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“Ted Lasso,” last summer’s sleeper TV hit, returns for a much-anticipated second season on Apple TV+ July 23 and the smiles plastered across our faces couldn’t be any toothier.

For the uninitiated, “Ted Lasso” follows a folksy, twangy-voiced and perpetually optimistic American football coach (Jason Sudeikis) who is hired to oversee a mediocre British soccer team by the squad’s frosty new owner Rebecca Walton (Hannah Waddingham).