Review: Ted Lasso, "International Break" | Season 3, Episode 10
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Last week, it turns out, was the internet’s collective breaking point with Ted Lasso’s third season. Whether it was Slate’s Sam Adams reflecting on the “civil war” among fans or Vulture convening a whole roundtable of critics to dissect its “major character flaw,” the public discourse around the show formally took a turn toward judgment as the season headed into its final act.
It’s fitting, then, that “International Break” is a crossroads of sorts for two of the season’s most troublesome storylines. When we last left Keeley and Nate, things weren’t going great in their respective offshoots from the main narrative, but there was no indication necessarily that the rug was about to be pulled out from under them. But within the opening exposition, we learn that Nate has left his job at West Ham between episodes, and a few scenes later Keeley is showing up to work to find movers packing up the office after “the board” of Jack’s VC voted to pull funding.
Now, I’d argue that we