-Ted loves/confronts his mom. I don’t even care whether he ever does the same with Nate now. (And it would be gutsy of them never to show Nate the pic in Ted’s apartment. We’ll see)
-Beard at Nate’s flat. TL at its absolute finest. His expression while Ted was showing him the video was so inscrutable--I thought it was a “how can you still find him funny/sad and not an object of rage.” But really it was Beard seeing himself in that video. Hitting bottom, but Ted only seeing him with the eyes of love.
-Jamie going home to his mum. She was amazing. So pure.
I am pretty sure she wasn't ready to hear that, and that she didn't melt or rage back at him is the testament here. I think Ted realized he wasn't going to get a shot to clear the air for possibly a loooong time.
Ted saying hi to everyone on the street. Quietly correcting his mom on Mancunians. I think there are other examples of thoroughly embracing the culture and place. He’s made a home here too... which is gonna make next week really rough.
Re Mancunians, something you may have missed (I haven’t seen it mentioned in the comments) ... Jamie’s stepdad gives them Eccles cakes to eat (the sweet treats). It was so subtle but absolutely perfect. You haven’t really been to Manchester until someone bakes you an Eccles cake to go with your tea.
New thing I picked up on second watch: Roy is the one who jumps to replace Jamie when he's injured; Ted wants to play with 10 and give Jamie a minute. That's very gutsy on Ted's part--I love him during the whole game, because he clearly wants to win AND he's wanting to bring out Jamie's best as a man. The two goals are aligned.
And/But Roy's response shows his protective affection for Jamie, wanting him not to be further hurt. Which goes to show how far they've come together.
Perhaps mingled with a bit of Roy seeing himself in Jamie, playing hurt, and where that’s lead him...wanting to protect against that. Yes, shows how far they’ve come, together and individually. “I played hurt all the time”//“You can’t walk up stairs”
Lots of thruple energy from Roy/Keeley/Jamie. I hope they don’t go there, not because I’m a prude, but because Roy and Jamie have had such good brother energy. Just like I wasn’t shipping Ted and Rebecca, let’s let this show demonstrate the power of platonic friendship.
Lots of queer Lassoheads online are shipping them. More power to them, but yeah I’m with you. I’m even cooled on Roy and Keeley TBH, and they were endgame for me!
I still expect a proposal next episode. That interrupted “I don’t want to just be friends” moment. Feels like at this point it’s all in or not. But also I could live with the simple opening of “the slim chance of love’s recovery” that I didn’t think would be okay at the beginning of this season.
Real talk - I almost turned it off in the first 3 minutes. Too close to home, too many parental pain points activated. And... I am so glad I gutted it out.
Thank you and fuck you, writer’s room, for nailing that scene right there. I’m crying just remembering that energy and realness.
Ok- you know how the LOTR:ROTR kept not quite ending, even though it would have been enough at any one of those points? Jeepers... BUT WAIT, here’s some more for you.
Those posters in Jamie’s room were utter perfection.
I honestly cannot and will not predict anything from here because
A) I 100% trust these writers to take these characters where they need to go
2) it’s all icing on a great big beautiful cake from here anyway
*) i need to sit in my puddle of tears and denial for a few more days.
I love that the Ty&Fu came directly from Jamie and what he would say to his dad (well, the reverse order.) This resonates deeply with me in serious, messy trauma ways. But I love that Ted takes Jamie seriously enough to have mutuality in their relationship. I’m so pleased with the Jamie Tartt arc and I, too, hope that they don’t mess with it and throuple him up.
I’m too pumped from the episode to sleep. So here’s a few immediate thoughts.
THE RAINBOW. 🌈 Did you see the football scene? Rainbow. All the colors. Even the ads on the wall. And of course “Somewhere over the Rainbow” and the wizard of oz nods. No place like home. But more deeply, I think the all the colors this season have been about finding yourself and your true colors.
People are saying the women are coming after Rupert online, but I think he’s dead. His redemption arc was the glimmer in his eye last week. At the end of the day, all that wealth and power means nothing in death.
Ted is clearly going home. And I’d like to re-up my prediction that the final scene is Ted at the airport, but this time smiling. Or smile crying. A contrast to sad Ted at the airport from the opening scene.
All the rest was pure perfection. Including the gag of the penultimate office scene. Just brilliant writing and acting from open to close.
I wonder if the advice they want is not how to get Rupert, but what to do with his betrayal in light of the fact that Rupert is dying. Assuming Bex inherits his estate and can take care of Ms. Kakes (who some online thought might be pregnant, I’m agnostic on the point), I expect Rebecca to counsel grace toward him publicly. A callback to Rebecca’s father, and her choice not to badmouth him at the funeral.
I'm at a point of physical and emotional exhaustion, and not looking for locks, keys, bikes, rainbows colors, and gender trope switches, but I want to be forgiven like Beard forgives and give forgiveness like Beard gives.
I want Red to stay in England because *I* want that. But I don’t think that’s where the character will end up. He’ll make his way home to be with Henry, leaving his metaphorical Oz a Bette replace for his time there, and himself a more developed and grown person from the experience.
Here's an example of the difference between Watson v. Doyle plot considerations. Watson: plot points that are wholly determined by considerations internal to the narrative. Doyle: external factors related to the writers/creators.
Watson: Ted being united with his kid is non-negotiable. It's the necessary next step for his character. And you can imagine a scenario in which Henry comes to England though, to join the beautiful life Ted has built there, a world Henry feels some comfort with.
Doyle: Jason Sudeikis is ready to go home and no longer be away from his own kids.
Really leaning into the whole Wizard of Oz lens: at some point, Dorothy has to return home. She can’t stay in Oz, no matter how beneficial it has been/is.
Here's another parallel that's probably unintentional but made me laugh. People have ruefully pointed out that Dorothy had the ability to go home all the time, and Glinda knew it from the beginning. Sort of a "you could have saved us all a lot of time, Glinda!" idea. And there's a lot of random stuff that happens in Oz. I think about that in light of some of the detours this season has taken. There's so much internal coherence in the writing, in terms of callbacks and narrative arcs. But there's also just... stuff that happens. Just like in life.
Like y’all, my thoughts are a jumble this morning and likely only the next few days will bring cohesion. But one aspect bouncing around my head (looking for things to connect with) is that, with all the talk & references to Wizard of Oz, it’s striking to me that so much color is infused in these episodes which is precisely what happened in the movie when Dorothy arrived in Oz; it was B&W up to that point. The way Ted seems to view back home is, to me, simultaneously the place he wants to be (especially to be with Henry) and the place that feels colorless. Other than being with Henry, what is his place there? There’s a bleakness to that, for the moment.
Pair that with Jamie’s mom’s comment about “not being lost, just not knowing what direction to go” and the realities of Nate denying that he truly wants to/needs to coach, of Beard sharing his own story of being lost and then found. We’re seeing Ted’s journey through Oz along the yellow brick road (prediction: there will be a literal yellow road in the final episode).
Yes, Jamie's mom said he didn't know which direction to go... *yet*. There's that "not yet" idea again.
A/The theme for this season is stuckness and unstuckness. We've heard that word a lot.
Couldn't agree more about the bleakness. His distance from his mother is yet another example of there being nothing for him in the US, other than his son. Bleak indeed.
Oh I like the connection of Oz and black/white to color. Remember the first episode this season and how we were all commenting on the light and dark... like Rupert’s dark office, the scene in the sewer, etc. And now rainbows are exploding everywhere. And if I can get back on my pink train for a minute, the women have always been pink. Even in the places without color, the pink popped up. Maybe that’s love seeping into the cracks of the shadows. That color has been given particular pride of place. Perhaps it’s the love. And with enough love in those shadow places, the full rainbow appears.
Could this mean that the writers are pointing us toward the Higginses as the folks who actually been the most themselves and the most authentic all along? With She's A Rainbow? The "crowded table"? The faith that allows an understanding of the gray areas? The practicing of second chances? That may be putting too neat a bow on it, (especially given Higgins' actions in the first season) and making that song do too much work, but there's something there.
My one prediction I was really proud/happy about that I'm disappointed hasn't come to pass (yet?!) was that there would be a 30th anniversary celebration for the Higginses. They were so specific in saying they'd been married 28 years in season 1 (and repeated the point in season 2--29 years) that I was really ready for that. They are the stable heart of the show (the home?) in so many ways.
I don’t have the bandwidth at this moment to parse the Wizard of Oz character symbolism and I’m sure others have given this way more thought than I since I just this moment thought to consider it…
Roy - tin man (feelings)
Nate - lion (courage)
Jamie - scarecrow (intelligence/wisdom)
Todo - Higgins
Dorothy I guess is Ted
I’m resisting going online to see what “they” say. But happy to read your postulations.
Wasn’t Ted’s mo named Dottie..short for Dorothy? Just another reference to Wizard of Oz. Also there is an uncle Henry in movie. The pinball machine did have flying house in the middle. I started crying in the last scene when he told Rebecca he had “some news” in the last scene. He is def going home to Henry...so sad to have this show end!
I felt that the first scene, Ted walking to work and greeting everyone on the street, felt like he knew this was home. Only when he saw his mom did his brow get furled.
Nate is still stunted, but he's evolving. Yep he wrote a huge letter, but that was _after_ he went and did a sneaky side-door nice thing for Will, making amends (a bit). He's verbally told Jade he left things on bad terms. He knows his sins, but he has to face how others view them. He owes Ted (and, maybe the team) an apology over revealing the panic attacks to the press. He owes the team an apology over the torn up sign. I hope we see both in the last ep. I also vote for Henry to come to England -- with Michelle.
So many great comments already! A few of my thoughts on topics not yet discussed:
1) Does anyone else feel that the forgiveness of Nate by the players was a bit too sudden? I feel like Nate should have found a way to apologize to the team before they offered him a job, considering the last time they saw each other the team was boiling mad at him for tearing the sign. That being said, I like that Nate clearly wanted Ted to be the one to ask him, but it didn’t deter him from eventually taking the job. It shows that he can now accept praise and forgiveness from others, when before he had hyper focused his need for approval on Ted as his “dad surrogate”.
2) The amount Ted swears is fascinating to me- in season one, he never did, except for in the finale as a shock factor. Same thing in season two, he would also say “heck” and “shoot” and just didn’t curse at all… and then in season 3, there was a shift. A few of his speeches to the team started including curses, and then the floodgates opened with his mom as he tried to explain how much her actions hurt him. While some might take it as being rude, I like to think of it as Ted being more honest and direct- sometimes, you just need to embrace your feelings and say them plainly in order to heal.
3) With a show that is known to be about fathers, it was nice to see an episode dedicated to mothers as well. Ted being blindsided by his Mom was clearly difficult for him, but he also spent the whole time she was there trying to accommodate her (sleeping on the couch, bringing her to work, etc) which made their final discussion all the more powerful to me. On the other side, I found myself surprisingly uncomfortable with Jamie’s relationship with his Mom… maybe it was because they didn’t look that different age-wise, but the physical affection was more than what I am used to with mother/son relationships when the son is a fully grown adult. Not saying the relationship is unhealthy, as clearly his Mom loves him and helps him a lot, but it’s something I found myself struggling with throughout the episode.
4) I know a lot of people have said that they could see Henry moving to England so that Ted could stay, but the issue is that if that happened, he wouldn’t be near his Mom. And while we all know that Michelle has done something horrible by dating Dr Jacob, she still is a good Mom, and I have to imagine Henry would miss her the same way. Ted moving back home and finding a new place to coach (maybe with an American Soccer team!) is the right call, as sad as it will be to see him go.
There’s still so much to wrap up in just one episode… I honestly don’t know how they will pull it off, but I’m excited to see where this journey takes all of these amazing characters we have grown to love!
-did y’all notice that the pinball game in Mae’s pub is The Wizard of Oz. And when he’s reflecting on his mother being there he looks down at the house spinning “in the tornado” - a sense of home being spun about.
-also, the bus driver getting everyone onto the bus to go to Manchester was reminiscent of the mayor of the Munchkins sending Dorothy off onto the yellow brick road
Best scenes:
-Ted loves/confronts his mom. I don’t even care whether he ever does the same with Nate now. (And it would be gutsy of them never to show Nate the pic in Ted’s apartment. We’ll see)
-Beard at Nate’s flat. TL at its absolute finest. His expression while Ted was showing him the video was so inscrutable--I thought it was a “how can you still find him funny/sad and not an object of rage.” But really it was Beard seeing himself in that video. Hitting bottom, but Ted only seeing him with the eyes of love.
-Jamie going home to his mum. She was amazing. So pure.
And Ted’s speech with Jaime on the sideline about forgiving for your own sake… that was end scene material right there.
And how could I leave out the two Rebeccas!!! I called that after the West Ham game. Ms. Kakes was just the icing on the...
On rewatch, Ted is absolutely laying out the parallel for Beard.
A testament to Ted’s mom that he feels safe in saying anything he wants to her, knowing she will still love him completely.
I am pretty sure she wasn't ready to hear that, and that she didn't melt or rage back at him is the testament here. I think Ted realized he wasn't going to get a shot to clear the air for possibly a loooong time.
Absolutely!
A few favorite details:
-Sunflower bread. Callback to Van Gogh.
-The final song: “Home” from the Wiz, a riff on The Wizard of Oz.
-Jamie under the blue moon.
-The tunnel had real Beard After Dark vibes.
Sunflower bread... also a call back to the Kansas state flower where Ted is from.🌻
Ted saying hi to everyone on the street. Quietly correcting his mom on Mancunians. I think there are other examples of thoroughly embracing the culture and place. He’s made a home here too... which is gonna make next week really rough.
Re Mancunians, something you may have missed (I haven’t seen it mentioned in the comments) ... Jamie’s stepdad gives them Eccles cakes to eat (the sweet treats). It was so subtle but absolutely perfect. You haven’t really been to Manchester until someone bakes you an Eccles cake to go with your tea.
New thing I picked up on second watch: Roy is the one who jumps to replace Jamie when he's injured; Ted wants to play with 10 and give Jamie a minute. That's very gutsy on Ted's part--I love him during the whole game, because he clearly wants to win AND he's wanting to bring out Jamie's best as a man. The two goals are aligned.
And/But Roy's response shows his protective affection for Jamie, wanting him not to be further hurt. Which goes to show how far they've come together.
Perhaps mingled with a bit of Roy seeing himself in Jamie, playing hurt, and where that’s lead him...wanting to protect against that. Yes, shows how far they’ve come, together and individually. “I played hurt all the time”//“You can’t walk up stairs”
--What’s Ted’s mother’s name?
--And what is that short for?
🌈
Lots of thruple energy from Roy/Keeley/Jamie. I hope they don’t go there, not because I’m a prude, but because Roy and Jamie have had such good brother energy. Just like I wasn’t shipping Ted and Rebecca, let’s let this show demonstrate the power of platonic friendship.
Oh I don’t see a romantic line there. Just excellent bestie vibes all the way around.
Lots of queer Lassoheads online are shipping them. More power to them, but yeah I’m with you. I’m even cooled on Roy and Keeley TBH, and they were endgame for me!
I still expect a proposal next episode. That interrupted “I don’t want to just be friends” moment. Feels like at this point it’s all in or not. But also I could live with the simple opening of “the slim chance of love’s recovery” that I didn’t think would be okay at the beginning of this season.
Real talk - I almost turned it off in the first 3 minutes. Too close to home, too many parental pain points activated. And... I am so glad I gutted it out.
Thank you and fuck you, writer’s room, for nailing that scene right there. I’m crying just remembering that energy and realness.
Ok- you know how the LOTR:ROTR kept not quite ending, even though it would have been enough at any one of those points? Jeepers... BUT WAIT, here’s some more for you.
Those posters in Jamie’s room were utter perfection.
I honestly cannot and will not predict anything from here because
A) I 100% trust these writers to take these characters where they need to go
2) it’s all icing on a great big beautiful cake from here anyway
*) i need to sit in my puddle of tears and denial for a few more days.
I love that the Ty&Fu came directly from Jamie and what he would say to his dad (well, the reverse order.) This resonates deeply with me in serious, messy trauma ways. But I love that Ted takes Jamie seriously enough to have mutuality in their relationship. I’m so pleased with the Jamie Tartt arc and I, too, hope that they don’t mess with it and throuple him up.
Agree on all counts!
I’m too pumped from the episode to sleep. So here’s a few immediate thoughts.
THE RAINBOW. 🌈 Did you see the football scene? Rainbow. All the colors. Even the ads on the wall. And of course “Somewhere over the Rainbow” and the wizard of oz nods. No place like home. But more deeply, I think the all the colors this season have been about finding yourself and your true colors.
People are saying the women are coming after Rupert online, but I think he’s dead. His redemption arc was the glimmer in his eye last week. At the end of the day, all that wealth and power means nothing in death.
Ted is clearly going home. And I’d like to re-up my prediction that the final scene is Ted at the airport, but this time smiling. Or smile crying. A contrast to sad Ted at the airport from the opening scene.
All the rest was pure perfection. Including the gag of the penultimate office scene. Just brilliant writing and acting from open to close.
I wonder if the advice they want is not how to get Rupert, but what to do with his betrayal in light of the fact that Rupert is dying. Assuming Bex inherits his estate and can take care of Ms. Kakes (who some online thought might be pregnant, I’m agnostic on the point), I expect Rebecca to counsel grace toward him publicly. A callback to Rebecca’s father, and her choice not to badmouth him at the funeral.
A friend sent me this link yesterday morning in anticipation of this episode. Lots of Oz energy these past 2 episodes.
https://twitter.com/meemalee/status/1660722653521387523?s=20
I'm at a point of physical and emotional exhaustion, and not looking for locks, keys, bikes, rainbows colors, and gender trope switches, but I want to be forgiven like Beard forgives and give forgiveness like Beard gives.
Clever analysis some other time.
I want Red to stay in England because *I* want that. But I don’t think that’s where the character will end up. He’ll make his way home to be with Henry, leaving his metaphorical Oz a Bette replace for his time there, and himself a more developed and grown person from the experience.
Here's an example of the difference between Watson v. Doyle plot considerations. Watson: plot points that are wholly determined by considerations internal to the narrative. Doyle: external factors related to the writers/creators.
Watson: Ted being united with his kid is non-negotiable. It's the necessary next step for his character. And you can imagine a scenario in which Henry comes to England though, to join the beautiful life Ted has built there, a world Henry feels some comfort with.
Doyle: Jason Sudeikis is ready to go home and no longer be away from his own kids.
Doyle will win out.
I love the idea of Henry moving to be with Ted.
Really leaning into the whole Wizard of Oz lens: at some point, Dorothy has to return home. She can’t stay in Oz, no matter how beneficial it has been/is.
Here's another parallel that's probably unintentional but made me laugh. People have ruefully pointed out that Dorothy had the ability to go home all the time, and Glinda knew it from the beginning. Sort of a "you could have saved us all a lot of time, Glinda!" idea. And there's a lot of random stuff that happens in Oz. I think about that in light of some of the detours this season has taken. There's so much internal coherence in the writing, in terms of callbacks and narrative arcs. But there's also just... stuff that happens. Just like in life.
*Ted
Like y’all, my thoughts are a jumble this morning and likely only the next few days will bring cohesion. But one aspect bouncing around my head (looking for things to connect with) is that, with all the talk & references to Wizard of Oz, it’s striking to me that so much color is infused in these episodes which is precisely what happened in the movie when Dorothy arrived in Oz; it was B&W up to that point. The way Ted seems to view back home is, to me, simultaneously the place he wants to be (especially to be with Henry) and the place that feels colorless. Other than being with Henry, what is his place there? There’s a bleakness to that, for the moment.
Pair that with Jamie’s mom’s comment about “not being lost, just not knowing what direction to go” and the realities of Nate denying that he truly wants to/needs to coach, of Beard sharing his own story of being lost and then found. We’re seeing Ted’s journey through Oz along the yellow brick road (prediction: there will be a literal yellow road in the final episode).
Yes, Jamie's mom said he didn't know which direction to go... *yet*. There's that "not yet" idea again.
A/The theme for this season is stuckness and unstuckness. We've heard that word a lot.
Couldn't agree more about the bleakness. His distance from his mother is yet another example of there being nothing for him in the US, other than his son. Bleak indeed.
Yes, again with the “yet”! Love it.
Oh I like the connection of Oz and black/white to color. Remember the first episode this season and how we were all commenting on the light and dark... like Rupert’s dark office, the scene in the sewer, etc. And now rainbows are exploding everywhere. And if I can get back on my pink train for a minute, the women have always been pink. Even in the places without color, the pink popped up. Maybe that’s love seeping into the cracks of the shadows. That color has been given particular pride of place. Perhaps it’s the love. And with enough love in those shadow places, the full rainbow appears.
My work here is done. 😂
Oh, and Trent has held the rainbow all along, or as soon as he got in the clubhouse. He's been a true believer the whole time.
Ack! Love this!!
Could this mean that the writers are pointing us toward the Higginses as the folks who actually been the most themselves and the most authentic all along? With She's A Rainbow? The "crowded table"? The faith that allows an understanding of the gray areas? The practicing of second chances? That may be putting too neat a bow on it, (especially given Higgins' actions in the first season) and making that song do too much work, but there's something there.
My one prediction I was really proud/happy about that I'm disappointed hasn't come to pass (yet?!) was that there would be a 30th anniversary celebration for the Higginses. They were so specific in saying they'd been married 28 years in season 1 (and repeated the point in season 2--29 years) that I was really ready for that. They are the stable heart of the show (the home?) in so many ways.
Still a chance! Still a chance! YET!
I don’t have the bandwidth at this moment to parse the Wizard of Oz character symbolism and I’m sure others have given this way more thought than I since I just this moment thought to consider it…
Roy - tin man (feelings)
Nate - lion (courage)
Jamie - scarecrow (intelligence/wisdom)
Todo - Higgins
Dorothy I guess is Ted
I’m resisting going online to see what “they” say. But happy to read your postulations.
Rebecca as Glinda?
Yes, more Wizard of Oz references:
- No place like home was on the Richmond banner during the game
- Rebecca rocked some amazing heels with red underneath (Louboutins?) but they focused a ton of those
- "Coach, we're not in Kansas anymore"
- They focused on a yellow Lego brick
- And the pinball machine, "Dottie"/Dorothy, the final song, and ALL the Rainbow things
Wasn’t Ted’s mo named Dottie..short for Dorothy? Just another reference to Wizard of Oz. Also there is an uncle Henry in movie. The pinball machine did have flying house in the middle. I started crying in the last scene when he told Rebecca he had “some news” in the last scene. He is def going home to Henry...so sad to have this show end!
I felt that the first scene, Ted walking to work and greeting everyone on the street, felt like he knew this was home. Only when he saw his mom did his brow get furled.
Nate is still stunted, but he's evolving. Yep he wrote a huge letter, but that was _after_ he went and did a sneaky side-door nice thing for Will, making amends (a bit). He's verbally told Jade he left things on bad terms. He knows his sins, but he has to face how others view them. He owes Ted (and, maybe the team) an apology over revealing the panic attacks to the press. He owes the team an apology over the torn up sign. I hope we see both in the last ep. I also vote for Henry to come to England -- with Michelle.
So many great comments already! A few of my thoughts on topics not yet discussed:
1) Does anyone else feel that the forgiveness of Nate by the players was a bit too sudden? I feel like Nate should have found a way to apologize to the team before they offered him a job, considering the last time they saw each other the team was boiling mad at him for tearing the sign. That being said, I like that Nate clearly wanted Ted to be the one to ask him, but it didn’t deter him from eventually taking the job. It shows that he can now accept praise and forgiveness from others, when before he had hyper focused his need for approval on Ted as his “dad surrogate”.
2) The amount Ted swears is fascinating to me- in season one, he never did, except for in the finale as a shock factor. Same thing in season two, he would also say “heck” and “shoot” and just didn’t curse at all… and then in season 3, there was a shift. A few of his speeches to the team started including curses, and then the floodgates opened with his mom as he tried to explain how much her actions hurt him. While some might take it as being rude, I like to think of it as Ted being more honest and direct- sometimes, you just need to embrace your feelings and say them plainly in order to heal.
3) With a show that is known to be about fathers, it was nice to see an episode dedicated to mothers as well. Ted being blindsided by his Mom was clearly difficult for him, but he also spent the whole time she was there trying to accommodate her (sleeping on the couch, bringing her to work, etc) which made their final discussion all the more powerful to me. On the other side, I found myself surprisingly uncomfortable with Jamie’s relationship with his Mom… maybe it was because they didn’t look that different age-wise, but the physical affection was more than what I am used to with mother/son relationships when the son is a fully grown adult. Not saying the relationship is unhealthy, as clearly his Mom loves him and helps him a lot, but it’s something I found myself struggling with throughout the episode.
4) I know a lot of people have said that they could see Henry moving to England so that Ted could stay, but the issue is that if that happened, he wouldn’t be near his Mom. And while we all know that Michelle has done something horrible by dating Dr Jacob, she still is a good Mom, and I have to imagine Henry would miss her the same way. Ted moving back home and finding a new place to coach (maybe with an American Soccer team!) is the right call, as sad as it will be to see him go.
There’s still so much to wrap up in just one episode… I honestly don’t know how they will pull it off, but I’m excited to see where this journey takes all of these amazing characters we have grown to love!
Shoe game: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/style/ted-lasso-sneakers.html?searchResultPosition=1
After a rewatch last night:
-did y’all notice that the pinball game in Mae’s pub is The Wizard of Oz. And when he’s reflecting on his mother being there he looks down at the house spinning “in the tornado” - a sense of home being spun about.
-also, the bus driver getting everyone onto the bus to go to Manchester was reminiscent of the mayor of the Munchkins sending Dorothy off onto the yellow brick road