Oh, I must have not realized it was him in rehab. I saw Jaime text him but thought he wouldn’t get a reply since he’s dead, but rehab and improving is a much sunnier ending for Jaime!
I didn’t actually get that. Did it mean something or was it just a random Broadway show as a reply?
It’s also a callback to a joke in season 1. Jamie says “cheers” and Ted replies “Night Court.”
Speaking of Broadway shows, am I the only one who fast forwarded through the Sound of Music song?
I didn’t fast forward but I found it too cheesy even for Ted Lasso.
Dani singing in different languages made me remember the actor saying he learned how to speak German before English. He went to a German school in Mexico. Not important I just found it interesting.
In the penultimate episode I caught it and asked here if he was supposed to be sick or in rehab. I figured rehab and others agreed. I think they made a bad choice in literally cleaning him up. He looked too clean so it looked like a different person.
Indeed… so why didn’t get we get to see the end of his journey with the players of Richmond - both the journey of the players forgiving him and then the journey of Nate coming to the entire group of players and saying the sorry to them that he said to Ted later?
Shrinking is quite good btw… I also do wonder if Lawrence’s attention being divided caused S3 to be (IMO) such a drop in quality.
Hell no! I love that musical. It was perfect.
I know I am in the minority for Lasso fans. It was just too much for me.
I had a feeling something like that was coming when I saw the episode title.
Nope…but I did get major Spike vibes. 
I like to pretend that shot was a nod to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (where, for those who don’t already know, Head played another character named Rupert).
Because it would have been boring. Uninteresting. Trite even. Another scene of players talking, debating sex show or forgive? Much better to skip past it.
The arc of interest wasn’t the players’ capacity to forgive but Nate’s discovery that happiness for him was not trying to be what he thought his father wanted him to be, to be attained by channeling his self-hate outwards, but by enjoying what he does and belonging, with Jade, with the team … Nate’s desire to be forgiven and his becoming better.
Good choice made.
OMG! Never pinged my radar. Not even “Where do I know him from?” Poor Rupert.
He was just replying to a Broadway show title (Wicked) with another show title.
It’s also a callback to a joke in season 1. Jamie says “cheers” and Ted replies “Night Court.”
Yeah, like that.
I can get behind this answer.
I’m honestly not so sure how horrible Nate had been.
Okay. He displaced his anger at his Dad to Ted, as a father figure who actually accepted him, unconditionally, which only triggered his upset more that his real dad never gave that message.
And in a position of authority his years of experiencing the berating method initially won out over the short exposure to Ted’s approach.
But to the team? He tore up a sign. And trash talked as an opposing coach. Grow up some of those things hurt so bad. Ambition is not necessarily a sin.
What I appreciated about Nate was that his turn away from glomming onto Rupert as father figure was when his mother showed him his father’s softer and creative side, the map. From there on he viewed his father differently, and never spit at himself in the mirror again. He attached to that version of his father.
On any other team, he still would have been the kit man. They gave him his big break and continued to treat him with nothing but respect.
Today I learned that the actress who played Jamie Tartt’s mother was Pete Best’s niece.
Yes?
Agreed the team did nothing wrong to him. That’s not in question.
It was potentially unforgivable that he was not fully appreciative of their charity?
Yes the talent of Lasso as a coach was to identify the strengths of every team member and to get every team member to contribute to their own highest level. Given the chance to contribute to his highest level Nate contributed tactical genius that another coach’s team would never had benefited from.
It wasn’t charity. It was Lasso’s coaching talent. The team benefited from him as a result.
…he bullied Will.
That was his worst “crime.” And its one that the rest of the team were complicit with in a way, because the team used to bully Nate.
The anger the team had against Nate was largely preformative. “He betrayed them.”
So the show only featured the apology that really mattered. The one that Nate made to Will. Ted had already forgiven Nate for leaking to Crimm. He didn’t need an apology. And the team was fickle. Like a goldfish. They hated Nate. Now they love Nate.
But Nate needed to make amends with Will. Because what Nate did do Will was some toxic shit. I’ve experienced that. And it isn’t easy to forgive. And it isn’t easy to trust again.
And I completely disagree. It would have been an essential part of his redemption arc. He didn’t just betray Ted by walking out. He bratrayed his team, and this was plainly shown by his breaking in and tearing up the sign and the players’ response to it.
They know that Nate didn’t just get another job and left on good terms.
And it is stunning that Beard is the only one who was unprepared to welcome Nate back. Having to deal with the many players who wouldn’t be ok with it would be interesting and necessary, imo. As it was with Beard.
I guess we simply aren’t going to agree with it but I think the lack of dealing with the players response to Ned coming back (considering their last dealing with him that absolute rage) is a massive hole which brings down the entire season for me and Nate’s entire arc (it just turns out to not be interesting anymore).
As far as I’m concerned, the only good season of Ted Lasso was the first one. Second was average while the third was simply bad…
And if you want it spelled out more eloquently, please refer to the Sepinwall review I posted earlier 