Can you imagine how boring the show would be if it stuck to the season 1 premise of “fish out of water slowly wins cynical people over with his homespun optimism”? Reviewers would be complaining that the show was spinning its wheels and needed to do something fresh.

The review has been rewritten since Erik wrote this.

Thank you, I felt like I was losing my mind. Parts of this review have been completely re-written, and the tone is totally different.

Ted wasn’t wearing his team’s gear, just normal clothes. Beard was deliberately wearing them because he hates Nate.

... Manuel, are you okay?

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

Yes! He also receives a bottle of that barbecue sauce in a care package in season 1, and says it’s the best barbecue sauce in the world and it reminds him of home.

Thank you for explaining Total Football. I always appreciate the insights about football from commenters here, because the show is kind of light on them!

Or just someone familiar with the Netherlands (i.e. Brendan Hunt). Canada is well loved there because Canadians liberated it from the Germans during WWII. It’s exactly the kind of detail Dutch people would put into a song like that.

I thought Jamie’s story was one of the darkest things the show has ever done. “Jeez must have been traumatising”, “Dunno, don’t remember”, contrasted with the incredible detail with which he recalled the trip he took to Amsterdam with his mother. They’ve done such an amazing job through seasons 2 and 3 of explaining…

I’m sorry, I assumed he was a psychiatrist because Ted called him “Doctor Jacob”. Do psychologists also use the title of doctor in the US? Or are we supposed to assume that’s just a Lasso-ism?

With the whiff of a filler set piece, this subplot had all of Richmond’s players remembering that the best way to spend a curfew-free night in Amsterdam is to not go see tulips, not eat Dutch food, not attend a private party, and definitely not bear witness to a sex show and instead to have a pillow fight(?).

Sure, “Triangles TRY ANGLES” does feel like the ramblings of someone thinking they’re high

“I would like to see a tulip.”
“You mean tulip fields?”
“No no no, just one tulip. An entire field would be incredibly overwhelming.”

The psychic also predicted that Rebecca would be upside down and drenched, but also be safe. It’s pretty obvious the Amsterdam meeting was the fulfillment of the main part of the psychic’s prophecy.

It wasn’t just the Grindr mention in s2. As someone pointed out on reddit, in season 1 episode 3, during the scene where Roy goes to confront Jaime at the club, you can briefly see Colin chatting up a guy. I’m sure there are other blink and you’ll miss it moments that we’ve, well, missed. This show seems to have long…

It’s possible they’re setting up a plot where Ted takes custody of Henry, and Henry moves to London.

The more I think about this the worse it gets. Ted said that he felt like the therapist and his wife ganged up on him in therapy, and that the therapist had already made up his mind about him. And the therapist was the one who suggested Ted give his wife space (and leave the country). It seems clear now that the dude…

I think last week’s episode and this week’s are two of the best the show has ever done. I loved the brisk pacing in this one, keeping all the various subplots spinning while pushing the story forward. Zava is a great wrench in the works for almost every plot the show has going. This may be the best use we’ve seen of…

I’d love a version of this show where Jessica Williams was the main character. She’s an absolute delight. Hell, I’d watch an entire show that was just her morning car rides with Harrison Ford.