"Snooker?" 🎱

Lauren. 33. Writer, disability rights advocate, your friendly neighborhood wine aunt. MAY A SMILE BE YOUR UMBRELLA. WE'VE ALL HAD OUR SOCKS TOSSED AROUND. I'm dead and Kyle MacLachlan killed me (02/12/2015) Brett Goldstein resurrected and then murdered me (23/03/2023 & 14/04/2023) (occasional 18+/NSFW content)

[roamwithahungryheart]

It took Harry and Sally 12 years and 3 months to fall in love. They were friends for a long time, then they weren't, then they fell in love. We're in year 6 of Ted and Rebecca's friendship. They were friends for a long time, then they weren't. There's an entirely new three season arc. If something romantic is going to happen, it's going to be a slow burn, and that's much better than instant gratification, especially when the two people involved are middle-aged divorcees who are healing from trauma.

[roamwithahungryheart]

If Ted and Rebecca are truly platonic soulmates, they're the kind that can only be described as so devoted the lines blur.

[roamwithahungryheart]

His wet pathetic abandoned puppy in a cardboard box demeanor has bewitched me body and soul

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When (because it will be when, not if) Ted cracks Alice's outer shell and gets her to finally warm up to him, it's going to be glorious

[roamwithahungryheart]

Rebecca saying she recently changed her favorite color to green...Ted sleeping in a bed with green bedding and using a green mug for his morning coffee...which could mean nothing

[tedllasso]

She's a hoot.

[roamwithahungryheart]

Thank you @tedllasso for enabling my idiocy with this GIF

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does anyone have a gif of the little face Ted does when he makes the joke about the press conference to Alice PLEASE

[roamwithahungryheart]

I've done my media literacy hour it's time for FERAL HOURS

[thistableforone]

ted lasso | 4.02

[quickfox6999]

fyi if we're mutuals you have full consent to be as feral as you want in asks and dms

[roamwithahungryheart]

Roy dry swallowing a handful of ibuprofen is the most terrifying thing about him

[tedllasso]

[sluttynurse]

you're a beautiful talented woman in the 1970s or 80s and you're on tv with the muppets

[lakemojave]

[nodding limply with drone-like obedience] I'm a beautiful talented woman in the 1970s or 80s. And I'm on tv with the muppets.

[roamwithahungryheart]

Dunno if you’ve seen this, but it made me think of you and wanted to make sure you saw. 💞 https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db3_31QM3W_/?igsh=MTN1MWZlY214ZWJqYQ==

Thank you 💞 I immediately went hunting to see if someone's uploaded the full contents of Ted's phone and they have!!! What a time to be alive x

[roamwithahungryheart]

Using callbacks and parallels to the first season actually works so well because it allows us to get to know the women's team at the same pace as we got to know the AFC Richmond men. As Ted says on his walk to Nelson Road, "I guess nothin' stays the same". Then he encounters Wanker Man and says to himself "I guess some things do stay the same".

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

What it also does is position us as the audience in a then vs. now perspective, where we're immediately casting our minds back to how things were, and it only makes us more curious going forward.

The biggest thing it does, especially in these first two episodes, is provide the foundation for the rest of the season to build upon; the women's team aren't immediately presented as an alternate version of the male players, they're introduced as equals. They're a bunch of talented women whose stats and reputations precede them, viewed with the same scrutiny by the coaching staff as they view the male players, and then we see Ted diving in and starting to get to know what makes the players tick. And that's where we begin to see that while these women may be equal in skill to the men, their opportunities, their salaries and the facilities available to them are pitiful in comparison.

I hope that as the season progresses, they dive deeper into the history of inequality in women's football, because there's so much rich material to be found in that history that goes far beyond the surface level 'anything you can do, I can do better' feminist narrative.

[roamwithahungryheart]

The women's team dynamics are going to be so interesting going forward; sibling rivalry, a teammate situationship, whatever the heck Boots has got going on, the Shannon of it all when she eventually shows up, Dani Rojas' sister being the polar opposite of her brother (which immediately tells us they're not trying to make direct character parallels to the men's team and are giving these women their own quirks, neuroses and idiosyncrasies to make them independent and equally multifaceted characters)...seeing all of that play out both in the locker room and on the pitch will be a whole lot of fun, I can tell already.