Brett Goldstein Picks The Best TV Show Of All Time (And It's Not Ted Lasso)
Season 3 of Ted Lasso started airing on Apple TV+ this March, and it is already earning much fresh acclaim and praise for the hit series.
Unsurprisingly, people involved in making it now bask in attention of the press, with the cast and creative team using said attention to discuss and promote their creation. And that includes Brett Goldstein, who portrays Roy Kent, the veteran football player and team captain who finds renewed purpose as a coach, in the series.
He is also one of Ted Lasso 's executive producers and a part of its writing team.
But, as Goldstein revealed in his recent interview with British GQ, where he was tasked with sharing his ten personal essentials for everyday life, and talked about TV in the process, Ted Lasso actually isn't his favorite TV series.
Then again, though he has plenty of reasons to be proud of Ted Lasso, saying that your own series is your favorite inevitably would have been perceived as quite self-aggrandizing. In any case, the series he considers to be the "greatest show ever made" is Twin Peaks.
"'Twin Peaks' changed my life," he said in that interview. "I was eight. Me and my sister came home from somewhere… …We sat down and we watched it and it scared us so very badly. I moved a mattress into my sister's room and slept on the floor. When I first saw it, it also scared the s*** out of me... A lot of films have copied it and they should be ashamed."
Well, we all have been kids once. Probably many of us can remember watching things so scary that we could not sleep alone afterwards in our childhoods. And it is not uncommon for shows that make the greatest impression on us in our childhoods to remain our favorites throughout our lives.
And then again, the opinion that Twin Peaks is the greatest TV series ever made is not exactly that controversial even among the people who first saw it at the less impressionable age, so, perhaps, Brett Goldstein can be congratulated on having a good taste in TV from his earliest ears.