Review: Ted Lasso, "Big Week" | Season 3, Episode 4
Richmond's first showdown with West Ham sacrifices the rest of the story for the Ted and Nate of it all
The circumstances surrounding Nate’s departure from AFC Richmond meant that no one involved really got a chance to unpack what happened. And with the much-anticipated showdown between Richmond and West Ham approaching, it becomes clear that both Nate and Ted are harboring some anxieties about how to approach their reunion on opposite sides of the pitch.
In Ted’s case, he knows how he wants to handle it, but is facing pressure from his coaching staff and his owner to dig deeper and find the space to hate Nate for what he did. In most contexts, the show has largely held up Ted as an exemplar of forgiveness and understanding, like when they needed to transition Rebecca from a villain to a hero back in season one. But in this case, everyone around him is adamant that he should be furious, and to use that anger to prove a point on the pitch. Ted doesn’t really have it in him, but he’s also juggling an existential crisis caused by Sassy’s diagnosis that he is too much of a me…