Turtle Wexler

I started watching the U.S. and UK versions at roughly the same time and had to come back to both because I wasn’t concentrating on either. I appreciate that the U.S. version isn’t a carbon copy of the UK version with only minimal changes. I am on season 3 now, and I think I’d love a whole episode of Kitty and Pat dancing. I love how joyful they both are, especially Kitty after she got annoyed that she’d have to dance with Pat when Alison became busy.

Loved seeing Flambeau give back Lady Felicia her necklace! I assumed that he had sent it back off-screen.

I came back to the show (via Pluto) the other night because when I first watched the pilot, I couldn’t get completely into it and knew my headspace was off. I’m all caught up and am glad I came back. I laughed at Isaac’s confusion over the Cheesecake Factory because 22 years ago, when a friend first asked me if I wanted to go there, I whispered, “I don’t like cheesecake but sure, I think it would be neat to go to a factory and watch them get made,” and she explained that it was a restaurant (with, at the time) only two non-Cheesecake desserts…).

On Friday I started watching the new Apple show, The Afterparty. Sam Richardson, Edwin Akufo, is one of the main characters. Tonight, I’m watching Bridget Jones’s Baby, and who pops up but Nick Mohammed. He plays someone at the London Media Show that Bridget introduces Mark to as she’s trying to keep him and Jack from running into each other.

The rhythm seems a bit off, but I’m glad it’s back. I’ve missed Sid, but I am excited to see Bunty again. I really love that they returned to an old episode; I wasn’t interested in the story very much, but I appreciated that they went all the way back to S1, and I loved the mention of Susie!

I wondered for a second, too! It’s been so long! Sid left with Maeve. (Were they planning on getting married?) Shelly is the woman at the Red Lion.

Ruth Bradley, who plays Ms. Bowen (and whose birthday happens to be today—which I had no idea until I went to check her name on IMDb) played Agatha Christie in Agatha and the Truth of Murder.

blackwing, just reading this made me giggle. I agree. I am rewatching Ted Lasso while working (makes that so much more bearable!), and I rewatched this last night. Keeley’s and Roy’s reactions still make me laugh—especially Roy’s dry-heaving while Keeley is trying to get Phoebe to feel no shame. Juno Temple and Brett Goldstein do such a great job of selling their discomfort. (I also feel terrible for Phoebe!)

Rewatching Father Brown and Bill Fellows (Misogynistic Coach George) is in an early Season 5 episode.

Hope so, otherwise they’d end up spending most of the season in prison!

Rewatching this and people have mentioned re: Nate being a bully that he calls Rebecca a shrew in this episode. He also randomly insults Colin when Ted asks Nate if he knows why Nate’s new whistle is sad: because it hasn’t been blown. Nate of course asks if that’s the same reason that Colin is sad. It’s weird and gross and cruel, and makes no sense as a joke in the first place. (Colin isn’t known for being sad so the “joke” isn’t even rooted in something that everyone would “get.”)

Yes! Like in--sorry; it's been a very busy and stressful few weeks, so my brain is a bit fuzzy--Keeley walked into the office and said that she had an advertising opportunity for a coach, and would either Beard or Roy like to help her out and they just looked at her, and she said, "Fuck you both(?)" and walked out, and Beard said something about how it was amazing that they didn't have to say a word, and Roy said that she understands them. (And then Nate walked in and said that he was going to be doing this advertising gig.)

"Horticulture, baby!" I love Beard’s enthusiasm for a wide range of things. It reminds me of his comment about axe-throwing earlier in the season, and his “Fuck yeah, the Gershwins!” last season. I’m sure there are other exclamations that I’m forgetting.

I loved this, too, and it was a nice callback to Ted realizing the same thing (or close?) about girl talk.

I am doing a rewatch and “Does my face look like it’s in the mood for shape-based jokes?” still makes me laugh.

Anthony Head and James Lance are starring in an adaption of “The Canterville Ghost.”

I LOVE Spratt! His rivalry with Denker was amazing, as was the surprising tidbit that we learn about him.

It's a small thing, but I love that the "Ussie" guy comes back in it. (The woman playing the dentist is his actual mom, IRL.)

This show has to be the best at callbacks; I'd love a thread of just those! But, I was rewatching "Rainbow" the other night to cheer myself up, and I had remembered that it's the episode in which Ted finally gets to tell Beard the punchline of his "British Owl" joke that he tried telling Beard and Nate in S1 and they wanted no part of because they were mad that Ted didn't want to bench Roy. But that same conversation is also when Ted tells Beard that he thinks it shouldn't take longer than the length of "Easy Lover" to get dressed, which sets up his getting dressed before Rebecca's father's funeral. (Call-forward?)

I first saw Harriet Walter in Strong Poison as Harriet Vane. Edward Petherbridge was Lord Peter Wimsey and I very much enjoyed the adaptations. She was also in Law & Order UK. She was also in Sense and Sensibility, and probably had one of the most high-pitched-spoken lines I've ever heard in film--she screams and lunges at another character, and it was probably a decade before I realized what she'd yelled, thanks to the closed-captioning.

I don’t have much more to say than what others have said: Nate is an ass, and I really hope his betrayal bites him big time. I loved the scenes between Dr. Sharon and Ted. Like others, I hope she comes back. I don’t think Trent Crimm would write something that totally trashes Ted—he respects him, and writing something horrible about someone with mental illness would likely tick off a sizable chunk of readers. Also, his editor, not he, came up with the headline, and the whole point is to get clicks/purchases and drive up readership and circulation. I know many writers who have complained about the titles their articles/essays were given when they were published.

Just finished watching, and I came to say this; only about 30% of spoken English is lip-readable, so it annoyed me when I realized that the text was supposed to be showing what Teddy was understanding (vs. for us, the audience, so we wouldn't be completely confused). I just wish they'd actually stuck with the conceit through the entire episode. We could have been shown text messages or things could have been cleared up for us in the next one.

Yeah, I don't get the sense that Jamie's confession is going to be a huge problem. Blintzie, I read this in Roy's voice. Thank you for the laugh (and the spot-on voice, too)!

I’m glad others have asked about Diane (and that still others were more observant than I re: the nanny). I rewatched (again), and I so love that Ted asked Dr. Sharon for a hug and in the way that he did it. That rang so true to me; I have been in therapy numerous times and with each of those folks, asked permission to give them a hug at least once. It’s such a funny thing: This other person knows such incredibly intimate details of your life, perhaps things that most other folks don’t know, yet you have a professional relationship, so you don’t regularly hug or do it without asking for consent. It can be nerve-racking. The feeling when they say, “Yes,” or “of course” is one of the nicest in the world. I’m so glad that Ted asked for what he needed and wanted, and I’m glad that Dr. Sharon was genuinely happy to hug him.

YES! The juxtaposition unintentionally created the effect of Hannah seeming OTT. Rebecca is finally being honest with her mother and so completely explodes, and Ted is trying so hard to keep it together while also doing with Dr. Sharon what he promised and telling her anything, and he is scared shitless as he does it. Hannah and Jason were both perfect and brilliant, and I think the back-and-forth short-changed them.