#I don't know that anybody needed a Live Gus Reacts post but tada

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Ted Lasso season 3 episode 5.

That’s it that’s the ask.

I don't know what you'd like the answer to be, though! I watched it! A lot happened! My thoughts won't be particularly new or original, but here you go. (Spoilers, obviously, below.)

I think it's a really interesting notion that Rebecca, like her mom, gets (a little bit) hooked onto the idea of the psychic might actually not be full of shit, to the extent that she considers getting pregnant. I am super curious as to how/if that storyline resolves in Rebecca actually being a mom, either literally or figuratively, but I don't have any predictions either way. I will say that that storyline must have been really hard for Waddingham, considering what she's talked about with her own daughter's conception, so kudos to her.

EXTREMELY glad that they made clear that Jade wasn't intended to be seen as a racist (even though I maintain that, in the real world, WOOF her behavior the first two times we met her were racist), but rather just extremely reserved and willing to open up (and hey, NOT because Nate is famous now! Another thing I'm really happy to have been wrong about!) and I hope those kids make it work.

I absolutely fast-forwarded through the Shandy firing because I'd been spoiled for it and it made me sad that they brought on a great actor only to waste her like this. I get what the show was trying to say, but I don't like how they did it and I agree with those who found it pretty gross that one of the only non-white female actors on the show had to play that character (even though Ambreen Razia knocked it out of the park in every scene she was in).

Keeley and Jack together are great — I didn't "need" it in the way that a lot of people say (both in general and in the queer community) that unless a bi person sleeps with multiple genders, it doesn't "count." On the other hand, it's nice! They're two hotties, I'm glad they get to be hot together for however long their relationship is.

Other than that, yay for Ted's (somewhat erratic) growth in this ep; yikes for Henry's bullying (though it sounds more like it was a fight he got into with the kid rather than systemic harassment or abuse); I too am both scared and horny about Roy's vivid advice for bullies; and Roy joining in on the injured monkey... moment was really good for me. (As of course was Trent's revelation that he might actually be a good strategist, given the metric fuckton of soccer he's watched and judged for the past twenty-five years.)