He wants to promote the concept of shoes.  It’s not complicated.

Zava is based off of real life diva, team dilletante, soccer legend that has casually headbutted numerous people on and off the pitch, and moved to America, LA to be exact, because his wife wanted to, Zlatan Ibrahimović. The showrunners are trying to pitch can a guy like Ted Lasso tame a violent douchebag like him.

Not quite enough discussion here about how how completely and obviously Zava is based on Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

He thought he was being edgy, trying to make a name for himself. All he really does is look for the worst in people.

It still cracks me up about how when Zlatan moved to LA, LeBron James posted a “welcome to LA” thing on instagram, to which Zlatan replied, “A king welcomes a god.”

I think Isaac just wants free shoes.

Ted telling Trent Crimm  they have a bunch of his hair ties in the stadium’s lost & found if he wants them felt improvised to me, partly because the actor didn’t respond to it. I equally loved his sincere apology to Roy for that long ago article & him telling Rebecca with apparent sincerity that he loved her petty…

Isaac makes the most of his limited screen time. I really liked him asking Keeley for help with a “shoe deal” though I think she and I are both confused about what he means by that. And him immediately knowing Keeley & Roy broke up due to “body science” was a brilliant scene & equally impressed me & Jamie. 

It was a lovely episode. Jamie awkwardly trying to confort Roy (“Jesus, sorry. I forget how skittish elderly people could be ‘cause of the war”), Ted batting his eyelashes to the sound of Andrew Bird. That’s not who I am either, Roy, but we can try.

yup, agree. I felt the length of the season opener much more than this episode.

I didn’t even realize the episode was 48 minutes long until I read this review. At the end, I told my wife, “They really need to make these episodes longer.” Probably because I know we’re running out of time to hang with these characters and I’m going to miss them so much.

I actually thought this was the best episode yet, evern if I am TBD on the kiss at the end. So many laugh-out-loud lines (“not a duet,” “guac the taco,” “we talked about not eating the ties”) and touching moments too (the actual engagement; the “proof” picture). Really digging this show more and more.

I’m not even on board with complaining that the depiction of therapy is unrealistic. A realistic depiction of therapy would be dull and awful TV.

“9 Seasons in and this ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ character is just as much of an asshole (if not more so!) as he was in the first episode. D-.”

I suppose it’s a reasonable stance to say that therapy is not a particularly good profession for a sitcom. But I can’t really be down for complaints about the entire *nature* of sitcoms themselves. It’s tiresome contemporary critique bullshit. I’m sorry but relatively static characters are part of the very definition…

I’m not sure on Cougar Town she was playing a different character than she did on Scrubs.

Love Christa, but Harrison Ford is the MVP of every episode; who knew he was such a great comedian?

...”guess we should be happy he has enough senses not to make out with Alicia.”

Ah jeez, do we honestly need to point out that both Gabby and Jimmy are very close, have the loss of their best friend/wife in common, have both being going through difficult times recently, and both are at the end of a party where copious alcohol (and other drugs) was consumed?

“it’s clear Shrinking has little interest in actually depicting how therapy—actual therapy—works.”