#ted lasso sunflowers

[providing-leverage]

I like to think that the bartender at Prik sees the news after Colin comes out and just smiles and goes, "Good for him."

[asingerofdreams]

cheers to Ted Lasso 3.06 for getting me into Chet Baker

[destielcowboy]

finally got my ted lasso/colin hughes inspired tattoo 😭 i’m so in love with it, my artist made something even better than i’d been imagining

highlight of the appointment was my artist saying “i didn’t recognize you at first because you changed your name, but i knew this request wasn’t from a cis man”

[whatsupwalnut]

me watching sunflowers: ah so he’s autistic

[theodoreventuresout]

Y’all! Look what I found at Half Price Books!

[shadowytigerperfection]

Mentorship on Ted Lasso

I absolutely love the dynamics and parallels behind the three mentor/mentee relationships we got in 3x06 with Roy and Jaime, Trent and Colin, and Higgins and Will. First with the role reversal of Jaime helping Roy with his personal issues (learning to ride a bike, being emotionally vulnerable about his *feeling*), and then with Trent letting Colin know that he can talk to and rely on him as a fellow gay, and then with Higgins taking Will on a simple yet joyful jazz pilgrimage. All so different, yet all so beautiful and life-affirming, I’m so glad we continue to see so many positive portrayals of masculinity on this show.

[boardchairman-blog]

**Shots of the Episode**

Ted Lasso (2020)

Season 3, Episode 6: “Sunflowers” (2023) Director: Matt Lipsey Cinematographer: David Rom

[emma98v]

....

Rebecca is pregnant, isn't she?

I mean they did the thing and the psychic lady was right about every other thing.

God I really need ep 7

[postmodernbisexual]

Something about intimacy, revelations, and comfort, and how sometimes you find these things in the most unlikely of places. Something about gezellig I guess.

[littlebirdy0301]

I’ve been watching reaction vids of Ted lasso’s ep Sunflowers & it’s so whacky to me that straight people genuinely didn’t know that Trent crimm was gay and like peackock signaling to Collin and was never gonna out him

As soon as Trent saw Collin and Michael I was like “oh hell yeah, elder gay Trent storyline” which was reinforced literally every time he was onscreen from there out. And you’re telling me straight people didn’t see that?? Like some of them had an inkling of an idea of “oh ok he’s either gonna out him or I guess maybe he could be gay but it’s a tossup, we’re gonna have to find out ig”

like it’s just wild to me, yk like are we even watching the same show? This isn’t meant to be judgy or anything btw, I’m not saying anyone’s blind or dumb or oblivious for not knowing, it’s just so incredibly intriguing to me the way our different lives and experiences can so drastically change how we see the exact same scenes

[fourdollarwords]

I need someone to draw Trent and Colin going to a museum after thunderdong. And Trent drunkenly info dumping about whatever exhibit they're at while Colin laughs. Trent drank vanilla vodka for Colin, they can do this too.

[schreibfederlaerm]

i know it's just one joke in an amazingly funny episode but this scene transition killed me

[gnnosis]

colin hughes, you would LOVE schitt’s creek

(x)

[whatsupwalnut]

maybe it’s colin’s turn to be a prik

[bellarke-is-my-death-wave]

If you’d told me in S1 that in S3 Jamie Tartt would be teaching Roy Kent how to ride a bike I would have said DAMN THAT’S THE AMAZING CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED TO SEE.

[legless-fish-on-rollerskates]

Okay we've briefly turned into a Ted Lasso blog because I finally caught up tonight and holy FUCK sunflowers was unparalleled. Literally everything about the episode could be explored for hours but I really just want to quickly highlight one thing:

Obviously everyone is talking about the newest layer of Jamie's trauma that's just been revealed (and good on Roy for immediately acknowledging it as trauma!!), and I'm not going to try and do any sort of deep dive because a hundred people have already done it better than I ever could, but there's one thing that no one seems to be talking about, and maybe it's because I just binged the whole show in two weeks so I remember season one better than folks who watched it when it came out, but y'all remember the charity auction, right? First time we meet Jane, Rupert shows up and steals the show from Rebecca, Ted forces Roy and Jamie to sit at the same table because he's trying to make them get along, and, oh yeah, everyone's bidding on the players?

Now, we laugh when Roy and Keeley are messing with Jamie about having to have sex with the highest bidder and he sort of freaks out and then angrily overcompensates when he realizes they aren't serious. I think Jamie from this episode is mostly remembered as being a dick and a shitty boyfriend (and yes what he did pitting Bex and Keeley against each other in the actual bidding war was definitely an asshole move). On a first watch he seems unreasonably upset about what everyone else thinks is a harmless joke. And since not being able to handle people taking the piss plays into our already established understanding of Jamie as a self-centered jerk who's not all that smart, we don't think to wonder if there's any more specific reason for his reaction than wounded pride.

I'm not doing deep character analysis tonight, as I've already said. But. Uh. Reevaluating that scene after what we learn in Sunflowers about Jamie's sexual history and trauma,,, might give it a different context

Anyway, yeah, I'll just leave y'all to think about that. And fuck James Tartt Sr I hope Roy beats his ass