In this moment, Ted Lasso does what it’s always done best: revealing the tender heart thumping just below the surface. Turns out, the little prick he loathed in the series pilot, the one who dated his love interest before he did, whose knees will always be younger and stronger and fitter, has been irrevocably softened by prolonged exposure to people who care for him, frosted tips and all. Roy, seated next to him, can hardly believe his eyes or finish his pastry. He visits his mother before the match, settles into her arms, and asks how he’s supposed to play this sport he loves without it being merely a fuck-you to his father. Ahead of it all, Jamie can’t stop crying. “Mom City” finds Jamie home in Manchester, due to play against the team that booted him for taking an ill-advised stint on reality television, and in front of the terrorizing father he decked in the face the last time he saw him. Dunster also had kind words for co-star Juno Temple, who plays the woman Jamie wishes would take him back, and Jason Sudeikis, the titular, mustachioed Lasso and real-life Lasso showrunner. He spoke glowingly of the heavily eyebrowed Brett Goldstein, both a writer on the show and the inimitable, retired footballer Roy Kent. I spoke with the 31-year-old Dunster minutes after we both watched the episode for the first time. In the show’s penultimate episode, "Mom City," Tartt endures periods of complete emotional collapse. One of the Apple TV+ show’s central characters, Jamie Tartt, the preternatural midfielder-played by Phil Dunster to cocky, coiffed perfection-has been on a slow, uneven arc from antagonist to protagonist, fumbling his way through arrogance and insults, romantic advances- cum-rejections. The fish-out-of-water tale about a clueless, but affable American football coach, who’s improbably hired to rescue an equally clueless but affable English football team from total reputational ruin-satiating millions during the bleak heights of a global pandemic with its digestible charms-is in what may end up as its third and final season. It's almost time to say goodbye to Ted Lasso.
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