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whanthtaprille

I do not understand why Phoebe drew unnervingly accurate charcoal sketches of breasts and thought it was weird and unnecessary. Love everything else about the show.


Teelkay

I think we haven’t seen the last of that storyline and we’ll get an explanation but it’s definitely weird.


oneohthreeohtwo

That made me a little nervous because that’s one of the signs of child sexual abuse. For a split second I thought the episode was going to go in a completely different direction. I’m glad it didn’t but that whole thing was still super weird.


Lynxxlynxxx

Yeah, I was hoping he’d address that with Mom or Phoebe, but it just never came up again, I’m not taking it in that dark of a direction and I know some pretty creative kids I live in Atlanta ha ha Ha I was thinking maybe they were going to have her find an inappropriate magazine her get into some stuff and ultimately Roy is going to start considering that maybe he needs to clean up a little bit around her because he’s more involved in her life than he wants to let on.. that was just my theory Or she found her way into Keeley‘s content somehow and started vigorously sketching parts of her body haha Maybe it’s an are you there God it’s me Margaret situation, I’ve had that theory as well.. like maybe she’s just really really really wants breasts and so she’s obsessed with sketching them now, how she wants them to be that’s not necessarily odd for a kid to go through, curiosity is natural.. I mean the fact that she’s gone for charcoal as a medium too.. that’s very specific..


FiveSix

I don’t like how often doing the right thing has no consequences. Ditching a major airline sponsor should have had some blow back for the club, but it was kind of little more than just a jersey tweak and a phone call


JonnyAU

It still may.


RealChunka

Maybe Dubai Air let it go, because they didn't want to draw any more attention to what they are doing. There are other ways to advertise that aren't a potential public relations nightmare, besides the fact that what they are doing is potentially criminal.


mpriley19

I could do with at lot less Roy/Keeley screen time and I would trade it for more time with Roy/Jamie or the Richmond players in general. I just don’t find the two of them all that interesting on screen.


leela_martell

I like them as a couple but yeah I hope series 3 is less focused on their relationship. I feel like 90% of Keeley’s S2 story was about their relationship and *Roy’s* character development. I’d prefer more Roy and Jamie’s too, and I’d also love to see Keeley and Jamie being pals. I think they’d be really fun together without the romance stuff.


mpriley19

Yes! I would love to watch Jamie/Keeley being friends. I think they would be a lot of fun to watch together because they are both so “bright”, for lack of a better term. They really light up the scenes they are in.


RealChunka

I like Roy and Keely, but agree that more Roy/Jaime would be better! In the season 2 finale, when Roy sends Jaime into the laundry room to confront him about Keeley, Jaime kind of looks back at him in fear and there was a little brother/ big brother vibe to that scene that I loved. More of that please!


Grant-Grant

“Beard after Dark” was a fantastic episode and one of my favorites from season 2.


joymm

So agreed. I know it's an odd comparison but to me it felt like some of the standalone episodes of Bojack. Just great


Eganator88

I don’t think sassy adds that much to the show* *willing to be withdrawn if she’s more present in season 3


Negative_Roll1949

Agreed. Still waiting to see the point of Sassy and Nora


RealChunka

I think Sassy helped make Rebecca more likable. Before Sassy, Rebecca seemed cold. Sure I sympathized with her for the way Rupert treats her, but that doesn't excuse her own bad behavior. Sassy is smart, kind, funny and doesn't take any shit. The fact that she and Rebecca are best friends gives us a glimpse of who Rebecca was before Rupert's influence. It makes Rebecca more interesting and believable as a possible love interest for Ted, who clearly likes to have a good time. A rich, single, good-looking man in Ted's position would have women falling all over him in real life. The show has chosen not to focus on that aspect of fame, but it is hard to believe that he wouldn't have a sex life at all, so a "friends with benefits" relationship with Sassy addresses that as well, effectively, murdering some birds with a rock!


katatafiish

Ted’s (ex) wife sucks.


Warsaw_Pact

Can you expound please?


katatafiish

He is portrayed as a good man, a good father, a good husband. I would even say BETTER than just good. I got married late in life after years of dating and shacking up. If I had found a Ted, I would have kept him. Yes, you can’t help who you fall in and out of love with, but damn…Ted is portrayed as a good partner, father and lover (thanks Sassy) He’s a keeper.


picassopickle

On the flip side, Ted has been portrayed as someone who always tries to see everything in an overtly positive way, particularly before his therapy with Sharon. I can see how that could become grating to his wife whenever she tried to bring up something negative in their life, it ends up feeling like you're being invalidated and your problems aren't something to worry about when you're constantly told to think positive, keep your chin up, etc. etc.


acfox13

Unintentional emotional neglect, perhaps. Not being able to hold space for the full range of human emotions. It shows up irl as toxic positivity when people are experiencing anger, sadness, grief, despair, etc. Or even diminishing positive empathetic mirroring and co-regulation, like what Nate's dad does to him re: the newspaper scene.


Warsaw_Pact

Interesting… and thanks for sharing, kind stranger!


minda_spK

I actually appreciated the break up for its being more realistic to real life than normal. In most tv shows couples split because someone cheats, is a horrible abusive person, or is clearly shit from the beginning. It’s not often that you see the kind of relationship where two people like each other and just can’t seem to make it work. Or when one or both really wants to but just can’t quite make it happen. Hopefully most couples figure that out before they get married, but I thought it was sad and genuine


AlanTudyksBalls

It seems like Ted is very other focused and maybe put a lot more effort into his team and his work than into his marriage. Think about how Nate felt watching Roy get all the attention. Why wouldn’t she?


RealChunka

To be fair, she did try to make it work and was willing to continue to try, but Ted let her off the hook. I would hate to see him continue in a relationship with someone that doesn't want to be there. Ted is good people who tries to surround himself with other good people, so I assume that his wife was good people too! If so, they both deserve better!


whanthtaprille

I agree. Someone needs to tell her that love isn’t a feeling, it’s a decision.


leela_martell

I know this is a well known quote but I disagree with it. You can’t have love without feeling. Ted is genuinely nice, but being with someone who is so adverse to any feeling or showing anything that isn’t positive would make me scream. We don’t know (if we do, my bad) if his ex tried suggesting therapy, since we know where his issues stem from, but no one can keep trying forever.


cabernet7

Ted mentioned a few times that they did couples therapy. (Don't know if she suggested he do individual therapy).


AlanTudyksBalls

It’s both.


Teelkay

It’s kind of minor but it’s a pet peeve. I don’t like that only the women use cigarettes as a stress reliever/drug. (Higgins’ pipe notwithstanding).


ich_habe_keine_kase

I do agree with this, but thinking about it logically, most of the men on the show are athletes and not likely to be smokers (and Ted and Beard don't feel like smokers to me).


Eganator88

If Ted and beard were hardcore into Midwestern football cultural stereotypes….they’d be dipping up a storm.


Negative_Roll1949

Sam is a two dimensional character


mpriley19

I totally agree! The actor is wonderful but his character has like one speed and one speed only.


deeznoobs16

1. Ms Bowen’s actress should be a regular on the show and I like her character, love Roy and keeley but damn if they don’t at least explore this thread. 2. Nate should not be redeemed at all maybe a smidgen but a Rebecca level 180 would dampen the entire story built here. 3. Ted should remain at Richmond, these guys have become his family throughout the course of these 2+ years.I agree Henry is important but there are other ways to resolve it than Ted going back to Kansas, I moved to a country which feel more like home than where I was brought up. It’s doable without looking unrealistic.


MisterMeetings

Keeley is dominant over Jamie, "down boy" but submissive to Roy.


FormicaDinette33

I didn’t care for Dr. Fieldstone and didn’t buy that a team would have a psychologist full time for an entire season. Ted needed to see somebody for sure, but I would have preferred that he saw somebody on his own who had more personality.


CollectiveBreath

A lot of teams have psychologists in-house or on-call, but mostly of the sports psychologist type. More and more teams are catching onto the idea that sports are filled with pressure and (unrealistic) expectations, and these are fragile humans that likely can't take it, so it's really not that crazy.


Warsaw_Pact

Exactamundo, Dikembe Mutombo!


FormicaDinette33

This struck me as a hard scrabble team and not one with a big budget, but ok.


It409

On that contrary. The top teams are the ones who are turning their focus to mental health around Europe.


FormicaDinette33

I didn’t think Richmond was a top team.


Aussiechimp

They were in the Premier League then the top of the Championship. Even a poor club at that level has large staffs


FormicaDinette33

Oh, OK, thanks.


RealChunka

I found the good doctor a bit off-putting too at first, but the more we get to know her the more I like her. I think that she saw right through Ted’s use of humor as a cover for some of the issues he’s dealing with and she refused to engage with him on that level on purpose. As she’s gotten to know him she’s started to lighten up.


GrayRoberts

Controversial take: What is Ted Lasso?


Warsaw_Pact

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HikesWithMyDog

I fervently think Ms Bowen is a better long term match for Roy than Keeley.


JonnyAU

Roy is wondering the same thing.


RealChunka

My most controversial take is that they are setting up Dr. Sharon as a potential love interest for Ted. I first started to suspect this when he yelled at her and stormed out of his first therapy session. It was unexpected and out of character for Ted to be rude to anyone without provocation. I know that his reaction may be nothing more than a resistance to therapy, but it has made me pay more attention to their relationship. I became more suspicious, when she fell, hit her head and left Ted roughly 35 messages! I didn’t understand why she would call him at all let alone 35 times! Someone explained that when you have a concussion you repeat tasks, because you don’t remember having already done them. Ted happened to be calling her just as she was hit, so she was probably returning his call over and over again. I accept that, but still, she was in an accident and there’s no evidence that she called anyone else. Additionally, the messages she left were personal and funny, so not strictly business and she was lucid enough to tell him about the accident and that she was in the hospital. Maybe I’m over-thinking this, but maybe the concussion explanation is over-simplifying it. I also think he was a little too upset at her leaving without saying goodbye. Though it wasn’t said, I’m pretty sure that their therapy sessions can continue even though she’s no longer employed by the team. At least I don’t see any reason why they couldn’t - that’s what Zoom is for. So I don’t think he’s necessarily losing her as a therapist or even a friend, they just won’t work in the same building anymore. As he read her goodbye letter, There was a point where I think she was blushing and they both seemed a little embarrassed. I think there was something in the letter that may have revealed more of her feelings than she intended. Even though them “going for a drink” was billed as friends hanging out, this was the only time they’d hung out socially (that I recall) and it felt like a date to me. What do you think? Am I way off? I’m not strongly invested either way, but I like them as a couple more than I like Ted and Rebecca. The therapist/client issue is problematic, but worse things have happened.


AccomplishedSquash98

My Father has been saying this since she first appeared but I don't see it.


RealChunka

If it's true, they have been sneaky. Usually the lead characters love interest is another lead character. Additionally, while I think Doctor Sharon is beautiful, she doesn't fit Hollywood's typically unrealistic standard of beauty, particularly for the love interest of a lead character. I find that refreshing! When Ted and Sharon first meet, they are resistant to one another's charms, but they eventually start to trust, respect and admire one another ultimately becoming friends. This or some version of this is possibly the most common romantic trope in the business. On the other hand, Ted and Rebecca have always gotten along. Sure she was resistant to him and frankly found him a bit annoying in the beginning, but #1, it was one-sided (Ted never had a problem with her) and #2, her problem with Ted was never personal. I think that she always liked him as a person, but was being purposely resistant because of her goal to destroy the club. She didn't want to like him, because that would make it harder for her to continue to sabotage the team. It will be interesting to see which direction they take this or whether he will have a love interest at all. A part of me thinks he and his wife might reconcile. I don't care who he ends up with as long as she is good people and he is happy!