Sarcasm is an adjusted stress reaction.

Which is to say, lockdown is hard and I require CONSTANT ENRICHMENT, and I've been thinking about both shows a lot, and have accordingly developed an ELABORATE THEORY

Actually, it's not that elaborate. They're both realism with the sliders adjusted a fraction, albeit in opposite directions. Roman accidentally bought the wrong soccer team for his dad's birthday, and it's only by a trick of fate and the existence of Scotland that it wasn't AFC Richmond.

(Yes, Harriet Walter is in both shows, but lots of families have a Harriet Walter!)

INCIDENTALLY, I do not understand why people call Ted Lasso "wholesome" and "comfort viewing" because we're a couple of days away from the season finale and I'm having this recurring anxiety dream where AFC Richmond is bombed and Beard is one of the (few) casualties.

(Thank you to my subconscious for specifying a low body count.)

On the other hand, I've also seen complaints that season 2 lacked conflict, and, again: ANXIETY DREAMS. NATE, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?

No one would ever accuse Succession of lacking conflict, and it's so far from being "wholesome" that the same people who claim that watching Ted Lasso is good for you will turn around and argue that watching Succession means you're a bad person. And I'm like, THEY'RE THE SAME UNIVERSE, MATE! They both have UK-US writing teams and the same acute understanding of how the underdog becomes the bully, and how trauma and abuse are passed down through generations. It's just that one show goes, "Yeah, this is hard, but if we trust and help each other, we'll get through it," and the other goes, "Our issues are too deeply entrenched, all we can do is hold onto the side and try not to drown."

And I know both stories can co-exist because I exist in the same universe as Rupert Murdoch.

Anyway ( spoilers for Ted Lasso )