The roads are littered with them. Every plumber and handy man is blasting around the city in one of these.

I liked Roy making Lasso-like jokes and immediately despising himself for it.

The dick strings joke was fine, whatever, but watching Roy giggle about it made me fucking guffaw.

That casual pegging convo kinda blew my mind.

It seems Manuel and I want completely different things from this show. This was probably my favorite episode of the season. Meanwhile, early episodes that were lauded here struck me as some of the worst in the series. This really is a “to each their own” kind of show, isn’t it?

Came here right after watching the episode, with a grin on my face. It’s a bittersweet season that’s building up on everything we’ve been watching for three seasons. “You’ve done this over three seasons (...). By slowly but surely building a club-wide culture of trust and support through thousands of imperceptible…

For most of last season, I grew less and less interested in Nate because he was turning into a real prick. But over the off-season, I had a chance to think it over, and I realized that his arc is more realistic than I had thought. The arrested development he suffered by having a distant and authoritarian father and a…

The review is correct in the sense that this was structurally a very unsound episode. Nate and Keeley’s plots were so slight they could have been cut without losing anything worthwhile. Sam’s plot was topical and emotionally nice, but the politics were clunky and so heavy-handed in their suddenness and exposition.

Lucki…

Abbott Elementary is the best 22 minute sitcom in years. 

I guess I’m not hip or edgy enough. I’m enjoying this season. But is it really a show about soccer, or is soccer simply the vehicle the show uses to tell stories about people? Someone cooler than me will probably have to answer that.

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.

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 get that a reviewer/critic has to really look at the structure of a show/book/movie, etc. But as someone who just wants to be entertained-this weeks Ted Lasso was just a darn fun hour of TV. It pulled on the emotional strings that Lasso is so good at and I enjoyed it immensely. I simply don’t care that there are…

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

I laughed out loud at the dick string jokes. Between that and Beards possible foray into pegging, I worked out my humour brow is pretty low.

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…

Lots of people say, “Oh, people get divorced too easily these days. They change spouses like they change socks!” Except when it’s their sister or their friend or their son getting a divorce, they’re like, “Well, you know, they really tried but it was just wrong from the start” or “You know, after the death of his…

The incels and religious right—the unholiest of all unions.