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'endless column' by constantin brancusi in earthworks and beyond: contemporary art in the landscape - john beardsley (1989)

Failed Ascendance by EranFowler

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Definitely a big problem with The Bear S3 is that the show clearly wants to cash in on the love from real life celebrity chefs but that type of hero worship (which made the season finale nearly unbearable to watch) contradicts one of the main conceits of season one:

fine dining restaurants are kinda evil. They're beautiful sure but Carmy's flashbacks to New York were about the stress and oppression that is produced in those settings.

That's why when Carmy confronts his former boss at the end of season 3, it's confusing as hell. I never thought this guy was the villain of the show, I barely thought of him as an actual character. I thought he represented fine dining culture at it's worst.

But no, in a roomful of real celebrity chefs, which the show anxiously needs to make look as good as possible, he now becomes an outlier, the only one whose evil, the one who personally fucked Carmy up. He doesn't represent anything anymore, he is now a real character that the audience doesn't really know anything about or quite frankly cares about much at all. What a waste of time to see them fight over a lesson learned in season one. Better to be kind than to be great, lest thy be a robot.

#i do love them together i just think there’s so much love there#not necessarily in a romantic way but also not an entirely platonic way

SYDNEY ADAMU and CARMY BERZATTO in THE BEAR SEASON 2 (2023)

You're not alone, Syd. Neither are you.

The spectrum of love is so interesting...what would be enough? To look into each other’s eyes and know that you love each other? To say the words? Or to kiss and turn words into pheromones? To have sex once? To promise to have sex forever? Moving into the same home? Never doing anything above to another person ever again?

How could this love ever be less than “enough” when it is already fully there? How could it ever be greater or lesser than what it is?

My first reaction once the credits started rolling after the finale was "I hate this". Then I rewatched it and it came down to "I don't hate it as much as I thought". And now I've had almost a week to sit with it and I've started rewatching the whole thing (currently ending s1) and I have to say, I was wrong.

It's not only a good ending, but it's the only way it could have ended. The issue I think a lot of us faced with regards to the finale, was a conflict between what the show is and what we made it up to be in our heads.

The show is about a man who never allowed himself to set roots in England. He's chronically on his phone. He drops everything when Henry arrives in s1. He almost drinks himself stupid because he isn't with Henry for Christmas in s2. He openly questions what he's still doing in England in s3.

He has made a lot of friends in Richmond, but he never allowed himself to get too attached, which I think is at least part of the reason why he never got a proper romance plot. And that's not to say that the love of a friend is less than the love of a romantic partner, that's bullshit. But, in most cases, the kind of love you find in friendship is one that survives long distances with only text, video calls and the occasional visit.

Anyone who has lived in a different country for a limited amount of time (myself included) will tell you that that's exactly how this goes. You meet great people and you love them and it's different after you go back, but that doesn't mean you love them any less. And phones fucking exist, you keep in touch as much as you can.

The show I made up in my head, for whatever reason, was a show about a man who found his home in England. Why did I think that, you ask? I have no earthly idea. It's clearly not how Ted's character is presented. Maybe I thought it'd allow for deeper relationships between characters? Maybe I thought Ted would find romance? Maybe that's what I've been conditioned to think by every other show I've ever watched? None of which is a reflection of the show itself, only of my expectations.

In the end, it all worked out. Not how I thought it would, nor how I hoped it would. But it worked out exactly how it was supposed to.

For folks frustrated by Ted going back to Kansas, it might be helpful to think about this story within the framework of the hero’s journey

There always has to be the return, to go back to the start BUT go back completely changed. Why is it the hero must always return? Why has this story structure existed across cultures and the world for thousands of years? Many answers but...I think in life we can transform and grow meet new people and lovers and the most beautiful thing is we can never lose those things. Ever. Even when we go back to the beginning. It will never be a reset. It will always be a new beginning.

for ted lasso fans who aren't football fans, the akufo league subplot was pretty directly inspired by the april 2021 announcement of a proposed european super league founded by 12 of the richest clubs in europe competing in a closed group against each other plus 8 other teams tba.

the enterprise was cancelled very quickly after its announcement, but the differences between how that played out in ted lasso and the story as it played out in real life are.....hmmmm interesting choices to say the least.

the esl wasn't proposed by a cartoonishly villainous ghanaian billionaire. it was launched by a c-suite of white european and united states billionaire businessmen/team owners. - real madrid president florentino pérez spearheaded the proposal and claimed CEO position with andrea agnelli (owner of juventus), joel glazer (owner of man u), john henry (owner of liverpool), and stan kroenke (owner of arsenal) making up the rest of the proposed executive board. -these five are worth $2.3B, $13.5B (agnelli family), $4.8 (glazer family), $4B, and $12.9B, for a total of 37.5 billion dollars.

the esl proposal was formally announced on 18 april 2021 and by 21 april all 6 epl founding clubs had publicly announced their planned withdrawal from the league. this wasn't because of a rich white lady giving a heartwarming speech to a room of other rich people, it was because of a mass movement of working class fans denouncing the move as the capitalist greed and exploitation that it was, with some calling for fan ownership of clubs entirely:

i get using real events as inspiration and adapting them to fit a narrative purpose within the story, but i think it's worth it to know what the story line was based on, especially considering the specific racial and class changes that were made reframing the villains and heroes of this particular story.

Y’all like, Rebecca NEEDED to fully reconcile and remember that there were good times in her relationship with Rupert and that he too is a human. She can’t move on without it. He can’t be anything other than a villain to destroy without it. And she did so beautifully, with boundaries fully intact. Putting the Hockney painting back up means she can have ambivalence which is key for emotional processing!!

If the idea of Jamie falling in love with Roy’s sister and literally becoming part of his family doesn’t make you feel like a helium balloon...

Artwork by Agnes Pelton

The problem with Ted Lasso S3

It doesn’t feel like the last season.

Let’s imagine Ted Lasso was like any other show, slated to keep running until it eventually concluded after 5 or even 10 seasons. If we as viewers knew this, would these episodes feel so lopsided? Would the missing thematic tie-ins feel so odd? Would new characters and plot points feel like frustrating distractions?

Even with the entire season written and filmed, Apple is still not letting anyone doing press for the show say outright this is the last season. Why? To make space for a spin off? Or....maybe this isn’t the last season after all?

Either way, it definitely seems like the writers room were given the directive to not make these episodes feel like they’re leading to an end. And they certainly do not. However the strength of Ted Lasso has always been the foresight of the writers. Every character, line, and scene felt meaningful because they were - everything lead to an inevitable end. Without that, we’re left with a show that doesn’t feel bad per se. But definitely off.

Jorrit Tornquist [Austria + Italy] (1938) ~ ‘OP. 288’, 1970. Acrylic on canvas (80 x 80 cm).

Pedro Friedeberg  -  Encuentro de Dos Mundos  (Encounter of Two Worlds) (serigraph, 1987)

Jorrit Tornquist [Austria + Italy] (1938) ~ ‘OP. 288’, 1970. Acrylic on canvas (80 x 80 cm).

A Colorado rainbow and rainshaft observed while on College of Dupage’s Storm Chasing Trip 3. / NOAA

S2.E8 “Man City” // S3.E5 “Signs”

Written by Jamie Lee

AHEM

#He’s gonna inspire so many people (insp)

Laughing my ass off imagining that Trent asked Ted why he ran off during the match because he didn’t want to have to spell diarrhea

Biscuits, Lavender, Chelsea...what do they tell us about the arc

Top 6 moms I want to see in Ted Lasso Season 3 (because making moms into full characters is awesome):

6. Isaac McAdoo

I mean come on, Isaac is totally a momma’s boy. How did she end up raising such a star? Isaac has grown so much from being bully sidekick to the one of the most lovable members of Richmond. I bet his mom is so sweet and I would love for him to feel like he has learned to do her proud as both a captain and a person.

5. Trent Crimm

James Lance has talked quite a bit in interviews how he and Jason would discuss Trent’s background and the way Trent’s domineering father shaped the person Trent became. This show is obviously a show about fathers, but that leaves a lot of curiosity about Trent’s mother. Is it possible we will see a personal side of Trent in S3? Is she a positive force in Trent’s life?

4. Jamie Tartt

This one requires little explanation. We all remember Jamie’s speech in Two Aces and it seems he has a lot of love for his mother. I want to meet her!!

3. Ted Lasso

Now the only reason why Ted isn’t higher is because we have already learned so much about his relationship with his mom throughout the show. We know she was kind, sometimes to a fault, and we know Ted feels responsible for her well being. I want to meet her as her own woman, not as simply a mother or widowed wife. Who is she and what does she want in this world? How has Ted maybe missed this?

2. Phoebe

There has been speculation that the nurse taking care of Sharon in the ICU is Phoebe’s mother. I’m not so sure. But I wouldn’t be surprised that the show has been constructing a larger plan for the introduction of her character all this time. There is a noticeable gap in the way we never meet Phoebe’s mother. We know her ex is “a living piece of shit” and she is quite busy in her (success) job. She must be a close friend to Roy and a good mother to Phoebe as well. She is up high on this list because she is so mysterious, her presence feels inevitable, and with relatives like Phoebe and Roy, she could only be a joy to meet. 

3. Keely Jones

I really want to meet Keely’s mom. I want to know the woman Keely first modeled herself after. I want to know if they’re close, if she’s from which Keely’s abandonment issues stem. I want to know if she’s proud of her daughter and all of her accomplishments or if she is a stumbling block in Keely’s life. I want to know Keely better and for a character who cares so much about the women in her life, her mom must be a truly unique character of her own.

Rome in November   -   Jette Stoltz,, 1985.

Swedish , 1923-2010

Oil on canvas ,  55 x 46 cm..