r/TedLasso

I caught this show just after the first season, but somehow watched the season finale, thinking it was the Pilot. So I watched the whole thing thinking it was a show about Nate, getting more confused every second. I made it through the entire episode before I figured it out.

This Post Episode Discussion Thread will be for all your thoughts on the episode overall once you have finished watching the episode. The other thread, the Live Episode Discussion Thread, will be for all your thoughts as you watch the episode (typically as you watch when the episode goes live at 9pm ET).

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Please use this thread to discuss Season 4 Episode 3 "Richmond's Got Talent". Just a reminder to please mark any spoilers for episodes beyond Episode 3 >!like this!<.

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The sub will be locked (meaning no new posts will be allowed) for 24 hours after the new episode drops to help prevent spoilers. The lock will be lifted Wednesday, August 19th 9pm ET. Please use the official discussion threads!

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This Live Episode Discussion Thread will be for all your thoughts as you watch the episode (typically as you watch when the episode goes live at 9pm ET). The other thread, the Post Episode Discussion Thread, will be for all your thoughts on the episode overall once you have finished watching the episode.

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Please use this thread to discuss Season 4 Episode 3 "Richmond's Got Talent". Just a reminder to please mark any spoilers for episodes beyond Episode 3 >!like this!<.

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The sub will be locked (meaning no new posts will be allowed) for 24 hours after the new episode drops to help prevent spoilers. The lock will lift Wednesday, August 19th 9pm ET. Please use the official discussion threads!

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After the lock is lifted please note that NO S4 SPOILERS IN NEW THREAD TITLES ARE ALLOWED. Please try and keep discussion to the official discussion threads rather than starting new threads. Before making a new thread, please check to see if someone else has already made a similar thread that you can contribute to. Thanks everyone!!

I'm pasting the actual lines Rebecca's mum says.

"Oh, that just reeks of jealousy.

It’s very unattractive."

"You know what, w-why don’t you just fire this jealous hag?"

"Well, if I have any advice to give you, it’s that women are monsters.

Men showed us the way, and we perfected the model."

It was so interesting to me, how immediately Rebecca's mum jumps to jealousy and looks. Anyone criticising Rebecca , if female, must be jealous and (it is implied) themselves unattractive physically. Women are 'monsters' and 'hags', in constant competition with each other. The exhortation to Rebecca 'I raised you better than that' - I raised you better than being a feminist.

Tbh this entire exchange has rankled me since I saw this episode, because it's the essence of what some older women and some very current women have to say about feminism. It's hilarious in a dark way that she's saying this to her daughter - who wrested her husband's football club away and is running it herself. How does she think this was possible without feminism?

This is the core of some stuff that kept on coming up in previous seasons as well. Rebecca's loss of confidence after her divorce, how she felt so underconfident on the red carpet till Keeley boosted her confidence. How she could never truly accept Sam. It all hearkens back to her mum, and the stuff she's passed down to Rebecca. It's also part of the reason Rebecca becomes so defensive at what Coach Chilton said. Say whatever, a woman was never even considered for the position of head coach. Why? Yes, Ted is someone she trusts but she did not have even a single female candidate as an alternative?

I'm sure the show will get increasingly into this, but I'm already appreciative of how the first 2 episodes succinctly showed different kinds of feminism. 'Girl power' 'girl boss' 'women supporting women' till you run into a woman like Alice Chilton, who isn't 'girly' or a 'girl's girl'. Then, you need to introduce a man into the equation. I think the show's already called out some of the hypocrisy and I hope it does more.

Does anyone feel any whiplash regarding Jade as a character? Like I sort of like her, but she is written to be such an overt plot device, rather than an actual person.

Like we are introduced to her initially as being a hostess who was hinted as being a bit classist or racist when dealing with Nate.

Then she is later used as someone who softens Nate up a bit, coincidentally seeing the good, evil, and true desires in everyone.

In all of this she just felt like a device to shape Nate’s direction without really developing as much as a character.

Nate needs to become assertive against the cruel word? Jade is the cruel world

Nate needs to see more in life other than hate and resentment in west ham? Cool Jades there for that too

Nate needs to realise how toxic and horrible his workplace is? Easy, Jade as a concept made him realise how bad Rupert really was

Nate secretly wants to go back to his old team? Sweet, let’s get Jade to blackmail his boss into firing him.

Who tf really is Jade? It’s a genuine whiplash, from classist, to personal coach in a season. Wild.

I like her but that’s because I assume her to be good, and I downplay the initial framing of her character. But damn, they could have developed Nate return arc a bit more than ‘cute gurl, motivate change’

I just had to put this out there because I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I don't think Beard and Jane are broke up. I think they lost the baby because in all their previous breakups Beard never let himself get that far gone. And no one has said they're broken up. I think it's a red herring to what the real issue is going to be.

The biggest complaint I have seen people make whether they watch S4 or not is them saying it is “too woke” with the women’s team. But are we really being serious here because there is no way you watched Ted Lasso and are only NOW complaining about it being woke. ESPECIALLY after Keely/Jack as well as Collin in S3 NOT TO MENTION Ted’s character as a whole and even the therapy arc .

What the hell was Nate talking about towards the end? what did i miss? He treated him good all season. what did Ted do to that Nate feels neglected?

Just finished S03 and I honestly can’t hold myself back from posting this.

The show I always used to ignore has somehow become one of my all time favorites. I always thought it was just some kind of football game show. I am sure many of us thought that LOL. But hell no.

I don’t even know how to describe this show in one line. It was like some sort of mental peace for me. I never missed a chance to laugh while watching it.

Huge kudos to the writers who wrote this so brilliantly. The storytelling was just amazing. The cliffhangers, the baits, the expectations, everything was on point.

I recently watched it, and I can understand how sad it must have been to watch the S03 finale when it originally aired. At that point, S03 was supposed to be the actual finale, and S04 was never planned. So knowing that makes the ending feel even more meaningful.

For me, knowing that S04 is already out makes it a little easier, but S03 still felt like a proper finale.

What I loved most is that the show feels like real life. No bluffs and no fairy tales. Life has its ups and downs, things don’t always go the way we expect, and sometimes we just have to keep moving forward.

What an unexpected favorite. What a journey.

As entertaining as Rebecca's dive into feminism is in episode 2, all she really had to say when Alice asked if she'd considered hiring a female head coach is "Coach Lasso was always my first choice.". Explaining that Ted is there to build a successful culture certainly frames the conversation differently.