#roy x jamie shippers going 'they're ruining their friendship' NO!!

[vole-mon-amour]

Once again, if you're not marrying your best friend and your partner is not your best friend, wyd? One of the worst possible thing in a romantic relationship is if you're NOT friends with your partner. That shit doesn't last, y'all.

[sakebytheriver]

I thought this last episode of Ted Lasso was the best one all season, Brett Goldstein does seem to have a solid grasp of who Nate is and the flawed culture of the entire football environment - fans yelling at a guy to get out of a pub for wearing a different team’s jersey, players thinking physical violence is an appropriate response to to hurt feelings, etc. - and I absolutely loved that part of the episode…but the Keeley part really isn’t working for me. Keeley feels like she’s being written dumber than she used to be, not just inexperienced. Barbara’s social awkwardness is sometimes portrayed as something to point and laugh at, and her doing her job and questioning Keeley’s bad decisions seems to never end with Keeley acknowledging her point of view. Shandy’s entire thing. If this is all setup for a Keeley spinoff…I really don’t think I want to see it.

Idk if you meant Nick Mohammed has a good grasp on his performance as Nate or if Brett Goldstein is the primary writer for Nate's storyline or something, but I do think the show is doing an ok job so far showing the inner turmoil inside of Nate and how much he does want to go back to Richmond and just how much Rupert has gotten his claws in him. I didn't believe they could really turn this thing around last season, but so far I'm not wildly disappointed. I still think not addressing the racial aspects of Nate's existence as a character is a bad decision, but I also get that that's not the story they planned to write for him, ultimately I'm just disappointed that they wouldn't take the time to rework some things once they did colorblind casting and cast Nick. I did overall like most of the football stuff last episode, the Jamie and Roy training scene was great and even if they ruined it later I did like watching Shandy run her own shoot and the boys doing their little flirty spots was cute, I did also enjoy the Keeley / Jamie stuff as a Roy x Keeley x Jamie shipper who is very much living in the denial that it might happen

And also I agree. The Keeley storyline is 100% the weakest link this season,

I like all of the new female characters they've introduced, but the way they're writing Keeley and them is so awkward and clunky. It's cliche and feels very cat-fighty in my opinion and I don't enjoy that kind of stuff especially from a show that's done it's best in the past to subvert that kind of stuff so I'm really hoping that this is just the growing pains of an overarching plot thread about female friendships and the way the "Lasso" style of kindness is applied differently for a female dominated workspace rather than a male dominated one

I think the show is really bad at addressing any kind of systemic societal problem, once they utterly fumbled the bag with Sam's protest storyline which really should have taken up like an entire season's worth of conflict by writing it off as solved through one text message from his dad I kinda lost hope in the show being able to address anything more than the surface level social problems the very white liberal, but also well-meaning writing team wants to address, so I'll just cross my fingers and hope that they're going to subvert my poor expectations and flip everything on it's head

Personally, even if they didn't turn Keeley into this weird facsimile of who she used to be I don't think she's a character that can carry a spinoff. If they do a Keeley spinoff it'll last a singular season and be forgotten to the anals of TV history like Joey, sorry 🤷‍♀️

[vole-mon-amour]

3x12, a mix, part 1.

The episode has been downloading on me for longer than 1 hour. Even the preview screencaps kind of spoiled some key points for me (I think). Anyway. Here we go babes. If Phil said they don't know if it's time to say goodbye yet, we MAY have a chance for s4. Fingers crossed.

(deep breath) Okay. Okay, whatever happens, I'll have to work with that.

What a woman. What a kitchen. Taking notes.

"It's that I refuse to accept that you're not coming back." SAME. It IS possible to come back.

I see how they're playing with TedBecca, giving the shippers the ability to fill in the gaps. However, I'd rather take Ted and Rebecca talking the entire night or playing some games or whatever, completely platonic. The idea of them kissing and having sex scares me bc it would ruin a perfectly good friendship. Those two are platonic soulmates. Platonic. They're really cute and sweet as they are.

*thumbs up emoji* Brendan is the real one for this. I'm still ugh about Beard and Jane, he should totally get out of that relationship. Fast forward the episode:

??????? Fucking LEAVE her. I don't understand why this relationship is still a thing!

<3 Beard is the real fucking one. So eventually, we get TedBeard endgame, huh? How about we start Trent x Ted x Beard? Trent doesn't have to date Beard, but they both love Ted very much. And since Beard was there long before Trent showed up, "This is my boyfriend Ted. And this is Ted's boyfriend Beard."

<3

The fact that Keeley keeps one of her bags in the trunk instead of the passenger seat next to her?

Hannah and Juno are right, if and when Brett smiles, it's the brightest and warmest smile ever. His entire face lights up. All those wrinkles, all that warmth. A drawing study would be so interesting.

In this scene Roy looks at Keeley's lips once. In the boot scene Roy looks at Jamie's lips trice. Three. damn. times.

I like how Keeley is deliberately avoids Roy in a romantic sense and keeps him at some distance. Good for her!

The way Trent looks at Ted. The way he is immediately at home with the Diamond Dogs group.

<3 Hilarious. Ted and Beard are really meant to be. Buy hey, are they really gonna leave before Roy joins them for at least ONE Diamond Dogs meeting?

SCREAMING.

Keeley is so— Yeah, she and Rebecca would've been a lovely couple. Her and Higgins' reactions are a journey & I love how Keeley squeezes Rebecca's knee (?) when Rebecca says that she genuinely doesn't care anymore about Rupert. Good for her!

"It's only 49%" Idk about you, but it feels like A LOT. Plus, Rebecca's inability to think when it comes to Ted leaving and not coming back, so the question of "How much would I get if I sell the entire club?" aka "I'm not sure if I can deal with this without Ted & I'm not sure if I WANT to."

Why is he smiling like that? Why does it feel so passive aggressive? Roy this episode so far goes from smiley to angry to smiley again. What is going on? Is he running to Jamie in between those so Jamie can cheer him up and Roy can continue his day? Is Roy the local Helga?

This show, you guys.

Trent, sweetie, you know that the love of your life is going away? Right? He's so cute :(

Roy singing under his nose is !!!

There are SO many nods to Trent being queer, are you telling me it won't be addressed? PS: Now I want a Richmond mug.

Roy is totally daydreaming this episode. What's going on? It's kind of inconsistent. Like, yeah, he was all like "And she looks very nice" in the previous one, but he's like this even when he's not with Keeley? Huh? I'm confused. If the explanation is not Jamie (I can't stop thinking about Phil's "People might they they have a wild affair") then idk, it's kind of OOC for Roy.