I know people are shipping Ted/Trent, and I get it and would be all for it except for how much I am a 110% unrepentant Ted/Rebecca shipper and it had better fucking happen in S3.

I didn't know people were shipping Ted and Trent, but I don't go to many fannish places these days. Trent's hair is glorious though, and I just love him. I wonder how they'll * incorporate him into next season. I find it hard to believe they'll just let him go. James Lance is fantastic. *

I've been trying not to ship (and not to root against ships that aren't my first choice) at all, because overall, I love how Ted Lasso treats relationships (romances and friendships), and I'm enjoying the ride. This tact has been the least successful when it comes to Ted and Rebecca, but I keep telling myself to keep on enjoying the ride, even if it goes somewhere I didn't want/expect.

When HIMYM first aired, I felt it was Ted and Robin's love story. I felt it so much, that I "knew" it, but when it dragged and dragged, I got over it. I also figured I was wrong (or that Thomas and Bays didn't realize how they'd presented Ted and Robin at the outset). Thank goodness Ted Lasso is only going to be three seasons, and not nine. Even though I love it far more, with only three seasons, I can't get overly invested, because I already know it's almost over.

I feel about Ted and Rebecca like I did about Ted and Robin in the beginning of HIMYM. It might just be because I want it, but Ted Lasso seems to telegraph that Ted and Rebecca will end up together. Those daily homemade biscuits in a pink box are a romantic gesture that is never recognized as such, but it's the kind of thing a couple tells kids about later. "And grandpa made me shortbread every day, and gave it to me in a little pink box. My only regret is that it took me so long to see what was standing right in front of me the whole time."

Ted's immediate recognition of and visceral reaction to Rupert, and subsequent looking out for Rebecca in "For the Children" felt meaningful. Realizing what a bastard Rupert is, is one of the times we've seen Ted consciously choose to push down his feelings with alcohol. He decides to trade his beer for a shot of Jack on the rocks, and by the time he's finished telling the bartender what he wants, his order has increased from a single, to a double, to a triple shot.

Also from that episode, when Ted and Rebecca are outside the fundraising venue, he offers to take her on a rickshaw ride (to get her out of there and away from Rupert), her response is something like, "Not right now." That is a reasonable way to refuse a kindly offer, but it felt like it could have meant that someday the right time will arrive. I know it's only a bicycle rickshaw ride, but it pushed the fairy tale significance of horse-drawn carriage button, in my brain.

"Make Rebecca Great Again" saw Ted end his marriage legally, and then psychologically (by sleeping with Sassy), while Rebecca took a waiter back to her bed. Until the last moment, it seemed like the show could be setting up a surprise Ted-and-Rebecca-sleep-together reveal, and I can't help thinking they did it to make us want Ted and Rebecca.

In S02.E10, * "No Weddings and a Funeral," the show jumped between Rebecca and Ted's confessions regarding their complicated feelings about their fathers, but that parallel doesn't have to have a romantic significance. What did feel significant, though, is that Ted is the one who first helped Rebecca with the "Never Gonna Give You Up" lyrics — in church no less. It felt like they were reciting vows. *

Anyhow, I could go on longer, but I keep telling myself, "No, you want Ted and Rebecca, but that's not what this is," and then I keep seeing TED AND REBECCA 4EVA in so many scenes.

Similarly... I was watching Marvel's What If... and in Episode 4 someone says "__________ is here, __________ is there..." and started singing "__________ is every-fucking-where" and I'll bet I'm not alone in that.

Trudy, the Roy Kent song constantly plays in my brain. It's an earworm I enjoy, though.

I feel a lot like you did (except the marrying part) about Sudeikis. He registered as an SNL white boy, and no more, although it took Ted Lasso for me to see him as more.

Leverage: Redemption

Just finished watching the series. I enjoyed it. Pretty light, pretty fun, some good lines.

I'm not sure how I feel about how they left Eliot and Maria's story.

Trent Crimm The Independent made some serious eyes at Ted in their last scene together in the finale.

Only Murders in the Building

Watched the finale. It was okay. A pretty thorough wrap-up. Some smiles, no laughs, no shocks. Meh.

However, the twist at the very end got me.

It did its job -- now I'm wondering if they will get a second season.

Trent Crimm The Independent made some serious eyes at Ted in their last scene together in the finale.

And got so flustered that he locked his keys in his car.

What We Do in the Shadows: I was not expecting that at all! Dang.

No indeed

Did anyone else check out FX on Hulu's Y Is Yorick the Last Man? Okay, technically, it's called, Y: The Last Man, and is based on the comic book series of the same name, in which (premise spoiler) something happens that kills off all mammals with a Y chromosome, except the title character and his capuchin monkey, Ampersand. *

It was cancelled a couple of weeks ago (but they're still releasing the rest of it — the season one finale drops next week).

I'm wondering what people think of it. I wanted to like it so much, but it didn't work for me. Each week, I keep telling myself that it will come together any minute, but it just hasn't. It's a shame, because the premise is interesting and it has a pretty good cast. The showrunner said they're shopping it around, but I can't imagine it will get picked up. I don't even really think it should.

I was kind of vaguely thinking I wanted to watch that because I think Charlie Jane Anders was writing for it but I haven't gotten around to it and there are higher priority shows in front of it in the queue