#jackeeley

[tomlinfonda]

Ted Lasso ships + "just having a bite to eat, you know?"

[melliemd]

Let me preface this by saying: I don’t need, expect, or frankly even hope that Keeley and Jack are together for more than a few episodes.

That said.

I hope the writers know that the predatory lesbian trope is a thing and that even though Jack is bi based on lines about her dating history if the only sapphic relationship on their show is controlling and plays that trope straight its going to be a problem. ESPECIALLY after their creepy lesbian joke in the season 2 finale. Like I forgave them for that back in 305 but I’ve not forgotten.

Give us a second sapphic partnership and make it not the awful trope about lesbian women and you can have one that parallels your evil straight man Rupert. But if you’ve only got the ONE you better tread gosh darn carefully about which stereotypes about them you use. I’m already seeing homophobes use what was shown in this episode to support their arguments, so y’all better use whatever scenes remain between those two ladies carefully.

I’m gonna stay more curious than judgmental and hope that those scenes were more about Rebecca assigning her trauma to everyone/thing else, and Keeley’s talk about boundaries being an effective solve for that issue, but this show has me scared now.

[butchcaseyjones]

MANIFESTING a jack and keeley arc. however brief i don’t care keeley deserves to be canonically bisexual and have gay sex with her boss

[based-and-rinpilled]

Keeley and the several bad bitches she pulled by being autistic…..

[butchelves]

I lied I still have more thoughts on Ted Lasso. I’m thinking a lot about the parallels between Keeley’s relationship with Jack and Keeley’s relationship with Rebecca because there is a lot to compare and contrast there. Both extremely wealthy, powerful women who gave Keeley the opportunity to further her career into what it is now while having some sort of interpersonal relationship with her. The biggest difference between the relationship dynamics is not one is romantic and one is platonic, but how the relationships started.

With Rebecca, Keeley and her started out as friends, with Keeley having a job completely separate from Richmond. They were equals coming into their friendship, and while Rebecca did technically become Keeley’s boss, that was after an extremely close friendship had formed. There was a trust and openness there that I believe wouldn’t have happened if Rebecca had started as her boss and became her friend later. Even when Keeley worked for Rebecca, their relationship was friends first and employee/employer second.

Before becoming a couple, Jack was not only Keeley’s boss, but also her main financial investor for both bantr and KJPR. While it’s not clear if bantr had other investors besides Jack, KJPR exists because of Jack’s money. There’s an inherent power imbalance there that makes building that foundation of trust and openness impossible. If Jack and Keeley started dating first and then Jack invested in bantr and KJPR later it may have worked out but with Jack and Keeley there’s always been a question of which relationship is first in terms of importance in each of their minds. And I think in the latest episode it showed the difference in how they view their relationship. Keeley, the ever the romantic has seen Jack as her girlfriend first and boss second. While Jack has shown she’s clearly Keeley’s boss first and girlfriend second.

I think there’s also a difference in how they were raised. While we don’t know a lot about Rebecca’s childhood or job history prior to Richmond, it’s implied she grew up relatively wealthy, but not get-away-with-murder rich like Jack. I think an accurate comparison could be growing up with parents who are lawyers or doctors vs growing up with parents who are CEOs of megacorporations. Because of who her dad is, Jack likely grew up being placed under a microscope. Every action and decision being well thought out and carefully executed to protect her public image. I don’t believe Rebecca grew up in the public eye and didn’t start seeing the large amounts of wealth she does now before she met Rupert. She had room to grow and learn and be human.

I don’t think Jack is a bad person, I think she’s a bit emotionally stunted in that way people who are super wealthy are where they lack empathy and desperate for her dad’s approval. I say desperate for her dad’s approval based on the comment she made when she was first introduced about her dad wanting a son. It wouldn’t surprise me if many of her actions are due to her wanting to prove to her dad that she is just as good or better than any son her dad could’ve had. I think she genuinely cares and wants a relationship with Keeley, she is just worried about how they would present to her father, especially after Keeley’s video was leaked.

Tldr: Jack and Rebecca are very similar yet, very different and that’s highlighted in their individual relationships with Keeley. Growing up super rich is bad for social development and Jack should probably get a therapist

[loservillesitgirl]

the toxic lesbian trope to encourage a het relationship is so overused and tired the ted lasso writers could have picked ANY possible reason to break jackeeley up (because lets be honest we all knew they were just a plot device to further roykeeley/jaimekeeley) but the fact that they put ZERO effort into developing them is plain annoying

[thedanceronthestreets]

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT KEELEY AND JACK ARE DATING???????

[greymantledlady]

KEELEY AND JACK THOUGH MMMMMMMMM