#bantr

God herself out here yet again showing support for the LGBTQ+ community. We love her so. 🏳️‍🌈

-ENTER SCENE-

[Several scenes of impressive soccer plays cut in quick succession set over clubbing music]

-A voiceover of Dani saying "Football is life!" as the footage cuts through multiple shots of him making a goal like he did in the S1 finale-

-"I'd let you score on me anytime," Zoreaux says as he makes a particularly-impressive save and grins winningly at the camera-

-Richard says something French and Sexy while doing French and Sexy things idk-

[Scenes of Sam dressed up all dapper presenting flowers to the camera while standing in a sunny doorway, Isaac seductively popping a Rolo into his mouth, Bumbercatch curled up on the coach in a big knit blanket with a book, Colin leaning against the hood of his Lamborghini in suit while holding a plushie Welsh dragon clearly meant for the viewer under his arm, etc.]

Don’t read if you don’t want to think about possible ideas for next season.

So, those of us who have rewatched the series a few times know the attention to detail put into Ted Lasso. I think a lot of clues are given with people’s phones (e.g.texts). Overall, I haven’t found many boo-boos.

So a while back there was a thread about how Bantr was a poorly put together app for the show.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TedLasso/comments/plng91/the_ux_on_bantr_is_trash_analysis_in_comments/

Some of the issues were the distances of the match-ups, how the symbol for male is used for all the people on the app and how the name “MaLeLeGeNd1” is a suggestion for both Rebecca and Sam.

I just feel that there are no “mistakes” that big in the show and I do wonder if Bantr is either going to come out as a faulty app AND/OR if it’s a cover for something like illegal data mining. To me, it always seemed like a convenient plot device that Bantr just happened to be ready and waiting to sponsor a football team at the right moment. (No disrespect to Keeley, I think she hustles for her work!)

Looking more closely at the names, we know that Rebecca is Bossgirl and Sam is LDN152.

However, here are their individual “suggestions for you”

Rebecca

MaLeLeGeNd1 - 1 km London

GOhoney - 8 km away Surrey

HORNdog - 2 km away Barnes

GINGERprofessor - 3 km away Surrey

Horny_DuDe - 4.5 km away France

born_this_way - 6 km away

Sam

MaLeLeGeNd1 - 1 km London

honey - 2 km away Barnes

GINGERempress - 3 km away Sussex

madam_GRAY - 4.5 km away France

Similar information! I am leaning towards it be a data mining type of app being used to get information about its customers… and perhaps leaking that information which could mean the Sam/Rebecca plot line could get more complicated. I also have a theory that the VC was always run by Rupert who is playing the long game with revenge on Rebecca (and Ted). So the sloppy duplication of online names might be to give the viewer clues.

On a different note, my other guess is that MaLeLeGeNd1 is Ted and the show has pulled a double bait and switch. They gave that hint in Rainbow (S2 Ep5) that Rebecca and Ted were texting on Bantr only to reveal that Rebecca and Sam were texting. But if you look closely, Rebecca had also been texting with MaLeLeGeNd1 on Bantr and the last thing he said was “It’s very hard to believe”.