Ted Lasso
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The opposing team is sportsmanlike enough as the match ends, but the crowd is anything but friendly.
They came to see Zava, but Zava is no longer a Greyhound.
And that points to another question: Who are the Greyhounds without their flaky superstar?
To Teds eyes, theyre a team in need of a night in Amsterdam without a curfew.
Its the only thing that can shake off what Beard calls the pineapple percussions.
Its a stretch, even by the usual wordplay standards of the series.)
Well, most of the team, anyway.
The lessons are working.
A few characters are virtually absent or have little to do.
(The aurora borealist, one might even say.)
Everybody else gets their own adventure in Amsterdam after dark.
That makes for an episode that runs over an hour but also serves as one of the seasons highlights.
For Rebecca, the evening takes her to an unexpected destination.
But before he can get the information out, Rebecca ends up in the canal.
Fortunately, HDS lives on a nearby houseboat complete with a shower and a dryer.
The only problem: Drying Rebeccas clothes will take nearly three hours.
It doesnt take much to convince Rebecca to stick around.
(The first-aid training comes from the military, but hes also a dad.)
When her clothes finally dry, she extends her stay by dampening them again.
The next morning, a bit blurry on what happened, she asks HDS for a recap.
One kiss later, shes on her way, having never learned her hosts name.
Is this the end of HDS?
Was this just a kind of emotional one-night stand?
Thats to be determined, but this episode seems like the return of the more confident Rebecca of old.
Meanwhile, Teds on a different sort of reflective journey, one he begins but doesnt finish with Beard.
(For as close as they are, Beard and Ted areverydifferent people.)
With the aid of condiment dispensers and a borrowed pen.
Its a gusher of inspiration aided by a hallucination about the history of the triangle!
Clearly, the psychedelics are working!
A trip to see a single tulip?
A movie night in?
To arrive at an answer, Isaac turns to democracy, which quickly stalls out.
Trentseemedlike a nice guy and Ted liked him, but was he?
The answer is yes.
Trent understands what Colin is going through because he went through it himself.
My whole life is two lives, really, Colin explains.
But even if this arrangement works, its not making him happy.
At first baffled as to why his boss is dragging him along (Is everything all right at home?
They swap stories about their childhood.
All Jamie can do is express mild surprise as they head off in search of a windmill.
This is a more intriguing shape than the Roy/Keeley/Jamie triangle looked like it would take.
In fact, it now appears not to be a triangle at all.
Its, Ted guesses correctly, Piggy Stardust.
Whether its original or not, its going to be the Greyhounds future.
And, as they pull away, the future looks a lot more open than the past.
Maybe Ted has finally cracked this football thing.
Maybe Rebecca will stop obsessing over what she doesnt have.
Its also, despite the length, the seasons breeziest episode.
And none of it gets in the way of the episodes emotional elements.
(Also, it makes Amsterdam look lovely.)
Jazz is so often a punch line that its nice to see a show celebrate it.
Jazz: Its good.
