#ted lasso 3x3

[ofnailbatsandaxefives]

Still thinking about episode 3 when the coaches are choosing what to do with their starting lineup now that Zava is on the team, and Colin is the one chosen to be benched, and Roy explains that "Colin is a chameleon. He can adapt to any situation" in the same episode where we focus on Colin and learn, canonically, that Colin is closeted.

(I love these writers so much)

#Ted lasso spoilers #Marking under spoilers even though the EP is two weeks old now #Still new enough #Ted lasso season 3 #Colin Hughes #Ted Lasso 3x3 #Ted Lasso S3

[chainofclovers]

The only problem I have is that 3×03 kind of contradicts all of Michelle's characterization in Tan Lines? I dont know how to feel about it

I never mind getting anons but I wish you weren't so I could ask a clarifying question about what you mean. 😂

Michelle's regrets over falling out of love with Ted or her genuine wish that she could change how she felt and recapture the things that made her want to stay in the marriage...I don't think any of that was an act. It's possible Michelle was already having complicated feelings about her therapist at that point, but I don't think she started dating him until much later, likely when Henry was in London for the summer.

(And while I don't think it speaks too well of Dr. Jake to date a former client, and I think it's a pretty substantial mistake on Michelle's part that she didn't come clean to Ted before letting Jake spend significant time with Henry, I think it's understandable that she'd have feelings for her former therapist. A huge problem in her relationship with Ted was that he wasn't emotionally honest with her about his problems and he was always trying to smooth over her own emotions and problems to make things right. A therapist does basically the opposite of that. We don't have enough context--yet?--to know if she was nursing a crush the whole time, or if they just ran into each other at the grocery or something and things had shifted.)

So far I'm not much of a Jake fan, both for the professional slippage and his assumption he's going to charm Michelle by impersonating Trump for a telemarketer? But in terms of these being elements of the story, I don't mind this storyline. The impersonation means the first thing Ted says to Jake in many months is something antagonistic! And Jake does seem to genuinely realize how cringe and unfortunate the moment is, and it's not his responsibility to ensure Michelle handles all the communication perfectly.

Ted has been wistfully kinda pining for this version of Michelle he once knew, this beloved wife and mother, the girl in the parking lot. I think it's interesting that Ted--a person who isn't always very good with the boundaries between personal and professional--is going to have to confront all this. An imperfection on Michelle's part that is possibly happening because she can't help who she's in love with, but that nonetheless very understandably feels like a total nightmare.

(I have no idea if this really spoke to your ask without knowing which parts of Tan Lines you feel like this storyline contradicts. The TL;DR is that I think Jake and Michelle's behavior is problematic but I don't think it makes Michelle's situation in Tan Lines retroactively unbelievable or disingenuous.)

#ted lasso #ted lasso s3 spoilers #ted lasso 3x3 #meta by me #ted lasso meta #asks #anon

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#all hail queen julie andrews #mood #relatable #relatable gif #relatable gifs #love her #legends only #an icon #ted lasso #tedlassoedit #3x3 #jason sudeikis #trent crimm #im trent #higgins #marry poppins #the princess diaries #roy kent #brett goldstein #the sound of music #clarisse renaldi #gif #gifs #gifset #love

[disasterbijamietartt]

I did get up at 2:45 to watch the episode when it dropped at 3, clearly am still sleep deprived, so this aren't my most coherent thoughts, but I need to get this out of my system so that I have a chance to function at work today lol

Some general thoughts before I look at my boy aka Jamie lol

In general I liked how they handled Colin's and Isaac's story arc. But I had hoped for some acknowledgment of the casual homophobia in 3x3, like … why include it if Isaac doesn’t show any accountability for maybe making the locker room a place that doesn’t feel 100% safe? (but, well, apparently Jamie is the only one who has to show accountability for anything, even if it is not his fault) Aside of this I loved how Isaac fought for him, how he struggled with his anger and how they reconciled at the end. The last scene was definitely the best for me.

Regarding Roy I’m like … that kinda resolved too easily? Like, Rebecca yells at him once and he finally gets his head out of his not-hairy-ass? It just feels kinda undeserved since he had so little development before and none of it seemed to stick for more than one episode. But I liked his conversation with Isaac and the press conference at the end (But unless Roy thinks next episode about what he wants out of life and the answer is “a boyfriend” I do not want it anyway.🤡)

Very sad Rupert didn’t choke on the stolen baklava. Jade seeing right through him? Good for her! Nate making the right call in the end? Bless him!

So, onto Jamie …

There was way too little of him in this episode, but his little back and forth with Sam about who should be Captain was so cute! And how he was supportive of Colin.

But I’m not sure what to think about the “I’m flattered” line—I’m happy for everyone who it landed for and who loved it, but for me the jury’s still out.

On the one hand it shows growth for Jamie—since regardless of his sexuality, I’m convinced his “dad” called him gay or the f-slur or other insults in that vein a copious amount (which I think is the reason he was “it’s just poopeh”, since he is so used to being insulted like that, that he learned to ignore it), so that season 1 Jamie probably would have exploded if someone had insinuated the could be gay. But now he is comfortable enough in his sexuality and self, that it doesn’t bother him and he can joke about it.

On the other hand, it is neither a yes or no, and if it is not addressed in the next episodes, and left ambiguious, I’ll be so pissed at this cheep queerbaiting.

I still have some tiny sliver of hope something might happen in the next episodes to confirm he is bisexual, but I’m somehow less confident now than I was before this episode and hope is wearing thin, since I’ve just been burnt too often by actors joking about ships, and queer readings of characters being acknowledged on a show with something ambiguous, that in the end turns out to be never been more than queerbaiting jokes (and that part just read so much like it could have been no more than a nod at the fandom and a joke …).

I hope that Ted Lasso is better than that, it’s 2023 ffs, but with only three episodes to go and so much to resolve … (I’ll have to go back to writing fanfics, since I won’t get the epic stuff I wanted since there just isn’t enough time left…)

#ted lasso spoilers #jamie tartt #roy kent #not really shippy since they could be queer with anyone and I'd be happy but just to be save #royjamie #roy x jamie #jamie x roy #jamie tartt x roy kent #colin hughes #isaac mcadoo #nate shelley #jade ted lasso #rupert mannion #my stuff

[singofsolace]

Ted Lasso 3x3 Spoilers

I'm going to be thinking about that psychic session with Tish for a while. I wish I didn't know the Rebecca-falls-into-a-canal plot point from filming, because then the whole "you're upside down" and "you're drenched" bit would've been so much more confusing and scary to hear. Instead I knew exactly what Tish was describing even though Rebecca didn't, and more importantly, the audience isn't meant to know what Tish means.

The "knight in shining armor" (or shite in nining armor) bit made me smile. It gives me hope that Ted and Rebecca may actually be paired up by the end of the season. But then the green matchbook was revealed so quickly, and in a manner that implies that her relationship with Sam is still going to be a significant part of the season, so who knows. It might be a red herring, but it might not.

I just hope to god that when Tish said, "you're going to have a family. You're going to be a mother," that she meant she's going to be Henry's mother... because if they're setting Rebecca up for a pregnancy reveal, that's... that would be a lot to take in. Especially because Hannah Waddingham explicitly told Jason that she wanted to play Rebecca as older than they originally planned (their original plan, I believe, was for Rebecca to be in her early 40s) to ensure that the audience understood she had completely "missed the boat" with her fertility. It was important to Hannah that Rebecca be motivated in part by the fact that Rupert had stolen any chance she had of having biological children, so if they are now planning to ignore that request from Hannah, I will be very confused.

I think it's going to be a blended family situation, where we get a scene with Rebecca and Henry and it's understood that she's going to be a maternal figure in his life... but who knows. I could be wrong.

Side note... Hannah looked hot as fuck in the restaurant scenes. Slender Aphrodite has overcome me.

#rebecca welton #hannah waddingham #ted lasso spoilers

[coramills]

Ted Lasso Stills: 3x3 / Rebecca Welton

#listen people #i was too gay not to do it #the OUTFITS #she looks like a domme in the first one #and the red dress is just #a gift from the costume department #ted lasso #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso stills #rebecca welton #hannah waddingham

[ao3feed-tedlasso]

simple

by chainofclovers

The Roy & Ted platonic bed-sharing to ??? pipeline, or, Ted tries to fall asleep and thinks about all his unresolved feelings about everyone in his life, including the guy sleeping next to him. He's only got until 3:30 a.m. to try to get some rest.

Contains spoilers through Ted Lasso 3x3.

Words: 2269, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Ted Lasso, Roy Kent, Jamie Tartt, Rebecca Welton, Keeley Jones, Michelle Lasso, Jacob "Dr. Jake" Brianson, Trent Crimm, Leslie Higgins, Coach Beard (Ted Lasso), Flo "Sassy" Collins

Relationships: Roy Kent & Ted Lasso, Ted Lasso & Rebecca Welton, future Roy Kent/Ted Lasso, past Sassy/Ted, Coach Beard & Ted Lasso, Roy Kent & Jamie Tartt, Roy Kent/Ted Lasso

Additional Tags: post-episode 3x3, Insomnia, Bed-sharing, (every character tagged except Ted and Roy and Jamie are just mentioned in Ted's thoughts), brief reference to vomiting, if you want to invision this as future love square be my guest, i know i enjoy imagining happy things occurring in the future!

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/46244281

#Ted Lasso #Ted Lasso Fic #ao3feed

[hayesforprez]

Some recent stuff I liked

👍Mare of Easttown (very good character stuff alongside the mystery)

👍Willy’s Wonderland (fun, weird, nic cage)

👍Team USA, Women’s 3x3 basketball (the team usa that’s dominating)

👀Beach footvolley (all that kicking and moving in sand got them built)

👍Kevin Can F*ck Himself (very cool concept executed well)

👍Season 2 of Dave (show is really reaching an elite level)

👍Ted Lasso back (always a good time)

👍Swimming 4x100s Men’s and Women’s (Very stressful and exciting)

#txt

[chainofclovers]

Ted Lasso 3x3

Good lord. This episode was like being on the Scrambler at the fair. You know the one, you sit in the little seat at the end of a big arm like a spoke of a wheel, and the central machine spins steadily, but because of the position of the arms, and I don’t know, physics, you kind of get flung from point A to B, then B to C, then C to A again, but it’s a slightly different A than before, a slightly different spot, and it goes fast and your surroundings are blurry but then there are little moments when you land at each point where the movement pauses and you can see clearly, just in time to propel someplace new again. 

The Scrambler was always my favorite ride. I’m too chickenshit for huge rollercoasters, I get irrationally angry (terrified) if upside down, I don’t want to be splashed with water, etc., but also I’m not a baby. I liked being disoriented. And I think I really liked this episode. 3x1 and 3x2 were both awesome and I was cruising along feeling very aware of what show I was watching, and tonight I was absolutely watching the same show but the fucking great needle drops and the whole weird energy of the thing left me—to overdo the stupid metaphor—scrambled.

I can’t believe my last pre-s3 fic included Ted having bad feelings about Precious Moments figurines in a rental house and then it turns out actual Ted’s actual mom collects them!

(Weird bullet to start with? Well, I feel weird!)

The boys (adult men who coach AFC Richmond) just want Julie Andrews to boss them around and punish them. I get it. 😌

Ola’s! I’m so excited for Sam and I love the vibe of his restaurant and I love that he’s getting to do this communal, home-oriented endeavor that connects him to so many things about both Nigeria and the UK right as his football club is becoming a cult of personality. 

Everything with Tish was so unsettling. I love that Rebecca was trying desperately to play the whole thing for laughs, but then it was genuinely chilling. I have so many (strong) feelings about Rebecca and motherhood, and I’ve felt this whole time like it was incredibly important to her character’s journey that she is never going to be a mother, exactly, even though I’m just a human girl and I would love to see her stepmommin’. But tbh I am HERE for seeing what happens precisely because she was angry about the premonition, she didn’t bite back her feelings, she called the vision cruel. I’m going to need to rewatch and listen to every word that Tish says but I am! Losing! It! 

Zava is great as a device and I’m loving that Jamie isn’t having tantrums but is instead using his words (to great effect!). He’s standoffish but he isn’t being a total prick. And I’m very :eyesemoji: about these early morning trainings with Roy, and, you know, what purpose Roy is going to find there beyond helping to mold Jamie. I really like that most everyone else is very much not immune to Zava, and I like that there’s a logic to that—they’re winning, they’re thriving, they’re a surprise success story. 

I am obsessed with Ted’s obsession with Dr. Jacob and how he’s continuing to call him Dr. Jacob. I completely get why it’s so upsetting and bewildering. I would be a basket case. Also I think there’s something incredibly perfect about the terrible foot they start off on (restart, anyway), with Dr. Jacob doing the stupid Trump impersonation and just really putting his foot in it. I guess there could have been worse ways to choose to answer the phone, but it’s difficult to think of one! And Dr. Jacob might not get much screentime, but we get so much—the cringiness of the realization it’s Ted on the line. The cozy homey Kansas kitchen. The busy lived-in domesticity, interrupted. And then he’s in this fugue state for weeks, obsessing, and there’s Sassy. I kinda love that he tells her up front about Michelle and their ex-therapist; they clearly haven’t seen each other in a long time, and that’s the first and only news he thinks to tell her!? Yikes. 

Shandy! Yes. (And Roy wanting to do the interview. HELP.)

I have every feeling in the world about Colin and his boyfriend. I absolutely love—I mean, I hate it for him, but I love it for this story—that he’s seemingly secure in his sexuality in terms of understanding who he is, and is closeted because of the world he lives in. Colin and his absurdly noticeable car and hiding in plain sight among the casual gay jokes of the world he lives in. My heart was in my throat over Trent seeing them. My hope is that we’re going to get confirmation that Trent is also queer, and that all this is going to have something to do with the book he’s writing (hopefully in a good way rather than a horrific way!), especially since the audience hasn’t heard Trent pitch his book project and we really don’t know much of anything about the kind of story he’s looking for. TIME WILL TELL, I GUESS. 

I’m sure there are a million other things, but to be entirely honest my entire brain is just the words “shite in nining armor” over and over and over again. Maybe my brain will come back online tomorrow, or maybe it won’t come back until May 31, or never! Goodnight!

#ted lasso #ted lasso s3 spoilers #meta by me #ted lasso meta #ted lasso 3x3 #hot dork club #ahhhaapwoeifjaeslkfjeal;kjwel;kwjefr;lw

[chainofclovers]

I wrote kinda Roy&Ted, kinda Roy/Ted post-3x3 bed-sharing fic

#ted lasso #fic by me #ted lasso s3 spoilers #ted lasso 3x3 #roy x ted #hot dork club

[chainofclovers]

I guess the main reason I'm so uncomfortable with the Michelle dating her therapist thing, is that the show had done such a good job portraying her with a lot of empathy, and this whole situation makes her a lot more unsympathetic, at least in most fans' eyes (many of whom had villainised her even before this)

I guess this is an opportunity to find out how far sympathy and empathy go! I know a lot of people already dislike Michelle, for shipping reasons or otherwise. But they gotta tell the story they've been planning on telling, and if an audience is fairweather about their sympathy for a character who's in a morally murky situation, that says more about our society (and I mean no judgment on whether someone decides to judge her for this, it's just true that we're in a society) than it says about whether the writers made a "bad" choice in telling a particular story.

Pretty much every character on this show is a person with a lot of goodness in them who nonetheless experiences resentments, hunger for power, biases based on their cultural identities, inconvenient sexual attractions, etc. I don't see why Michelle should be any different.

Personally, I think it's possible to be like "Ma'am. Your THERAPIST? And you were too scared to tell Ted before you brought this new dude around your SON?" but still appreciate the emotional burden Michelle bore during her marriage with Ted, and appreciate that Michelle, like anyone, is not immune to the emotional pull of circumstances that might not be perfectly healthy. Nothing about the story--which we still have barely any context for--diminishes her having been a good mom to Henry, her having been someone who used to genuinely love Ted, etc. The therapist thing is a potential complication for some of her feelings at the end of the marriage, but we already knew from Ted that there were some less-than-ideal ethics happening there and that he regrets going for joint counseling with someone who was already treating his wife.

If Michelle was my personal friend, I'd think she was treading in some dangerous waters, but I wouldn't question whether I'd been wrong to appreciate all the good qualities she'd displayed in the past and presumably still retains.

#ted lasso #ted lasso 3x3 #ted lasso s3 spoilers #hot dork club #meta by me #ted lasso meta #asks #anon

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#jason deserves all the awards for this scene and this scene alone #had me sobbing #my heart #ted lasso #tedlassoedit #jason sudeikis #ted x henry #henry lasso #henry x ted #gif #gifs #gifset #love #aww #father and son #1x1 #1x5 #3x1 #3x3 #3x8

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Tedbecca + Casual Touching 

#im fine #subtle as hell #casual touching ftw #tedbecca #ted x rebecca #rebecca x ted #tedlassoedit #ted lasso #jason sudeikis #hannah waddingham #i love them #faves #my heart #gif #gifs #gifset #3x3 #love

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#sharing the same brain again #i love them #soulmate things #faves #tedbecca #ted x rebecca #rebecca x ted #ted lasso #tedlassoedit #rebecca welton #jason sudeikis #hannah waddingham #love #gif #gifs #gifset #3x3

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

1x4 | 3x3

#im loving this roy and jamie friendship growth arc #this callback though #dead #i love it i love it so much #i love them #they are my favorite duo this season #ted lasso #tedlassoedit #roy x jamie #jamie x roy #roy kent #jamie tartt #brett goldstein #phil dunster #started from the bottom now we're here #growth #screaming #love #1x4 #3x3

[chainofclovers]

Ted Lasso 3x9 Thoughts

This one might be tied for favorite episode of the season for me. While I’ve been mostly willing to vibe with the jam-packed episodes, I approached 3x9 with a bit of concern; if it felt like the story was getting bigger instead of smaller here in the final third of the season, I was going to start to lose my patience. (To translate: I am an impatient person but I'm also a pretty long-fused person, and me starting to lose my patience would be akin to someone with a short fuse going fucking ham on someone.) Luckily, I felt like each thread here spoke to the other threads really neatly, like watching a cohesive conversation take place in multiple rooms. Magically. 

For this one, I'm gonna attempt some bullets that cover 3x9 itself, then I need to attempt to process this weird experience of MISSING TED (while also basically appreciating what he's doing, but missing him, but appreciating him, lawjefpawoijfapweoijafwepklajwef) that has me very :eyesemoji: about the next three weeks of my life.

Nate’s desire for connection and camaraderie didn’t overshadow his ability to recognize that Rupert was trying to manipulate him into a toxic night out! There will be consequences for pulling away, and he knows it, but he did the right thing anyway. I’ve seen some discussions and arguments re: Jade’s influence on Nate and whether we should attribute Nate’s backbone and ability to make better choices to the love of a woman, and whether that’s disappointing and belittling to both characters, but I think a lot of those positions (on either side) are too hard-and-fast. Nate has always valued the things he values, and his relationship with Jade hasn’t changed his values or the fundamental truth of who he is. At the same time, being physically and emotionally close to a person you trust feels really, really good. Why shouldn’t those good feelings have a positive impact on the reserves of strength you must draw on to do things like stand up to an evil asshole you hadn’t entirely let yourself notice is an evil asshole? Nate in all his multitudes has always been Nate; Nate who is in love is able to see himself more clearly. If we were all only allowed in our real lives to experience character growth purely independently, we wouldn’t get very far.

I’ve been thinking a lot about influence and obligation when it comes to Rebecca’s storyline, too. I was a little afraid, after 3x3 and the way she initially responds to Tish’s prophecies, that Rebecca would end up a lone actor, in a sense, tracking down clues and answers at the expense of fostering her actual existing relationships. While I’m still curious and nervous and excited about what all of it means, I really appreciate that Rebecca has shown up for people this season, especially here in the latter half. Rebecca is almost certainly being driven a little crazy by the unfinished parts of what Tish told her, but she isn’t isolating herself. In calling Roy out for his avoidant behaviors and lack of accountability for the press conference (and, of course, the way his work performance mirrors his decision to leave his relationship with Keeley), she demonstrates accountability as a boss and as a friend. I don’t need to see Rebecca conducting meetings or writing emails to know she’s working, but it felt really important to me to see her get upset with Roy, both professionally and personally, and break through his exterior. Ted, Trent, Phoebe, and even Keeley have chipped away at it this season, but the epiphany required Rebecca being Rebecca. And the energy between Rebecca and Roy is very !!!

I loved the way the Nate-Rupert-Jade, Rebecca-Roy, and Roy-Isaac(-Will!) interactions all reinforce the idea that no one has the full picture of what is happening in another person’s brain, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t act on truths as they are revealed, as difficult as it may be. 

As a queer person who is thankfully many years removed from the most stressful coming-out experiences I’ve had (although of course there are still plenty of moments of having to explain or identify oneself to another person—it never really ends—I consider myself “out” in that everyone in my life who I care about knowing knows I’m queer, and, so long as general safety is established, I feel able to explain it to additional people in most contexts without much or any stress), I really loved and appreciated Colin’s storyline here. Very little about my identity or place in the world resembles Colins, but so much of this episode resonated. We’ve already seen Colin describe his relationship to his sexual identity to Trent, and within that same conversation he spoke about not wanting to be a spokesperson with the pressure of publicly representing gay men. I absolutely love that the framing of the locker room scene respected those desires; he tells his teammates and coaches he’s gay, but we the public aren’t part of the several seconds that the literal announcement occurs. We get to see the freedom and relief the truth brings him, but the lessons of this episode are for the people around him. 

The downside of writing this a couple days after the episode airs means I’ve read a lot of discourse, but I don’t think this episode did a disservice to Isaac or Colin. The writers room in s3 included writers specifically experientially equipped to tell this story, and to me, it shows. It shows in the realism of Isaac’s well-meaning questions (which Colin wouldn’t have answered so graciously if Isaac wasn’t so genuinely curious and caring!), and the tiring ways that queer people are burdened with conversational “obligations” and explanations that are just different than what straight people deal with. Ignorance and awareness exist on an incredibly long spectrum, and for me this story was affirming, not traumatizing, beautiful, and yet it also included the exhausting imperfections that cloak even the most positive coming-out experiences. 

I’ve also been thinking a lot about Ted’s speech. Basically ever since Colin said the thing about Grindr in s2, I’ve been certain Colin would come out as gay to the team and reckon with being closeted in the context of the men’s Premier League. And literally since he made that little comment, I’ve been nervous about how Ted would react. I already knew he was a politically progressive person who identified himself as an ally, so I wasn’t afraid he’d have some kind of bigoted rejection reaction. But I did worry that his reaction would be sooooo cringe and try-hard and awkward that I’d legitimately run into issues writing and posting fiction about his obvious latent bisexuality on our home away from home, Archive of Our Own. And while Ted’s seven-layer-dip Denver Broncos analogy WAS cringe and try-hard and off-base, I absolutely loved how unflinchingly imperfect it was and how, despite those imperfections, his instinct re: the point he actually wanted to make was spot on and extremely valuable. If a white, middle-aged, (past-tense-ish hahahahahahaha I’m so normal about the word “was”) straight man who’s worked in sports his whole life had figured out the perfect thing to say, I’d have rolled my eyes at the screen. It felt realistic to me that he desperately wanted to find an analogy or connection point, immediately regretted it, and still—because of who he is when the din of his thoughts gives way actual clarity—managed to articulate that it’s very, very important that Colin’s community actually cares about who Colin is and that he was able to share this information with them. It’s the difference, in many ways, between being doomed to continue to feel like you have two lives (because you’re surrounded every day by people who look past something important to you or pretend not to see the differences) vs. knowing that even if you never come out to the entire world, you aren’t splintering yourself because you’re able to be your whole self around the people who actually matter. Anyway, the speech was imperfect and unwieldy, and that was the point, and his actual message was essential for everyone in that room to hear, and that was the point, and I will be capable of continuing to write fic in which Ted is attracted to men without his reaction to Colin haunting me. (I actually already have an idea for a future fic in which he reflects more, but that’s literally a story for another time.)

At this point in the season, I feel so curious about, um. What is happening. With Ted Lasso. The guy. In both s1 and s2, I felt about a millimeter away from him at all times, even when he wasn’t onscreen. This season, he’s so intentionally obscured. Getting to go to that museum in Amsterdam with him—and, perhaps even more importantly, the Yankee Doodle Burger Barn, and perhaps even more importantly than that, the back of that bus—was a relief and a reconnection point that was much needed, but I am absolutely FASCINATED and MYSTIFIED at this point in time at just how effective and maddening it is that I’m having a lot of trouble understanding how he truly feels about himself and the people around him. Like, I would obviously love to watch him be in love with Rebecca. But I would also love to watch him be in love with a place, or with two places, or with coaching, or with his partially-lost Beard, or with the words and images that have come to him in visions, or even with the unhealthy things that pull at him, like booze and stewing and obsession. Basically every episode—at least for me—contains some glimmer of connection, to his self or to one of his friends, and it’s always fleeting, and I’m holding onto the almost certainty of the fact that the decisions he has to make are going to require some kind of visible reckoning. Most of my nerves about the final three episodes of this show as we know it are related to these questions. 

As for this episode, I don’t think I’ve quite captured the FEELINGS I felt while watching it. (I also completely failed to go into Ted sharing his biscuits with Keeley and continuing his perfect streak of making it super weird whenever he shares biscuits with a non-Rebecca person. I LOVED IT.) This was the episode that made me the most audibly squeal-y this season. And the most curious about how Ted has managed to get so far into his own brain that I actually miss him on his own show! Very curious stuff. What are the next three Tuesdays going to do to my brain and heart?

#ted lasso #ted lasso s3 spoilers #ted lasso 3x9 #hot dork club #meta by me #ted lasso meta #ted x rebecca #rebecca x roy #ted x men x allyship x cringe x but not too cringe x lol #queer things