Like I said, I think we all knew he’d go home to the Greyhounds eventually, but the consistently weird choices when it comes to this character this season speak of a certain level of backstage interference and/or at the very least repeated rewrites. At least he actually apologized to Ted before everyone basically started pretending nothing ever happened.ĭo I think that a big piece of Nate’s story is as much about maneuvering him into place for a potential continuation of the show as it is his actual emotional arc? Probably. And we all knew that Nate would eventually come to his senses and probably end up back at Richmond, to boot.
To be fair, I’ll never be satisfied with the way this season has chosen to portray Nate’s arc, telling and not showing me the majority of his allegedly redemptive journey from Season 2 villain to Season 3 prodigal son.īut y’all have heard it before. Jason Sudeikis and Nick Mohammed in “Ted Lasso” Season 3 Episode 12 (Photo: Apple TV+)Įven the Nate stuff mostly works. The idea that she’d co-own the team with the fans is…oddly perfect after her speech at the Super League meeting turned food fight, and I loved the image of Mae and the guys at the Crown and Anchor actually having a real ownership stake in the franchise they’ve loved for so long.
Hannah Waddingham is tremendous as she wrestles with Ted’s departure and what her own future without him will and should look like. (In fact, I’m not actually sure he says anything during that entire scene between them in the Nelson Road stands.) Rebecca’s repeated pleas for him to stay in England - and her plans about how he can do so while still being with this family at the same time, don’t get much of a reaction from Ted. Related What to Watch on TV: The Last of Us, Superman & Lois, and Ted Lasso While, yes, Henry is his priority, he’s still made a life and a family for himself in Richmond, too, and on some level, it almost feels as though he’s fading away well before the end of the finale. I’m not sure I fully approve of the Mary Poppins vibes he’s giving off throughout this episode, if only because the show’s so focused on how everyone else feels about his leaving - and the prospect of having to continue on without him - that we don’t actually get a lot of Ted’s perspective on his choice. Yes, he’d made a life for himself in Richmond, but Henry is his whole world, and so much of his emotional arc has revolved around his own unresolved issues about his father’s suicide that there’s never been anyway he’d be an absentee father forever. Ted’s decision to go home to Kansas feels like it’s been building since the first episode of this season and, honestly, it feels like a natural end to his story. In your wildest dreams, could you ever have expected that Jamie Tartt, of all people, would hang on to a torn piece of construction paper? For months? Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham in “Ted Lasso” Season 3 Episode 12 (Photo: Apple TV+)
It was the reconstruction of the infamous “Believe” sign from the tattered pieces the Richmond players apparently all kept that really got me, if you’re curious, largely because they were such a visible representation of not only the team philosophy that Ted created, but the impact that philosophy had on the men these guys have become. The things this finale does well are almost all restricted to the parts that feel like a proper ending: The sudden returns of random secondary and tertiary characters, cheesy musical interludes where the team performs a Sound of Music number to honor Ted’s last practice, the teary video retrospective, Ted’s heartfelt halftime speech, and the fact that he finally learns what offsides mean, these are all the moments I needed from what certainly feels like it should be the end of the show. The AFC Richmond Greyhounds (Photo: Apple TV+) Perhaps if the show has been more honest about the fact that Apple TV+ clearly wasn’t about to let its only real popular hit swan off into the sunset we might have all been able to have a more clear-eyed conversation about the elements of this season that clearly happened primarily because the folks in charge needed to keep some options open for the future of this franchise.
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Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 12, “So Long, Farewell,” attempts to serve two masters, bringing the story of its titular coach to a natural conclusion - and most likely ending this iteration of the series as we know it - while still not-so-subtly waving a sign that says in bright, honking letters that spinoffs are coming.
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