#trentted

ted: i agree with coach beard, this is getting creepy.

jan maas: no more creepy than when trent crimm wears tight jeans and you say “i’d like to slap those bums on the grill”.

trent: WHAT?

ted: first of all, i don’t talk like that and where i’m from it’s perfectly normal to talk about male friends’ backsides.

ted: but you don’t see me saying anything crazy about jamie and roy’ weird relationship.

[jamie and roy look each other in the eyes and hold hands]

I don’t even ship them and I’m highly educated on the ship.

Anyways, much love!

This is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me

Like Trent's the one other person Ted interacts with more times than you'd think for a character that isn't even in the main cast.

And like people have said, they could've easily made Trent the antagonist of the show. A reporter who will do anything for a good headline. And that's what they did, but with a completely different outcome. They made him a three dimensional character, someone who values integrity along with the truth. And as someone who has taken journalism in high school and loved it, his character was very enjoyable and relatable to me.

Trent's ex-wife has just left the country, her work as an embedded journalist once more calling her away, leaving Trent with an ever-present fear for her safety and full custody of their four year old daughter.

It's not the best timing, if he's honest. It comes hot on the heels of Trent leaving his job in a fit of pique and moral outrage at being asked to do an expose on a footballers health with private medical information being leaked by, Trent suspects, the owner of Richmond himself. Anything to draw attention from his messy, bitter divorce. Coping with leaving the career he worked for since he was a child, and a young daughter missing her mother...it's a struggle.

Unsure of how to proceed, but needing someting more than his old job, something deeper, and frankly needing cash in the meantime, Trent figures he can take in a lodger while he figures his shit out. Within hours of putting his spare room up on AirBnB for a long term rental, it's conditionally booked. With his daughter in the home, Trent has stringent rules about who he'd allow in the home, and an email arrived shortly after with a full police background check on one Theodore Lasso, along with all pertinent certification allowing him to work and interact with children, not to mention three glowing personal references.

He seems perfect. Well, perhaps not perfect. His emails are a little...odd, full of hokey charm and off-topic stories, but the man already had a job waiting in London, and just needed somewhere to stay while he set up his new life thousands of miles away from home. Trent figured the American would barely be in the house between his work and hunting for a proper home and so he accepts the booking, imagining just who this Theodore Lasso might be based off the messages they're exchanged, and what he could glean from the references. The man standing on his doorstep with a backpack and a duffle that seemed to be all he'd brought with him of a past life...well, he's not remotely what Trent had imagined.