Great episode. Love that damn song too. Any time a movie or show can squeeze in Spiegel Im Spiegel im hooked
You’re missing out. It’s an elite tier hot dog. I’m not even a big hot dog fan but I’ll always go with the Chicago style if it’s an option
Great episode and perfect build up for the finale. Everything except the Rebecca storyline seem to have obvious endings. I wonder if the look between her and Obisanya is our ending there. I also assume Rupert’s wife and secretary showing up speaks for itself. I laughed audibly a few times, especially during the Beard and Nate scene.
Rupert’s wife and I think his assistant, who he is banging. This season has been really bloated but they’ve found their stride the last three eps.
First part was hilarious, couldn't stop laughing. What a great episode, and loved the beard and Nate scene.
What were they doing to Beard’s face in that scene? It looked almost digitally enhanced while he was talking to Nate.
As an American living in England who’s VERY American mother visits occasionally, I felt personally victimized a number of times during that episode.
Specifically: What do all these knobs do? Sorry/Surry This is just like the Irish pub back home Half-nine
It all seems set up to end the series next episode. Was the talk about another season just a rumor, or was it confirmed? It would be a fitting ending and a solid series run, but selfishly, I want another few seasons.
Man, I was not feeling that episode for a while, and the vibe with Jamie and him mom was kinda weird, then they absolutely fucking crushed it.
How many Wizard of Oz references? O/U 20? Does anyone remember if we knew his mom was named ‘Dotty’ before this episode? Also, the song from the credits that played after Ted’s truth bomb is from The Wiz (name in spoiler) Spoiler Home
I mean she was a young single mom raising him probably for most of his life, just have a super close relationship.
Great ep. They are tying things up really well with pretty much all the characters and feels like it should probably end after this season. The soccer stuff though is a bit hilarious with Richmond maybe winning a premier league title coming up from relegation but whatever, it's not really about all that shit but I am sure some guy who started following some premier league team like 5 years ago is going to poo poo it even more than me
Watching this definitely makes it seem like it’s done. Cast members talking about what they took from set. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CryYEadOpVf/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
I feel like every great show's thread eventually runs into this topic: the sweet spot for seasons is less than 6. Very few shows can manage more without getting stale and falling off. The time between seasons now means it's so hard to keep the people involved committed(and keep the tone/voice of the show - which doesn't always get talked about as much as I think it's a problem), which makes it worse. This will be a good ending.
I think it will be too. The only thing is, I’m not sure I want to see Nate take over for Ted managing Richmond. Seems to be what the set up is, but I don’t know if I like it. I’m glad they redeemed his character, mended the relationship with his father, and gave some depth to Jade beyond just being a mean hostess. But it almost seems too easy, idk. I get that it’s mainly a feel good show, and it will give that storyline a happy ending. So it fits. And this is just speculation on a different storyline, but I’ll spoiler anyway.. Spoiler I have a feeling that Bex and the secretary are there for Rebecca’s happy ending. At first, I thought it was to get advice on how to leave Rupert. But with the secretary there, it made me think she is pregnant, and Rebecca will ultimately adopt the child to finally become a mother.
Spoiler To Rupert's illegitimate child, further tying her to him forever? Well, I hate that. Unless it ends up not being his, which seems weird and convenient.
Spoiler But that would cement the fact that she finally let go of that hate/grudge towards him. And her positive desire to be a mother and help a child would be the only thing that matters in her mind. I wouldn’t like it either. But it seems like another way to deliver on that storyline expectation without some last minute lovers’ reunion with Sam or the Dutch boat guy. Which those would almost seem forced. But yeah, just speculating.
I really don't like the Nate Redemption Arc. Like, I'm fine with them going that route but they executed it terribly. He didn't learn a lesson, he didn't hit rock bottom and learn the error of his ways, he gets a girlfriend by basically harassing her at work until she feels sorry for him, and she basically has Manic Pixie Dream Girl levels of depth in that she only exists to make his life better.
the Nate thing is really weird. they really rushed that storyline towards redemption. thought mostly everything else was really good, and even the Beard-Nate scene was good at the end.
This show is full of Disney type happy endings. I don't hate it, and I can deal with Nate being the manager if that is the way it works out, but his redemption arc over the last few weeks has been very fucking quick.
That Beard scene in ep11 did more work to rehab Nate than anything Nate has done all season, and that scene was basically "I still think you suck, but Ted is awesome so I'll give you a chance". I'm not as mad as I thought I'd be about his redemption arc in general, but that doesn't mean said arc was done well. I don't really even understand the dad stuff from the prior episode, either. At least in the sense of how that was supposed to make me turn around on my Nate hate.
Feel like it's pretty obvious Nate's self-esteem and inferiority issues that made him react so massively to just a little bit of attention stems from his upbringing. He heaped father issues onto Ted when Ted embraced him early in the show and then when Ted was going through his own shit and didn't recognize him, he pivoted it to Rupert. I think if you took all the Nate moments from the course of the season and made them into a linear story video, it would look a lot better. Like a lot of things, it suffered from being so sporadic because they were trying to do too much.
I get that and what you're saying is valid. I guess my point is more that those 2 minutes of his dad talking to him didn't suddenly make me go from "I hope Nate dies" to hoping someone gives poor Nate a hug. I also think some of the "dad issues" stuff that doesn't work for me when it comes to Nate is that, while his Ted issues might come from that, it doesn't really have anything to do with him being an asshole to literally everyone on the show throughout s2. And that, more so than his Ted stuff, is where I think the show needed to show him humbled in a significant way more than it did this season.