Meanwhile, while Keeley (Juno Temple) and Jack (Jodi Balfour) have a meeting, Shandy (Ambreen Razia) announces that she is developing a new app for to help users to have sex with celebrities.
Back at the restaurant, hostess Jade (Edyta Budnik) brings two baklavas servings that Nate ordered and discovers that his date left him.
At the locker room, the club watches a video from Zava announcing his retirement to spend time with his family and tend to his avocado farm.
We're not even halfway through Ted Lasso's final season and, perhaps given the length of these most recent episodes, it feels like we're both covering a lot of ground all while leaving so many B/C plots dangling.
I hope now that Zava's out of the picture we can maybe return to what made Ted Lasso such a breath of fresh air a few years back before its own messaging began to feel stale even within the show itself.
Season three has upped the drama for a handful of its characters and taken on so many subplots that even the 45-plus-minute running times that have become standard don't feel long enough to contain all the narrative every episode needs to burn through.
The cast's work is as strong as ever, and it might be expected for a series (maybe) entering the home stretch of its run to take on more gravity, but the moments of leavening humor have started to become more sparse.
"[4] Paul Dailly of TV Fanatic gave the episode a 3.25 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "All things considered, 'Signs' was a bit of a disjointed hour of this Apple TV+ drama.
"[5] Lacy Baugher of Telltale TV gave the episode a 2.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "'Signs' reflects many of the problematic issues that have come to plague this season — a weird tonal imbalance, too many subplots, a lack of focus on the series' core characters, and bizarre plot twists that no one asked for.
"[6] James Hibbs of Radio Times wrote, "Could the series potentially continue without Sudeikis' Ted, and instead focus on a new manager at Richmond, or feature one of the current coaching team stepping up to replace him?
"[7] Christopher Orr of The New York Times wrote, "This episode of Ted Lasso was a bit disjointed — what Raymond Chandler would have called 'passagework' — following individual stories that were only loosely connected.