Ted Lasso: Little Things You Missed While watching Ted Lasso.

Shalom Ibironke
2 min readOct 12, 2021

Coach Beard is seen reading the book, Inverting the Pyramid of Success, in Season 1 Ep. 1, he is also seen reading it in the last episode of Season 2.
The title of the book becomes the title of Season 2 episode 12.
That episode is also framed around a football formation: 1-5-3-2. First act, 5 days, 3 weeks, 2 months.

Ted got divorced on Rebecca's anniversary.

Rebecca caught her father cheating on the same day Ted found his father’s dead body after his father’s suicide.

Ted and Rebecca's dad-induced life-altering traumas were revealed to the audience on the same day.

Before the final game of the footballing season in season 2, Brentford FC sends AFC Richmond a food which Higgins referred to as Thai. The match ended a tie.

Toheeb Jimoh plays SAM Obisanya, SAM Richardson plays EDWIN, and EDWIN De La Renta plays Francis.

What other things did you notice while watching? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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Shalom Ibironke

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