Oh, yeah, the Keeley hotel video was great, and called back to one of my favorite episodes. I really loved how they used the callback in that same season 1 episode too, when the team is deciding where to go out after they beat Everton.

Once again, I speak to the fans of this show: Life is too short to argue with this guy.

Jamie’s dad does not taunt him along the fans in the episode, Jamie just think he is, as he hasn’t heard from him since Wembley.

One other thing I’ll add that’s a separate thought— rewatching some of the first two seasons, I’ve come to notice more callbacks I didn’t before. The opening to this episode was definitely a reflection / re-creation of the opening scene of the season 2 finale, after the story about Ted’s panic attack runs.

Honestly, if this wasn’t an A rated episode in your eyes, I don’t know what more the show can give you. And I don’t think we’re watching the same show. The entirety of the Beard/Nate scene, from jump scare to quite contemplation ranks up there with the best things this show’s ever put to film.

The only thing they did off camera is him deciding to ultimately leave they showed the reasons why he left throughout the season. You want to be spoon fed the story instead of experiencing it, which is why you missed all the the tells of what was going on.

I think you’re right about the boardroom scene. Rebecca didn’t need to change everyone’s mind there, she only needed to change Ruperts. She had already seen how Edwin reacted to rejection when Sam turned him down, so getting one other person to say “No” would have been enough to get him to lose his rag, which in turn…

You clearly need the bad writing style of tell and not show where you have exposition explaining every little detail because the better quality storytelling is show not tell, which is exactly what they did with Nate’s story. 

It was a fun light show when it started but all the characters have gotten deeper, funnier and everything is playing at a higher level. A “C” is bananas.

Saying again, the dam break was him asking out and dating Jade, because it made Nate realize that the type of world and personality Rupert lives in and is pushing on him is not the one he wants.

“Ok, but what were those reasons and were they explicitly stated?”

Again, this is the part where you should’ve watched those episodes and been paying attention because that was the conflict.

Our reviewer is too cool to read comments, and too awesome and above it all to like things.

Loved those bits though the funniest thing in this episode hands down was Jade asking Nate if he wanted to help her Polish family screw in lightbulbs & then asking straightfaced why he thought that was funny.

Criticizing an ensemble show for having multiple plots is like criticizing ice cream for being cold. 

Like, we get it, you don’t GET the show, but this is getting embarrassing at this point dude.

Interview from earlie this week: talks about how Ted Lasso is an aspirational show that’s not trying to present the real world but the world they’d rather see.

- Keely asking Mae if her name is short for anything and her replying “Maybe” and Keely calling her Maybe was hilarious

I think you just don’t get the show. 

As critical as I’ve been of the show, I liked this one well enough. I think there may be a perspective problem here with your criticisms of Nate and Keeley’s stories. I don’t see them as one-episode conflicts that are resolved neatly, so much as the payoff to what’s been going on all season.