User Reviews

This episod boasts some great character development and some good moments, but unfortunately, the episode felt largely unfocused.

As always, Ted Lasso (played perfectly again by Jason Sudeikis) delivers some uplifting and insightful advice, this time to his struggling team. Keeley, Rebecca and Nate all had some focus, and I like Keeley's journey but can't get much sympathy for Nate just yet.

However, the episode struggled to find a cohesive storyline, bouncing from one storyline to another, and made the episode lose some focus and I felt a little impatient.

Ted bought it all together in the end though, which was good, because he started being active. I hope the show reaches its peaks again.

Each series has had the odd disappointing story and this seems to be the first of the third series.

The stories are now longer but the quality does seem to be dropping.

When you have to resort to thd supporting actress wearing a low cut top to keep the viewer occupied (plus a joke about lamb droppings) then the show should know it has problems.

In these days of woke, it is surprising the viewer has had to wait until now for the first lesbian kiss.

On thd upside, Rebecca's contract with Christian Louboutin continues and wears white stilettos like Scotsdee often wears on her twitter page (but a lot less clothing).

Time for a rethink as the show seems to be losing it's way.

I enjoy just about every storyline and character in Ted Lasso. But this episode just stands out for the amazing Hannah Waddingham. In the midst of wonderful characters and hilarious comedy, Rebecca continually stands out as as the character who I care the most about. The writing is spot on, but Hannah's acting is just incredible. Her ability to show Rebecca's insecurity and and hurt, her trying to do every right, in the course of actually doing the right things... is just a wonderfully understated but highly powerhouse performance. Easy to see why she is garnering awards and accolades.

Really look forward to Rebecca's success!

The price we pay for watching a series from beginning to end is that it is impossible to sustain excellence every single week. Sometimes there will be an occasionally downer. So what happens. One missed beat an all the rats leave. The comments about a weak offering are abusive and accusatory, as if the writers owed something to the viewers. Yes, this episode is about a team in disarray, losing matches after starting off so well. So Zava is not the total solution. He moved into a decently working group and took all the focus. It became Zava--not Richmond. Oh, another thing. This show is not realistic--it never was. The characters are fun and put into unique situations. Someone like Ted would never get this job in the real world. But his bromides, his "aw shucksiness," and his whole being are fun, and that's the key word. I think the key here is that there has to be some spark that is there that needs to start up. Ted's little lectures just won't cut it any more, even if they are filled with truth.

I see some negative reviews. Stuff like...They've lost the plot. They've run out of ideas. The show is unfocused. What is it even about?

Guys. Guys. You are not wrong. I kinda of thought to myself, "is this the new Seinfeld, a show about nothing!" Then, I remembered. It. Is. A. Comedy. We are seriously going to analyze plot lines. Come on. I still care about the characters. That's all that matters. Maybe some of the reviewers are really worried about the characters, not the plot line. Maybe it seems chaotic not because it is but because they are. I donno. Laughed really hard. And I thought the acting was really good. Really good. Top notch episode. No complaints here.

I didn't even finish the episode before wanting to leave a review. Only 12 minutes in and I have laughed so much. This episode has been delightful and witty. The characters continue to emulate fun positivity and humor within the story arcs. Ted Lasso is a series unlike any other, especially in these modern times. I was skeptical when they brought in the character Zava because I thought it would be another Jamie (season one) situation, but he continues to be a ray of sunshine and the interactions between him and the players are continuously (unbelievably) wholesome. If only all sports shows could change up the status quo, but one can only wish.

I'd argue for a time this was the best comedy going on tv, it had depth, varied characters who got development and character arcs and really built a group up even though the name would indicate it's all about Ted.

This series has been flat, storylines are a mixed bag and established characters have been destroyed or sidelined, I get football isn't the main focus but putting it on some of the stuff you've chosen to was poor. Shandy was a ridiculous inclusion, I really don't enjoy stupid people and ignoring the fact they'd never really fit in to the situation you're portraying it was just lazy and tacky. Proven by the fact she's gone.

Roy is stripped back, the journalist too involved and has zero presence, beard I find too sidelined at this point, I get his character but the aloof hiding away kinda stuff just doesn't feel right when the clubs struggling. Tonally they've got alot wrong here, the Ibrahimovic rip off guy was ok but but too cartoonish for me, this show was once so well written, this series just feels like a generic, lazy poorly written comedy.

I think the gay player storyline is a good choice and relevant and important so hope that's executed well however keely? I loved her character but being gay or bi isn't s choice, you don't just get drunk and change, it was cheap and really poor character work. She's shown no signs really of struggling but randomly just says she's miserable and turns gay, very poor again. The sheep thing was stupid to.

I can't get over how little I liked this episode, every other bar one which I gave a 6, always gets 9 or 10/10 the only thing holding this show up is Hannah as Rebecca, even Ted feels stale and unimportant, was hoping this was going to be a long show but it already feels like it's dying, players lost identities and are parodies, they're just background, all the intricate detailed writing has gone!

Also I'd put nick as Nathan as one of the worst casting decisions of all time, he's rotten in central intelligence but he wrote that and obviously thinks he's an actor but he's so bad in this, aesthetically ridiculous, has no presence and he'd be eaten alive by players, plus that hair and voice were so stupid, just don't get why you couldn't have gotten a proper actor or comedian, terrible.

Same with the Rupert rivalry, he feels unimportant, the waitress stuff was cute but again just unrealistic, same as the date, it's gone from a masterpiece to a piece of that lamb.

I'll see out this series but unless the people I enjoy and care about become important and real again then this will be it for me, this season has been slow, cheap, tacky and lazy. Plus teds son was an awful cast to.

This show is in free fall. I'm actually starting to wonder if it's always been garbage, or whether it's just become that way. Was I previously part of some mass hypnosis thinking this was heartwarming and funny? Probably not, but it's now turgid, thin, plotless rubbish. There's also something deeply unpleasant about it, as it now seems to just rely on swearing for laughs. Not funny and definitely not heartwarming.

Nate's storyline trajectory doesn't ring true, Ted and his sidekick are just annoying yanks now as the homespun philosophy wears thin and Ted has strangely still learnt nothing about football. This has to be the last season. It's thin gruel. It needs to end.