Ted Lasso - Season 3

[Anonymous]

Anyone watching the latest (and maybe last) season of Ted Lasso?

I was so looking forward to the new season but so far it’s falling a little flat for me. It’s still delightful but it’s trying too hard.

[Anonymous]

I.Just.Can't

which is a shame because I loved seasons 1 & 2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone watching the latest (and maybe last) season of Ted Lasso?

I was so looking forward to the new season but so far it’s falling a little flat for me. It’s still delightful but it’s trying too hard.

This exactly for me as well

[Anonymous]

I can't look at Jason Sudeikis without thinking about all the drama with Olivia Wilde. It takes me out of the story.

[Anonymous]

I think this season is so good so far. Every episode is a delight from start to finish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone watching the latest (and maybe last) season of Ted Lasso?

I was so looking forward to the new season but so far it’s falling a little flat for me. It’s still delightful but it’s trying too hard.

This exactly for me as well

Same. During one Ted-ism I definitely found myself cringing a bit versus adoring it.

They might have made the right decision to stop with this season.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone watching the latest (and maybe last) season of Ted Lasso?

I was so looking forward to the new season but so far it’s falling a little flat for me. It’s still delightful but it’s trying too hard.

This exactly for me as well

Same. During one Ted-ism I definitely found myself cringing a bit versus adoring it.

They might have made the right decision to stop with this season.

Thats interesting. I feel like Ted-isms are a part of how he handles stress. Like its goofy and affable but it comes from a place of hurt or distraction. They get more ridiculous and schticky as his personal life gets worse

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone watching the latest (and maybe last) season of Ted Lasso?

I was so looking forward to the new season but so far it’s falling a little flat for me. It’s still delightful but it’s trying too hard.

This exactly for me as well

Same. During one Ted-ism I definitely found myself cringing a bit versus adoring it.

They might have made the right decision to stop with this season.

Thats interesting. I feel like Ted-isms are a part of how he handles stress. Like its goofy and affable but it comes from a place of hurt or distraction. They get more ridiculous and schticky as his personal life gets worse

Also it's going to be hard for him to keep that up when Zava is essentially taking over that role, as great motivator and aphorism-speaker, while also having the immense soccer talent to back it up. Ted is going to face irrelevancy with his own team, as he's going through all these other things - and I think that will be a real struggle for him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone watching the latest (and maybe last) season of Ted Lasso?

I was so looking forward to the new season but so far it’s falling a little flat for me. It’s still delightful but it’s trying too hard.

This exactly for me as well

Same. During one Ted-ism I definitely found myself cringing a bit versus adoring it.

They might have made the right decision to stop with this season.

Thats interesting. I feel like Ted-isms are a part of how he handles stress. Like its goofy and affable but it comes from a place of hurt or distraction. They get more ridiculous and schticky as his personal life gets worse

Also it's going to be hard for him to keep that up when Zava is essentially taking over that role, as great motivator and aphorism-speaker, while also having the immense soccer talent to back it up. Ted is going to face irrelevancy with his own team, as he's going through all these other things - and I think that will be a real struggle for him.

The betrayal of having is his former marriage therapist dating his ex-wife isn't going to help.

I actually am not sure I can watch this season because the stuff they are setting Ted up to go through feels a bit too much like stuff I've dealt with and if the take-away is "just go to therapy with your perfect therapist who always knows exactly how to listen and what to say, and lean on your large group of supportive and emotionally mature friends" I"m going to get annoyed because that's no how life works. At all.

This is also something that annoys me about Shrinking (not coincidentally, given the shared DNA in the two shows). Kudos to the show for addressing issues of grief and loss head on, but sometimes it's hard for me to get past the fact that they are doing it with a group of somehow obscenely wealthy therapists in Pasadena who are all friends and have this very cohesive social circle that includes their coworkers, neighbors, spouses, and friends from college. That's literally no ones life. Grief is insanely isolating and at no point do you wind up surrounded by all the significant people in your life you all know what you are going through AND know each other and get to feel supported in real time by that network. And also have no money problems ever. This is not how life works.

[Anonymous]

The Zava storyline is funny

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone watching the latest (and maybe last) season of Ted Lasso?

I was so looking forward to the new season but so far it’s falling a little flat for me. It’s still delightful but it’s trying too hard.

This exactly for me as well

Same. During one Ted-ism I definitely found myself cringing a bit versus adoring it.

They might have made the right decision to stop with this season.

Thats interesting. I feel like Ted-isms are a part of how he handles stress. Like its goofy and affable but it comes from a place of hurt or distraction. They get more ridiculous and schticky as his personal life gets worse

Also it's going to be hard for him to keep that up when Zava is essentially taking over that role, as great motivator and aphorism-speaker, while also having the immense soccer talent to back it up. Ted is going to face irrelevancy with his own team, as he's going through all these other things - and I think that will be a real struggle for him.

The betrayal of having is his former marriage therapist dating his ex-wife isn't going to help.

I actually am not sure I can watch this season because the stuff they are setting Ted up to go through feels a bit too much like stuff I've dealt with and if the take-away is "just go to therapy with your perfect therapist who always knows exactly how to listen and what to say, and lean on your large group of supportive and emotionally mature friends" I"m going to get annoyed because that's no how life works. At all.

This is also something that annoys me about Shrinking (not coincidentally, given the shared DNA in the two shows). Kudos to the show for addressing issues of grief and loss head on, but sometimes it's hard for me to get past the fact that they are doing it with a group of somehow obscenely wealthy therapists in Pasadena who are all friends and have this very cohesive social circle that includes their coworkers, neighbors, spouses, and friends from college. That's literally no ones life. Grief is insanely isolating and at no point do you wind up surrounded by all the significant people in your life you all know what you are going through AND know each other and get to feel supported in real time by that network. And also have no money problems ever. This is not how life works.

I am the PP - and I know just what you mean. I often feel that way about shows - and books - where so much of the plot and development hinges on the person having unending wealth, astonishing beauty, friends and a support network who show up at any time of day under any circumstance to do whatever you need. It was one of my complaints about Lessons in Chemistry, actually - that so much of the plot depended on the main character being just so stunningly beautiful and able to learn new things at the drop of a hat. Something I liked about Remarkably Bright Creatures is that no one's development depended on the whole world standing still for them at any given moment because they are just that irresistible.

Maybe I need more therapy, myself.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone watching the latest (and maybe last) season of Ted Lasso?

I was so looking forward to the new season but so far it’s falling a little flat for me. It’s still delightful but it’s trying too hard.

This exactly for me as well

Same. During one Ted-ism I definitely found myself cringing a bit versus adoring it.

They might have made the right decision to stop with this season.

Thats interesting. I feel like Ted-isms are a part of how he handles stress. Like its goofy and affable but it comes from a place of hurt or distraction. They get more ridiculous and schticky as his personal life gets worse

Also it's going to be hard for him to keep that up when Zava is essentially taking over that role, as great motivator and aphorism-speaker, while also having the immense soccer talent to back it up. Ted is going to face irrelevancy with his own team, as he's going through all these other things - and I think that will be a real struggle for him.

The betrayal of having is his former marriage therapist dating his ex-wife isn't going to help.

I actually am not sure I can watch this season because the stuff they are setting Ted up to go through feels a bit too much like stuff I've dealt with and if the take-away is "just go to therapy with your perfect therapist who always knows exactly how to listen and what to say, and lean on your large group of supportive and emotionally mature friends" I"m going to get annoyed because that's no how life works. At all.

This is also something that annoys me about Shrinking (not coincidentally, given the shared DNA in the two shows). Kudos to the show for addressing issues of grief and loss head on, but sometimes it's hard for me to get past the fact that they are doing it with a group of somehow obscenely wealthy therapists in Pasadena who are all friends and have this very cohesive social circle that includes their coworkers, neighbors, spouses, and friends from college. That's literally no ones life. Grief is insanely isolating and at no point do you wind up surrounded by all the significant people in your life you all know what you are going through AND know each other and get to feel supported in real time by that network. And also have no money problems ever. This is not how life works.

I am the PP - and I know just what you mean. I often feel that way about shows - and books - where so much of the plot and development hinges on the person having unending wealth, astonishing beauty, friends and a support network who show up at any time of day under any circumstance to do whatever you need. It was one of my complaints about Lessons in Chemistry, actually - that so much of the plot depended on the main character being just so stunningly beautiful and able to learn new things at the drop of a hat. Something I liked about Remarkably Bright Creatures is that no one's development depended on the whole world standing still for them at any given moment because they are just that irresistible.

Maybe I need more therapy, myself.

I mean, yeah, I definitely need more therapy. But I've also had enough therapy to know that no therapist I find is going to be a strong, skilled, and ethical as Ted's therapist is. I've had therapists who barely listen to me when I talk. My last therapist was surprised to discover that I was still struggling with the past trauma I had come to her to address because I'd stopped discussing it in therapy, but I stopped discussing it because whenever I'd bring it up she'd put this "silver lining" on it or try to cast it in a better light and it felt dismissive and like she was annoyed at having to discuss it, so I stopped.

I know that wouldn't make for a good show but having talked to a lot of people about this issue, my experience is COMMON. But therapy is so often portrayed on TV as this positive experience where the therapist is good at their job and just talking stuff through with them helps. But a lot of therapists make things worse because a lot of therapists are bad. I guess maybe the therapists on these shows are good because they are the kind who can charge enough to afford a $3m house in Pasadena, CA. I'm guessing they don't take my insurance.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone watching the latest (and maybe last) season of Ted Lasso?

I was so looking forward to the new season but so far it’s falling a little flat for me. It’s still delightful but it’s trying too hard.

This exactly for me as well

Same. During one Ted-ism I definitely found myself cringing a bit versus adoring it.

They might have made the right decision to stop with this season.

Thats interesting. I feel like Ted-isms are a part of how he handles stress. Like its goofy and affable but it comes from a place of hurt or distraction. They get more ridiculous and schticky as his personal life gets worse

Also it's going to be hard for him to keep that up when Zava is essentially taking over that role, as great motivator and aphorism-speaker, while also having the immense soccer talent to back it up. Ted is going to face irrelevancy with his own team, as he's going through all these other things - and I think that will be a real struggle for him.

The betrayal of having is his former marriage therapist dating his ex-wife isn't going to help.

I actually am not sure I can watch this season because the stuff they are setting Ted up to go through feels a bit too much like stuff I've dealt with and if the take-away is "just go to therapy with your perfect therapist who always knows exactly how to listen and what to say, and lean on your large group of supportive and emotionally mature friends" I"m going to get annoyed because that's no how life works. At all.

This is also something that annoys me about Shrinking (not coincidentally, given the shared DNA in the two shows). Kudos to the show for addressing issues of grief and loss head on, but sometimes it's hard for me to get past the fact that they are doing it with a group of somehow obscenely wealthy therapists in Pasadena who are all friends and have this very cohesive social circle that includes their coworkers, neighbors, spouses, and friends from college. That's literally no ones life. Grief is insanely isolating and at no point do you wind up surrounded by all the significant people in your life you all know what you are going through AND know each other and get to feel supported in real time by that network. And also have no money problems ever. This is not how life works.

I am the PP - and I know just what you mean. I often feel that way about shows - and books - where so much of the plot and development hinges on the person having unending wealth, astonishing beauty, friends and a support network who show up at any time of day under any circumstance to do whatever you need. It was one of my complaints about Lessons in Chemistry, actually - that so much of the plot depended on the main character being just so stunningly beautiful and able to learn new things at the drop of a hat. Something I liked about Remarkably Bright Creatures is that no one's development depended on the whole world standing still for them at any given moment because they are just that irresistible.

Maybe I need more therapy, myself.

I mean, yeah, I definitely need more therapy. But I've also had enough therapy to know that no therapist I find is going to be a strong, skilled, and ethical as Ted's therapist is. I've had therapists who barely listen to me when I talk. My last therapist was surprised to discover that I was still struggling with the past trauma I had come to her to address because I'd stopped discussing it in therapy, but I stopped discussing it because whenever I'd bring it up she'd put this "silver lining" on it or try to cast it in a better light and it felt dismissive and like she was annoyed at having to discuss it, so I stopped.

I know that wouldn't make for a good show but having talked to a lot of people about this issue, my experience is COMMON. But therapy is so often portrayed on TV as this positive experience where the therapist is good at their job and just talking stuff through with them helps. But a lot of therapists make things worse because a lot of therapists are bad. I guess maybe the therapists on these shows are good because they are the kind who can charge enough to afford a $3m house in Pasadena, CA. I'm guessing they don't take my insurance.

Not to totally derail this thread - but if you do any writing, this would be a fascinating essay. I'd love to read it.

My therapist was kind of helpful but also seemed like too much of a friend, and then I ended up feeling like there were things I couldn't talk to him about because I'd disappoint my friend or make him see me differently.

[Anonymous]

I’m sick of the Ted Lasso character being so clueless when it comes to soccer. It might have been funny the first season, but now it just makes him seem dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sick of the Ted Lasso character being so clueless when it comes to soccer. It might have been funny the first season, but now it just makes him seem dumb.

It's part of his persona. I think it's a coping mechanism just like his goofy aphorisms. How often do they show him watching tape? No one could spend three years watching film of any sport that much and not know the sport inside and out