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Trying follows Jason and Nikki through the adoption process, and the comedy grows almost entirely from how ordinary and well-meaning they are when the system demands they prove it. Bureaucratic hoops, home visits, and panel assessments become genuinely funny because the consequences feel real; these are two people who want something badly and keep stumbling over their own nerves trying to look like they have it together.
The screwball energy mostly lives in the supporting cast, friends and family who arrive with their own chaos at exactly the wrong moments. But the show never lets that noise swamp the couple themselves. Jason and Nikki's relationship is warm without being saccharine, and their small private moments, a quiet conversation, a shared look after something goes sideways, carry as much weight as any of the bigger comic set pieces.
warm couple comedy, family adoption and Comedy
Comedy and Drama
Season 5 · 8 episodes
Apple TV
All Jason and Nikki want is a baby, but it's the one thing they just can't have. So, they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball family, and chaotic lives will the adoption panel think they're ready to be parents?
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Zatima keeps the same warm, everyday couple energy as Trying, with jokes that come from real relationship friction and small fixes. You get that steady back-and-forth pressure between two partners, plus the kind of tender, domestic momentum where the laughs and the nerves land together.
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Shrinking shares Trying’s comfort with vulnerability, turning awkward honesty into comedy while real feelings keep pushing back. Watching a workplace full of rules crack under blunt therapist moments, you get the same nervous, human tension, but the humor runs sharper and the emotional mess moves faster.
In a shock development struggling English Premier League team AFC Richmond hires American football coach Ted Lasso as its new manager. Lasso knows nothing about soccer/football. With unshakable enthusiasm and positivity he rises to the challenge but little known to him there are forces within the club that don't want him to succeed.
Ted Lasso and Trying both lean on warmth, sincerity, and family-adjacent consequences that make every awkward moment feel earned. In Ted Lasso, workplace resistance and team dynamics create steady pressure, and the jokes keep arriving through character loyalty, with a brighter, more uplifting pace than Trying’s quieter bureaucratic stress.
