Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 2 Review: A Book On The Horizon | Apple Tv+ Series
Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Jeremy Swift, Phil Dunster, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Nick Mohammed, Anthony Head, Toheeb Jimoh, Cristo Fernández, Kola Bokinni, Billy Harris, James Lance, Juno Temple
Director: MJ Delaney
Streaming Platform: Apple Tv+
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3.5/5 (three and a half stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
After a first episode designed Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 2 to introduce the new Richmond football season and to resume the threads of the lives of our beloved protagonists, here we are ready to review Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 2 with you, a very funny episode with many ideas that focuses less on our beloved coach played by Jason Sudeikis to better focus on other characters, deepening and characterizing them, among many reflections and laughter. A long but interesting episode that fits perfectly into the gears of the well-oiled machine, adapting perfectly to the quality to which Bill Lawrence’s Apple TV+ series has accustomed us. But let’s proceed in order.
It has not yet been officially announced whether the third season of Ted Lasso is the last, as repeatedly suggested by Jason Sudeikis (with the events of the season one finale suggesting where the other two acts of the trilogy would go with), also because it’s hard to imagine that Apple is ready to give up what is undoubtedly its flagship title, the one that has conquered even those who don’t have the slightest idea of where to look for the various series created for the platforms of the stream. And yet, there is a feeling that something is moving in that direction, for better or for worse, and we talk about that in our review of Ted Lasso 3 Episode 2.
Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 2 Review: The Story Plot
We had left Ted and company in fervent anticipation and preparation for AFC Richmond’s big return to the Premiere League and Nate and Rupert’s future clash against West Ham. So here the team finds itself facing Chelsea, a real colossus, as well as the former historical team of the grumpy Roy Kent. However, the match in question is not the only event that brings turmoil and confusion in the locker room: on the one hand, the arrival of the man with the most beautiful hair in London, the famous journalist Trent Crimm, comes to follow the team and write a book on the club’s season (but opposed by the team at the behest of a resentful Roy), on the other, the news that the club may be trying to sign a real football star, the as talented as mythomaniac Zava. To create a real imbalance between the players and the staff members is the discovery of the end of the relationship between Keeley and Roy, which leaves everyone dismayed and astonished, especially when they learn that it was the same who committed the act of leaving. grouchy Kent.
It is he who steals the show and becomes the moral protagonist of the entire Ted Lasso 3×02, an episode focused on his all-round study, which will lead him to question himself and reflect on his past as a promising young man without never letting him stop being the grumpy grouch we’ve come to love. After an episode spent holding back everything, he carried inside him and which he only exhibited through his iconic growls, Roy empties the bag and vents his emotions, admitting that he has left Chelsea, the team that had consecrated him and made him the legend he has become today, for fear of being left out. Confession forms an obvious parallel to his decision to walk away from Keeley. His confrontation with Ted (Jason Sudeikis) who is more severe than usual and with Trent Crimm, always perfect and never disorganized even in the face of the follies of the Richmond players, as well as being well written and acted seven important premises for his possible rethinking in towards ex-girlfriend.
But always inherent in the separation between the two, it is also appreciable to see how Jamie does not choose to take advantage of the situation to immediately try again with the ex, as we are accustomed to this kind of cliché, we would have expected, but instead chooses to try to console in his way what he now considers as a mentor (albeit with somewhat comical results and without much appreciation from the latter). This initiative of his perfectly represents the level of maturation that the character has managed to reach during the first two seasons of Ted Lasso and the possible birth of a sort of friendship between the two and can do nothing but warm our hearts. But now let’s talk about Keeley, a character who, although he is being explored well, carries on what is perhaps, at least for now, the least interesting storyline of the season.
Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 2 Review and Analysis
Even if the plot linked to his new job as head of KJPR could lead to interesting ideas and new interactions, the impression is that it detaches itself a little too much from the main core of the story and that, precisely because of this will be penalized. But we’ll see where the series intends to lead us! However, for obvious reasons, the fulcrum of Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 2 is the introduction of the character of the elusive Zava, who, with his personality and his headboards, not even too subtly reminds us of a wild Zlatan Ibrahimovic. A prima donna with undeniable talent who is contested by all the Premier League clubs and who is also targeted by Rebecca, who is determined to do everything to ensure that her charming and sneaky ex-husband Rupert doesn’t give her the cues. The confession by the owner of the Club about her first meeting with the manipulative ex, so charismatic as to fascinate anyone and to always get what she wants, triggers something in her, an inextinguishable fire that does not make her give up and aim straight at the target.
The ferocious and passionate lecture that Rebecca addresses to Zava, pushes him to question his skill and to try to triumph by being part of a less strong and renowned club rather than winning easily, in the end, he indeed wins at the expense of persuasive words by Rupert. But beyond the enthralling plot developments that will spice up the table and promise to further spice up the narrative of the series, we really can’t avoid spending a few words on the most humorous aspect of the episode: Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 2 indeed treads on the accelerator of a comedy that in the previous episode, while remaining present, still seemed toned down, focusing on absolutely hilarious jokes and situational humor that never disappoints. What about, for example, the tribute/debate regarding the two versions of The Office? If, in fact, for the British, the only series to deserve that title is the first version, the British one, Ted has no qualms about praising the one set in Pennsylvania, defining the original version as a “premake”. But that’s not all: Higgins’ funny and questionable sources of information, Ted’s pearls about the terrible (but great) Christmas movies all the same, Coach Beard’s shocked cries, the fantastic Danny Rojas’s face goal…
After being included in the main cast in the previous episode, without however appearing physically, James Lance returns in the role of Crimm, always one of the most interesting and charismatic supporting actors in the series, to the point of giving even greater prominence to the newspaper The Independent beyond outside the UK. And through him, the episode finds an interesting way to explore Roy Kent’s personality without focusing exclusively on the relationship with Keeley, evoked but in some ways shelved because for her there is an entire storyline dedicated to her new advertising agency, which contributes not a little to the more generous duration of an episode which, even more than the previous one, tries to give space to everyone.
As we said at the beginning, there are still no official confirmations about the end of the series, even if the authors have explicitly conceived the third season as the final one, with the possibility of a spin-off later (and Sudeikis and associates must be acknowledged for having invented a sufficient number of characters capable of justifying all sorts of derivative stories to keep the Apple TV+ executives happy), but the fact that here we try to give space to everyone, even when the scenes taste like filler written so as not to exclude anyone (the pub with the fans is the most striking example), is a symptom of an imminent terminus that prompted the writers to ensure that everyone has something to do in each chapter. A commendable choice in itself, because during the previous two seasons such a job was done as to allow even the less used football players on a narrative level to tear a smile with half a joke, but if before the main storyline of each episode was clear and the subplots somehow nourished it, here – between Crimm, Roy, Keeley and the introduction of Zava – everything is more confused. Fun, but confusing.
Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 2 Review: The Last Words
The desire to please everyone begins to water down the solidity of the writing of the series, net of the great sympathy of the entire cast. The clean but always precise direction of the Bill Lawrence series, his now unmistakable photography, and a soundtrack that is always on point are the icing that completes an already very appetizing cake thanks to a simple but flawless script and characters that are always appreciable and excellently performed by the entire cast.
