For 2 seasons, Nate was empowered by Ted, who listened to his concepts, valued his enter, and praised him at each flip. However how lengthy are you able to name a man Nate the Nice earlier than it begins going to his head? Reflecting again on the early episodes, it clearly would not take a lot! The indicators have been already there within the occasional jabs and snarky feedback. The extra empowered Nate turned, the extra poisonous his perspective.
It wasn’t simply Ted, both: Keeley Jones (Juno Temple) and Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham) additionally stepped in to spice up his confidence. Collectively they gave Nate the instruments to higher himself however that they had no energy over what he did with them. And after years of being the goal of poisonous conduct — from gamers, former coaches, and his personal father — Nate began to copy it.
Making issues 1,000,000 instances worse, England’s most irritating man determined to become involved. Rebecca’s emotionally abusive ex-husband, Rupert Mannion (Anthony Head), is providing one thing that Ted was not in a position to give: fixed consideration. For now, Nate is having fun with it. He is showered with compliments, alternative, and even a shiny new automotive in season 3. However as we have seen, Rupert is a grasp manipulator. He is precisely the type of man to zero in on Nate’s troubled vanity to do much more harm. Does this imply that Nate is doomed to the darkish aspect?
Nicely. It’d rely on who you ask. The common viewer has in all probability seen that Rupert’s aesthetic is eerily harking back to well-known galactic supervillain Emperor Palpatine, which I suppose makes Nate his Anakin Skywalker. Yikes. However Ted himself nonetheless speaks fondly of his former assistant coach and nonetheless has friendship on the mind. So there could possibly be hope for Nate but.