Ted's flight home: How to Change Your Mind
Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) · Plane
The series finale has Ted on a plane again, three seasons after The Dharma Bums, and this time he is holding Michael Pollan. Books, Beans and Botany and the Coach Beard's Book Club podcast both put it in So Long, Farewell. Beard served Ted a mushroom tea back in Sunflowers, so the reading list caught up with the plot.
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How to Change Your Mind
Pollan's 2018 book covers the science and history of psychedelics, and it became a Netflix series in 2022. Ted flew in reading about walking away and flew out reading about changing your mind. That's the whole three-season arc on two covers.
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Also in Ted Lasso
All 33 books
Ted's welcome basket: The Ultimate Cockney Geezer's Guide to Rhyming SlangS1 E1
Beard's other flight book: Coaching Soccer For DummiesS1 E1
Beard's flight reading: Inverting the PyramidS1 E1
Ted's plane book: The Dharma BumsS1 E1
Beard's Bob Paisley biography: Quiet GeniusS1 E3
Robbie's gift from Ted: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenS1 E3
Sam's gift from Ted: Ender's GameS1 E3
Jamie's gift from Ted: The Beautiful and DamnedS1 E3
Roy's assigned reading: A Wrinkle in TimeS1 E3
Beard's desk manual: The Arco Book of Soccer Techniques and TacticsS1 E6
Beard's sports psychology read: The GreatestS2 E1
Beard's Arsenal memoir: Fever PitchS2 E5