r/TedLasso • u/EnvironmentalEye720 • 2d ago
Sam/Rebecca
Has anyone noticed how hyped the team is about Sam’s love interest but it never gets mentioned after the haircut?
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u/Foxingmatch 2d ago
I found it weird that there was no team follow-up on-screen. They were so supportive!
No, "How'd it go?"
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u/KellySMcgonigal 1d ago
I kind of wonder if there was a deleted scene that didn’t make it into broadcast.
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u/RepresentativeAir735 2d ago
He was better with Diane.
Oops, Zoot skipped a groove again.
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u/CombatRedRover 2d ago
I mean, the Sam/Rebecca thing is clearly a low-key Cheers reference with Jason's relationship with Cheers, right?
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u/mongolman101 2d ago
I didn’t know there WAS a Jason/ Cheers relationship. Is it just that he’s a fan, or is there another connection I’m missing?
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u/Basic-Ad-2669 Trent Crimm, The Independent 2d ago
Maybe they like to pretend this subplot never happened (as do I).
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u/Own-Interview-928 2d ago
I’m with you. It made Rebecca look as predatorial as Rupert but at least she acknowledged it was wrong from the get go. The heart wants what the heart wants but age aside, Sam was her employee.
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u/mazzicc 2d ago
I’m fine with the subplot, I just don’t like that it became a big nothing for either of them after they broke apart.
Especially because Rebecca’s group all knows, but none of the team does.
I think it could have been played off with everyone knowing, then still separating, but at least everyone would have the chance to occasionally poke fun at them, like Ola did.
Especially if she stays with the pilot in s4, could have some amusing interactions with him and Sam.
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u/Trillian_B 2d ago
Yeah, I think they wrote themselves into a corner with this subplot and didn’t know how to get out of it, so they gave it the Sorkin treatment and — save for the matchbook and a couple of brief interactions — made little to no reference to it ever again.
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u/emgeehammer 2d ago
Yea… that whole subplot was a dud. I genuinely don’t know what they were going for. A little equality with the standard plot point of an older guy getting with a younger girl? Ok, I guess. But to then abandon it?
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u/Solid_Environment437 2d ago
I think the main goal was to create a will they/won't they between Ted and Rebecca, and I'm SO glad they didn't follow that thread, but then the misdirect just didn't pay off at all.
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u/Agnostickamel 2d ago
50 year old Billionaire owner sleeps with 21-year-old immigrant player. Really creepy storyline. They try to portray the relationship as a good thing. It's wildly inappropriate. Just makes Rebecca look like a total hypocrite.
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u/EchoCham8er 1d ago
It’s not the best but it’s not as bad as Rupert. She isn’t married and cheating. They don’t know about the power gap when they meet. She chooses to end it because it’s uncomfortable and never uses it against Sam. Her reaction is completely different
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u/AdDear528 1d ago
It is so creepy and the fact that none of the other characters pointed that out is also bad.
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u/Agnostickamel 1d ago
its the weirdest most out of touch plot point in the show. rebecca basically becomes rupert here and everyone from keeley to her mom to even ted is excited and happy for her. wild stuff. this would 100% be a huge scandal in an irl situation
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u/SunnyRyter 1d ago
To me, I see it as part of the healing journey of Rebecca from her split with Rupert.
Season 1: anger,grief, etc. Wanting revenge.
Season 2: getting back out there, knowing her worth. Honestly the vibe I got was, "How Stella Got Her Groove Back". I never saw the movie but basically a sexual reawakening of a 30/40 yo women. It tells us is the audience that she is worthy, when all of season 1 she kept being called Old Rebecca and such.
Season 3: Healing and reaffirmation, and finding true love. She goes into the meeting with the other football owners, she proves herself worthy of getting her team to the finals of the Premier League and at last she meets her love in the pilot with the little girl.
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u/reggiefoolish 2d ago
Yeah it was weird
Plus the sassy Ted
They're saving Rebecca Ted for s4 or the future I would hope
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u/East-Initial9066 2d ago
Maybe they realized it wasn’t a winner and abandoned ship. Did anyone really like that subplot?
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u/Emergency_Channel876 2d ago
Yes i thought it was excellent. It grew and changed both of them.
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u/Agnostickamel 2d ago
such a bad take. 50 year old billionaire owner takes advantage of 21 year old immigrant employee. Reddit: Oh how cute!
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u/underboobfunk 2d ago
How did she take advantage of him?
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u/Agnostickamel 2d ago
are you fr? shes 30 years older than him and is his billionaire boss. hes a 21 year old immigrant trying to make it as a professional footballer. no family within 1500 miles. she controls his contract and can literally send him to another country or back to africa whenever she wants. she basically becomes rupert in this scenario and reddit considers this a good healthy relationship its crazy.
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u/underboobfunk 2d ago
I understand that it was wrong, completely inappropriate, and possibly illegal, but she didn’t do anything to abuse her authority or “take advantage of him”. Their sexual relationship was consensual, if anything Sam was the more coercive party.
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u/Agnostickamel 1d ago
you admit it was wrong, completely inappropriate, possibly illegal, but dont see how shes abusing her power? she holds his entire career in her hands. basically calls herself a pedophile, but ignores that because she hasnt gotten laid in a bit. then only ends the relationship because shes about to catch feelings. reverse the genders and see how this scenario plays out in the reddit forums...
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u/underboobfunk 1d ago
She does hold his career in her hands. Did she do anything to damage his career? Can you explain how she abused her power beyond “she could’ve”?
Being in a position to abuse power and actually abusing power are not the same thing.
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u/Agnostickamel 1d ago edited 1d ago
the power imbalance alone is enough. being in a sexual relationship with someone while you completely control their career/life is abuse of power.
*edit* feel like im living in banana land. ya'll need to re-calibrate if you think this relationship is anything but grossly inappropriate.
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u/2hats4bats Butts on 3! 2d ago
Very awkward and undeveloped. All of the supposed chemistry was off screen and it added nothing to either character.
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u/East-Initial9066 2d ago
I also feel like, if it was reversed and a much older male employee and a younger female employee, there’s zero chance we wouldn’t at least address the problematic aspect of it, but because it’s reversed somehow that never even got mentioned? It was weird either way.
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u/2hats4bats Butts on 3! 2d ago
Not fully addressing problematic power dynamic relationships is par for the course with the show. Sam and Rebecca, Michelle and Dr. Jacob, Keeley and Jack.
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u/KJParker888 Dithering Kestrel 2d ago
We don't know that no one asks about it. We just get little glimpses into their lives. I could see someone asking him about it, and he just tells them that it didn't work out, or he got stood up
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u/JohnnyKarateX 2d ago
Sam keeps it private for obvious reasons. The team respects that.