I finished season two last night. Have to say I was expecting a bigger twist/end of season - I thought it was slightly predictable with Nate.
I think Nates insecurities- now coming out as over confidence or anger at others is a result of his result of his “dad” issues - now a common theme in the show.
I know nothing but if I was making a prediction for a series finale or whatever it might be one of the players becoming a dad and being ready to embrace the role.
Glad that Sam stayed. And that he and Rebecca are not a thing. I found that pretty awkward.
The book twist is interesting! I def noticed that many of them are always reading - in the coaches office, players on the exercise equipment, Roy at home.
Actually I was talking about the example of Higgins. Clearly the right people for him think he’s handsome and charismatic and it doesn’t really matter what the masses think. But agree that Nate needs to focus on the who does rather than the who doesn’t, which his hyperfocus on the one critical tweet shows he hasn’t figured out yet.
The other thing about Higgins is no matter what he is content with his situation. His office moves around constantly but he never fusses about where he ends up. In one of the last “Diamond Dog” scenes Higgins is participating through a window so kind of on the outside but always with a good perspective. Perhaps he is the wisest of all.
This am, I read an interesting 1922 Ny times archival review of James Joyce, Ulysses’s.
The reviewer claims, the unique stream of consciousness, time warping, 700 page novel, breaks all literary rules, is incomprehensible to 5 out of 100 readers, and is a masterpiece.
Such a strange review, here it is
Review: ‘Ulysses,’ by James Joyce
So intrigued ( and Not thinking about Ted Lasso at all,l I was curious to just read the plot summary of this intense, renown work of art.
That led me to this:
It’s a literary modern retelling of The Odyssey. A day in the life Leopold Bloom, the books chapters are structured and named after The Odyssey characters and events.
His wife is going to have an affair, he’s lost, he protects a friend from a fight, he goes to brothel with a friend, ( red light district), ends up in a church, he visits pubs,
And he loses his key …….
“Key……… MMMMMMMMMMM NOW I’M THINKING ABOUT TED LASSO” ………LOST KEY………LOST KEY……
I see so many references to James Joyce - Ulysses, in the Beard episode.
Bloom returns to his home, where His wife Molly, had had a lisason in the afternoon, and leopold knew about it, but returns to his marital bed.
Here is the easy to read plot summary - of Ulysses
Additionally——
This weekend I rewatched the first SEASON, which you should do, because you will see it through new eyes, of course The Nate development, especially the episode when Ted, allows Nate to speak to the team before the Everton match, and once he starts speaking his voice, his own words are so brutally harsh as he critiques each player.
You will see the seed of Nate’s hostile personality emerge.
And, I noticesd how important clothes are in several episodes, the players wear suits to the gala,each footballer poses in their garb, and their personalities shine through.
Rebecca has a hard time deciding what to wear, and Ted tells her “it’s not the clothes it’s the confidence”.
Nate has the wrong size suit on in that episode, and Ted takes him for a proper fitting suit.
To tie back to the Beard After hours episode, those wacky striped pants, reflect the entire bizarre personality we know as Beard, and TED doesn’t miss a beat………he knows his friend.
Circe (pp. 350-497)
12:00 midnight, at Bella Cohen’s Brothel, Tyrone Street (in the red-light district Joyce called “nighttown”).
In keeping with the late hour, high blood alcohol level, and magical powers of Homer’s Circe, this episode is expressed largely in a hallucinatory manner that invites comparison with the metaphoric power of dream logic. Bloom and Stephen move freely in and out of a sorceress’ world, where personages and fears from their recent and distant pasts are made manifest to them in a seamless process of metamorphosis, and put down on the page in dramatic form, replete with stage directions. Stephen heads for the red-light district and is followed by Bloom, who is concerned in a fatherly way over Stephen’s well-being. In the house of Bella Cohen, Bloom flirts with Zoe, falls under the spell of the whoremistress Bella, and keeps watch over Stephen, who, after a traumatic hallucinatory visit from his deceased mother, attempts to break her hold on his psyche by smashing his walking stick against Bella’s chandelier. Bloom pays Bella for the damage and follows Stephen into the street. Stephen is punched by a British solder unimpressed by Stephen’s rhetorical skills, and Bloom protects the unconscious recipient of that punch so that the latter might avoid falling into the custody of the police. The episode (and with it Part II, the “Odyssey” proper) ends poignantly with Bloom’s vision of his own son Rudy (who had died eleven years ago at the age of eleven days) as he might have been in life, now eleven. By associating Rudy with Stephen at this point, the image powerfully reinforces the book’s undercurrent theme of father and son in search of each other.</>