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The autism in Jamie Tartt in todays episode was showing!
The stimming when he was upset. The flapping his hands. Not knowing how he’s feeling or why. The chewing on his hoodie strings. The need for comfort from people he trusts. All of it.
It’s just very clear this episode. And I kinda love it. It just furthers my head cannon.
In case someone needed to heard this.
Not that it’s any of my business.
anyone else feeling real split on how the finale’s gonna go
Just wondering, did anyone else think that this is what the psychic meant when she said that Rebecca was going to be a mother?
Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 9 in memes because this show makes me happy
Ted Lasso 3×09
I smiled the whole time while watching it, needed to meme the whole thing
The fact that Ted Lasso cut away from Colin coming out to the team, after we hear him saying he doesn’t want to be a “spokesperson”, is so powerful to me. As much as I love queer representation in media, I feel like sometimes there is this hyper-focus on the coming out scenes, as the pinnacle of the queer experience that get thrust into the spotlight for the emotional payout from the audience.
That may resonate for some people, as coming out is obviously a big thing and can feel like a spotlight moment. But I feel like there are a lot of people out there whose greatest wish is for coming out to not be a thing. To not be a big moment. To not have to be a spokesperson.
And I love that Ted Lasso gave Colin that.
Rebecca and Roy giving each other a wake up call! TED LASSO (2x01 | 3x09)
No because it was so important for Roy to be the one to go after Isaac because he’s the reason Isaac is captain. He handed Isaac the armband and told him to keep throwing chairs into tvs. He rewarded Isaac’s anger and aggression and now it came to a head he had to be the one to figure out what was going on and help Isaac through it. And the full circle of Roy making Isaac captain over his outburst, Ted needing Roy’s help in making Isaac a better captain and in turn showing Roy he could be a coach, and now Isaac’s latest outburst leading to Roy really coming into his own being a well rounded coach is beautiful.
my mother said something really interesting about this episode (yes, she also watches the show and is a huge fan of dani rojas just like me) and it’s been stuck in my head ever since. she said: “it seems to me like this whole episode was about intimacy”
and like… yeah! that’s exactly it! the amsterdam trip set the perfect scene for it too, because people are normally a little more lax on vacation, a little more adventurous, a little more lenient and able to put themselves out there.
you have the pretty obvious contenders for this point: rebecca having her little fling with that nameless bald man and learning to open herself up to real connection and intimacy again, to be able to envision for herself a life and a love that is unmoored to her past with rupert and is able to exist in its own little intimate pocket. you’ve got jamie and roy learning to trust in each other, to be intimate and vulnerable about their pasts and about their present situations too (especially for roy, who is still right now a man who would rather break up with the woman he loves that admit, that he doesn’t think he’s good enough for her). and you also have, of course, the true soul of the episode, which was colin and trent’s discussion, and how colin feels that ache to be able to show the more intimate parts of him to the world the way heterosexual couples do, to be able to merge his intimate personal life with his fun if not a little reserved professional life. how to achieve a balance between intimacy and privacy.
and then you have the less obvious ones maybe, like higgins and will going to the jazz club— which isn’t really that hard to decipher when you think about it. it is, after all, where higgins opens up about an intimate detail of his love for jazz, and then gets to share his previously very intimate and private activity of playing the bass with the crowd. he even starts the night complaining of how exposed their seats feel, and ends up standing on the stage by the end of it. and, of course, will potentially had a threesome. so there’s a kind of intimacy for you. the one that truly isn’t obvious is the team pillow fight which honestly, I think is just a way of showing that sometimes a more intimate, fun yet indoor activity makes for better memories than something like a sex show or a club, which are both very grand and exciting yet impersonal and detached kinds of activities.
then of course you have ted, who is sort of lacking what my mother called an intimacy with himself. he’s been feeling a little lost, a little “stuck” as he put it. and I don’t think he understood why until this episode, until this adventure he went on with the museum and the american themed restaurant. it was a way for him to spend quality time with himself, to be alone with his thoughts while still not totally unable to absorb his surroundings and learn something. and in exploring his more intimate thoughts he was able to think of something really good! something that will make him a better coach!
and yeah, when it’s framed in this way I think this episode was sooooo killer. I love seeing people open up a little bit, to show these deep and intimate parts of their being. it’s so so so good.
Also I'm obsessed with Richard and Jan; they're both insane and I demand they do a Paris episode so Jan can be the bitchy Dutchman he deserves to be
The next Himbo event would be them huddled over at the whiteboard discussing plays on how Roy can win back Keeley.
I AM MANIFESTING THIS.
One of the only things that has irked me so far this season is how Ted's "one out of eleven" style of coaching has kinda disappeared with Zava's arrival, but I think him feeling like he lost/is losing his sense of purpose in London offers a little bit of explanation.
midway through the episode, ted asks henry if he knows that he would only be away from him for something he truly believes in. henry immediately says he knows, but ted so obviously isn’t sure of what his reason or purpose is anymore. meanwhile, the entire episode is a testament to how much ted has affected everyone around him for the past two years - the team works together so easily, jaime has assumed a real leadership role, rebecca is reminded of the importance of ted’s way over rupert’s, and the entire press room not only listens to him but participates alongside him showing how he has swayed popular opinion and culture as a whole. yet ted still doesn’t see why he’s there.
ted’s main thing is “believe,” but this season he’s the only who doesn’t believe.
In tonight’s hottest episode, Ted Lasso season 3 episode 3 has it all: gay Colin Hughes, boys kissing, group meditation, himbos, Jesus Christ Superstar, a therapist who should lose his license, a therapist who is a goddess, a psychic visit, truth bombs, Keeley slaying her job, soft voice Roy Kent, awkward encounters with your ex, everyone’s favourite restaurant, the first time I’ve gotten full body chills over a matchbox, Jamie Tartt wearing slutty little earrings
Me all season: Ted is going back to Kansas at the end of the series. Obviously he needs to be with Henry.
Me now that it’s a reality:
“Three tickets for the Barbie movie, please?”
I can’t believe that we got a 69 minute long Jamie-centric ot3 fic with Hurt/Comfort and Jamie Needs A Hug tags as an actual canon episode of this show
the thing about ted lasso is it drove up in a bus, slammed right into me, and didn’t even stop to ask if i was okay because tonight’s episode took me by the face and said “our parents aren’t perfect and they never have been and it’s okay to love them the way we did when we were little and still be angry with them for the people they made us into and all we can try to do is be better and lead with the love before the anger” haha
TED LASSO (3x11) I’m guilty. Sorry, Jamie.
I’m sweating they are coming to me
Ted lasso and Succession. The tumblr content is always making my day better.
me going on tumblr immediately after watching a new ted lasso episode to like every single recent post
colin's perfect coming out scenario where the whole team reveals they're gay and then they go on oprah is actually the version of ted lasso i've been watching this whole time
someone who doesn’t watch ted lasso wouldn’t understand why watching a man NOT spit at his reflection in the mirror for once is a deeply moving and personal thing to watch, but it is. it just is. 😭
me omw to a barbie / oppenheimer double feature