Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.Īfter the titles, we find Ted back in Sharon’s office, where he’d collapsed on the sofa last week. We’ve already had a mouthful of plot, and we haven’t even tasted Ted’s crucial, perhaps season-defining, story line. Maybe throw in a “Well done, son” somewhere? Or an “I’m proud of you”? Between Jamie and Nate (with Sam presented as a counterexample), Season 2 of “Ted Lasso” is turning into an exploration of poor fathering.Īnd that’s all before the title sequence.
“It’s about thinking about yourself less.”
“They say humility is not thinking less of yourself,” he lectures Nate. While yelling at other parts of the newspaper - “Let me know if they ever talk back,” says Nate’s mother - he ignores the back-page story about his suddenly famous, soccer-coach son. But his father is still utterly dismissive. As self-evidently wonderful as Roy is, living with Angry Yoda 24/7 does sound a bit exhausting.Īnd then, another subplot, more concerning still: Nate is obsessed with social media declaring him a hero after the win over Tottenham. At least, that’s how things feel for Keeley. To Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe,” the show posits the downside of a perfect relationship: Your jobs, interests and romantic ideals overlap so utterly that you are around each other every single minute. Let’s instead start at the beginning of the episode. What we do know is a little bit more about Ted and the journey he appears to be on this season. We don’t even know their next opponent in the FA Cup, following last week’s shocking upset of Tottenham Hotspur.
We still have no idea of AFC Richmond’s chances of rejoining the Premier League. At last: A clear vision of the trajectory of this season - hinted at last week - has come into focus.