Ted Lasso Season 3 (spoilers included)

This week they injected "shut up and dribble" politics and racism.

And a whole lot more googly moogly filler.

At this point it feels all ...

 

Thought it was a pretty great episode. I still think the Keeley plot is fat which the show could trim.

 

And they brought it back this week!

 

This was the first time we’ve ever seen Trent Crimm, formerly of the Independent, excited.

I’d like to think it was because he finally has found the overriding theme — and perhaps the title — of his book.

 

That was a truly wonderful episode.

 

I thought the Sam plot needed a little more to it — his teammates would be aware of his social media postings and it probably would be covered in the press. That being said, his father was great and Ted seeing the father/son dynamic was a good moment.

 

Right, they played the restaurant thing with kid gloves.

And the whole thing about how every character is quip smart has gone way over the top.

Nate's storyline is a nothingburger. In real life he has talked about how hard it is for him to play a mean character, at least in the way Nate transformed into a psychopath, and so they've basically written him out of this season by softening him up with a soapy love story.

 

And Crimm's moment of euphoria was contrived and awful.

 

I liked last night's episode. But I agree the writing of the Nate character is a problem. At the end of last season they had created one of the more hateful villains in television and now they are bending over backwards to make him likable again.

 

Because he’s going to be the next coach/manager of AFC Richmond.

 

They created a character that had the world buzzing all so they could tie a pretty little bow around it? Silly.

 

It’s a feel-good show.