Review: Ted Lasso, "Sunflowers" | Season 3, Episode 6
We’re halfway through Ted Lasso’s third season, and “Sunflowers” is what Kathryn VanArendonk has proposed we think of as a “departure episode”: after a disastrous friendly in Amsterdam, Ted decides to remove the team’s usual curfew, hoping to break the team out of their funk. A sort of inversion of last season’s “Beard After Hours,” this hour—yes, a full hour—follows everyone but Beard as they explore one of Europe’s finest cities, where to quote the synopsis “one night out unlocks truths for many.”
I don’t know who is responsible for writing these synopses, but I’m going to call bullshit on this one. There’s exactly one storyline in “Sunflowers” that this describes, and even then I don’t really know if truths are “unlocked” in a meaningful way. Ted Lasso is a show with an amiable cast that I have a lot of affection for, and seeing them let loose like this has a certain je ne sais quoi that carries parts of the hour. But separating the characters from both each other an…
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