My mind is blown. That was probably fifteen hundred words about how stereotypes and attitudes about fat people are being promoted by...a character that isn’t fat.

Fuck these religious hypocrites. They all need to go back and listen George Carlin talk about organized religion and then look themselves in the fucking mirror.  Organized religion is the most evil entity on our planet.  Period.  

Where’s the discussion of Jamie’s speech in the locker room and overall character development? His transition from showboat to team player is one of the highlights of the series. Watching him give the assist rather than trying to score the goal himself was one of the top moments of the episode.

...is more interesting to me than seeing what needless sitcom-y setups the writers have cooked up for the show’s ancillary characters.

Much like last week, it’s seems I liked this episode way more than the reviewer. Sure there are multiple plots spinning, but I think it’s great that more characters are getting stuff to do, rather than just be background faces reacting to whatever Ted, Roy, Rebecca, Jamie and maybe Beard are doing each week.

Comment from my wife after last night’s episode: “Who knew that an episode that kicked off with a pegging reference and continued on to footballers with red string around their gentlemen’s regions would be so great?”

Ted Lasso is not a show about football any more than The Office is a show about paper products. It’s a show about people who happen to be in the football business.

I once again find myself in stark disagreement with the review-which is fine, but this is absolutely higher than a a C Plus for me. I thought the stories of the characters were fun, in some cases emotional, and well handled while clearly tying into a central theme.

No love for Will dressed as Beard? Him sitting at Beard’s desk reading Beard’s book was my favourite joke of the episode.

Watching this from the UK, I was wondering how Sam’s plot would track; this is something that might not make it overseas, but currently there’s a huge immigration war going on with the UK Conservative goverment, because like the US, they have very little else left to put forward as their big campaigning tactic for the…

Which just seems really naive to me. I feel like I knew “adult” = “sex” well before I was an actual adult.  

So I totally agree that the drop down options are weird and such.

He had hired goons show up at his doorstep for the unforgivable offense of… coming into possession of trading cards a few weeks before their street date. That’s objectively ludicrous. 

If they had proof that he engaged in illegal activity to buy these cards then the police, who don’t cost anything and are legal able to seize property, would have been called

Private detectives cannot raid your house. They cannot enter your premises without your permission. They cannot seize your property without a court order. This is bullying and intimidation, and this guy is being way too nice about the unconscionable way he was treated.

Fair enough, and I won’t pretend I know how it turns out. I do feel like 30 years ago when I was a young teen, we just read fantasy... not this. Thinking back, my favorites at the time were the Stainless Steel Rat series and Rendevouz with Rama. I’m not sure I had discovered high fantasy (I disliked tolkein as a kid),…

lol idk why people think anecdotal evidence is worth literally anything more than a wet fart. Your experience with one single pakistani person means fuckall.

Well there’s a whole lot to unpack in this comment.

It won’t be in Texas, Idaho, Florida, etc., where they’re hard at work banning textbooks.

Jedi gained a huge power boost in the Expanded Universe, though. Same way Superman used to be a guy who leapt tall buildings and ran faster than a train, but writers ran out of ideas on how to use his limited power set, so they just kept making up new powers until he could fly, lift apartment buildings, run faster…