulldogs!

I watched a couple episodes last night. It was pretty good, pretty funny. But also a bit hard to follow and kind of annoying the way the characters bicker back and forth over and over. The main character Shoresy has a voice that only a mom could love. It's like nails on a chalkboard. The storyline does remind me of Ted Lasso. I'll continue to give it a shot and watch a few more episodes.

 

[Graduate32]

I watched a couple episodes last night. It was pretty good, pretty funny. But also a bit hard to follow and kind of annoying the way the characters bicker back and forth over and over. The main character Shoresy has a voice that only a mom could love. It's like nails on a chalkboard. The storyline does remind me of Ted Lasso. I'll continue to give it a shot and watch a few more episodes.

Glad you checked it out! Yeah, it's a spin-off of the Shoresy side character made popular in Letterkenny, and it's definitely an unusual show in terms of style (I also used subtitles in the beginning so I could catch all the Canadianisms, of which there are A LOT). I found myself in a similar place reacting against the style in the first few episodes. For what it's worth, once I accepted that the back-and-forth bickering functioned as playful repartee and the Shoresy love language, it just totally clicked and it began to feel like tv poetry (probably around episode 4 or 5 of first season). Perhaps it will for you as well... or of course, it may never really lock in, such are tv tastes.

You're right to give it a few more episodes, and you almost have to give it a full season since the seasons are so short.

 

[THE HCP]

I watched a couple episodes last night. It was pretty good, pretty funny. But also a bit hard to follow and kind of annoying the way the characters bicker back and forth over and over.

This would be the perfect description when they make a show about S2!

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

This would be the perfect description when they make a show about S2!

HA HA HA!!!!

 

[Hoopguru]

Anyone see Ballers on Netflix? Is it worth seeing?

 

[Graduate32]

This would be the perfect description when they make a show about S2!

Actually, you really aren't far off...

 

[bigbailes]

Anyone see Ballers on Netflix? Is it worth seeing?

Watched the first season and it was Entourage meets sports but then I never went back to it after that. Pure popcorn entertainment with no real value.