![]() There they find a kind stepdad named Simon (Steve Edge) and Jamie’s mother, Georgie (Leanne Best). After they’re found out by Jamie, he invites them along to his secret destination: Jamie’s childhood home. His ennui sends him out on the streets of Manchester with Roy and Keeley following behind him, unseen. Manchester is hometown, and, however briefly, he played for one of his hometown teams, Manchester City, the Greyhounds’ opponents. (“It’s like a drawer without a home.”) As a Mancunian, coming home might have something to do with it. In Manchester, Keeley finds Jamie growing weepy when considering his suitcase. That mystery turns Roy and, later, Keeley into emotional detectives. “I feel like I’ve lost my wings, Roy,” he sobs. He’s glum and self-deprecating in a press conference and breaks down crying in Roy’s arms when he tries to motivate his star by yelling at him. Yet in some ways, Ted’s emotional swings look mild compared to Jamie’s, which are tethered to some mom issues of his own. Ted knows, but hearing it said out loud makes him break down. Then Dottie gets to the heart of the matter. After the big game, he lets Dottie have it with a speech alternating thanks and obscenities as he recalls all the ways Dottie helped him after his father’s death and all the ways Dottie forced him to repress his feelings as she was doing instead of properly mourning the loss. It doesn’t really help in the moment, but perhaps the words stick with him. Still, Ted just gets more uncomfortable the more time he spends with her, so uncomfortable that even May notices it, reciting Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse” to shed light on the situation. (Baker is, as usual, really good in the part.) Rebecca sees it right away, and so does the team, which surrounds her in the locker room to listen to Ted Lasso stories (though they sometimes don’t have that much resemblance to the truth). ![]() Yet if he’s embarrassed by her jokes about being his new bodyguard, he must surely recognize how much of his personality comes from his mom and her gift for corny charm. He’s tense when asking her to stay at his place rather than the hostel filled with horny Australians and tenser still introducing her to Rebecca. ![]() ![]() Over the course of this series, we’ve seen Ted, a fundamentally cheery man, made fearful and doubtful but never as uncomfortable and angry as Dottie makes him. We’re starting at the end of “Mom City,” the penultimate episode of Ted Lasso’s third season, which takes a somewhat bumpy road to get there. Reuniting with his mom, Dottie (Becky Ann Baker), was just the last push he needed to realize this. He brought a coaching style and, more importantly, a philosophy to Richmond, and he’ll leave it in a better place than he found it. What’s more, while it remains to be seen whether the Greyhounds will win a championship, he doesn’t have much left to prove. The guilt of leaving his own son without a father - even apart from any lingering feelings for Michelle - would only allow Ted to stay away for so long. “I got one.” We won’t find out what those words mean for Ted until next week’s episode, but we know, don’t we? From the first episode, season three has been building toward the moment when Ted decides to return to the States and, more specifically, to Henry, the son who clearly misses him.
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