Divorced, absent from his son back in Kansas and carrying, we learn, a history of family tragedy, he begins to understand that he too needs people to care for him. Viewers learn quickly this season that as much as Ted himself tries to create a community of care, he lacks one himself. Rebecca is still damaged by her ex-husband as well as her father but has allowed others to care for her and so becomes stronger. This show is where 'Schitt's Creek' meets soccerĬertainly, this ethos is put to the test throughout season 2. The team immediately rallies to him, though, continuing the pattern that apology is part of restoring community, but the person who has done wrong must ask for forgiveness for that process to begin. Two episodes beyond that, in the season 2 finale, Ted apologizes to his team for not being honest about his mental health struggles – not just because he lied, but because in so doing he didn’t give himself a chance to build further trust within his community. Two episodes later, in episode 10, the entire team attends the funeral for the father of their boss, Rebecca, and does so out of a genuine effort to support her in her loss. The camera lingers on Tartt and Kent, but you can still see the faces of the rest of the team, silent, but slowly beginning to understand what they owe to each other. They trade blows and Jamie is clearly broken by the encounter, but Roy Kent, the gruff veteran player who has feuded with Jamie since the pilot episode, steps in to comfort Jamie with a hug. The father of Jamie Tartt, the flamboyant young prodigy, bursts in uninvited to the locker room to humiliate his son. Perhaps the ideal of caritas is most fully on display in episode 8 of season 2, which culminates in the aftermath of another searing loss for Richmond. This fully blossoms throughout season 2, even if it’s not a lesson everyone learns by the end. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Mario Tama/Getty ImagesĪmerica isn't ready for the coming wave of grief
The mortuary holds the bodies of those who pass away due to COVID-19 for a minimum of three days before they are processed along with various other COVID-related safety measures. The mortuary on average was handling about 50 decedents per month but owner Robert Zakar believes they may process closer to 100 in January as California continues to see a spike in coronavirus deaths. Ain’t nobody in this room alone.”ĮL CAJON, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 15: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) The chapel has pews roped off for social distancing at East County Mortuary on Januin El Cajon, California. Because I promise you, there is something worse out there than being sad, and that is being alone and being sad. As Ted says to his demoralized team at the very end of the last episode of season 1, “I want you to be grateful that you’re going through this sad moment with all these other folks. “Ted Lasso” reminds us that there’s a world possible in which people can count on one another. In the midst of a pandemic, when so many of us feel fundamentally alone, we see glimmers of this in our own world when we remember that we wear masks not just for ourselves but for everyone else too. As we explain in our forthcoming book, “The Bright Ages,” the ancient and medieval worlds were filled with dangers that couldn’t be navigated alone, and so the societies around the Mediterranean built structures to support the poor, the sick and others.Īs historians, we’ve spent the past 18 months of the pandemic not only watching “Ted Lasso” but also thinking deeply about the values communities need to weather difficult times. As the 13th century theologian Thomas Aquinas explained, it’s simply to “wish good to someone.”Īlthough early Christians were proponents of this ideal of caritas, it’s not an exclusively religious one. This is a type of love that thinks more about others than oneself. The “love” of the famous passage from 1 Corinthians 13 (that it is “patient,” “kind,” etc.), the staple of so many Christian weddings, for example, is translated from caritas in the Latin.
The Latin word caritas is most often translated as “charity,” but a better meaning is “love” – a certain kind of love, though, one that’s selfless, that puts others first. The show’s tension and success stem not from its oft-touted emphasis on kindness, but from its ability to embody something that in the past would have been called caritas. It isn’t a happy-go-lucky dramatization of optimism, but about the work and necessity of building communities in which we draw strength from one another. But although the show’s superficial focus over the first two seasons has been on Ted as a “nice guy,” that’s not really what the show is about.
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