[spookynstarbuck]

I’m like, genuinely so sad about that ending. Why spend so much time gaining the trust of your audience in regards to ensuring that you will treat your characters with love and kindness, only to do such a disservice to so many of them? Why make a show whose entire premise is based on relationships and character development, only to undo so much of it in the last ten minutes? Why start your show with a character being asked to leave by his ex-wife, only to end up ignoring the pleas to stay from someone who loves him? Why establish a home and found family, and a solution to include his son in this new life, just to undo all of it?

Why have your female lead whose journey has been in part about deeply yearning for a meaningful “thunder and lightning” romantic relationship end up with a nameless character with no discernible personality that has 5-10 minutes of screen time in one episode halfway through the last season? Why center season 3 on the development of Jamie and his relationship w Roy only to have them get into a physical fight over a girl, whom neither of them ends up with definitively anyways? Why have him make that gross and mean comment about the leaked video? Why show him building a new friendship w Keely only to reveal that he actually is still trying to fuck her?

I get the idea of Ted being a Mary Poppins, but that doesn’t work so well when many of the characters don’t really get happy endings, and he returns to a life without a majority of the relationships that have been the center of the show being intact. Also, this concept is undermined by the fact that he did not have to leave! Mary Poppins leaves bc she is a magical being and she has to! A completely feasible solution was offered to Ted to stay and he didn’t even consider it. Also, why did he seem so hollow and checked out for so much of the episode? His lack of emotional response to any of his goodbyes felt so strange. Also, he wasn’t even at Beard’s shitty green screen wedding? Also, Beard left Ted to marry his lowkey abusive girlfriend?

And WHY bring Nora Ephron and soulmates into all of it for exactly zero payoff? You don’t get to say “rom-communism” and not have one single well-explored and established romantic journey with a happy ending. The magic of Nora Ephron is that soulmates are real and endings are happy; that when she shows you two people are meant for each other, that is exactly what you can expect to see. So like, literally why bother bringing those concepts into this show and highlighting them so often only to completely abandon them?

[scintillatingshortone]

it is fascinating to me that at the very beginning of this episode they threw in one last inescapable sign of jane's emotional abuse of beard only to end things . . . like that

i would genuinely love to know what on god's green earth and in the year of our lord 2023 was going through these writers' fucking heads

[simoneashley]

Phil Dunster as Jamie Tartt Ted Lasso 3.12

[hypermania]

cons:

ted leaving (and maybe ending up back with his ex-wife??) despite the creeping dread and emptiness he seemed to be feeling about it the entire episode

rebecca with random boat man despite the entire fucking point being that it was good because it was fleeting and a special moment in time

rupert becoming a supervillain instead of just a dude who sucks

jamie and roy regressing by fighting over keeley, but especially by using their respective sex lives with her to one-up each other???

pros:

literally everything else

isaac as the judge and all the fines

colin and michael

the complete diamond dog set (ruff ruff!)

rebecca selling the 49% to the fans

dani and zoreaux van damme zorro

jamie/keeley/roy ambiguous ending

sassy!!!!!

dr sharon!!!!

ted learning what offside actually is

nate. just everything about him being there

women's football

so long farewell

#believe

the richmond way!!!

[nessa007]

Ted Lasso Finale + parallels

[n1ntendos]

I AM HAUNTED BY A PAST I CANNOT GO BACK TO !!!!!! anyways

[spaghettinatural]

hes so real for this

[thewitchqifrey]

Now we have a Plan D if Plan C fails. Isn’t Plan D just Plan B again? Plan B has a stink too.

[pedrohub]

PEDRO PASCAL as Javi Gutierrez — THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT (2022) dir. Tom Gormican

[the-quasar-hero]

Crazy to think that this is all Ronald Reagan’s fault

[lordmeowdemort]

I dont care what you're referring to. You are right.

[rustmarty]

they hated him for his transmasc swag

[idiotdotdotdot]

[moghedien]

It’s like when making Hocus Pocus they told Bette Midler “this is camp just do whatever the fuck you want,” they told Sarah Jessica Parker that she could either drop acid or do a line of coke before every take but she had to do one, they told Kathy Najimy that her character is just an evil golden retriever, and then they told all the actors playing the kids that this was a very serious horror movie and if they didnt take all of this seriously they’d be in trouble

[a-method-in-it]

I think that's why it resonates so much with both kids and adults. To the kids, this seems like a Super Scary Movie -- I know I thought so the first time I saw it at like age 8. It had real stakes! It had villains who really did bad things! A little girl really died in the beginning! They were going make the parents dance until they DIED! This is way more serious than most movies I am allowed to watch! The campy elements actually read as kind of sinister when you're a child -- these evil witches being wildly over-the-top and unpredictable. And that's why it works, I think: because the scariness comes from the strangeness, not from something we might call genuine horror, the movie is okay for little kids to watch. And some of the camp genuinely does serve as comedic moments for the kids, to make sure the witches are TOO scary. Meanwhile, when you grow up, you're like "OMG this is hilarious look at this shit" -- all the stuff that seemed weird and strange and sinister when you were little now is vibrant and fun. Basically, as a child, you identify with the super serious children trying to survive a horror movie, and as an adult you identify with Kathy Najimy trying to ride a vaccuum cleaner because there are no brooms. Like, "My life is a mess, too, Kathy. We're all just making due. You and your sisters stay extra, okay?"

[swan-of-sunrise]

Happy Halloween, ya’ll!

[tuulikki]

Also Doug Jones had a mouthful of real moths for the scene when Billy gets out of the grave and opens his mouth for the first time. That’s so insanely hardcore.

[m-interior-m]

Source

[beartnie]

There’s a quote from Bert where he says he‘s “known big bird since he was a little bird” and the thought of it makes my heart cry so here’s that

[dailytvfilm]

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) Dir. Garry Marshall

[tedbeccadaily]

Happy Halloween! 👻