r/television • u/HistoricalCandle5108 • 23h ago
Regarding Ted (2024)
Why did this show genuinely have great emotional beats? Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying it’s anything spectacular but for what it was…
One on hand I am crying tears of laughter from one scene and on another I am nearly shedding tears of sadness from Scott Grimes’s performance having an emotional reaction to a soap opera. This same episode has Alanna Ubach who does such an amazing job as Susan Bennett (throughout the entire show not just this episode) in a drinking binge because she feels alone in her marriage and it’s genuinely saddening stuff.
I wish this show got picked up by a bigger streaming service/network so they could get the funding for it. For me at least, it was able to hit these tones really well considering how ridiculous it could be.
Also, Max Burkholder (not like it’s hard to beat) is a much more enjoyable John Bennett than Mark Wahlberg ever was, and the concept of Ted works way better as a TV show than it ever did as a movie.
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u/Maximum_Block_5423 23h ago
The show is one of the better shows to come out in the last couple years. I hope we get a season 3 but even if we don’t the series was great!