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Journal of Popular Television 12.2 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Popular Television 12.2 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Ted Lasso’

The Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso (2020–23) came at a time of both the COVID-19 pandemic and the era of ‘Peak TV’ and ‘streaming wars’, both shaping its critical reception and lasting its impact beyond those times. This Special Issue of the Journal of Popular Television delves into central issues interrogated in the series, such as masculinity, mental health, race and racism, sportswashing and the English Premier League, as well as the series’ fandom and use of intertextuality.

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Issue 12.2

Editorial

SABRINA MITTERMEIER

Articles

‘Football Isn’t Just a Game’: Ted Lasso, utopia and the issue of sportswashing

SOPHIE-CONSTANZE BANTLE

Do not fight back, fight forward: An analysis of Ted Lasso’s approach to systemic race/ism in the English Premier League

RUKMINI PANDE

‘That might as well be the first sign of the apocalypse’: Ted Lasso, trauma and the personal apocalypse

STACEY ABBOTT