I’m Getting Pretty Sick of the One Good Man

The relentless ‘Ted Lasso’ hype is a quest to find one nice guy to heal the trauma of patriarchy

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
7 min readJul 27, 2021

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Jason Sudeikis, a man who should have an Oscar for 2016’s “Colossal.”
Behold! The one human man who has never sent a death threat online!!!! Photo by Digital Focus on Shutterstock.

Somewhere around the time he promised to lift the spirits of a Nigerian soccer player by “Ni-cheerin’-him up,” I became conscious of a desire to throat-punch Ted Lasso.

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.