‘Ted Lasso’ Episode 5 Recap: It’s Not What You Say, But How You Say It

The Hollywood Reporter published a cover story about the making of Ted Lasso just before the new season aired, and boy, was it a doozy. Co-creator and star Jason Sudeikis at one point just admits that he doesn’t know how to make TV. Discussing the notoriously over-schedule, over-budget production of the narratively bloated Season 3, Sudeikis said that “we were budgeted as a 30-minute show when it became much more…Some people can look at a whiteboard of story ideas and know, ‘That is 22 minutes, that is 37 minutes.’ I haven’t done enough [serialized TV] to do that.” Did former showrunner Bill Lawrence, current showrunner Jack Burditt, or anyone at Apple TV at any point stop to consider that giving a guy who doesn’t know how to make a TV show that much power over the making of a TV show migh