![]() ![]() When she and Keeley were mentoring Nate in “Rainbow,” she talked about the stress of being the only woman at league ownership events, and it underlined how little her actual job has been a part of the season thus far. Although T ed Lasso is ostensibly a workplace comedy, Rebecca has had almost no role whatsoever in the actual operations of this football club, which has robbed the character of the depth Waddingham spent last season developing. In particular, I struggle with how much Rebecca’s story arc this season has been reduced to her romantic life, outside of her “boss ass bitch” moment when dealing with Sam’s protest. And to be honest, while the show highlights the age gap-with Sam having to correct her that he’s actually 21, to put an exclamation point on it-that isn’t really as much of an issue for me as the messy workplace dynamics that the show briefly mentions but mostly ignores, although even there I think the show could make a decent argument for this.īut they haven’t, as I don’t have a clear grasp on what this story is trying to accomplish, or how it serves either characters. ![]() Additionally, while I may not necessarily be able to personally grapple with the idea of a 25-year age gap, I don’t think that Rebecca is a “pedophile” as she suggests, or that she was “grooming him” as she worries. ![]() I also realized rewatching the first season over the summer that the seed of this is when Sam invited Rebecca to the burning ritual in “Two Aces,” and I’m not saying there’s not a pleasant energy to their interaction there. To start with, let’s get it out of the way: Toheeb Jimoh and Hannah Waddingham are charismatic and skilled performers, and I understand the show’s argument that two hot adults who have forged an emotional connection on an anonymous dating app that apparently featured no filters regarding age should just go ahead and shag already. Because while the episode overall does some good work to transition the show-and Ted especially-into the season’s third act, the resolution of the bantr storyline just didn’t work for me on any level. And so rather than spending three paragraphs implicitly asking you not to yell at me, I feel we’ve reached a point of maturity in the Ted Lasso discourse that I can spend some time detailing how frustrated I am with Sam and Rebecca’s storyline in “Man City” without derailing the great conversations we’ve been having so far this season. I had no way of knowing at the time I wrote it that the internet would have exhausted itself hashing out the backlash to the backlash, and that we would have come out the other side in an environment where it feels safe to criticize Ted Lasso so long as you’re not doing so in absolutist, preemptive ways. I offer this preamble because I’ve thrown out much of the introduction to this review as it was originally written, as I wrote it from a place of anxiety that criticizing the nicest show on television would make me public enemy number one. ![]()
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