#ted lasso 2x4

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[renee561]

Got a whole list: (not in order of watching just a list)

While You Were Sleeping (5 of yall)

The Santa Clauses (personally I'm only a fan of the first two)

Elf

Scrooge'd

Scrooge A Christmas Carol (not sure if this one and the one before is the same movie or not)

A Muppet Christmas Carol

Lion in Winter (Hepburn o Toole)

Lost (4x05)

Ted Lasso (2x4)

The Shop Around the Corner

Happiest Season

Let it Snow

Holiday Inn

The Holiday

Bob Burgers Christmas Episodes

Bones Christmas Episodes

Jingle Jangle

Barbie Nutcracker

The Nurcracker and the Four Realms

A Boy Called Christmas

Klaus

Nightmare before Christmas

The Noel Diary

Spirited

Home Alone (1 & 2)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

Noelle

Red One

Cursed Claymation chronicles (youtube)

Thanking for the recs!:

@miz-chase @echoofawind @austennerdita2533 @wauryd @operationlightswan @albatrossisland @twelverriver @heatherfield @cursedartandthensome @bisonomy

[chainofclovers]

i love reading your TL episode thoughts, and im curious for your opinion on something i noticed. s1 had 10 episodes, s2 had 10 but they added two non-linear eps after the fact. s3 is technically the first to have 12 straight connected linear episodes, do you think that having 12 episodes in s3 wasnt in the initial plan for the overall arc of the show when it first started so that's why s3 is a bit clunky?

Hi, thank you so much for this nice ask! It's an interesting question--although I suspect they've known since they started working on s3 that they'd get 12 episodes, mostly because I don't think they'd have such a surprising "make extra episodes!" thing happen twice. (I don't have a source to cite on that, I've just assumed that even though they didn't film perfectly chronologically, they knew the size and shape of the season from the time they began it.)

I also don't have a source to cite for this, but I feel like I remember reading somewhere that when Apple ordered two additional episodes for s2, they already had a variety of stories mapped that they'd chosen to scrap, and they chose the Christmas one and the Beard one from there! Which makes me very happy. I like that 2x4 and 2x9 feel distinct and even nearly standalone, yet in both cases they do slot chronologically into the narrative and--at least in my own viewing experience--greatly enhance our understanding of who the characters are and what they're experiencing. 2x4 taught me tons about Ted's dad-grief, and I can't watch Beard onscreen without thinking about the inner life revealed in 2x9.

There have definitely been clunky moments in s3 (although I've loved the season overall, and largely have enjoyed it more than I enjoyed s2). Without knowing anything about anything, if I had to guess those moments where a scene clunks along a bit is more about the passion/pressure/intensity of landing the plane on a very long-planned, very personal story than it is about the writers/producers/etc. having to fit more narrative into the season than they'd planned for. However one feels about the new characters and plotlines, they're all part of a continuous timeline in s3 rather than dropped into episodes that could stand alone. I'm not interested in criticizing individual writers for telling personal stories (even though I was critical of the writing of certain scenes in 3x8) or in criticizing the entirety of Ted Lasso for the ways it has reflected or intersected real life. (Which I realize is not what you are doing in this ask! My reply is meandering, lol.) Art is about life, and that's OK. But I definitely get this feeling that if they started pre-s1 with this massive blob of material and potential, and then started pulling that massive vision into individual episodes, and that when they got to starting in on s3 they were staring at a whoooole lot of vision left to go and the attempt to honor that is, simply, imperfect.

[alwaysbeyondhope]

Maybe it’s because my mind is always in the gutter…

But Rebecca’s “all I really want to see those two do together is fuck” has been the death of me.

like…is it a flippant remark because they are two very attractive people? Maybe. But it’s also really forward, especially about two people she is friendly with.

Like, in this context, Daniel Craig and Rachel Weiss are two individuals she knows. Not random celebrities or actors in a movie. But people she’s had conversations with, sees at parties. And she wants to watch see them fuck.

Wanting to see two people fuck is erotica / porn. And she’s just causally mentioning this to Ted.

Is it just me? Am I obsessing over this throw-away line? Reading too much into it?

Cause the plot bunnies in my head are no longer sleeping…

[karlcagathon]

Ted Lasso Appreciation Week:

Day 5:  Fave episode(s)

↳  2x4 Carol of the Bells

[hacash]

Me explaining Ted Lasso to my flatmate: They’re writing all sorts of emotionally painful storylines this season, but all of them make perfect narrative and thematic sense so you totally appreciate what they’re doing. It’s like someone’s constantly whacking you around the head with a 2x4 and you’re thanking them for the privilege.

Flatmate: That’s a pretty toxic relationship, to be fair.

Me: You. You get it.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

2x4| 2x11| 3x11

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And we’re supposed to believe they didn’t sleep together? Sure Jan

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

2x4 | 3x6

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2x4 | 3x8

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1x7 | 2x4 | 3x12

[chainofclovers]

Ted Lasso 2x4 Thoughts

I don’t think it would be possible to be objective about the fourth episode of season two of Ted Lasso! I really want to capture my thoughts after each episode of this season to have a record for when I go back to watch it as a whole, but honestly, I’ve put off writing this one because I don’t really have very many thoughts about it?!

That is a lie. I have many thoughts about it. But they’re all just, like, messy feelings about fictional people.

Ted is so sad and Rebecca sees it!

Dani/Mrs. Higgins/Tequila!

All the Higginses! Yay!

The team! (I told you this was not going to be hard-hitting episode commentary.)

I don’t need the missing scene in which Keeley talks to Rebecca about Sexy Christmas, but I love the evidence that they’ve already talked about it in great detail!

All the Ted/Rebecca smiling and fidgeting and “What now?” and talking about how hot Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are = extreme first date energy but with a large side serving of all the extremely intimate moments that have happened in their friendship already, ahhhhhhhh

I will always until the end of time be a little bit in love with the moment in which Rebecca Welton, in an elf hat, encourages Ted Lasso to do a little bit of improv about the thing that happened to the Christmas presents

ROY AND KEELEY AND PHOEBE...yes, some of these people are blood relatives, but the found family of it all!!!!!

This season is going to a dark place (many individual caves, one could say) and that is the correct thing for this big old story these people are telling and it is blowing my mind that there are mean people on the internet criticizing this episode for having no conflict or connection to the larger narrative. Maybe they just had their eyes closed while Ted Lasso slumps drunkenly on his couch watching George Bailey consider suicide?

At the same time, this was very much a filler episode (I don't mean that as an insult, it's just true), freed from the constraints of time much as Christmas itself can feel. They leaned into the filler holiday episode vibes and IMO it paid off. Jason Sudeikis talked (in a cast interview for The Wrap) about the different philosophies and takeaways people share with him about the show and how he pretty much affirms them all because they’re “pro-human and pro-empathy” (I think those are the words he used) and my biggest takeaway is that silliness and sadness co-exist in pretty much everyone and Christmas is the perfect way to explore that.

FEELINGS! I HAVE SO MANY OF THEM!

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2x4 | 2x11

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1x4 | 2x4

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