Rupert’s motivations are pettiness and a mundane level of evil. Insisting his fandom has to outshine his petty need to screw over his ex and those around simply because he’s English doesn’t seem very logical. For two seasons we have been shown his motivation
But wasn’t Rebecca’s motivation for having Richmond in the divorce settlement pettiness and a mundane level of evil? We were told she didn’t care for the club, but wanted it because Rupert loved the team so much and that’s why she hired Ted, so that he’d run the club into the ground and it’d get relegated and hurt Rupert even more. So… I think it has been established that Rupert really loved Richmond, which was the impetus for the entire story.
Anyways, I know this show is a fantasy because it has West Ham projected for the Top 4, lol.
Interesting scenes with Nate though. Basically they are showing that in order for him to have any confidence at all, he has to channel his inner asshole. Otherwise he’s completely frightened of the whole thing (the press conference).
I really, really hate the spitting. Ugh!
Well, it could be said that it, the spitting, is doing it’s job of making the character disgusting and hateworthy.
Yes but she was cured by the power of biscuits.
Thing is west ham are at least twice as valuable, and maybe even 5x as valuable as afc richmond.
Anyway its fantasy
As I feared - the gap between seasons did not work to my advantage. I couldn’t remember Keely’s name - or how she had become head of a company. And at one point the showed a young man with a beard, and I asked my wife, “Do we know who that is?” (And she said “No.”)
Some somewhat random thoughts:
The tone seems to have changed. In S1 it tilted more to the comic end of “dramedy”, and now it seems to be tilting towards the drama end. Not bad, just different. Seems appropriate that Ted is asking, “What am I doing here, when my kid is thousands of miles away?”
We had difficulty understanding some of the characters - especially Keely.
I personally dislike the trope where someone like Keely gets thrown into the position of running a large corporation, having no idea what they are doing.
I disliked that Rebecca was so concerned over Rupert. I had thought she had grown beyond that.
But having said all this, it is still a good show and we’ll keep watching. I wonder if this will be the final season, or if they’ll continue?
My wife cannot understand any strong non-American accent (and even some strong American dialects). We always watch this show (and others, like Derry Girls) with subtitles on.
Regarding the tone of the show, we re-watched the previous seasons over the last two weeks in preparation for the premiere. Viewing the show as a whole, it’s pretty clear there has been a long arc toward taking the characters and their emotional lives more seriously, and it started from the beginning. The show’s early episodes use comedy as the hook, but even by the end of season one there’s some real meat being chewed. In other words, it feels to me like a considered and deliberate evolution, not a loss of focus from the “original” show.
This is the last season. It was always intended to be a three season arc.
I was recently watching The Offer, the limited series about the making of The Godfather, from the point of view of its producer, Albert Ruddy. He has an assistant who looked familiar but I couldn’t place until I checked IMDB … it was Keely. I didn’t recognize her with an American accent.
She’s not running a large corporation. She was working as PR for the team and opened her own PR firm. We saw what 4 employees? She’s someone who made money for being internet famous and has rich friends who can invest. Running that kind of business isn’t a big stretch. It remains to be seen if she can do a good job at it.
Neither are her real accent. She has a mild London accent not like the working class London she speaks in TS. She is very good at accents.
OK. Like I said, I didn’t recall all the specifics from the last season - and had become less interested in her character as she became more prominent. Had no idea what her company supposedly did. The fact that she had a CFO - but didn’t even know what it meant - suggested to me that the organization was larger than 4 total employees.
I can’t not think of Rupert as really being Rupert gone full Ripper. I have a theory that it’s a demon.
Wasn’t the CFO working for her investors?
A dancing demon?
No, something isn’t right, there.
Last season the investors of Bantr (the fictional dating app that sponsors the team) offer to back her own company. In this episode it is revealed that the company name is KJPR (for Keeley Jones). So new start up company not big corporation.
Agree. His interactions with Nate are only lacking him literally twirling his moustache. On the other hand, this show is brilliant with misdirects so maybe I’m just projecting. Anthony Head is doing a great job, btw, When I first learned he was going to be in it, I was expecting Giles (his character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer). He is sooooooo not Giles (in the best possible way)
Wow, I never noticed that he was Giles!
he’s NOT HE’S NOT, GILES WAS GOOD!!! (runs away sobbing with his face in his hands)