Review: Ted Lasso, "4-5-1" | Season 3, Episode 3
In the third episode of Ted Lasso’s second season, Keeley is explaining bantr to the players as she ropes them into her side hustle doing PR for the new app. As she points out how the app spells its name, Colin pipes in “Oh, like grindr,” and Keeley briefly raises her eyebrow before going on with her explanation. Two episodes later, bantr was the team’s main sponsor, and Colin…well, Colin was back into the ranks of AFC Richmond’s midfield, offering an occasional one-liner as necessary.
When I covered the second season at The A.V. Club, it’s fair to say that I hyper-fixated on this brief moment. As I acknowledged at the time, it’s absurd to think that simply knowing grindr exists means a person is queer, but the joke is so superfluous that I couldn’t imagine its meaning being tied to anything but who was telling it. And so I started “Colin Corner,” which was basically just a weekly update on how literally nothing else in the show’s presentation of Colin supported it: the…
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