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No, the newspaper. Oh, right.

TED LASSO | 1.03

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“If you’re not ready to stop being with someone, I don’t really know how to cope with it.” - Hannah | Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham on Richmond Till We Die, Ted Lasso Season 3

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Mr. Sudeikis watching Hannah perform tonight.

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one of the most surreal moments of my life and i’m still on cloud nine tbh

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Jason's interview with Hannah Waddingham and Brendan Hunt for Good Morning Britain. - April 2023.

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Jason with Hannah Waddingham and Brendan Hunt at the Crystal Palace vs West Ham game. 

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Jason wearing a tie.

Hannah at a football match.

Is this real life?

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hannah waddingham at the white house via kola bokinni's insta

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Season 3 is clearly setting up a deep dive into why Ted is still at Richmond, is his future here or elsewhere - but I also think it would be really interesting if they did the same for Rebecca.

For all that she’s set up as the businesswoman powerhouse in football, much of that focus seems to centre on her being a ‘bossass bitch’ in a boys’ club, rather than her relationship with the sector itself. We know why Roy comes back to Richmond, because he’s in love with the game; we know why Keeley is so excited about getting her own PR firm, because we see her all giddy about setting up proms and branding opportunities; even Higgins we see as a parental figure to the players, which explains why he loves this job so much. Even Ted and Nate, for all their mental health issues, both obviously love the footballing world they’re involved in. The Ted Lasso world is absolutely one where people go into their work because they have something that drives them, that inspires them to remain there.

In comparison, we don’t see that drive from Rebecca. Most of the time when Rebecca is in work mode she feels one step detached from the footballing world itself: we don’t see her getting passionate about the work or the game, and dialogue suggests she isn’t even usually a football fan. We don’t even, honestly, see a huge amount about her relationship with and care for the players (apart from Sam, which was a whole other thing all together). And then the opening episode reminded us, crucially, that the whole reason Rebecca has the club in the first place is because of her relationship with Rupert. Not because she wanted the club, but because she didn’t want Rupert to have it. And it feels like that motivation is continuing to feed into Rebecca’s relationship with Richmond even now.

Which, obviously, is not a bad thing in and of itself: most of us aren’t as passionate about our jobs as we’d like to be. But if Season 3 is examining why Ted is still at Richmond, I think it would be really interesting to also examine why Rebecca is still at Richmond - is it because she’s fallen in love with the game, the players, the atmosphere? Does she still intrinsically link her ownership of the club to beating Rupert? After Richmond wins the whole fucking thing, would it be healthier to step away?

(My predicted ending has always been that Ted might end up back in Kansas, but it would be a cool twist if Rebecca went with him - maybe still owning the club but leaving its actual handling in the hands of someone like Higgins and/or Nate - because she too needs a change and a new start.)

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There’s no Rebecca without Ted.