The premise seemed boringly straightforward: Ted Lasso is an American college football coach who is hired to coach a British professional soccer team that is struggling to win. Still, last year when I heard about the new AppleTV+ show " Ted Lasso" (starring Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham), I was reluctant to give another television show a try that seemed to follow this basic, predictable, tired and uninteresting approach to driving a storyline. But with the arrival of the Canadian television comedy phenomenon " Schitt's Creek" (co-created by and co-starring father and son Eugene and Dan Levy), expectations appear to have shifted recently. The trope has been around television as long as there have been sitcoms, including in such classic shows as "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Green Acres." Because it is so predictable, and in many cases reduced to cliche, stories that rely on this premise rarely seem to rise to greatness, at least anymore. ![]() The "fish out of water" narrative genre is as old as storytelling itself.
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