Ted Lasso Session Three Predictions

I love Ted Lasso.

I think it is the best things that has ever been on television, with the possible exceptions of Roots, which I was too young to see, and Breaking Bad, which I've never had the stomach to watch. Where the character Ted Lasso is a straight up hero, Walter White is an anti-hero, which can be just as compelling.

You haven't seen Ted Lasso because you don't have Apple TV+. Right. It is free if you have T-Mobile, otherwise it is $8 a month or something. The tricky thing is that you can't share the password with your family because it is linked to your Apple ID, which means whoever you give the password to can also download apps on their phone to your account. Or something weird like that. Anyway, cough up the $8, binge it for a month, then cancel.

My Predictions (not to be confused with spoilers) as of Episode 6

• Season 3--and series--ends with Ted going home to Kansas City to be with his son, Henry. The season opened with Ted and Henry at Heathrow. We watch Henry go down the escalator to get on his flight. I predict the last shot of the series will be of Ted going down the same escalator to fly back to KCMO. Initially, Ted moved to London to give his failing marriage some space. Now that his ex-wife has a new boyfriend who is acting as a father figure to Henry, Ted will follow his heart and want to teach his son to play darts and watch basketball together. In recent episodes, Ted has been thinking about all of the good times he had with his dad, who committed suicide when Ted was a teenager. 

• With Ted leaving, Nate Shelley will be the new head coach of Richmond. Nate will realize that Rupert is a dick and he can't work for an amoral asshole. Nate will humbly make amends to Rebecca, the coaching staff and the team for being a jerk. Rebecca knows her ex-husband Rupert is an asshole, so she takes the apologetic Nate back.

• Sam and Rebecca will get together. I have reason for this other than Jason Sudeikis uncle was George Wendt, the actor who played Norm on Cheers. The show is full of other television and film references, and I think Sam and Rebecca of Ted Lasso will get together like Sam and Rebecca in Cheers. The character of Ted Lasso even compared Sam and Rebecca to the couple in Cheers when they started dating in Season 2.

• Jamie Tart becomes the breakout star, and is a nice guy in the process instead of a smarmy, pompous asshole.

• Richmond wins it all.