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.

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

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.

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

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S3E5 I liked the early Roy-Sam mentor-protégé dynamic in S1, and then they just sort of forgot about it, til this nice moment. Roy going around the locker room, fist bumping everyone and saying things like “maim them,” and then gets to Sam…

S3E6 chatGPT could not have delivered five minutes of television more perfectly tailored to my interests and tastes

S3E8 I will miss the running jokes about shredded wheat biscuits, which I grew up with and still love

S3E10 this would have been maybe the best episode of the whole run without the stupid-ass Nate sideshow. Everyone in the Greyhounds locker room redefining manhood for us.

Re-rewatching S3E10 because it was just That Good.

I mentioned it before, but I enjoy the Rebecca-Roy platonic love as much as the Rebecca-Ted platonic love

@bikepedantic behold, the spot where Rebecca fell in the water, photo taken by me last month. (The bike lane was fake).

@bikepedantic for granddad!!! I gotta get me some of that bbq sauce. It's the same one Henry sends him at the beginning of the show.

@bikepedantic My brother ate the big ones but I preferred the frosted minis. 😁

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