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Ted Lasso (2020) s01e01 — Pilot

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:37:00 +0300

American football coach Ted Lasso is hired by a wealthy divorcée to coach the English soccer team AFC Richmond.

Well, just another American Dream story, right? An American coming to England teaching them play football. Feels like this Emily in Paris, lol 🥴. Well, it’s popular (or even very popular?), the humour is alright. I like these American vs British tiny little things. They do mock American culture (or they do mock British culture, I’m not yet sure I understand these Americans properly). So, I’m alright with that. I think we’re going to watch it. Not worse than Shrinking anyway.

Some actors are all the same here, huh.

The episodes are half an hour each, so I think I’m going to watch. Solely on the basis it’s wildly popular, and I tend to be curious about very popular things now. Except Game of fucking Thrones. My wife forced me to watch that shit, I did not plan to do that like ever. Here,

House of Guinness (2025) s01e01 — Episode 1

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:07:00 +0300

It’s the day of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness’ funeral. Trouble is brewing on the streets of Dublin, while his children make plans for the family’s future.

What a focking piece of shit!

So Ireland lost the war, and the Brits and Americans are now filming these pseudo-historical works for plebs. Focking shit.

I guess Belarus is in the same boat. You do lose the war to Russians, then they would film pictures about you, where you’d be some funny weird leprechauns.

I wonder what Irish folks think of this. Considering the actors — some of them — are Irish. Are they as Irish as many Belarusians are Belarusians? Well, those speaking Russian and thinking of themselves as Russians.

I think I’m not going to watch it further.

Fock. Focking Hollywood and its popular culture. What a contrast to the C’mon C’mon (2021) we finished watching just this morning! Music is a separate — absolutely irrelevant — piece of rubbish. I mean, the music is not bad per se. It may be good, great even. What I mean is it’s absolutely off. It’s just out of touch, and makes the whole atmosphere disappear. Yeah, fucking sing about Nike a couple of hunderds years ago, cool.

Whatever. Waste of time.

Emily in Paris (2020) s01e01

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:12:55 +0200

Emily brings her can-do American attitude and fresh ideas to her new office in Paris, but her inability to speak French turns out to be a major faux pas.

Well, I’ve watched most of the 1st episode with my wife.

I won’t call it bad, it has its style, yet I won’t say I have the capacity for this series. My wife says it’s girlish, so I guess I’m not even going to watch it, and there is no sense in adding it into the might project.

Does not look like my cup of tea.

My wife likes the series, so might go as a recommendation from someone else’s in my counterpart blog, might.watch.

Language Barrier

On a side note, I see a lot of the US as Russia, in a bad sense of the word. As an empire too.

Coming to another country, expecting everyone would speak your language, and you knowning nothing of the destination country, none of its culture, a few words, expecting everyone would just listen to you and would understand you.

Of course, English is not Russian. It’s simpler, million times better language. It’s truly spoken everywhere, and is de-facto international language №1. Yet, the attitude is still the same. People are more likely to speak your language, yet you cannot expect that, actually.

France is a good example of a country that respects itself, its own culture and where people don’t feel obliged to learn English.

I must add, I’ve been there and I felt the same irritation when I was unable to communicate with people, beacause I was just a tourist with no French knowledge, but English. Yet, I understand that’s my problem, not locals.

That’s not the series issue, that’s the cultural one that the series just highlights.

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