DANIEL FIENBERG This was the Blond Ambition summer on the small screen — a wave of platinum domination entirely unrelated to the release of a new Madonna album. The season’s TV programming was bookended by the 2026 World Cup, an event ruled on social media (and occasionally on the pitch) by Norwegian striker Erling Haaland, who captivated our algorithms with his droll sense of humor and love of taxidermy raccoons; and by the return of Apple’s Ted Lasso, featuring Hannah Waddingham’s excitable Rebecca. (Meanwhile, Waddingham had a better series smack in the middle of summer with Amazon’s action comedy Ride or Die, which very likably…
