Apple Should Be Giving ‘Acapulco’ the ‘Ted Lasso’ Treatment

Everyone who was ever going to watch “Ted Lasso” has probably done it already.

Somewhere deep in the server room at Apple HQ, there’s probably some algorithm for wringing some extra subset of subscribers out of the phenomenon that “Ted Lasso” has been for audiences and awards voters.

It’s the kind of effort that makes you wonder what Apple TV+ would do if they had a show ready to duplicate that kind of success.Except you don’t have to wonder.

They already do.This week brings Season 2 of “Acapulco,” a comedy that’s been right next to that soccer show on the platform since it premiered last fall.

It’s a story told in two parallel tracks.

Maximo (Enrique Arrizon) a young starry-eyed employee deals with the day-to-day ups and downs an Acapulco-area tourist resort in the 1980s, while his older self (Eugenio Derbez) narrates each twist

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