'Ted Lasso' and the great Nate debate
CNN
If watching the trajectory of Nate Shelley, the formerly meek now mean assistant coach-turned-traitor on "Ted Lasso," has made you uncomfortable this season, you're not alone. Count me among those who felt during most of the season that the character Nate (Nick Mohammed) had been done dirty by a room of cartoonishly evil writers, represented in my head only by a series of shadows and occasional shots of their ghoulish hands reaching for watered down cold brews at a conference table in a dark dungeon.
The people or persons deciding Nate's journey could not, I told myself, be the same people writing the foul-mouthed but lovable unicorn Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) or bringing us the ray of joy that has been the romantic story of Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) and Sam (Toheeb Jimoh). Nate's path to becoming a wholly disappointing human has been ugly, painful and at times, disturbing.
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