I know you've already seen it, I just don't know if you watched the whole thing, look, look, look. Alright. So look, after we came in, Nate had to hide under my desk here for, like, three whole hours while we were whooping and hollering and celebrating all around him. Then, once we all split, he thought he was in the clear and BOOM! Cleaning crew shows up. That's another two hours under that desk, yeah. Well, after they leave he crawls out - his legs just gotta be jelly, barely stand up. Look at this, he goes to check the doors but they're all locked! Oh man, that son of a gun had to climb out the window here just to get out of the building.
TED LASSO S03E11: MOM CITY
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Diamond Dogs video chat because not even the Ted Lasso finale can separate these dorks.
No I won’t finish the backgrounds
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I love that, on Ted Lasso, whenever a character starts acting weird or inconsistent with the show’s themes or whatever, it’s not just that the writers were sacrificing development for comedy or drama or whatever; it’s because there’s a thought process behind it. I was getting so uncomfortable whenever Beard was referencing Nate, because he wasn’t just pissed but downright spiteful - and for a show that is so much about nein schadenfreud and taking no shit but doing no harm, Beard trying to sic the team on Nate and throwing axes at pictures of his face just felt loaded with ick. It felt like the kind of revenge fantasy you’d see play out on a 90s sitcom, but not Ted Lasso. It felt cruel.
And then, and then we find out that Beard is Nate. Beard was shown kindness by Ted (like Nate), Beard was brought up from the worse place of his life by Ted (like Nate), and after all that Beard betrayed Ted (like Nate). And suddenly every spiteful comment and bitter look makes that much more sense, because this whole saga has been so much more personal to Beard, he’s seen himself in Nate’s actions, every single moment of seeing Nate’s betrayal play out in real time has been a poisonous reminder of what he did. Of course he was more pissed than Ted was.
And even if Ted has forgiven him, those final couple of scenes clearly show that there’s a little part of Beard that has never forgiven himself. He’s been repaying Ted all this time out of gratitude, but I wonder if it was also out of shame and guilt. (Halfway around the world is a long way to go to start a new job with your buddy, but those trying to absolve themselves from past misdeeds used to make lengthy pilgrimages for a reason.) I think there’s always going to have been that little nugget that always hated himself for what he did, that made it so easy to hate Nate as well. And that makes Beard’s reconciliation with Nate that much more beautiful - he’s forgiven Nate, but maybe he’s also finally forgiving himself.
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this shot makes me insane. yes there’s lots of feelings about whether he should have gone home or not, but seeing this man finally look happy and content after 3 seasons of his ups and downs gives me an emotional gut punch in the best way
and the real thing about this is that he also looks like Just Some Guy. here in kansas, he isn’t some Big Premier League Football Coach that all of english football fans know about. here in kansas, he looks like every run-of-the-mill yeehaw dad you’d see everywhere around town. this is the guy you’d expect to show up at in your parent-teacher conferences. but that’s the point. if someone had gone up to meet ted for the first time in that moment, he would have looked like Just Some Guy, but that person wouldn’t have known his whole lore. that he’s actually a hero to someone somewhere, that he made a gigantic impact in so many people’s lives for the better. you can look at someone ordinary and have no idea about the extraordinary things they have done for others. we all look ordinary on the outside, but there is a whole world inside of us. it’s like we just read a whole book (trent’s book) about how it only takes One Guy to leave a positive ripple effect for everyone he’s met and you wouldn’t even know it!!! and he is starting a new journey of all of this with his son’s team.
does this make ANY sense i am sleep deprived
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