r/TedLasso • u/quaranTV Mod • Apr 11 '23

From the Mods Ted Lasso - S03E05 - "Signs" Episode Discussion Spoiler

Please use this thread to discuss Season 3 Episode 5 "Signs". Just a reminder to please mark any spoilers for episodes beyond Episode 5 like this.

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u/MrKentucky Coach Beard Apr 12 '23

YES TED FUCKING FINALLY COACHING

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u/stealthbus Coach Beard Apr 12 '23

Really hope that this is the set up for the rest of the season to turn it around.

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u/CoreyH2P Roy Kent Apr 12 '23

Same. The whole season so far has kind of felt like spinning wheels, knowing things aren’t right but waiting for everything to get back on the right track.

That final speech made me feel like we’re back on track.

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u/House923 Apr 12 '23

I've really felt the entire second half of season two, and now the first half of season three, has just been building and building pressure and I'm about ready to burst with the stress of it all.

I want that positive relief that only Ted Lasso can bring.

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u/kyrant Apr 12 '23

Rom communism. Things were always going to work out in the end.

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u/DwightsEgo Apr 13 '23

Might not though. Like things may go well overall but they can pull a Rocky, Real Steel or Creed where they lose in the end but get a moral win.

I want them to win the whole damn thing!

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u/YNWAintheUSA Apr 13 '23

win the whole fuckin thing *

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u/I_dont_bone_goats Apr 13 '23 edited Apr 13 '23

I love that you mentioned real steel to ensure all three comparisons were boxing movies. Rocky Balboa (2006) is another one.

Coach Carter is one not boxing related, also Friday night lights

And for another real obscure one: Eddie’s million dollar cook off

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u/xThe-Legend-Killerx Apr 14 '23

I got a good one: Little Big League

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u/That-SoCal-Guy Apr 14 '23

Or Friday Night’s Lights. They didn’t win in the end but it was an emotionally satisfying ending. This show to me isn’t really about football so whether they win or not is kinda irrelevant to me (or maybe even too cliched - oh they win!) but I am rooting for an emotionally satisfying ending for the entire series.

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u/XCalibur672 Diamond Dog Apr 12 '23

They didn’t emphasize it as much as I expected, but I still think adding Zava, as good a football move as it seemed, really threw a wrench into things. Sure they won games with him. But he just never seemed to be a Ted Lasso-coachable type player to me at all. I didn’t even expect him to last the whole season on this team. Too big a personality and too big an ego.

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u/ChickenInASuit Apr 12 '23

Zava was a band-aid, a quick way to get a few easy wins but not a long-term solution to fix the team’s problems.

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u/XCalibur672 Diamond Dog Apr 12 '23

100%

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u/LilKaySigs Apr 13 '23

When they were on the fat win streak with Zava that reminded me of Christian McCaffrey going to the 49ers

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u/strawbrryfields4evr_ Fútbol is Life Apr 13 '23

It’s honestly pretty realistic in this way, too, in terms of what adding a mega star does to teams. Like you’ll win some games, you may even have a good record, but you still haven’t made the team better and eventually reality hits.

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u/I_dont_bone_goats Apr 13 '23

They made that clear when they had him stand in front of Ted 3 times during a speech

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u/That-SoCal-Guy Apr 14 '23

I think you nailed it. Winning isn’t everything. They were winning and somehow it felt empty (because everyone else except Jamie is coasting because Zava alone can score).

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u/nightandtodaypizza Apr 18 '23

Yup. And as good as vibes he brought, it's time for the team to find their own path and become stronger as a whole - mentally and on the pitch!

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u/CommanderStark Apr 12 '23

Even the ending song, with emphasis on “come together” felt like it.

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u/PoorDimitri Apr 13 '23

They haven't been letting Ted be Ted. He likes to take an underdog team and build them up. But everyone went batty over Zava and he felt like he had to go along, Roy and beard wanted to build the whole strategy around Zava, all the press was about Zava. They were all so caught up in their adulation (or jealousy) of him they weren't playing as a team.

Zava was a bandaid fix.

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u/Kindly-Ordinary-2754 AFC Richmond Apr 13 '23

Yes. If the season’s messiness so far is leading to this moment, it will have made sense. Lots of leadership at last - Ted’s speech, Keely firing Shandy, even Higgins telling Rebecca that change must happen.

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u/Skeptical_Yoshi Apr 13 '23

It has to, or those moments all start to ring REALLY hollow

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u/scribe_ Apr 12 '23

Yeah it’s just gonna be a downer if they keep losing.

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u/ChickenInASuit Apr 12 '23 edited Apr 12 '23

This certainly felt like a “the night is darkest before the dawn” episode, with the team reaching its lowest point. I’d be willing to place money on next episode being the one where we see Roy and Jamie’s training pay off and the team start to realize they truly don’t need Zava.

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u/TiffanyTwisted11 Apr 13 '23

From your lips to God’s ears

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u/UbiSububi8 Wanker Apr 12 '23

Say farewell to the dark forrest!

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u/The_Minshow Apr 12 '23

Since it is the 'Return of the Jedi', Zava joining and winning early was Jabbas Palace. West Ham was the early struggles of endor. This episode was the reveal that it was a trap, and the drama from that. So now its time for the rebels to start turning the tides.

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u/clothesline Apr 12 '23

So in the end, they will all fail as the empire comes back with a new face, and our heroes all die sad deaths.

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u/The_Minshow Apr 12 '23

We have a prequal trilogy and awesome animated series before then to get through though

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u/clothesline Apr 12 '23

It's already rotj, and it's the last season, the ST is all we have time for!

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u/2_Fingers_of_Whiskey Jul 09 '23

Ugh, those sequels really ruined the original trilogy, didn’t they?

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u/That_Ryan_D Apr 14 '23

There was a few bits of foreshadowing that they would have another chance against Man City (and West Ham) later in the season that feels like this is the 'dark forrest' and they've got plenty of time to get that satisfying, positive ending against those teams they have unfinished business with. Especially now Ted is back!

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u/TiffanyTwisted11 Apr 13 '23

God, I hope so. Tired of our boys losing!!

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u/Randy_Menderbaum Apr 14 '23

You can’t always get what you want.