So I'm done with the first three seasons of Ted Lasso and await the fourth, though with modest expectations. It's hard to come back with a bonus season after a hiatus (as we saw with Arrested Development or even, indeed, Sex Education). But I eagerly sopped up seasons 1 thru 3. And sop is the right word, because I will confess to crying a fair amount as the show wound up in the last few episodes. I am like that, a pretty easy mark for that kind of thing when I'm tired at the end of the day, which is usually the case.
Then there was the very last scene when we find ourselves serenaded by... Cat Stevens. Didn't see that one coming. Hadn't heard this song in years. Simple but lovely and on point. It made me wonder -- and I have pondered this before -- whether it would be worth going back to watch Harold and Maude again. I remember seeing it the summer of '82 when we were at Andover and being taken by it, then I think it was in rotation for a while in the early years of HBO and the Movie Channel so we'd catch smidgeons here and there. Would it hold up? Part of me thinks it would be best watched with my kids around a holiday, but then again if it doesn't hold up, it would be yet another black mark on my record as a recommender, which has been besmirched by some failures in recent years...
BTW I'd be interested to learn how many of the 67 million views this video has are post-Lasso. That's a lot for a classic acoustic song.
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