She has despised him, and to some degree her mother, ever since. (And, unlike Ted’s experience with his father, Rebecca was cursed with being an eyewitness.) The next day, he acted as if nothing had happened. In this case, however, it was not her father’s suicide but his extramarital coupling. As a teenager Rebecca, like Ted, stumbled upon something she was not meant to stumble upon. (There are some who might say this is the appropriate response to his choice of getting-dressed music, “Easy Lover” by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins.) So Ted calls Sharon, who immediately comes over.Īttending her father’s funeral, Rebecca confronts her mother, Deborah. Ted, dressing to go to the funeral of Rebecca’s father, gets the shakes and is paralyzed with anxiety. And then two episodes ago we had the big reveal: Ted’s father killed himself when Ted was 16. We watched the panic attacks and increasingly manic behavior for a while. Ted and SharonĬoach Lasso’s scene with Sharon is the one we’ve essentially been waiting for all season. There’s a lot of ground to cover here, so I’m going to try something a little different and break it down by story line. They’re like Tom and Daisy Buchanan, but substantially more promiscuous. I watched the 1994 film again to check, and I felt about it more or less how I did when I last saw it 20-plus years ago: It’s remarkable the degree to which a bit of Richard Curtis treacle, a Pottery Barn soundtrack, and Hugh Grant’s sheepish grin can convince viewers that anything is a “romantic comedy.”īecause by any reasonable interpretation, “Four Weddings and a Funeral” is a film about two amoral sexual predators circling one another while casually leaving chaos and heartbreak in their wakes. There are few if any clear references to “Four Weddings and a Funeral.” In particular, Jason Sudeikis (as Ted) and Hannah Waddingham (as Rebecca) are both asked to go places they haven’t gone before on the show, and both rise to the occasion more powerfully than one could have hoped.Ī quick aside: Unlike the “Love Actually” episode, the rom-com episode, and the “After Hours” episode, this one has no interest in toying with its source material. But the writing is superb and the acting even better. Tonally, it’s all over the map, alternating between hilarity and grief and fury. (The last three episodes have been the longest three of the entire series.) It is also the most intense and emotionally revealing episode to date, and perhaps the best of the season. “No Weddings and a Funeral” - I won’t lie, I think my headline is a better title - is, at 46 minutes, another lengthy episode. This week, the sun rises on a new day of narrative momentum.

Last week, “Ted Lasso” gave us a moderately interesting but extremely bizarre bottle episode that temporarily abandoned all of the existing story lines in favor of an “After Hours”-themed night out with Coach Beard. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming. Season 2, Episode 10: ‘No Weddings and a Funeral’

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