Heather Sweeney, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek and Insider, is currently writing a memoir about life as a military spouse and divorce.
As a Gen Xer, I’m of the VCR age. Maybe that’s why I’m not big on binge-watching shows. Maybe that’s why I refuse to pay for every streaming service, ignoring my FOMO as social media feeds tell me how amazing a show is that I don’t have access to. But when I found myself with a three-month free trial to Apple TV+, I temporarily changed my ways and binged all three seasons of “ Ted Lasso .” And I got a pep talk I didn’t know I needed.
Ted Lasso, played by Jason Sudeikis, is an American football coach hired to lead AFC Richmond, a British soccer team. Despite knowing nothing about soccer, he deflects criticism with optimism, determination and dad jokes. While at first I wondered if Ted’s perpetual positivity would eventually cross over the line from fun humor to irritating silliness, I quickly became attached not only to Ted Lasso, but the entire cast of characters who surround him.
When I hit play on the first episode of the first season, I was suffering from a bout of burnout. My health was a daily struggle, and between a thyroid cancer scare, a surprise discovery that I was postmenopausal, and one dead end after another in my quest to find relief for chronic headaches, my calendar had been highlighted with doctors’ appointments for months.
What lingered the most though was Ted’s ‘Believe’ sign. The sign, with its yellow background and blue letters in all caps, was almost a character on its own. It was hanging in the team’s locker room as a reminder to all — fictional characters and real life viewers alike — to keep hope alive, whatever the circumstances. Seeing that sign, both on screen and in my imagination, induced a sense of lightness, as if the stressors in my life had shrunk and divided into more manageable chunks.
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