'Ted Lasso' Season 3 Episode 1: Ted takes AFC Richmond to 'sewers' for an important team-building session
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Welcome back to ‘Ted Lasso’s world where simplicity and joy overrule everything. The manager of AFC Richmond has done wonders for the team by making them understand how important it is to stick together and understand what their teammate is going through. But Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) faced a horrifying situation in Season 2 when he started having panic attacks due to the things he endured in his past. Things got bad to worse when Nate Shelley (Nick Mohammed) decided to leave the club because he thought no one respected him there and he was born to do bigger things in the world of football. He says a lot of mean things to Lasso and leaves. Nevertheless, Richmond was promoted to the Premier League at the end of Season 2 and they were expected to play better this time around. In the Season 3 premiere, we find Lasso getting a bit emotional as he says goodbye to his son at the airport. They spent a few weeks with each other and had a lot of fun, but it was time for his son to leave and head back home.
On the other hand, Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) and Higgins (Jeremy Swift) are absolutely disgusted over the fact that every media publication is predicting them to finish last this season. Lasso enters the boss’s room and asks what’s happening. Rebecca replies that the team needs to perform better this time around so that they give a befitting reply, and she wants Lasso to be more focused and ferocious on the ground. Lasso, with a beautiful smile on his face, says that he will take care of that.
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But it seems everybody on the team is feeling really down because they have got to know what every pundit has said about their team. One of the players says that statistically, any team that gets promoted to the Premier League from the lower division always gets relegated the next season. Players are feeling low and Lasso understands it. Lasso and Coach Beard make a plan to take the team outside for an important lesson. However, no one could have imagined that they are being taken into the sewers of London. Yes, the entire team went down the sewer for this exercise and one of the construction workers there was able to photograph them. As soon as they get inside, they see themselves surrounded by a lot of waste, including human waste. The tour guide makes them understand why London sewers were created and what happened when the entire London was stinking. The phenomenon was called ‘The Great Stink of 1858’ (It’s real).
Players ask Lasso why they are here and he makes them understand that they are surrounded by waste here and there are a lot of people up above the ground that is trying everything to make them feel worse. The players need to create an “internal sewage system” so that they filter out all the “waste” out of their minds and keep themselves motivated. They need to play like a team and if they do that, no one will be able to treat them like a waste.
One such situation occurs when Nate Shelley says something about the team and they find out about it, but Jamie makes the team understands that it’s just “poopy” and no one has to give a “s**t” about what Nate and West Ham have to say.
Once again, Lasso has managed to give everyone a life lesson that people are surrounded by negative people, but they don’t need to succumb to that. They just need to get ahead of it and prove everyone wrong.
