Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 3 Review: Episode Doesn’t Quite Do Justice To His Grand Entrance
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: Destiny Ekaragha
Streaming Platform: Apple Tv+
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3/5 (three stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
After two introductory episodes Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 3 aimed at laying the foundations for the novelties of this third and final season of the Apple TV+ series, Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 3 kicks into gear and stages an episode full of novelties, entertaining the viewer with a good dose of humor and delving into many different characters, with an episode that is certainly more choral than the previous ones. Also in this case we can only reserve good words for a series which, so far, has never disappointed us and which, week after week, continues to give us great satisfaction, making us spend about forty minutes of serenity.
In the season 3 premiere, while talking to his analyst, Ted Lasso explains that perhaps his stay in England is doing more harm than good in the long term, and there are not a few who have interpreted that joke as a preventive, self-deprecating admission of guilt from Jason Sudeikis and the other authors of the show: having reached a quarter of the season (three episodes out of twelve in total), one wonders if it no longer made sense to close with the second year, where Richmond returned to the first tier but lost precious elements such as Nate Shelley, now promoted to the real villain (even if so far, net of the bulimia of the individual episodes, we have not yet seen him with his maximum antagonistic potential). A question that is overbearing in the reflection that crosses our review by Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 3.
Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 3 Review: The Story Plot
We were left with the shocking announcement of the landing in the AFC Richmond of the miraculous showman Zava as talented as an eccentric showman, who enraptured all the team staff, from the enthusiastic players (among which stands out an adoring Danny Rojas, to the coaches Much of the screen time of the episode was dedicated to the construction of a charismatic character, clearly inspired by Zlatan Ibrahimovic, able to fascinate anyone: the magnetic and magnetizing gaze, the elegance in the game actions, the unsuspecting attitude zen manage to conquer everyone in an instant. Perfect from this point of view was the actor Maximilian Osinski (already seen in Agents of SHIELD and The Walking Dead: World Beyond), who, thanks to his peculiar physicality and excellent expressiveness, was always perfect in the part and really funny in his own way.
The only one to reveal skepticism towards Zava and unhappy with his presence in the team is only Jamie, used until then to get all the limelight for himself and worried about being ousted so easily. Yet, as the episode is keen to show us through a beautiful montage that focuses on the highlights of a series of matches in which Richmond plays, Zava’s are not just words, and the talent shown on the pitch can only excite anyone, but which can already lead viewers to theorize and reflect on Tartt’s words, who will then get Roy’s support. Now that the team depends so much on Zava, what if, due to his injury or some other unfavorable situation, the other players are deprived of their top scorer? If before his arrival the team was at its best, now, without him, would they be able to prove that they are champions promoted to the Premiere League? For now it’s still too early to make predictions of this type, but, knowing Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein well , we doubt that between now and the end of the championship, Richmond will be able to try to get to first place!
Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 3 Review and Analysis
The dominant presence of the episode is the American actor of Austrian origin Maximilian Osinski, who for the role of Zava was inspired by various recent champions – including, of course, Zlatan Ibrahimovic – without giving him an identity easily attributable to a specific place: he is the emblem of the champion of undefined origin, and as such he expresses himself with an accent which, on the initiative of the actor himself, mixes different Baltic cadences without ever betraying a specific homeland, coherently with the writing which never reveals his full name or where he comes from (we only know that he tends not to last more than a year in a single team, and that before arriving in England he was in the pay of Juventus).
If already with the second episode the doubts about the management of a choral story that in this round wants to ensure that no one feels excluded were legitimate, here is the definitive confirmation, between the fixed cast and guests (including some returns that are not very organic in the narrative fabric and know of a reunion dictated by the imminent conclusion of the story of Ted and associates), of the imbalance that has taken possession of those who manage the Richmond, in front of and behind the camera. Suffice it to say that what is introduced as the main narrative hub at the beginning, with an apparent evolution in the early stages, then becomes almost a footnote, a detail like many others that gets lost in the tangle that is the actual introduction of Zava, a deliberately cumbersome presence that eats everything but underlines the involution of the show’s writing because, in the previous season, the space dedicated to his boundless ego would have led to the removal of every scene not strictly linked to the essential elements of the episode.
Here, however, the series has become exactly like its protagonist: he should make sacrifices, but he just doesn’t feel like it. And if it continues like this, it will be a very long season, in every sense. Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 3 provides clues that trace a much deeper character than we would have expected and that cultivates a secret with great fear which, unfortunately, is still very often taboo within the football field. Now that this part of his private life has been discovered by Trent Crimm, what will happen? Will he rush to write an article about it that will force Colin into an unwanted coming out or will he handle the matter with the utmost tact?
But let’s now come to Rebecca who, pushed by her mother, goes to the latter’s psychic, finally receiving the fateful prophecy according to which she will become a mother, which hurts her a lot precisely because it seems she is unable to have any. A turning point, this, which certainly generates points of interest, but which requires a credible justification: if we discover that the psychic has foreseen everything (and it is not a question of simple coincidences) we could only define ourselves as disappointed by such a turn. And then there’s Ted, who, as we feared, still seems rather psychologically fragile and struggles to manage the violent emotions that overwhelm him: the principle of a panic attack that seizes the man after the discovery that his ex-wife has started a relationship with the doctor who had taken them in couples therapy had already made us fear for the worst. Moments of pure anguish that take your breath away: Jason Sudeikis is so good at showing Ted’s fears with a few gestures and looks that it takes very little for the audience to understand what is about to happen.
But beyond the development of the plot, which now sees Richmond competing for the first places alongside Nathan’s West Ham and which will most likely be the focus of the next episode, Ted Lasso 3×03 also excels from the point of view of mere show and entertainment. Even if in a mere marked way compared to 3×02, Ted Lasso 3×03 entertains with always-on-point jokes that play with pop culture and quotes and with the extraordinary and overflowing personality of its players. However, the focal point of the whole episode is, at least in our opinion, the long montage showing Richmond’s inexorable climb up the Premiere League table, a tribute to the most famous genre films and accompanied by a soundtrack that we never expected to find.
Watching the scene in question, in fact, from the depths of our subconscious, we began to visualize in our mind an elderly man bouncing back and forth while he seemed to be filming with a camera. Why, you ask? Because the song that accompanies the matches is none other than Prisencolinensinainciusol, a beautiful and famous piece by Adriano Celentano which, however, has tormented our existence for the very high-volume advertisements of Adrian – The event series. A small shock which, however, made us appreciate Ted Lasso’s musical choice even more, who continues to excel in this respect also in 3×03.
Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 3 Review: The Last Words
Maximilian Osinski is stunning as Zava, but the dispersive nature of the episode doesn’t quite do justice to his grand entrance. In short, Ted Lasso 3×03, in line with the previous episodes, continues to remain a guarantee and, even if it is not as deep as the first or as funny as the second episode, it keeps us glued to the screen, loading us properly for the continuation of the series and presenting an increasingly unanimous but not confused story, even if the risk remains.
