Ted Lasso Season 2 Discussion (Includes Spoilers)

The father-son storylines are, I think, the main theme. Jamie and James. Ted and his dad's suicide. Nate and his never-approving father. Even Roy and his niece.

 

And Roy and Jamie, for that matter. Given the father/son theme of the show, I can’t see the series ending without Ted going home to his boy. The ex-wife isn’t going to move to England.

No chance Ted and his therapist fall in love. It’s totally against her character. She’s too professional.

 

Rebecca is Dorothy?

 

No, of course Ted is the Dorothy figure, whisked away to an unfamiliar and wondrous new world — and eventually he’ll end up going home.

 

Rebecca began as the wicked witch, but has kinda morphed into Glinda the Good Witch.

 

The riffing on Hoosiers was fantastic

 

That's just a facade. Remember, her therapist told her to let her guard down.

 

Yeah, that’s how she gets through to Ted, not how she sleeps with him.

 

First step. I’m pretty convinced this is gonna happen.

 

1) Can some explain how the hospital knew to call Ted? It seems like their were voice notes on the phone, but how did they open the phone/would they call her emergency contact?

2) What do we make of Beard leaving Wembley at the end? Based on the title of episode 9, we are going to learn more, but I thought it was strange.

 

1) I'm assuming they saw the missed call from Ted at the time of the accident. He's a known figure in that town now so I'm guessing they called the team if they couldn't get into her phone. Not sure about the voice notes part.

2) Guessing he's getting fed up with the "aw shucks, we tried / did our best" mentality. He wants to win. We saw a bit of this last season in the pub after Ted said he wasn't benching Roy, and earlier in this episode near the end of the match right before he falls over the advertising boards.

 

That was my general thought on no. 2 as well, The falling over the advertising boards was a strange bit of slapstick.