‘Ugliest shot I’ve ever seen’: Ted Lasso’s season finale scene is DEVOTED by fans – who say ‘terrible green screen’ looks like it was filmed by a group of amateur high school students
- Viewers have criticized the wedding scene in the final episode of season three
- Many relentlessly pointed to the segment’s seemingly low-quality CGI
- Others defended the aesthetic, arguing that it symbolized a dream sequence
Fans of feel-good sports drama Ted Lasso were baffled by the low quality of a heavy CGI wedding scene in the season finale.
The shot showed Ted’s assistant, Coach Beard, getting married to girlfriend Jane at sunset, with the monoliths of Stonehenge visible in the background.
However, what was clearly intended as an idyllic moment of romance to end the season was not received as such by the viewers.
People took to Twitter to ruthlessly pass judgment on the scene’s visual caliber, with one labeling it as “the ugliest shot I’ve ever seen on a TV show.”
Fans of feel-good sports drama Ted Lasso were baffled by the low quality of a heavy CGI wedding scene in the season finale
The Apple TV+ show stars Jason Sudeikis as a great football coach from Wichita, Kansas, hired to manage a football team in the UK
‘[T]this might be the ugliest shot I’ve ever seen on a TV show – am I being dramatic? Maybe, but it’s so bad,” one viewer wrote.
‘[M]My parents were watching the Ted Lasso finale and when I passed by the TV this shot was there. I’m quite surprised that this is an actual shot that was released,” someone else added.
“Testmark card,” another cynic remarked.
“It looks like they cut out photos of all the actors with scissors and pasted them onto a low-resolution photo they found on the internet,” said a fourth.
But at the same time, many Ted Lasso diehards rushed to defend the segment’s strangely low-quality-looking CGI by claiming that the aesthetic was a deliberate attempt to evoke a dreamlike atmosphere to fit into the show’s larger narrative arc. to play. .
The season ends with Ted, played by Jason Sudeikis, returning to his home in Wichita, Kansas, to spend time with his son.
In addition, the unrealistic atmosphere of the scene is more intended as a symbolic nod to ‘everyone’ [Ted] left in the UK and the happiness he hopes for them all,” one enthusiastic viewer told DailyMail.com.
And since the next shot shows Ted suddenly waking up on a flight home, that interpretation seems to be supported.
Armchair critics were not swayed by Ted Lasso defenders’ argument that the scene represented a “dream sequence”
One fan tweeted, “You see him waking up with a book in his hand about psychotropics. Hence the psychedelic aura of his dream wedding.’
Some also believe that the lingering ambiguity – over whether the scene was indeed a dream or not – plays a role in the fact that Apple TV+ has not yet clarified whether the just-concluded third season will be the show’s last.
In doing so, those in the pro-Ted Lasso camp believe the somewhat more abstract layers of meaning redeem the decidedly eyebrow-raising artistic merits of the Stonehenge wedding segment.
But either way, it seems that many armchair critics will not be swayed by one conclusion: “Look folks, dream sequence or not, that green screen doesn’t have to look like a bunch of high school kids made it. It’s terrible.’