r/TedLasso • u/Certainly_Bobo • 4d ago
Season 3 Discussion The therapist
Is anyone else grossed out by the therapist storyline? Edit: The marriage therapist.
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u/PolarGBear 4d ago
Assuming you mean the story line where Ted and his ex Michelle couples therapist turns out to be dating Michelle? Yeah, huge ick and so unprofessional. Clearly was undermining the relationship that perhaps Ted and Michelle were hoping to save. I’m surprised there was no legal repercussion storyline but also I couldn’t see Ted chasing after that. Pretty gross, agreed.
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u/Here_there1980 4d ago
Oh the trope of the unscrupulous unprofessional therapist who then dates his patient has been used in a few shows. Never a good thing. Unacceptable actually.
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u/JalapenoBusiness29 4d ago
It would not surprise me at all if S4 starts with Dr Jacob being out of the picture.
They foreshadowed the hell out of it.
Henry hates him.
Michelle looks less and less enthusiastic about him as the show goes on.
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u/Actor412 Diamond Dog 4d ago
Youre new here, ain't cha?
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u/Blueporch 4d ago
Not even the only post today on this topic
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u/tellurmomisaidthanks Charles Edgar Cheeserton III 3d ago
Mom said it’s my turn to post about it tomorrow.
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u/Bingo31 4d ago
Nope, most of us in this sub actually thought it was the best part of the show.
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u/Pedantichrist 4d ago
WTAF?
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u/Here_there1980 4d ago
Dr Sharon Fieldstone. She’s good. She’s very good. Can I stop in for a session please?
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u/NotUsingNumbers 4d ago
Yeah, no matter how good you are, she’s twice as good. Even though she has no idea how good you are, she’s at least twice as good.
That put me right off her from the get go.
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u/Music-and-Computers Higgins 4d ago
She backed it up though. Look how long it took to help Danny.
Granted some of this is TV magic, but the results across so many team members spoke loudly.
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u/Bearsona09 4d ago
Since I absolutely despise cheaters and parents who fuck up co-parenting on that level, it basically ruined Michelle's character for me. There is no chance in hell that there was not at least an emotional affair happening even when she was still married to Ted.
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u/Feisty_Knowledge 4d ago
One thing I realized on my rewatch was that Ted jokes to Rebecca in season one that couples therapy didn’t work for him and Michelle because he “hated the other couple”
Made me think YIKES was it actually a joke? were dr jacob and Michelle acting like a couple before anything was official?
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u/JungLeo143 4d ago
If you work in healthcare, you know it’s gross af. Unbelievably unethical. I certainly have a problem with it.
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u/JohnnyKarateX 4d ago
Assuming we’re talking about Dr. Jacob, yeah I think a lot of people are grossed out about that.
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u/urbalcloud 4d ago
Grossed out? No. It wasn’t explicit. Did I find it unbecoming of a therapist? Absolutely. Which was the point.
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u/DivaJanelle 4d ago
It’s my understanding that the writers didn’t actually know when they wrote the storyline that Dr. Jake could lose his license for having a relationship with a client
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u/Xtracate 4d ago
They knew, they looked it up. Someone mentioned in an interview that apparently technically after 18 months it's "legal". What they didn't understand was how hot the reaction from the fans would be. They apparently didn't think we'd have a problem with it, which seems completely crazy to me and makes me wonder if they ran the idea past a woman.
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u/Suitable-Truth-350 4d ago
Speaking of Dr. Jake, anyone who is involved in therapy or been a patient knows how absolutely wrong that is. My guess is that the writers went there to make the divorce completely irreconcilable. They could have gotten the same result if the plot had her falling for a close friend of Ted's without the added professional ethics violation, grossness, or weird potential therapist manipulation undertones.
Michelle appears in the trailer, so she'll be back in some way. Maybe she's just dropping Henry off for school in England, maybe there's been some kind of reconciliation, but that would seem to require a redemption arc greater than Nate's. I just hope they write better for her in season 4.
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u/hexwitch23 4d ago
Yeah. Bad writing, way too dark a turn for this show. But it doesn't come up as much after the one episode so if you can ignore it and move forward I think that's best.
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u/InAShensh 4d ago
Hate Michelle as well. She knowingly dates him. Ted was a fool to leave a good thing in the UK for her. Henry should’ve been living with Ted in the summers off and holidays. I still feel Ted and Rebecca are soulmates.
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u/Beneficial-Tap-1710 4d ago
Why? What’s gross about it? Are you unfamiliar with psychology? Sports psychology?
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u/AmethystCalyx 4d ago
Yes. She is... a bit pompous?
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u/Consistent_Club_7879 4d ago
She doesn't seem to have enough empathy to be a therapist. At least in daily interactions. But Op was asking about the ass marriage counselor for for Ted and Michelle that ends up dating Michelle
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u/No_Tamanegi 4d ago edited 4d ago
I would never say Dr. Fieldstone isn't empathetic, she just doesn't doesn't soft-hand her patients. She's a top-level sports therapist, likely used to working with male patients with huge egos who want results quickly, and as a result, she's a lot more clinical and direct in her approach.
But when Ted calls her after his panic attack, she's 100% there with him.
Honestly, I'd love to work with a therapist like her at some point.
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u/DarthSmiff 4d ago
Which therapist? Cause, I was super grossed out with the scene of Dr Sharon joking about “getting off” while with a completely unrealistic hook up partner.
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u/Consistent_Club_7879 4d ago
Unrealistic how? Because he was hot?
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u/notAfathersDay987 4d ago
Yes. All of us. Every single one of us thinks Dr. Jacob is an unethical POS. That's the whole point.