Ted Lasso, Bupkis, Barry and Platonic are helping to redefine the idea of 21st-century manhood
are awash in dudes being dudes, but their hijinks are merely a hook to pull us in to where their real action is: the struggle for emotional authenticity.– about an American soccer coach in England who wins over skeptics with his cheery goodness – were often cringey. I don’t care, because I like what they were trying to do. After season one became a smash hit, its showrunners had the eyes of the world.
With phalanxes of rough-guy archetypes behind them – gangster businessmen in expensive suits on one side, leather-clad hardened criminals on the other – Fuches tells Hank, “Denial, it’s tough,” and then proffers a deal: He’ll walk away if Hank admits that he killed his lover, that he screwed up, “that you were scared. That you hate yourself. That there are some days where you don’t think you deserve to live and the only thing that will make you forget is by being someone else.
But we root for Will, too, because under his shorts/socks/sandals surface, within his beer-bro milieu, he’s trying to figure out what a 21st-century man should be. He wrestles with succeeding versus selling out; he asks for sexual consent; and he pleads with Sylvia to accompany him to a strip club, because “it will be so sad and pathetic if I’m a divorced man at a strip club with a bunch of frat guys. If you come it will be fun and ironic.
“We’re in Staten Island,” Pete’s bluff, cool uncle Tommy spells it out for him. “I’m not going to therapy and I’m not getting divorced.” Then episode two knocks you sideways with beautiful evocations of male longing and confusion.My Sacrifice
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