Since it’s over probably, time for a .

I’m gonna try to note something from each episode that I hadn’t noticed before, or something notable in the total arc of the show.

S1E1: Beard and Ted pull up to Nelson Road stadium for the first time in a black Mercedes sedan, same car that Ted takes on his ride back to his ex’s house in Kansas in the finale.

S1E3 opening with Connection by Elastica kinda cemented my love of Ted Lasso, following the prior ep, which had something from A Tribe Called Quest.

I think the quality of music kinda trailed off, but the initial choices hooked me good youtu.be/gY2s4hJ8kuA

S1E4 unlike many shows, none of the actors/writers/directors seem to have much ‘learning curve’ with the characters.

With the possible exception of Brett Goldstein, who i noticed in this one seemed to not use as gravelly an inflection and has like a 6% posher accent, they all seem to have nailed everything down about their performances from day 1.

S1E5 a couple of times in prior episodes, and this one when he tells him to play-limp off the field to work the crowd, there were a few neat mentor-mentee moments between Roy and Sam, but those seemed to fade away after this one.

S1E6 oh crap, has this all ended with us never seeing or hearing the charity single rap “Winner Winner, Football Dinner?”

S1E7 Disney, please let apple release a single of Hannah Waddingham singing Let It Go

S1E8 I always liked how subtly they hinted at the Roy-Isaac connection that led to Isaac being named captain. This small little salute greeting was the first hint.

S2E1 Ted's response on the dais about Earl the dog's death walloped me square in the grieving gland. Beautiful and poignant.

S2E2 "Fucking brain development." It's remarkable how great the Roy Kent storyline away from the team is in season 2, vs the Nate and Keeley storylines in season 3.

I forgot to pay much attention to S2E4, the Christmas one, and it really didn’t advance the storylines, so. But the Higgins’ party was lovely. And all Roy Kent interactions with kids are magic, and the door-knocking in his “stupid posh neighborhood” does not disappoint.

S2E5 Roy Kent on Sky News was a sadly brief high point of the series for me. I wish that they had found some reason to have had him on the postgame media dais to deliver lines like this.

S2E6 someone at work made reference to a need to ‘build bridges’ and I had to turn my camera off I was biting my tongue so hard

S2E7 Nate bullying Colin in season 2 hits different after watching season 3

[quick intermission to listen to ‘blue moon’ by the Marcels on headphones, just an incredible performance and production] youtu.be/v0fy1HeJv80

S2E9 the Beard one. You either love it or hate it. I’ve tried, but damn I just hate it

S2E10 I think the sad thing of season 3 is that in trying to maintain so many independent story arcs, they squeezed out any room to just linger on a fun clever running joke, like the team’s introduction to dress shoes.

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@bikepedantic did you notice that Ted's getting ready to "easy lover" in the beginning as a reference to the line in Rainbows that no man should take longer than that song to get ready in the morning?

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