r/TedLasso

Now that my daughter is thoroughly wrapped up in Lasso-land, I’m on rewatch 7 or 8 (maybe more?). For the life of me, I still cannot wrap my head around Nate’s turn to the dark side. I’ve tried parsing the reasoning Nate gives to Ted, but on rewatch, I can’t connect the dots. I imagine there’s an element of “never know what’s going on inside someone’s head,” but I just feel like there has to be a deleted scene that explains it a bit more.

If you had to pick any scene to rewatch which would you choose?

Just watched the season 3 episode where they were in Amsterdam. I don't think Rebecca/Hannah ever looked better than when she put on that sundress after showering. With her hair down and no makeup, her true beauty shown through. To be honest, I think it is her best look throughout the entire series. Anyone agree with me?

I decided to start rewatching. And i realize the Robbie Williams that cancels on the Gala is the same one that had that movie where he was a monkey. But it’s super funny because UK swore we knew who he was but Ted Lasso says “Who is that?” after the show spent 4 hours establishing he is very aware of pop culture even though he’s from the Midwest.

Hopefully this isn’t a repeat post.

Edit: The purpose of this post was to say that the show further establishes that Americans don’t know who he is. Also, when the movie first came out my timelines everywhere were UKers saying we were lying about his relevance in America. Sorry if I misworded the original or something.

Who is your favorite character? Not actor but character? I’m currently watching for the eleventy billionth time and it just struck me at the end of the Season 2 finale, when Sam is smiling outside of his future restaurant that he might be my favorite. If I think about it more, I confuse myself, which is why I put the 1 second limit on it - first character that comes to mind. Go!

In light of Season 4 coming this August, I rewatched the whole series, and I might get hate for saying this, but in real life, I don’t think I’d be able to be friends with Ted Lasso or be around him for long. I love his personality and the reckless optimism he practices. I also admire his kindness and the beliefs he stands by, but at times it all feels a bit unrealistic. A lot of his jokes fell flat for me, honestly, and aside from the niceness and kindness he shows, I felt like he could have handled a lot of situations differently. I wish he could have been a little more confrontational or shown even a bit more zeal about winning. I like the way the show turned out, but I sometimes wonder how things would have gone if he had confronted Nate about the article, or even told him that his picture was at home right next to the one of his son.

Beard and Jane

I get that they’re both eccentric and chaotic, but she’s straight up toxic. For a show that really has such a strong theme of therapy and healing, I thought it was a super odd choice to have Beard never grow and stay with his same poor choice from season 1.