Seth MacFarlane made his directorial debut with the 2012 comedy movie Ted, which became a major box hit, and now a live-action series based on the fan-favorite franchise is coming to Peacock.
The funniest movie character so far this year is a stuffed teddy bear. And the best comedy screenplay so far is Ted, the saga of the bear s friendship with a 35-year-old manchild. I know; this also was hard for me to believe. After memories of Mel Gibson s bond with a sock puppet, Ted was not high on the list of movies I was impatient to see.
The opening scenes find the right tone. A treacly narrator (Patrick Stewart) describes a Christmas that reminds us of a A Christmas Story, except for the jolts of four-letter words and anti-PC one-liners. We meet young John Bennett, the most unpopular kid in the neighborhood, so disliked that while a Jewish kid is being beaten up, John feels envious.
Attempting to fix his faltering marriage, he s proposed he and Tami Lynn have a baby, but after infertility rules having their own out, they are then denied the adoption route because the State of Massachusetts doesn t consider Ted to be a person . While that has helped him avoid tax and society security in the past, further scrutiny now means he s stripped of his job and marriage rights. However, Ted isn t giving up without a fight, and, with the help of his Thunder-Buddy John (Mark Wahlberg) and young attorney Sam L. Jackson (Amanda Seyfried), plans to take the case all the way to Judge Judy .