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Makes sense. And great for them. ... but, screws everyone else (not on the west coast, or in the PST footprint).

I'm not saying there is some grand conspiracy or anything, but why would you air the entire season 3 hours earlier than 'should have', but delay the series finale for the time it 'should' start? Weirdo Beardo, bay-beh!

The posted episode thread is "So Long". In the last week, I saw the episode was listed as "So Long, Farewell" before tonight. Did AppleTV officially remove the ", Farewell"? If so, that seems to potentially indicate tonight's episode is more a season finale instead of series.

Especially for the series finale. You'd think they would want to go out on a high note, especially if its still up in the air on if a fourth season will happen or not. Then again, maybe their pushing it back to midnight EST is AppleTV's way of saying - without actually saying it - that this is officially the end of Ted Lasso. (any potential news of spinoffs notwithstanding)

I have to get up real early tomorrow or I would stay up and watch tonight - even if it does air at usual time. Will watch it tomorrow evening since I have Thursday off. Don't want to have to try to sleep while dealing with all of whatever happens on my mind and feels. "At the 74 minute mark ..." Dang. Sounds like the winding down point, where the hugest emotional moment(s) are saved up for. Here I was hoping for at least 90 minutes, but preferably 100+ for the series finale!

Watching an older (s5) episode [Hill View Manor] of GA, and I don't remember that original 3 being so 'everything is a joke to us'. Compared to these later seasons, where humor is about as scarce as any truly verifiable proof they gather.

Not only this, but they would have been the only ones in the stands - and I assume among the 'general population' of the Man City faithful - that would have been cheering specifically for Jamie. Would have been harangued and harassed incessantly all match long. But I'm sure that if really wanted to, Jamie could have gotten them a couple seats up in the box with Rebecca & Higgins.

Would definitely be a twist. Multiple personalities, bay-beh!

To be honest, I never saw him as a strong potential candidate of an endgame for Rebecca. Always felt like he, and that night, were just a means to an end. A way to help her realize things and how she could achieve them. I know others saw/hoped for that, but I just never got that vibe myself.

1 billion times this. So. much. this. The redemption arc isn't the problem. Not even close. But how it was handled is the biggest gripe that most of us have, that don't like the whole story line. It feels like it came out of nowhere.

I'm wondering if the title of the series finale isn't mostly just one big misdirect. I am very iffy (at best) on most of this, but its not totally out of the realm of possibility. We're all assuming that the truth bomb Ted is laying on Rebecca - as 3.11 ends - is that he's resigning and leaving after the season. But what if its a bunch of other people instead leaving? And Ted's 'bomb' ends up being either about trying to bring Nate back or he's about to give Rebecca another version of a "thank you, but fuck you" speech OR after the final scenes with his mom, decides to share with Rebecca about his dad's suicide & being there when he did it; and how that's made him into the man he is now. - Nate. He tells Ted and Richmond, thanks for the forgiveness and wanting to welcome me back, but I'm going with Jade back to her home country. - Michelle. Tells Ted she wants a clean break from him, and in that vein awards full custody of Henry to him. (meaning Ted can stay in England, if wants) - Keeley. Tells Roy (& Jamie and Rebecca) that on her path to being an "independent woman" means she has to leave the country to establish a PR firm - or something like it - elsewhere. - Rupert. Is either dying or realizes he's hurt way too many people to stick around that area of the country. There could be more leaving than I listed, but the main point is that maybe the Ted Lasso finale pulls a big "gotcha!" next week.

I hear ya. I just mostly meant it was nice to see actual gameplay instead of just constant mentions of x-amount of games won in a row or how the season is going instead of seeing anything at all on the actual pitch - aside from bits of practices/training.

I'm waiting to see how the series ends next week before I officially say I didn't like - or even hated - this episode or not. No matter what happens next week, there's still parts of this episode that rang true with a couple of the characters. Roy being mostly Roy, Jamie still being one of the best S3 characters, Will missing out on a good Roy/Jamie boot room powwow and even some actual SOCCER.

As far as I'm concerned, Nate can keep any and all reactions to Trent & the book to himself. He forfeited any right to have a say about any of it - at least the 'bad' parts about him - through his actions late last season.

It has never really been about this, for me. I absolutely think Nate is redeemable and do not believe that he isn't deep down, or lacks the capacity to be, a good person. Its the total unearned complete forgiveness that everyone - aside from Beard originally (& maybe Rebecca, as I think she might be totally unaware of the whole 'let's bring Nate back!' plan going into the end credits in this episode) - is willing to award Nate with. When the only thing he's done to atone with anybody is doing part of Will's job for him one time. EVERY time Ted reached out to mend fences or let him know there was no hard feelings, Nate either ignored the gesture or shut him down. I know Ted loves and forgives everyone, but that isn't something that is just brushed under the rug and forgotten; even by the most saintly. The unearned total and complete forgiveness is my problem with the whole story line. Not that I believe that Nate is evil incarnate and is irredeemable.

Do I think a Tedbecca endgame would have worked, just based on the perceived hints? Yes. But they screwed the pooch and never addressed it at any time in-show. Unless the series finale is close to 2 hours long, or more - and they spend a good deal of that time on setting it up - there's no way a Tedbecca endgame won't feel totally shoe-horned in IF they go that route. Hell, as mentioned above, a 'normal-ish' 75 to 80-minute episode won't even be enough time to put a bow on all the storylines that are already known to be needing wrapped up as the series ends.

^ @Jeddah .... I hope that's all it is, a "hey, what a coinky-dink that we both like the movie and used references from it to 'connect'!" look between them. I don't care one bit about the age difference between Sam and Rebecca. But the owner/player vibe is kinda too weird a vibe to ignore. And in that vein, I'm glad they seem to be very likely not going with a Tedbecca endgame as well because the owner/gaffer vibe isn't all that much better.

You can tell Ted Lasso is purely fictional, because the entire club practically begging Nate to come back would never happen in real life. Ever. Even being fiction, I don't care how strongly Ted's presence and morality has effected them, its just utterly unrealistic to expect everyone welcoming someone like Nate back with open arms. That's a hard ask for an audience to accept and not have reservations over.

Speaking of hints or potential hints of Tedbecca, have we ever gotten anything about the "thunder and lightning (or lightening)" 'prediction' from the psychic? Even if it doesn't pertain to Tedbecca or not. We've gotten clear mentions or visual cues to the other things the psychic said - Tedbecca 'hints' or otherwise - but I can't remember an instance of the "T & L" (yet).

I would say there is a slight possibility that Ted is getting ready to tell Rebecca its an either/or situation. Ted will tell her he plans on staying if can have Henry move to England with him - and if Henry wants to do that - but if not, he's resigning (after the season) and going home to Kansas. That being Henry's dad is his biggest life focus right now and where Henry is is where he wants to be. And then we spend some time of the non-soccer parts of the series' final episode with him working on & finding out the final solution and situation of the whole staying/going ordeal. But gauging things just based on the episode's title, I truly & honestly think its as simply plain as him resigning and going home to Kansas Henry .... after Richmond wins the EPL.

I did love Roy's open-armed walk back to Jamie's mom as they were leaving. "One for the road?" and then Keeley grabbing him & pulling him along. lol I also like Roy's constant staring at Jamie's mom before the 'grand tour'. Imagined reading his thoughts. "Tartt's mum is a total fucking MILF! After meeting that douchebag that was his dad, how is this fit woman his mum?!".

With Ted going back to Kansas at series end, I am pretty much officially ruling out Tedbecca as an endgame possibility. Not gonna lie, I thought Rebecca was gonna 'truth bomb' him with a "love - or at least a like you a lot - confession", but that didn't happen, so there's no screen time left to make them ending up together any way even sorta believable. That's not to say it will not happen, just that if it does, it won't feel very believable.

The look between Sam and Rebecca during the 'team watching the movie' scene .... was there a message from the movie I was supposed to read into that or are they still lightly teasing a possible Rebecca/Sam endgame? Somebody mentioned it above, but whoever thought that S1 twat would turn into one of the most liked characters in S3?? "Jamie Tartt doo-doo-doootadoo!" I'm not gonna talk about Nate's redemption and AFC Richmond going full "Ted" and inviting him back with open arms because I don't feel like he really deserves all that. But it doesn't change the fact that its happening and now I have to pretend like he didn't pull the ultimate betrayal but now gets welcomed back like nothing happened. *siiiiiiigh* Ted truth-bombed the hell out of his mom. And I guess she got in one or two herself. Looks like Rupert's losing yet another FC to an ex-wife. Speaking of truth-bombs, if you've seen the title for the last episode of the series then its mondo-obvious what Ted's in the process of telling Rebecca as the end credits rolled. Ending this by quoting our favorite Roy Kent, as did most of everyone else in this episode .... Fffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! (or 'Ffffuuuuuuuuuuuudge!' in Ted's case)

Not gonna lie, even though I think Rebecca crushed that whole speech scene - which was the only real reason she was invited, and went, to begin with - I just could not begin to fathom why she even had a spot at the table in the first place. I mean, to think that Akufu would tolerate a club like AFC Richmond being invited to, and involved in, his 'Super League' of the "highest quality clubs that people will have to pay premium prices to watch" just made no sense at all. And this isn't even bringing up the fact that said team has a player on it that he just spent multi-millions to a nation's government to prevent his inclusion on player's national soccer squad because he dislikes him so much! I like Ted Lasso, but sometimes the logic leaps are just nonsensical.

Considering the episode title and the synopsis, who oh who could be Ted's unexpected guest in 3.11??