Since it’s over probably, time for a #TedLassoRewatchParty.
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.
#TedLassoRewatchParty S1E2 is this the only time Sam curses in the series?
#TedLassoRewatchParty 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 https://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. #TedLassoRewatchParty
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. #TedLassoRewatchParty
S1E6 oh crap, has this all ended with us never seeing or hearing the charity single rap “Winner Winner, Football Dinner?” #TedLassoRewatchParty
S1E7 Disney, please let apple release a single of Hannah Waddingham singing Let It Go #TedLassoRewatchPsrty
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.
S1E10 A star is born: Bumbercatch’s first line in the show. #TedLassoRewatchParty
S2E1 Ted's response on the dais about Earl the dog's death walloped me square in the grieving gland. Beautiful and poignant. #TedLassoRewatchParty
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. #TedLassoRewatchParty
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. #TedLassoRewatchParty
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 #TedLassoRewatchParty
S2E7 Nate bullying Colin in season 2 hits different after watching season 3
S2E8 Get in there and hug him too! WHY ARE THE REST OF YOU JUST STANDING THERE? #TedLassoRewatchParty
[quick #TedLassoRewatchParty intermission to listen to ‘blue moon’ by the Marcels on headphones, just an incredible performance and production] https://youtu.be/v0fy1HeJv80
S2E9 the Beard one. You either love it or hate it. I’ve tried, but damn I just hate it #TedLassoRewatchParty
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.
S2E11 if you picked up a script and just read Dr Fieldstone’s self-assuredness, I think it would really sound dumb, doth-protest-to-muchy. But it’s perfectly pulled off by Sarah Niles #TedLassoRewatchParty
S2E12 bumbercatch steals another scene, give him a spin-off! #TedLassoRewatchParty
S3E2 hoping to find some good jokes slipped by on the first watch of season three. Like this one!
S3E3 totally forgot that there was a whole discussion about kintsugi in this episode. Did not register. #TedLassoRewatchParty
S3E4 I think i would be worse off if three seasons of this show didn’t line up with this exact three years of my life #tedlassorewatchparty
@bikepedantic That speech is also hitting me hard about the whole show.
@bikepedantic The Keeley story line in S3 undermined all of her character development in S2. It was terrible, easily the worst part of the show. And Nate's feeble redemption arc was a deflating balloon fart after the masterful arc where he becomes a villain.
@bikepedantic I wanted to see a return of Led Tasso at some point. Maybe the team didn't need it but they sure brought up Loki's Toboggan trick play at least a few times. Also I need to remember the line that Jamie has "the incurable condition of being a little b*tch".
@bikepedantic trying to imagine who the work person would want to build bridges with. Pissed off a deserving person who said that bike share needs helmets and cars don't because cars have seat belts and airbags, by pointing out that bike share is already 75% less risky than driving, so they were just doing safety rituals. They didn't like "rituals" at all. Cool thing about bike share is, we count trips. First 100 million trips resulted in only 2 deaths, versus 9 expected for cars.
@bikepedantic So, probably not building bridges either.
@bikepedantic Same. I get what it's trying to do, and why, but it just didn't work for me.
@forpeterssake exactly! It wasn’t a bad impulse, but it doesn’t work
@bikepedantic Unfortunately, in the court scene Isaac wears dress shoes. I noticed because of the funeral episode.
@HayiWena but Isaac is the one who issues the ‘no trainers’ edict in the first place, he is maybe the only one who could
@bikepedantic and she bikes :D
@bikepedantic as previously stated the Akufo temper tantrum and miming of the "pooop pooooop" is an all time favorite moment. I want a spinoff of him like a longer Glass Onion.
@bikepedantic
I think I've been more negative than you on post-S1 Ted Lasso, but that's legit hilarious and I totally don't remember it. Gonna have to follow your lead and do a whole-series rewatch.
@bikepedantic I love the play on the "who's on first" with the Zava, Trent crimm, and writing a book. Rebecca said "Zava-daba-doo!" Ted's clearly rubbing off. Dani's unfailing positivity switched to getting some of Roy's gruffness. I think sometimes things and people need a sour yell.
@bikepedantic It's funny you and others missed this one - that was the hardest I laughed at a one off joke in all of Ted Lasso. Like, way to sum up a huge part of the British psyche in one throwaway joke.
@bikepedantic probably because it was practiced through her education and her own therapy practice. I love seeing that therapists have therapists.
@bikepedantic also how do you not highlight the absolute masterpiece that is Sam Richardson as Edwin Akufo here. He makes a damn meal of the character and I'm here for every second.
@femmeUTCD he’s so good at everything. Veep scene stealer.
@bikepedantic 💯 I was so delighted to see him back in S3 with Francis and the "too slow" handshake again chef's kiss to that.
@femmeUTCD a whole S3 storyline following akufo would have been so awesome
@bikepedantic spin-off!! Spin -off!! Spin-off!!!
@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?
@bikepedantic it introduced Renee as the weirdo in the sewers and the "shut up Thierri Henry" as well as reminding me of the "hello" song at the end so for me, not a total loss.
@bikepedantic I felt like this made them all reexamine their relationships with their fathers while observing Roy's profound act of compassion after a season of kinda hating Jamie. Also Seems like a fight flight or freeze moment like when something traumatic happens, and they all froze. Ted chose to flee to talk about his father and Beard chose fight.
@femmeUTCD 100% agree on all... but when Roy goes in to hug Jamie, it's after the shock, the initial reactions. Roy seemed to break his own freeze moment, and feels like a more natural response for many of those guys would be to see their leader comforting Jamie, and follow him
@bikepedantic I hear what you're saying, it would have made for a team style healing and heartwarming moment, but the story is really about Roy and Jamie's connection reaching a turning point it may have muddied the waters? Roy only talks about his grandad as his sole father figure who also died when he was a teenager. I always assumed that after the cut away, more did go in for a hug.
@bikepedantic also in this episode I have to call bullshit on paparazzi not catching a photo of Sam and Rebecca in the restaurant and following her to her doorstep. I thought for sure on my original watch it would be in the papers the next day.
@bikepedantic he is a strong and capable man.
@bikepedantic I don't have anything to say except "thank you for this thread."
@bikepedantic I was sad they didn't bring back "McAdoo-le Doooo!!" in season 3
@bikepedantic I know you're not there yet in the rewatch, but the framed (censored) piece of Phoebe's art in his office in the final episode was magical.
@HayiWena I saw that, and didn’t make the connection back to Phoebe’s art! TY!
@bikepedantic this episode has two amazing speeches this and the one Roy tells Rebecca about John aka the struck by lightning speech
@femmeUTCD related - I meant to note in the Liverpool episode, everyone talks about the Rebecca-Ted friendship, but the Rebecca-Roy friendship is extremely likable too
@bikepedantic it's wonderful and built on respect, support, and accountability!
S1E9 in the tv pantheon on the first ballot, no question #TedLassoRewatchParty