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That he doesn’t make the cut in the Vanity Fair photos feels symbolic to Roy, even though he loves how powerful Keeley looks on her own.
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But Roy’s also not sure how he fits into her new life as a professional badass. He’s proud of her and loves what she’s accomplished. A great mentor knows you will.”īut if Rebecca isn’t having trouble with Keeley moving on, Roy is. Her reaction bears out Higgins’s bit of wisdom that “a good mentor hopes you’ll move on. It pains Rebecca, too, but she knows it’s the right choice for her apprentice. She’s received an offer to head up her own PR firm, and she can’t say no to that, no matter how much it pains her. Sam doesn’t even get a good-bye handshake by proxy. His meltdown at Sam’s decision is the perfect punchline for a character who seemed too good to be true and, in fact, was. Also a highlight: Sam Richardson’s Akfuo. Regardless, it’s nice to have any suspense that Toheeb Jimoh might be moving on resolved. But their story doesn’t feel over, either. “I’m staying because it’s what’s best for me and my personal journey,” Sam tells Rebecca (even if he’s looking at Ted). But his heart says to stay, and so do all the signs that he’s making a difference in his new home.
As the episode opens, he’s still weighing whether or not to take Edwin Akufo - whose helicopter remains planted in the Greyhounds’ practice field - up on his offer. If the win doesn’t determine Sam’s choice to stay, it confirms its wisdom. They had a job this year, and they got it done together.
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Let’s focus on the positive for a moment: the Greyhounds claw their way back into the Premier League, and however much they owe their success to Nate’s False Nine, it’s also the result of Sam’s superstar performance, Isaac’s leadership (he’s the one who makes a point of touching the “Believe” sign on the way to the second half), and the moment when Jamie gives the penalty shot to Dani Rojas, bringing a season that began with Dani taking a disastrous penalty shot full circle. He can’t destroy what the sign symbolizes, however. And with that, Nate the Great leaves the building.
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Yet for all his delusions, he still knows how to hit Ted where it hurts: first by saying he should be with his son, then by tearing the “Believe” sign in half. He’d rather be seen as the sort of threat that Roy would want to punch. He even takes the way Roy dismisses his kissing Keeley as a mistake as an insult. Ted’s actions don’t really support those accusations, but Nate’s so lost he sees signs of persecution anywhere. He’s become a toxic mix of insecurity and narcissism, the sort of man who can see Ted’s failure to display the photo of the two of them Nate gave him - a photo that has pride of place in Ted’s home, no less - as a grave insult and the symbol of a more considerable abandonment. Nate’s success has turned cracks in his personality into full-on fissures. Ted takes his ideas seriously, even sticking with them when they don’t seem to be working, as he does in this crucial game. Nate had his “Wunderkind” phase in the press. If there’s a through-line to Nate’s mounting dissatisfaction, it’s been a sense of grievance at not getting enough credit for his contributions to the Greyhounds. We saw Rupert whispering something in Nate’s ear at the funeral of Rebecca’s father, so this isn’t a total shock in some ways. The episode’s final coda reveals that Nate has joined the coaching staff of West Ham United, now owned by the hated Rupert. But, at the same time, some are also drifting apart. The Greyhounds come together to achieve an important goal. It’s an unmistakably great moment for the team, but not exactly a sweeping victory, a remarkable achievement but one with an asterisk attached in an episode filled with warning signs about the future. In the season’s final game, the Greyhounds tie their opponents, an outcome that’s good enough to allow the team to rejoin the Premier League after the humiliating demotion of the previous year. It’s fitting that “Inverting the Pyramid of Success,” the final episode of Ted Lasso’s second season, should end with a moment of triumph that’s a bit qualified.
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