Yelena’s shadowing Eleanor because Kate said she should question why she was hired. The implication is that Eleanor called Val when Clint left their penthouse and that’s why Yelena’s in NYC. It doesn’t really line up with the BW stinger, which you could rationalize as happening as late as early fall, but even then,…

Yeah, it’s a pretty colossal muddle. Clint can’t be allowed to beat Maya cleanly, so his threat’s a bit confusing, and even to the extent he was misled in to killing everybody at that Tracksuit meeting, he hasn’t and doesn’t intend to do anything about the person he blames for it. There just isn’t any room within the…

FWIW, I doubt it. There’s no clue given about who it was that Eleanor called, and given the way Eleanor talks about Kate to Jack I don’t think it works to have Yelena make her attack while Hawkeye isn’t alone.

If Jack did indeed don the Ronin suit, hearing him make a verbal blunder while masked might be a give away. But who was around to record it?

I think it works fine as shorthand, and in the moment the what of Yelena’s appearance matters more than the why/how. I’m guessing they’ll stitch that up whenever Yelena and Clint reconcile, because Clint pretty much has to know who Yelena is to be able to talk her down.

Please do not construe this as an endorsement of the fight scene, but Yelena grabs the zipline to kick Clint in the face and then hits Kate when she comes in. Why Kate does not simply pull out her phone, turn on her flashlight, and drag Yelena for being a millennial wearing night vision goggles in an urban…

Sure, but it’s a little weird to think it wouldn’t have come up either on their flight home from Tokyo or after.

Even in your paraphrasing, the intent is clear: “if Daredevil is ever in the MCU, it will ONLY be Cox.” This only makes sense if they’ve got Cox under contract.

* I don’t think Clint killed Echo’s Dad, largely because I think given Zach McClarnan’s sympathetic performance, the killer has to get a comeuppance and I don’t Marvel wants Clint dead. Since anyone could be Ronin, the leading suspects are Kazi, Jack and Kate’s Mom.

Not really fair to compare, I think—this had a much freer hand in sticking the landing. WandaVision and F&WS both had premises that were impossible to resolve in a satisfying way and also had to further bigger MCU narratives.

Plus if, The Infinity Crusher had worked, that would have just left the Checkov’s Gun that was the Zola Arrow literally un-fired.

What’s to call bullshit on, though? Richmond are in their first year in the championship, have held their roster together, and now they’re in the mix for promotion and made an FA cup semifinal.

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.