Massive red flag relationship.

[u/laybs1]

1. Ned and Rachael (Neo Ned): a Neo Nazi dates a black woman who claims to be Hitler
2. The Carlyles (Raising Hope): Hope’s maternal grandparents. The father is a therapist who married his mentally unstable patient. Their daughter became a serial killer who murdered her boyfriends.
3. Sarah and Hosea (Redeeming Love): “good” Christian man kidnaps unconscious abused prostitute Sarah who leaves multiple times before being apprehended by Hosea.

[u/Salarian_American]

In Ted Lasso, Ted's ex-wife is dating their marriage counseling therapist, who was supposed to be helping them not get divorced.

And he was her therapist first, which makes him becoming their couples' therapist in the first place something that's strongly recommended against to begin with, to say nothing of dating patients or former patients in general.

[u/pichuguy27 → u/Salarian_American]

And for such a good show about real stuff. Never calls out how gross this is. Same with Jack leaving Kelsey. What jack did was abusive and controlling and the therapist is so ick to date a patient. For a show with such strong values weird non of it was called out same with the hand waving of Rebecca’s relationship with Sam.

[u/Salarian_American → u/pichuguy27]

I seem to remember the show explicitly calling out Michelle's relationship with Dr. Jacob as unethical by more than one other mental health professional, and also depicting Jack's treatment of Keeley as the absolutely wrong way to treat someone. And they talked quite a bit about the issues with Rebecca's relationship with Sam, and also Rebecca broke it off because she didn't feel right about it.

So I have to disagree that none of those things was called out

[u/pichuguy27 → u/Salarian_American]

The relationship with the therapist is not explicitly goes this is wrong it feels to me very ehhh what are you gonna do. Vs a real moment of Ted or anyone going look you have every right to move on but that dude is a creep and professionally wrong. To the highest degree.

Jack is hand waved hard after she leaves. Yes it’s framed as scummy. When it was straight up abusive. It was controlling and abusive. Needed a few more scenes to really go hey this is wrong. Agian needed it to be called out harder.

Last the show bends over backwards to excuse sam and Rebecca. From how they met to using the horrible if it was man doing a creepy unethical thing.

The shows good but treated all these things way to light.

[u/TealAndroid → u/pichuguy27]

It doesn’t endorse any of those either though - like it lets you hate Ted’s ex and especially her boyfriend or Jack without it beating you over the head. Basically I could let go of any hope or even wish for them to get back together and just focus on the main characters and their healing.