Ted Lasso — Season 2

Richmond after promotion: therapy, doubt, and Nate's slow turn

Apple TV+ 2021 12 episodes reviewed
EPISODE 01

Ted Lasso S2E1 Review: A Mascot Dies, a Striker Yips, and Therapy Walks In

AFC Richmond returns to the Premier League on a seven-tie streak, and Dani Rojas's penalty kills the team's beloved greyhound mascot on live national television

EPISODE 02

Ted Lasso S2E2 Review: A Sports Psychologist Walks Into a Locker Room That Smells Like Nana

A reality-TV humiliation, a lavender-scented mutiny, and a coach who does not believe in shrinks all collide on the same Tuesday at AFC Richmond.

EPISODE 03

Ted Lasso S2E3 Review: Sam Obisanya Picks a Fight Bigger Than Football

A sponsor scandal pulls a quiet striker into the loudest fight of his life while Ted's old morale trick finally meets a problem it can't solve.

EPISODE 04

Ted Lasso S2E4 Review: A Dentist, a Drone, and a Christmas Built by Three Small Field Trips

Three storylines run on parallel rails of generosity — Roy and Keeley adopt a niece's crisis, Rebecca rescues Ted from a FaceTime gone sideways, and the Higgins

EPISODE 05

Ted Lasso S2E5 Review: A Kebab, a Power Pose, and the Sound of Roy Coming Home

Three Richmond rescues happen in parallel — a captain, a kit man, and an ex-captain — and the episode trusts you to feel which one is the real one.

EPISODE 06

Ted Lasso S2E6 Review: A Fish Pie Excuse and a Father's Voice Off-Field

Ted ducks a panic attack mid-match, Higgins says the thing nobody wants to hear, and Nathan parks the bus into the Premier League conversation.

EPISODE 07

Ted Lasso S2E7 Review: A Couch, a Boot Room, and Three Apologies Mishandled

Sharon refuses to let Ted run from his session, Keeley demands an inch of air, and Nate lashes out at the only teammate beneath him.

EPISODE 08

Ted Lasso S2E8 Review: A Panic Attack, a Father's Funeral, and a Locker Room That Holds

Richmond loses 5-nil at Wembley, Jamie's father comes for him in the tunnel, and Ted finally says the sentence he has been carrying alone since he was 16.

EPISODE 09

Ted Lasso S2E9 Review: A Night in London That the Show Cannot Quite Justify

Coach Beard loses a semifinal, loses his girlfriend, loses his trousers, and gains a Scorsese homage the rest of the season never picks back up.

EPISODE 10

Ted Lasso S2E10 Review: Rick Astley, a Hate Confession, and a Eulogy That Nobody Saw Coming

Rebecca's father dies, Ted's panic attack drags his own father back into the light, and a 1987 pop song becomes a love letter sung in front of a coffin.

EPISODE 11

Ted Lasso S2E11 Review: A Billionaire, a Letter, and a Train to Royston

Sam scores a hat trick, a Ghanaian billionaire lands a helicopter on the pitch with seventy-two hours and a buyout offer, and the people who knew how to say goo

EPISODE 12

Ted Lasso S2E12 Review: Promotion, a Leak, and the Quiet Slam of a Door

Richmond clinch promotion on a Sam Obisanya goal, but the season finale spends its real currency on a betrayal, a leak to The Independent, and a kit man who fin

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