I’m not sure it matters that much, but I’d guess he got it either from Beard the day of, or that Ted addressed it with the coaching staff before he met with the press. There’s no obvious reason at the time that they’d hide it from Nate (or Roy, but it’s easier to imagine him not asking).

Akufo is explained to Rebecca as someone who “just inherited 1.2 billion pounds and loves football.” Certainly there are some offputting things about his approach (and it’s utter bloody nonsense), but I can think of nothing about this show that would get better if there’s a Big Bad, and it’ll be a disservice to Sam to…

Agreed, effectiveness is the point. My main issue with the unrealities of the show is that they seem to serve no purpose. It’s less about subverting expectations and more just passively confounding them.

One thing I genuinely found confusingly out of character: Trent Crimm giving up an anonymous source like that.

The plan makes no sense, but one of the quirks of the Ted Lasso world is that we have no idea how much or how little sense it should make. It’s weird for Sam not to have an agent handling this sort of thing, and it’s weird for the show not to mention Sam’s relationship with the Nigerian national team/youth system,…

That makes sense, because his James Spader sounds halfway to Hugo Weaving.

I’m convinced this guy didn’t actually pay attention to the episode. Beard didn’t break up with Jane

I do think that Rebecca’s apparent lack of business action on-screen is deliberate - she’s become swept up in the possibility of romance, and the reality of managing a struggling football club is going to come back and crush her late in the game. All the pieces are there, they just haven’t come together yet.

What’s even more interesting is that he lost his shit AFTER going through his noble sacrifice/heroes’ journey. So, after he saw the Ancient One fall, and after Mordo went rogue, and after Kaecilius and Dormmamu.

But it’s a trope that already exists within the MCU/Strange’s universe. They don’t call the Ancient One’s death an Absolute Point, but it’s explicitly treated as such.

Be honest:  does Henry Golding look Chinese to you?

Last week when Roy started running to get to the stadium, all I could think was, “My god is that an awkward looking run for a guy who was supposedly an all-world talent.”

Of course on a technical note everything else aside, the Championship has a long season and as a newly-relegated club, Richmond would have more money than basically anybody else so the playoffs would still be a totally reasonable goal if they got on a run.

Tbf, it wasn’t even turning on a dime. She didn’t know the Timekeepers were fake, her entire plan was to get through the door so she could kill them, which itself wasn’t any more developed than Loki’s plan to kill Alioth.

Yeah, that’s fair. There’s a tension between Mobius not really needing to be a significant character/Loki not needing to have a primary relationship and, well, the Owen Wilson of it all.

Loki’s arc requires that you just sort go with it, because textually it’s treated like New York Loki became Revenger Loki just by watching the clip reel in the TVA. It’s shorthand that makes less sense in terms of narrative linearity the more you think about it.

FWIW, Loki survived the Thanos encounter the exact same way that Gamora did.

So, in theory, if everything had happened correctly to Alligator Loki, and he failed to take over Alligator New York and eventually got killed by Alligator Thanos when he tried to assemble the Alligator Infinity Gauntlet, that would’ve been the Sacred Timeline version of Loki.

My preferred version is that it’s simply two variants of the same root deciding that they have an equal right to exist, which on its own is incompatible with a singular timeline. But they’re sure not steering away from the romantic implications, which I’d frankly be a lot more OK with if the MCU had better LGBTQ+…

FWIW, I think it works better as non-romantic? By all means, let Lokis get as weird as they want/can consent to be, but a weird thing about the narrowness of the MCU focus is that unless any of these main characters are shown to have friends, they maybe don’t. So it’s wholly plausible that Sylvie’s genuinely the first…