#dr. jacob

But watching Henry just snub Dr. Jacob so blithely getting into that car? Just zipped right past him like his presence didn't even register? Watching Dr. Jacob try to connect with Ted's son and absolutely wiff it?

You guys, I am so glad Ted got to see that. Not because Henry getting along with Dr. Jacob would mean Ted's role in Henry's life was somehow under threat. Henry loving someone who occupies a step-parent role would not in any way detract from how special and important Ted's relationship with Henry is.

To all the fans dissapointed that 3x08 was such a depressing episode and it ended on such a low note: remember that we're in the dark forest, and as dark as it gets right now, it's gonna be that much brighter at the end.

I'm glad Roy, and Jack, and Isaac weren't the best people this episode. And Colin and Keeley and Ted weren't doing great. Because their issues need to be acknowledged if they're gonna be resolved.

I'm happy that Ted spent the whole episode fixated on Michelle and Dr. Jacob, and I'm glad the characters called him out on it.

I liked the locker room talk on the subject of nudes. Sure, I wish every man would automatically assume they need to delete all such photos so they can't leak. But I loved that they had an honest conversation about something that doesn't come up that often in order to reach a conclusion about which is the best and most moral way to proceed. Conversations like this are what keeps society improving.

Overall we got a lot of new dimension to all the characters, even the ones who regressed and did bad things, and that's good.

Also let's have some faith guys. Since the show is airing weekly we don't have the privilege of seeing an entire season at once, and knowing instantly what the overall messages and issues with it are. And i know since episodes are on the longer side, it feels like every single one needs a satisfying ending, that ties in every single thing, and that we're anxious to have these issues resolved. But in the end they are part of a much bigger overarching plot.

And I for one will keep my mind open and trust that the people involved in the creation of Ted Lasso will give the characters the resolutions and the arcs and the endings they deserve, and that they'll continue treating their characters with respect and dignity.

​ The clues for the Ted-Michelle-Dr. Jacob clusterfuck are there from the first episode.

In Season 1 we have the dialogue at the end of episode one where Ted tells Michelle "I'm giving you that space... Yeah, and myself, right", clearly he doesn't want that space. Later in episode five we have Ted saying "Then she and this therapist we were working with decided that the best thing to do would be to give her a little space. And so... well, I gave her 4,400 and 38 miles worth of it". Leaving wasn't Ted's idea, it was Michelle and Dr. Jacob's idea. Then in episode 7... Michelle is pressuring him to sign the divorce papers, she actually makes the lawyer reach out to Ted. She is impatient, she contacts him twice in the same day, and then she makes the lawyer inform Ted that he doesn't need to send the papers through mail, or fax them, he can just send the pictures, to expedite the process, it sounds like she is quite in a hurry to be divorced. Like, we know she is the one that falls out of love (which is okay, shit like that happens all the time), but by this episode we can start postulating the idea that Michelle might be a bit selfish and inconsiderate of Ted's feelings. Because at this point we know that Ted has done everything it was asked of him, he went away, he let her go, and he told her he would sign those papers, she just needed to wait a little.

Season 2 reinforces the weirdness of it all when Ted explains that the therapist Michelle was saying was the one that treated them as a couple. Now, I know jack shit about therapy, but I feel like this is wrong from the get go. I imagine that you need to establish trust with your therapist, how can you establish that with someone that you already must feel that knows more about you than you are comfortable sharing? Because you have to assume that your partner has shared things about you with their therapist, it's only logical, and it's okay, but I also assume that you are never expected to interact with said therapist in the wild. But then Ted has to sit in front of this person that knows things about him that he never had a hand on freely sharing. We see Ted's journey with Sharon, how hard it is for him to open up, but he never had a chance to do that with Dr. Jacob, it was already done without his consent.