He ignores co-workers or tells them bluntly to get out of his office. As the manager of West Ham, he behaves as a bully and a thug. Like Rebecca, Nate is showing signs of both his earlier and later selves, even if the evolution, as noted, is reversed. Is that story line concluded? Time will tell. Nothing, really, on her and Sam’s last-season romance at all. But right now she is somewhere in the middle, a work in progress. To win.” Will this season see good Rebecca or bad Rebecca? I’m betting on the former, eventually. And I am begging you, please, fight back.”Īnd yet, as she confides in Keeley, she believes she has made progress: “The now me doesn’t need to destroy Rupert’s life. Later, Rebecca goes further: “Everyone is laughing at us, Ted,” she berates him.
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She repeatedly refers to West Ham as “he” (i.e., Rupert) and demands that Ted “fight.” Not to be unkind, but if your entire concept of owning a professional team revolves around your relationship with your ex, sports-franchise ownership might not be the healthiest thing for you. With West Ham, her ex-husband’s new team, picked to potentially win it all, the Rebecca of Season 1 re-emerges.
Now that AFC Richmond is back in the Premier League, after last season’s mild heroics - they got in via a tie - the team has been universally picked to land at the very bottom of the standings. Most of the episode doesn’t have much to do with Ted, though, so as with last season, I’ll go through the individual story lines. Underlining his sadness, Ted has Henry’s phone in his hand, and sees a text from his ex-wife, Michelle, saying “Have a safe flight! I love you!” Ted is visibly bereft, squeezing out every last instant, to the point that Henry almost misses his flight. His teenage son, Henry (Gus Turner), has been over for a six-week visit and is now returning home to his mother in Kansas City. So here we are: We see Ted in close-up at the airport.
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(If any of this isn’t ringing a bell, feel free to refer to my recaps of Season 2.) And last season, which had a very strong emphasis on fathers and sons, we learned that Ted’s dad killed himself when Ted was 16. Two more final reminders: Ted is recently divorced, and that was a large part of his decision to move across the pond. And a show in which he turns into a villain? That might be the worst idea for a show in the history of television. (Although it’s worth saying that both could still be up in the air.) Ted, by contrast, can’t become any more decent. Rebecca went from mostly evil to mostly good, and Nate took the opposite track. The new season opens with a close-up of, of course, Ted Lasso. (The fact that Rupert is played by Anthony Stewart Head, who played one of my half-dozen favorite characters ever, as Giles on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” has created more emotional confusion for me than I prefer to admit.) He left the team to be the new coach for a different team, West Ham United (an actual team, unlike AFC Richmond), which has been purchased by the awful Rupert. The second season had an opposite evolution, with the likable kit boy Nate (Nick Mohammed) getting promoted to assistant coach, growing a swollen head over his professional emergence and (in part because he has a horrible father), turning into an abominable jerk.
But Ted’s extreme decency and generosity (he made her biscuits every day!) won her over, and she became fully Team Ted by the end of Season 1. The point, obviously, was to have the team always lose and thus infuriate her grotesque ex, Rupert. In an effort to cause him very appropriate pain, she hired an apparent clown from Kansas-Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) - to come to the United Kingdom and coach a sport he scarcely comprehended. The first season, it was Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham), the newly divorced owner of her ex-husband’s football (i.e., soccer) team, the fictional AFC Richmond. Savvy viewers of (or readers about) the show will know that one of its minor gimmicks is that each of its three seasons have begun and ended with close-ups on the character who will undergo the most substantial evolution. The first episode of the third season of “Ted Lasso” - and I’m trying to summon my own inner Ted here - is a humdinger. Season 3, Episode 1: ‘Smells Like Mean Spirit’
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