Rebecca Ending Up With Matthijs Makes Sense

When Apple TV+’s candy sports activities collection Ted Lasso determined to take the AFC Richmond gang to Amsterdam midway by way of its third season, it was an actual breath of contemporary air, giving the viewers contemporary perception into our favourite characters as we get the prospect to see what they’re like faraway from their houses and luxury zones. For Richmond’s proprietor, Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham), this meant taking a tumble into certainly one of Amsterdam’s many canals and being pulled out by a tall, attractive man on a houseboat (Matteo van der Grijn). The pair spend the remainder of the day and the night time collectively, and whereas nothing actually occurs, save for a kiss earlier than Rebecca leaves — she does not even get his title — she dwells on the “what if” of all of it when she will get again to London.

Then, in a second proper out of a rom-com or romance novel, simply as a tearful Rebecca is leaving the airport after seeing off Ted (Jason Sudeikis), who’s heading again to the U.S. to be together with his son, she bumps into just a little woman outdoors, being pursued by her pilot father. Her father, it seems, is Boat Man (or Matthijs, as the tip credit name him). The pair reconnect, and because the ending montage reveals, find yourself getting collectively. Whereas this maybe felt abrupt to these within the viewers who had been hoping for a distinct romantic consequence for Rebecca, the choice to have her reconnect with Matthijs really is sensible for her arc over the present’s three seasons.

Ted Lasso

American school soccer coach Ted Lasso heads to London to handle AFC Richmond, a struggling English Premier League soccer crew.

Launch Date

August 14, 2020

Creator

Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly, Invoice Lawrence

Primary Style

Comedy

Seasons

3

Rebecca Has to First Be taught Be Completely satisfied by Herself

After we first meet Rebecca, she is an offended lady, barely hanging in there after her poisonous marriage to Rupert (Anthony Head) ends. She has so little regard for the soccer crew she owns that she hires Ted with the categorical intention of tanking the crew to get again at her husband. What follows all through the remainder of the collection is a progressive journey of therapeutic, the place Rebecca discovers what it means to be blissful on her phrases. Whereas the primary season focuses totally on her forging friendships with the Richmond crew and her now not actively sabotaging the crew out of misguided spite, the second season units her firmly on her rom-com journey.

Roy Kent’s (Brett Goldstein) oft-quoted line within the Season 2 premiere, that Rebecca deserves somebody who makes her really feel like she’s been “struck by fucking lightning” and that she should not dare accept positive, is basically the important thing to Rebecca’s romantic arc over the following two seasons. In Season 2, she will get right into a relationship with Richmond participant Sam Obisanya (Toheeb Jimoh), and the 2 of them preserve it quiet for conflict-of-interest causes. As a lot as they appreciated one another, the connection did not have long-term potential, not once they weren’t ever going to have the ability to go public with it and nonetheless have Sam play on the crew. What it did do, nevertheless, was open Rebecca as much as the potential of being blissful on the opposite aspect of her therapeutic.

This is not to say {that a} lady essentially wants a person to be blissful, however, since Rebecca regularly says she desires a companion and a household, it is as instrumental to her happiness as anything. By her personal admission, Rupert stopped placing her first as soon as the attraction wore off. The person she’s seeing initially of Season 2 evokes no curiosity, and candy as Sam is, their private pursuits are at odds with their capacity to be in a relationship. That is the place Matthijs is available in.

‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3’s Amsterdam Episode Adjustments Every thing for Rebecca

Positive, the person does not even have his title spoken onscreen, however the Amsterdam episode, when paired with the Season 3 finale, has rom-com written throughout it the place Rebecca and Matthijs are involved, stuffed with these tropes romance readers and romantic comedy lovers adore a lot. They’ve a meet-cute when she catches his eye, and his try to inform her she’s standing within the bike lane comes a beat too late, sending her tumbling into the water. He invitations her into his houseboat, lets her use his bathe whereas her garments dry — giving her loads of area in order to not be a creep — and the 2 later spend the entire day and night time collectively, even dumping cups of water on Rebecca’s garments to present her an excuse to linger only a whereas longer.

Rebecca and her sudden love curiosity share that type of banter that’s so attribute of a romance’s first act, the type that permits for a candor you would not in any other case permit, helped alongside by the truth that they do not know one another properly. If the story had left issues there, with Matthijs simply being the unusual, what-could-have-been second whereas on trip (all of us have a type of), that might have been positive. However bringing him again within the finale offers Rebecca’s romantic arc that type of rom-com vitality the present likes to espouse. No, we do not get the entire rom-com — we leap from early act two straight to the epilogue — however we get simply sufficient to know that Rebecca lastly bought her struck-by-lightning second with a lightning-in-a-bottle encounter.

In fact, there’s the mustachioed elephant within the room, specifically the concept Ted and Rebecca would ultimately find yourself getting collectively. Plenty of the idea for this — past a wonderfully legitimate want to easily see these characters find yourself collectively — appeared to return from the aforementioned rom-com vitality of the present, and its unabashed, unironic want to lean into that. With Ted and Rebecca as counterparts to 1 one other, and spending as a lot time as they do collectively, it is simple to slot them into the romantic comedy lead roles. However in gentle of the finale — and now price contemplating for the collection as a complete — it is fascinating to contemplate them as two buddies on separate however parallel rom-com journeys. Each have skilled the type of damage that brought about a serious life change, and thru the present’s three seasons have discovered how one can heal from that damage productively. However with Rebecca now totally invested in AFC Richmond and Ted rightly wanting to depart to see his son develop up, there was no approach for them to be collectively with out the type of sacrifice that might ultimately blossom into resentment.

After every little thing she’s been by way of, Rebecca deserves somebody who can and can put her first, and Matthijs can do this. His job means he has the pliability to relocate to London, and it is simple sufficient for them to return to Amsterdam in the event that they ever need to. Would it not have been good to see the 2 of them have the total rom-com expertise in the course of the season? Positive, however with the story devoted to wrapping issues up for the large ensemble solid, all it could have performed was sluggish issues down. The attractive remoted second for them within the houseboat, mixed with the second meet-cute, is sufficient for us. If we belief in Ted Lasso‘s rom-com beliefs, and extra importantly belief in Rebecca to make the most effective, healthiest choice for herself, then her selecting Matthijs on the finish makes good sense. She did not accept positive. She did not settle in any respect. As an alternative, she bought the marginally unrealistic fairy-tale ending she deserved, and actually, what’s extra rom-com than that?

All three seasons of Ted Lasso are streaming now on Apple TV+.

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