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  1. 9 hours ago, Pancho said:

    Keeley definitely could have compromised and gone for a week or so.  Makes me think there will be something between her and Tartt in S3

    This was a great episode. Like others, I kept rewinding in my head what Ted did to Nate to make him say that shit. 

    Thought it was pretty clear Trent will be working for Ted or Richmond in some capacity in S3. And I think it’s setting up to be Keeley doing something for Rupert in S3 despite what Rebecca said.  Why?  Drama, that’s why.

    Look, I love Roy. And all the obstacles the writing staff have thrown in to try to make us think their relationship is anything but solid have never done anything to shake them. If anything, the one thing that actually needed addressing (in terms of how it affected their relationship) was Roy hanging out with the teacher and feeling bad enough about it to tell Keeley. The stuff with Nate and Jamie wasn't her fault and while Roy's reactions to both of those guys were important to the episode, I'm glad it didn't cause Roy and Keeley to fight. ANYWAY, all that said, a six-week vacation is a long time for a surprise trip, especially for someone about to start a new job running their own business. Of course he was trying to do something nice for her, but I get why she said she couldn't go. Weren't they supposed to leave the next day?

    11 hours ago, aggie08 said:

    Meh, whatever.

    Top assistant or offensive coordinator would have been a lot less far-fetched for a dude who was a ball boy 18 months ago. Plus, it opens up storylines of him working under a head coach who doesn't give a fuck about his general happiness. Him masquerading as a head coach just feels silly.

    Agree. But they haven't really gone with believability much in this show so I guess this is another one of those things.

    10 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

     

    It helps to see it all laid out like this. Still, it's kind of like having to explain a joke for it to make sense. Doesn't really work if you have to do that. Nate's behavior still doesn't make sense in the overall context of the show, and I think that's my main sticking point with it. Ted Lasso was 90% comedy last season, and in my mind I still think of it as a comedy with a few bits of drama thrown in now and then. But this season the whole tone of the show shifted dramatically in the last half, and I guess I wasn't ready for it. If it was billed as a drama, and I came in every week thinking of it as a drama, maybe I would've been less thrown by everything that happened with Nate and it would've come together more organically. 

     Maybe the writers wanted us to be as blindsided as Ted, by the time we got to the finale. I don't know.

    I'm still here for it, though. Looking forward to season 3.

  2. Just finished. The acting was fantastic and I expect no less from Hamish Linklater, but Zach Gilford was really impressive, too. Of course he was good on Friday Night Lights, but he really knocked it out of the park with this role. Other spoilery thoughts below.

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    Samantha Sloyan was great as Bev, but that character was a bit flat, IMO. From the moment you meet her you know she's going to be the self-righteous, overzealous antagonist, and that's that. There's no nuance to her at all. Compared to the other characters, she was pretty one-dimensional, but overall it's a small beef. The show was still great.

     

  3. On 9/30/2021 at 6:57 PM, Augustus said:

    Just finished episode 4.  My only comment thus far:

     

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    I can't even figure out how to react to this priest's apparently sincere misunderstanding that this creature is not an angel of God, but fucking Dracula.  It's like he's never heard of vampires before.  Other than that minor detail, I'm actually enjoying it.

     

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    I think initially it was a combination of religious zealotry and advanced dementia. After he was "restored", well, zealotry will get you pretty far.

     

  4. On 9/26/2021 at 12:53 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

    Finished it last night. Good stuff. 

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    I thought the marbles episode was the hardest one to watch. 

    That said, for all of the "purity/fairness of the contest" talk, and the fact that there we huge sums of money wagered on it, it seems unreasonable to me (yes, I get the absurdity of such a statement - maybe "internally inconsistent" is better) than 001/The Host would essentially throw the game by giving 456 a free pass in that round. Sure, 456 was kind to him, but that seems a little out of character for someone who has killed (or at least facilitated the deaths of) 10,000ish people over a few decades. 

    Am I missing something here, or just picking nits? 

     

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    I think it comes down to what he said at the very end on his deathbed, about how playing with him over the course of their time together had been the most fun he'd had in a long time. He was the only VIP who wasn't a total cartoon and I think he was saying that the point of the whole thing, at least for him, was to feel something. That was the "fun" he was looking for. So he let 456 keep going. Don't get me wrong - his heart didn't grow three sizes that day or anything. But this theory makes sense to me.

     

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    On 9/28/2021 at 12:42 PM, gsoda3 said:

    if you've never watched or listened to a brett goldstein interview, do it.  he's the exact opposite of roy kent.  

    Also, watch Derek on Netflix. He plays a completely different character and it's great.

     

  6. 1 hour ago, Surly Bevo said:

    Well we don't know if Roy is more upset about Keely or Jaime....yet.  

    That's true, I guess we don't. However, they've spent a ton of time establishing how far Roy has come in dealing with his emotions, especially when it's come to Keely and Jamie. As badly as I feel they've handled Nate's character arc, it would be absurd for them to fuck up so badly as to have Roy let Jamie's profession of love to Keely end/irreparably damage their relationship. Roy is no Nate - he knows he's the shit and he loves his girlfriend. He's not going to fuck the teacher because of the confessions at the photo shoot. And Keely is no slouch when it comes to emotional availability either. She didn't have to tell Roy what Jamie said, but she did. Despite their issues, these two have the best relationship on the show after Higgins and his wife.

  7. The NPR recap encapsulates my feelings about the Roy-Keely storyline better than I could've said myself.

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    But I save my greatest frustration for this Roy and Keeley story. It's not only that it comes out of nowhere, given their good relationship this season (and good very much includes the fact that they've worked on it!). It's the suggestion that a woman being kissed without her consent by one man and having another one confess his feelings to her is somehow an indication of something amiss in her relationship. Neither of these things reflects on Keeley and how she really feels at all, any more than an acorn falling out of a tree and landing on her head. And the fact that it took her a little time to tell Roy about Jamie, given how volatile his relationship with Jamie has been, isn't at all surprising.

    This hopefully doesn't need to be said, but women don't get grabbed and kissed — or approached with unrequited yearnings — because they're somehow giving off vibes of availability or because men sense their discontent. If Roy and Keeley have relationship problems, it's got nothing to do with some dude planting one on her before she could react, and I don't particularly care for that moment being dragged into this. (Or for her reassurances to Nate. Yuck.)

    How other men act towards Keeley is not a dark cloud over her relationship. The thing with Jamie, I mean ... it happens. What does his confession have to do with her and Roy and whether they're happy, if they were happy before?

    As for Roy and the teacher, they've done a good job establishing this funny friendship he has with her, and he clearly feels some attraction to her and recognizes that he miiiiiight not have told her about Keeley (wouldn't she know about Keeley from Phoebe, though?) because he was enjoying her attention. At least this is something Roy did, rather than something that was done to him. But none of this seems, to me, to earn the very ominous ending this thread of the story gets. While the story with Ted and Sharon feels rounded and complete, this one feels more ... forced and television-y.

     

     

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  8. With the spitting at himself in the mirror and his hair turning gray, I think the writers are trying for Nate slowly destroying himself and knowing it as he does all this awful stuff, but his arc hasn't been handled well, IMO. He went from nagging Will back in the beginning of the season, which was played for laughs, to full-on Evil Nate in no time at all. And I do realize that there was a time jump of several months in the beginning of the season but it's still not working for me.

    I think Roy ends up proposing. He's a lot of things, but not cruel and self-destructive. I figured there'd be some conflict between him and Keely this season but they've spent a lot of time on their relationship and showing how he's softened up for her (and only her - everyone else except Phoebe can fuck off). I suspect Jamie telling her he loves her will be the push he needs to put a ring on it.

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  9. 11 hours ago, Post Oak said:

    I think it was one of my favorite 2 or so episodes along with karaoke after they beat Liverpool.

    The dad/kid stuff wrecked me.  

     

    Can y'all even imagine how shitty of a dad Rupert is going to be?

  10. Overall, I wished it had advanced the narrative more, but it did have a few LOL moments. I still don't like Jane for Beard and it's weird that they seem to want us to like her now. I do like thinking about Beard having lots of these nights that we've just never seen before.

  11. 3 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

     


    Read an article that said Roy is the idealized version of the common asshole women fall for. The reality is that those assholes are assholes to everyone. The version women think they are getting is Roy Kent. The asshole who’s honest, loving, vulnerable and caring.

     

    Sounds like there's a journalist out there jealous of Roy Kent.

  12. 14 minutes ago, TommyGufano said:

    I can't find the exact wording, but my mind went to "once you try it on it's difficult to get rid of it" or something along those lines

    Everyone wears it but you don't let everyone see it?

  13. 21 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    I'd be keenly interested in hearing the rest of Ted's analogy before he got cut off by the Doc on the phone: "Well, I would say that fear is a lot like underwear."

    Ha, I was thinking the same thing. Hopefully we'll find out before next season.

  14. Nate's arc is super weird to me. I didn't love it but could buy it through the interaction with Beard and then his apology to Colin. He's always been shy, a doormat, and was getting caught up in his own hubris and needed to be taken down a notch. But the ending with Will is making him out to be just plain cruel, and that seems really out of step with how they've built his character. I mean, I know he's been feeling insecure since they hired Roy, but this isn't Breaking Bad.

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  15. 1 hour ago, mchookem said:

    i want to say that's obviously fake but the thing is IT COULD TOTALLY HAPPEN NOW 

    Yeah I thought that too, and here's what Kendall said about it. The embeds below are weird and I couldn't isolate the specific tweets but in short, the TxBountyHunter subreddit has since been deleted.

     

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  16. 22 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    Well somebody hiding the pain of being mistreated by their dad wouldn't necessarily just share that pain...that's where the good doctor and Ted are hooking up and we will learn truly why Ted is who he is.

    Sure, but if that were the case you'd think that Led Tasso would've triggered the panic attack. I think it's more along the lines of Roy telling him he messed up Jamie, mixed with him not being able to be there for his son.

  17. 2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Guessing his dad used anger and negativity to try and motivate him. Which is why he does the opposite, but he had to act like his dad to get Jamie motivated and it messed with him. 

    I thought about that, but the only time I remember him saying much about his dad was when he was playing darts with Rupert and he talked about how they used to play every week until he passed away. I didn't get the sense that he was a dick to him. 

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