I love how they intersperse different story lines and somehow they cut the most poignant moments together, like Roy standing up for Nate was built up over the course of the episode, same as the Trent Crimm story, and they seemingly have nothing to do with each other but simply through editing they lead you to the moral of the story. And that's when you realize they did it on purpose.
@@whartanto2 Root for him isn't a common term here I would agree aye, but it seems fairly common sense for what is meant in context. As for all the four countries within this country, we've clearly got a lot of different terms, terminologies, slang, or whatever else. I've personally ever heard the term root, in the term you suggest. I'd love to know where that comes from? Can't go wrong with a good shag mind, myself personally just never known root as the same term for a good doing over. I suppose that's just down to the very varied dialects across the isles.
I think he went in planning to be judgemental but the more time he spent with Ted he couldn't help but be curious and disarmed by Ted's honesty and sincerity
After idk how many viewings, I JUST caught something. "His coaching style never hits you over the head" immediately followed by Roy headbutting Colin. Brilliant
@@BigFresh37 i think he was saying don't see so right now referring to headbutt. If you ever headbutted someone, it's equally painful but the receiver never sees it coming so it "hurts" them more. But nah, it fuking hurts and I'll never do it again unless in a fight or flight situation. It is very effective if followed by a liver punch, but i digress.
Couldn’t agree more. Up to this point I thought it was another Blackadder type comedy where cunning plans end up backfiring. But here’s where I was getting an inkling that there’s more going on than meets the eye.
I think it’s better because he’s not. You see him fall apart in Liverpool and the way he talks to Nate shows that he makes a choice to be that nice but he has the same flaws we all do.
@@bfg3890 I think you misunderstand what being pure of heart is. Lasso makes the choice to be that way, as he's human. And human means we all have flaws and emotions. It's what one does in spite of that fact that can define one as being 'pure of heart'. I guess it depends on whether you consider the outburst of emotion a flaw or not?
It’s so subtle but crucial: Higgins’ voice reads the first half of the article and its negativity then Crimm’s voice takes over when the spin changes to positivity. It’s brilliant.
i love the moment in the restaurant scene where ted tells trent that he enjoyed their time together and trent just looks at him and says, "you really mean that, don't you?" trent is of course, speaking as the audience with that line, but i think it's also the moment where trent (and by extension, we) decide to root for ted. the show overall is so refreshingly sincere, but also really multilayered, and it speaks volumes when trend is finally able to see that there's more to ted than his goofy persona. that he's the kind of person who is careful with his words, but also genuinely means every word he says. he's not oblivious to the way most people underestimate him, but as trent saw, he still chooses to be kind.
He's basically Flanders but toned down, and not the obnoxiously religious in-your-face-better-than-you type. He really is just... nice. Probebly depressed as fuck... but that's what depressed fuckers do, by compensating by being nice. I should know, I do this quite a bit. Half the time I'm drunk. Probebly gonna have a liver failure though...
This is hands down the best season of TV I have ever seen. I had the blessing of not finding it until after the season finale so I was able to watch it rapidly over the course of a few days. I absolutely LOVED watching Ted win over each person, letting his morality and good kind spirit infect the team, one at a time. Brilliant writing and story.
This is my favorite part in the whole show. I mean this episode takes someone so pessimistic about Ted and his ability to not just coach but also thinking Ted isn’t smart that the review he wrote was absolutely brilliant.
There are so many good parts in this short 2min clip, but I can’t get enough of Roy showing up to the club and putting Colin in his place with a headbutt following his retirement jab.
what's great about this scene is that it shows the humanity in a sleazy, cynical person like Trent Crimm, everyone in this show has multiple layers. Ted Lasso's charm and personality is able to reach just about everyone
@@dac314 Exactly. He has very high standards, and heavily scrutinizes everybody who's a subject of his articles. In a world with a lot of falsehoods, he's understandably a skeptical person. But when he comes across the real deal, like with Ted, he doesn't hesitate to give them the respect they deserve.
I don't think Trent is sleazy or cynical. We really don't have enough data. But his article shows what he is. He didn't print a hit job because he saw what ted really was. Crimm is one of my favorite chrs on the show. Plus I envy his hair.
I really love the equation and scenes between Ted and Trent . I mean there aren't many but I love all of them . And Crimm's voice is just wow!! I wish there are more of their scenes and especially since Trent Crimm is now "independent".
This is why we are in a quality “golden age” of TV. You need time to build the changes based on inspiring the team. Are their cliches? Yes there are. Is Jason Sudeikis playing against type ….but 100% believable? Yes. Great writing, character development, little life lessons… but completely on point within the construct of the show.
I think theres a deeper meaning to the voice change besides leslie saying that it wasnt his words. I think the first half of the article is what Crimm has to write as the press, but when it switches to his voice its what he feels as a friend of teds.
There is nothing in this show that would appeal to me. Nothing. Yet this week I’m going to binge it for the fourth time. It’s so, so good! Incredible show.
Jason Sudeikis really did GREAT making Ted Lasso's character more love-able . you can't help making a place for Ted in your heart , however you might think.
Spoiler 1:55 is amazing foreshadow how the season ends. While yes they do indeed get relegated we were all genuinely rooting for them. It's amazing most audiences don't expect much going in, probably just a few cheap laughs, but then you get completely won over by the sincerity of the show and end up deeply caring for the characters
I rewatched the show recently and it’s really cool because the show has a lot of good foreshadowing and jokes that carry over multiple episodes sometimes
Whatever you think of Ted Lasso as a football coach, I assure you, the truth is harder to swallow ... And swallow you must, because Ted is out there in the community either bravely or stupidly facing the music. That's for you to decide ... And, yes, he's in over his head. He insisted twice that he didn't care if Richmond won or lost. But if the Lasso way is wrong, it's hard to imagine being right ... In a business that celebrates ego, Ted reins his in. His coaching style is subtle. It never hits you over the head ... slowly growing until you can no longer ignore its presence ... Whether that means allowing followers to become leaders, or in a show of respect, eating food so spicy it's sure to wreak massive havoc on his intestinal system ... And though I believe that Ted Lasso will fail here, and Richmond will suffer the embarrassment of relegation, I won't gloat when it happens. Because I can't help but root for him.
i'm 8 episodes into the first season as i'm watching it for the first time as i'm enjoying the hell out of that show. i love the fact that ted won over someone as cynical as trent by just being kind and humble. how can you not root for a guy like ted? this is a great show so far
Roy complains that he can't see so well at night anymore and yet sees Keeley sitting at least 6 feet away. This show is full of little details like these.
I would have to think that, since Roy was the one who got the team to stop picking on Nate, Roy will play a role in Nate's undoing in season 3 now that we know that Nate has become the villain.
Season 1&2 Spoilers ahead I think he's already been a major part of Nate's undoing just in a way that doesn't really involve anything he specifically did. -Roy gave Nate a voice on the team by stopping him from being bullied, which led to further success that he didn't know how to navigate. -Nate started doing the "be bigger" advice by spitting at himself due to not getting THE table at his favorite restaurant. Meanwhile the hostess and Nate reference Roy Kent and how if Nate was Roy it wouldn't have been a hassle. -Nate's hair starts shifting gray after Roy's emergence as a coach, we legitimately see Nate become actively nervous and almost afraid. -Nate kisses Keely and Roy doesn't respect him enough as a threat for it to mean anything, meanwhile was prepared to kill Jamie for "saying words"
Noticed how the articles title “Wayward Ted” is likely a play on the song Carry on My Wayward Son, a song by the band Kansas where Trent observed Ted is from at the Indian restaurant
I think that's one level of meaning -- there's also the original Biblical parable of the wayward (e.g., prodigal) son that was an inspiration for the Kansas song. (Which is about the slavery abolitionist John Brown, of all people.) Layers and layers of meaning. Very cool.
This is the moment Keely decided she was done with boys and wanted a man. The sheer amount of masculinity used to help someone bullied like Nate is exactly what she was looking for. An alpha who used his power for good. Roy was the diamond in the rough. A big tough and gruff guy with a giant heart looking to love and be loved. Tartt never stood a chance
That’s actually false. Sure, they may not have a pack hierarchy but the alpha male wolf is the one getting the choice mates while the betas, deltas, and omegas get the left overs.
@@shadowofhawk55 again: only Wolfes in captivity behave that way. In the wild, they usually move in family units. The very zoologist that published his observations of pack hierarchy had to later revise his observations and admitted to have observed Wolfes in captivity at the time.
@@IHSchwingo Yes, family units. And which wolf is the one getting to reproduce? The bigger stronger one that can provide for the mate and cubs or the weaker one with a cough? One is an alpha and one is an omega. It's a genetical ID not a hierarchal one.
This was the most dramatic comedy or funniest drama I’ve ever seen. From “can’t wait to unpack that with you,” to the Iverson speech, to the divorce driven by his own compulsive and relentless optimism. What a show
@@MatthewBakke This show balances comedy and drama in a way that only Scrubs has been able to manage previously. Which isn't surprising since Bill Lawrence created Scrubs and is a co-creator of Ted Lasso.
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Watching Ted Lasso the television show is like strolling along a barren beach of cynicism, you know, covered with bleached bones and sarcastic sharp pebbles, only to be struck by a huge tsunami of niceness, dragged out into the Agreeable Sea and smacked in the face with a Empathetic Jellyfish.
