Ted Lasso
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Something aboutTed Lassostruck a chord of the sort last sounded byThe Good Place.
And not just any dog: Earl Greyhound, the lovable mascot of Teds AFC Richmond.
Even the worlds longest clothes-on shower cant wash the guilt away.
Ted hitting a brick wall with the man who made Football is life!
a mantra feels as though it may be a preview of the season to come.
Are some problems too big even for Ted?
And where does the man who helps others turn when he needs help?
Its not that Ted has lost his effectiveness.
Those things come into our lives to help us get from one place to a better one.
Not that a few things havent changed in the world ofTed Lassoitself.
(Teds a bit stuck on the name.
Like Monday nights wings night down at PJ Flats?)
Thats it, Roy tells her.
Nothing wrong with that.
Most people are fine.
Its not about him.
Its about why the fuck he deserves you.
You deserve someone who makes you feel like youve been struck by fucking lightning.
But how often do people get struck by lightning?
Roys going through his own period of transition.
Seeing it as a shit job for shit people, Roy passes.
That he has no ideas of his own, however, may mean trouble down the line.
Meanwhile, back on the pitch, Danis problems have gotten worse.
Higgins (Jeremy Swift) offers one possible solution: therapy.
Teds one experience, a session of couples counseling, left him feeling burned.
A couple of things: First, that song-and-dance routine is really something.
Is Ted more, well, Ted when hes uncomfortable?
Teds not a phony, but he doesnt always reveal everything thats going on to everyone all the time.
But its an element in just about every scene.
Teds not a simpleton; hes a deeply complicated man.
Are he and Dr. Fieldstone really so far apart in their thinking?
Its also possible that Dr. Fieldstone sizes him up as someone going through his own fit of denial.
We know Ted misses his son.
Does he feel adrift in other ways, too?
Football is life, he now understands.
But it is also death.
But football is football, too.
So Danis all right for now.
Ted, Rebecca, and Roy are having to rethink a few things.
Who does that leave?
Oh, right, Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster).
He may be trying to put his past behind him, but it keeps finding unexpected ways to surface.
Any tension between them long forgotten, Rebecca and Keeley have become the best of friends.
(Hes also secure enough in his manhood to be a guinea pig for new nail-polish colors.)
Temples and Waddinghams performances make a nice study in contrast.
Did we really make Michael Jordan cry?
Again, its an incredibly quotable show.
