Episode 97 - Ted Lasso Season 2/Old

Alright people, it's that time of the year again, for the debut of another sophomore season of THE hit comedy of 2020, as well as the return of a certain twisty filmmaker, we've got a double batch for you on the #talkintv show here today, we're reviewing the debut of Season 2 of Ted Lasso on Apple TV+, and on the movie side of things, we're reviewing M. Night Shyamalan's brand new movie, Old! Ted Lasso is an American comedy streaming television series developed by Bill Lawrence, Jason Sudeikis, Joe Kelly, and Brendan Hunt, based on a character of the same name whom Sudeikis first portrayed in a series of promos for NBC Sports' coverage of the Premier League. The series premiered with the first three episodes on Apple TV+ on August 14, 2020, and was renewed five days later for a second season of 12 episodes, which premiered on July 23, 2021. In October 2020, the series was renewed for a third season. The series follows titular American Ted Lasso, a coach of college-level American football, who is unexpectedly recruited to coach an English Premier League team, AFC Richmond, despite having no experience in association football. The series also co-stars Brendan Hunt, Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster, Jeremy Swift & Nick Mohammed, and is just as cheery, heartwarming, and unexpectedly emotional as the first time around. Then we have M. Night Shyamalan's Old. Old is a 2021 American science fiction mystery thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, inspired by the Swiss graphic novel "Sandcastle" by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. The film's ensemble cast includes Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Alex Wolff, Abbey Lee, Aaron Pierre, Rufus Sewell, Ken Leung, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Embeth Davidtz, Emun Elliott, and Kathleen Chalfant. The film follows a group of people who find themselves aging rapidly on a secluded beach from which they cannot escape. The film was announced in October 2019 after Shyamalan read the graphic novel by Levy and Peeters. The cast joined the following summer, with filming taking place from September to November in the Dominican Republic. It marked the first film of Shyamalan's career to have no shooting take place around his hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following a delay attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, Old was theatrically released on July 23, 2021, in the United States, by Universal Pictures, and hoo boi, is this another Shyamalan stinker or is this more of what we're used to? Tune in to find out, it's all covered here on the Talkin' TV Podcast!