People spent a lot of time wondering about Cecily, Kate, Kenan, Aidy, but Beck leaving SNL is actually a sneaky big loss. He’s essentially been SNL’s glue guy during his tenure. A consistently solid performer that makes every sketch he’s in work. He was in the mold of Phil Hartman/Jason Sudekis where they may not be th…

The Roy and Keeley stuff felt a little forced, but I think we can all agree, “Avenge me Keeley” was pure gold.

I’ve suspected all season that Nate is going over to the dark side, and that Rupert sold his interest so he could buy another team, and take Nate in as a coach.

Nate is probably going to reveal Ted’s anxiety/panic attack, because Nate has become a giant nob. Ted will talk about it with Trent Crimm in the end. 

I really really really loved the moment between Ted, Rebecca , and her mother at the end. Ted using something he had just learned in therapy and reminding Rebecca of a happy memory of her father.

Not only was there more football, but the on-field play looked reasonably good and was well staged. I audibly reacted to some of the footwork.

I’ve been reading the backlash to Ted Lasso online, and I’ve come to the conclusion that people are starting to forget what the name of this show means. A lot of people seem to be caught up in the fate of Richmond, or of Nate, Beard, or even Rebecca, as if those situations are the crux of the narrative.

Stay off Twitter. The anti Ted trolls are out en force.

Parking the bus isn’t a bold offensive strategy; if anything, it’s the opposite of that: everyone behind the ball and hope to hit the opposition on the break (which is what happened in the show). Spurs (Tottenham Hotspur) as the superior team had to go for all-out for the win. In so doing they made themselves…

Roy fucking Kent. It’s schmaltzy, but Roy walking into the stadium feels so cathartic. Brett Goldstein walks like a boss.

I don’t get some of the criticism about consequences here since, as you mention, they’re clearly setting up a confrontation with Nate. Ted Lasso has clearly set up a world where there aren’t global consequences, it’s about the personal relationships and conflicts of the characters. The effect of relegation I don’t…

An odd thing that made this episode hit me really hard emotionally was the use of silence and empty spaces. The way that Christmas days are almost always eerily quiet, with the streets largely deserted, is so integral to my memories of Christmas — especially the sad ones or years when I was alone. When you’re outside…

Ted’s drunken reaction to It’s a Wonderful Life is not super reassuring about the potentially traumatic family history in his backstory that was floated a few weeks ago

“I think you might be dying...” was the line delivery of the year. I can honestly say I’ve never seen anyone portray one’s soul leaving their body as well as Brett Goldstein did there.

There’s a scene in the season 2 trailer where Ted asks if a team like theirs has ever won the “whole chimichanga”. Higgins says not for 40 years. I don’t know if that scene has been in an episode to date. At the time I thought maybe the go on a run in the FA cup. Checking now, 1980 was the last time a team not in the…

Paused to see the team record

I laughed really hard at this exchange:

Re: the dentist search, you can’t order a prescription filled until someone writes the script. I assume it is illegal in the UK as it is in the US, for one, and for two, neither he nor Keeley knew what was wrong with Phoebe’s breath and thus would have no idea what to order at a pharmacy even if they could. They…

we get a brief glimpse of Roy

I’m surprised no one mentioned Ted’s masterful bit of passive aggression wherein he compares his video game “addiction” to Dr. Fieldstone’s sugar “addiction” and concludes that sanctimoniously denying yourself something pleasurable is just another way of failing to control your impulses. 

People being completely unfazed by Roy’s curmudgeonly ways is a solid running joke, and logically children make it even funnier