Ted Lasso: Season 1 RECAP

welcome to the man of recaps this is ted lasso season one meet ted lasso an american football coach who's brought into coach football in england which of course over there it's a whole different sport americans know it as soccer ted recently went viral for coaching an underdog college team to winning the championship so team owner rebecca welton thinks that ted lasso might be just the first perspective they need she just got the team in a divorce with her cheating playboy husband rupert and turns out bringing in ted is part of her plot to sabotage the team to get back at her ex-husband now everyone hates it at first because he's obviously way out of his depth but ted lasso has an annoying infectious optimism he's just such a genuine friendly guy that you can't help after a while but to love him he thinks mad now wait we win him over he'll be furious so ted settles in to coach the premier league team afc richmond his best friend and assistant coach is coach beard who doesn't really say much but is the best wingman a guy could ask for richmond star player is jamie tarr to young up and comer who's an incredible athlete but he's not much of a team player in fact he's generally a wanker roy kent is the team's veteran captain who was a superstar in his prime but he's starting to show his age he's a real standoffish kind of guy whose constant streams of profanity are the reason this series is rated tvma rebecca's assistant is leslie higgins who she hilariously treats like rubbish then there's nate the team's kit man who's really lacking in self-confidence and surprised the manager knows his name now jamie tartt has a hot model girlfriend keeley jones she and ted actually become fast friends because they're kindred spirits she's real nice and funny too and their friendship gives rebecca an idea for her first evil plan while he's feeding her a burger one day as you know you do she hires a photographer to take scandalous pictures of them hoping jamie turtle get mad it'll break up the team but keely gets wind of this before they go to print and as an influential rich person they go to rebecca for help so to keep her cover she's like yeah i can ask the paper not to print them after this keely starts hanging out with rebecca moore and they kind of become best friends ted lasso is also trying to force a friendship with rebecca he shows up every morning for biscuits with the boss where he brings her cookies and they are so delicious she tolerates his presence now the football is not going well and ted becomes well acquainted with the english term wanker he really doesn't know the sport that well so he goes to someone who lives and breathes football nate after some coaxing he shares his ideas which basically involves using jaime tart as a distraction and letting other people score goals jamie does not like this though so he and his mates start harassing nate this doesn't sit well with roy kent ted lasso's incorrigible optimism is finally rubbing off on him so he tells these guys off like hey come on we're better than this and as predicted roy is very angry that ted's made him a better person one night at a team charity event we finally meet rebecca's ex-husband rupert he's the type of charismatic playboy billionaire that everyone seems to love even though he is a wanker ted lasso though sees right through this guy and while rebecca's distraught he's there to comfort her they become friends for real even though she's still trying to sabotage the team meanwhile jaime tart's cockiness is really starting to rub keely the wrong way so she dumps his ass they kind of stay friends though because she's been managing brand deals for him and in fact rebecca hires her on to do the rest of the team ted lasso by the way has a family a son that he loves and a wife that things are not going well with that's why he took the job to give her some space they come for a visit one weekend and have a real happy family time but his wife's like i'm sorry ted i like you but i don't love you anymore i don't know what's wrong ted is distraught but luckily he's got a group of great guys around him for some good bro counseling so he's like hey it's nobody's fault we've grown apart i gotta let you go oh sad ted back to football jamie tart is still scoring all of richmond's goals he still refuses to be a team player so ted makes the controversial call to bench him which the fans do not like but by now ted has really connected with the rest of the team convinces them to believe in themselves so they go back out there and working together they won their first game it's a triumphant moment and ted starts to win the richmond crowd over they still call him wanker but in a good way jaime's attitude is still not improved though luckily there's a new player fresh off the injured reserve it's danny rojas an incredibly talented player whose unbridled joy and love of the sport fits right in with ted's new team [Music] unfortunately he's immediately injured again because turns out the team has a curse on it luckily coach ted knows just how to break a sports curse he has all the players sacrifice something to appease the spirits and after heart to heart with keely where she convinces him that deep down he's a good person jaime tart comes to join in he tells the story of how his dad is a real bad dude that always pushed him to hug glory for himself and he's like sorry guys i've been a bit of a winker lately and so the curse breaking works danny rojas is okay to be clear though curses don't exist it was just a minor sprain but now the team including jaime is closer than ever rebecca can't have this she trades jamie away claiming she had to for contract reasons and so just when ted was getting through to him he's lost a star player at an away game ted has nate give the pre-game speech where he drops some hard truth bombs on all the players about their weaknesses once he gets some confidence though it turns into kind of a hilarious roast and turns out it's exactly what the players needed to hear they win the game and by the end of the season nate the great is officially promoted to coach nate the team's out celebrating with some wild karaoke but ted is sad because his divorce is just being finalized but he randomly hits it off with rebecca's old best friend sassy and ted has his first one-night stand which he feels real guilty about so he calls a bro counselling sesh for some mature level-headed advice hey you're both adults you're divorced now there's nothing wrong here so ted feels much better and this advice circle's so good he officially dubs them the diamond dogs meanwhile roy kent and kiwi have had a fun relationship and since jaime it's turned to flirtation at the away game they had their first kiss but twerking leaves it there trying to be a gentleman when they get back he's like sorry i can't hang out i'm busy and keely thinks he doesn't like her so when jamie tart comes over she's like sure why not they get it on but turns out roy does like her he was just actually busy but when she confesses she slept with jamie again oh now roy's mad luckily coach ted knows just what to do assemble the diamond dogs they give him some real mature reasonable advice so he apologizes keely like hey i don't want that to keep us apart later at a team shareholders meeting rupert is here for the divorce he's not legally allowed to own any stake in the team but he bought some for his new girlfriend who coincidentally is also named rebecca and they're engaged now this is just awful so ted makes a wager with him over a game of darts hey if you win i'll let you set the lineups or whatever but if i win you stay out of the owner's box for the rest of the season rupert's happy to accept because he's a master darts player but turns out ted was hustling him he's a master darts player too and he wins once again he stood up for her even though she's secretly still betraying him finally though keeley discovers her betrayal like hey you gotta come clean to ted so rebecca confesses she's been sabotaging ted in the team the whole time i'm so sorry i realized i was being awful now will this cause some intense drama no it doesn't ted forgives her immediately what a stand-up guy back to football they have a problem roy kent is really slowing the team down now and ted doesn't want to but he's got to bench him at first roy is furious but after a mature adult conversation with his girlfriend keeley she's like hey you're more than just a footballer it doesn't define you and so roy accepts his new reality with grace and a stream of profanity but the stakes are high for the final match if they lose richmond faces relegation which means they're demoted out of the premier league and they're playing against their old superstar teammates jamie tarts so pretty soon looks like they're gonna lose ted does put in roy kent for a bit though who gives one final run chases down his old rival and stops a goal unfortunately though he is injured here he knows that's it for his career but the crowd gives him a hero send off but wait what's this another team has just won by enough points that richmond doesn't have to win they can just tie so it's time to bust out the trick play they've been practicing where they line up like it's american football this confuses the other team enough that yeah they score richmond's gonna survive but wait what's this there's a few seconds left and jaime tarts on a breakaway and this time he passes to a teammate who scores yeah this is not a cinderella success story our team loses but ted lasso is here to give his team a pep talk hey we lost that sucks but you know life goes on jamie tartto gets no such pep talk in fact ted sees his dad really berating him for passing so ted gets jaime a note like hey kid i'm proud of you and relegation's not the end of the world if they win next season they're back in the premier league so that's how ted lasso season 1 comes to an end if you liked this 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Length: 6min 52sec (412 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 22 2021