Ted Lasso

The Emmys love this feel-good comedy—because who wouldn’t?

- MATT ROUSH

Fridays, Apple TV+

DON’T TELL TED Lasso, but he’s a frontrunner—at the Emmys, anyway, where the delightful feel-good sports spoof achieved a personal best by earning 20 nominations, the most ever for a freshman comedy. In Season 2, however, Coach Ted and his AFC Richmond soccer team remain underdogs of the lowest order.

Not that Ted (the effortlessly charming Jason Sudeikis) minds much. “There are two buttons I never like to hit, and that’s panic and snooze,” the folksy Kansas transplant quips at a press conference after a particularly mortifying mishap on the field.