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Best Ted Lasso Episodes, Ranked

All 34 episodes of Ted Lasso scored and sorted — from the 9.4/10 high of S2E8 to the 6.8/10 of S2E9.

By Mira Vance · Editor & Lead Reviewer

Our rating: 8.72/10 average across 34 episode reviews (best 9.4, lowest 6.8).

Ted Lasso runs hot for most of its 34 episodes — a 8.72 average with very little garbage — but the run isn’t a flat line. Season 1 is the steadiest stretch: nothing dips below the pilot’s 8.4, and “A Liverpool Detour That Cracks Open Two Lonely People” (S1E7) and Rebecca’s confession in S1E9 both hit 9.2 without straining. Season 2 is where the show reaches its ceiling and its floor in the same run. The two 9.4s sit here: S2E8, the panic attack and funeral where the locker room quietly closes ranks around Ted, and S2E10, the Rick Astley needle-drop and the eulogy nobody expected. Both let the warmth turn serious without going soft.

The crash is real and it’s specific. S2E9, “A Night in London That the Show Cannot Quite Justify,” scrapes 6.8 — a full point below anything else, a bottle detour the season never repays. Season 3 is the bumpiest: a soft open (S3E1 and S3E3 at 8.2), a recovery through the houseboat-and-windmill stretch (S3E6, 9.1) and Roy’s locker-room speech in S3E9 (9.1), then a finale, “A Long Goodbye That Sings Through Most of Its Tears” (S3E12), that sags to 7.9 trying to wrap too many threads. Watch S1 and the back half of S2; treat S3 as good with a wobbly start and a teary, overstuffed exit.

Season 1: 8.8Season 2: 8.7Season 3: 8.7
678910S1E1: 8.4/10S1E2: 8.5/10S1E3: 8.7/10S1E4: 9.0/10S1E5: 9.0/10S1E6: 8.7/10S1E7: 9.2/10S1E8: 9.0/10S1E9: 9.2/10S1E10: 8.7/10S2E1: 8.5/10S2E2: 8.5/10S2E3: 9.0/10S2E4: 8.7/10S2E5: 9.1/10S2E6: 8.7/10S2E7: 8.7/10S2E8: 9.4/10S2E9: 6.8/10S2E10: 9.4/10S2E11: 9.1/10S2E12: 8.4/10S3E1: 8.2/10S3E2: 8.7/10S3E3: 8.2/10S3E4: 8.7/10S3E5: 8.6/10S3E6: 9.1/10S3E7: 8.8/10S3E8: 8.8/10S3E9: 9.1/10S3E10: 9.1/10S3E11: 8.7/10S3E12: 7.9/10
Every episode scored on tension, payoff, and rewatch value. Hover a point for the episode.
RankEpEpisodeScore
T-1S2E8A Panic Attack, a Father's Funeral, and a Locker Room That Holds9.4
T-1S2E10Rick Astley, a Hate Confession, and a Eulogy That Nobody Saw Coming9.4
T-3S1E7A Liverpool Detour That Cracks Open Two Lonely People9.2
T-3S1E9Rebecca Confesses, And The Show Decides Forgiveness Is The Plot9.2
T-5S2E5A Kebab, a Power Pose, and the Sound of Roy Coming Home9.1
T-5S2E11A Billionaire, a Letter, and a Train to Royston9.1
T-5S3E6A Houseboat, an Onion Ring Pyramid, and a Windmill9.1
T-5S3E9La Locker Room Aux Folles Hands the Mic to Roy9.1
T-5S3E10Rebecca Asks the Akufo League a Trent Crimm Question9.1
T-10S1E4A Charity Gala, an Ex-Husband, and the Word "Accountable"9.0
T-10S1E5A Code Word Called Oklahoma Cracks the Coach Open9.0
T-10S1E8Diamond Dogs Convene While Rupert Bex-Trojans the Owner's Box9.0
T-10S2E3Sam Obisanya Picks a Fight Bigger Than Football9.0
T-14S3E7Total Football, a Trashed Restaurant, and a Croissant8.8
T-14S3E8We'll Never Have Paris and the Cost of Apologies8.8
T-16S1E3A Cynic Walks In, Roots Quietly On The Way Out8.7
T-16S1E6A Cursed Treatment Room and a Midnight Show-and-Tell8.7
T-16S1E10A Finale That Loses the Match and Wins Almost Everything Else8.7
T-16S2E4A Dentist, a Drone, and a Christmas Built by Three Small Field Trips8.7
T-16S2E6A Fish Pie Excuse and a Father's Voice Off-Field8.7
T-16S2E7A Couch, a Boot Room, and Three Apologies Mishandled8.7
T-16S3E2Zava arrives, Roy and Keeley don't8.7
T-16S3E4Nate Wins the Match, Rupert Wins the Room8.7
T-16S3E11Dottie Arrives, Jamie Breaks, and the Penultimate Hour Lands8.7
25S3E5Zava Walks, The BELIEVE Sign Falls, And Ted Finally Talks8.6
T-26S1E2Be a Goldfish, Boss, and the Slow Work of Winning a Room8.5
T-26S2E1A Mascot Dies, a Striker Yips, and Therapy Walks In8.5
T-26S2E2A Sports Psychologist Walks Into a Locker Room That Smells Like Nana8.5
T-29S1E1A Mustache, a Hockney, and a Sabotage Plot Walk Into Richmond8.4
T-29S2E12Promotion, a Leak, and the Quiet Slam of a Door8.4
T-31S3E1A Sewer, a Wunderkind, and a Toy Trophy in Henry's Hands8.2
T-31S3E3Zava Arrives, Rebecca Visits a Psychic, Sam Opens Ola's8.2
33S3E12A Long Goodbye That Sings Through Most of Its Tears7.9
34S2E9A Night in London That the Show Cannot Quite Justify6.8

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