Following up on the stories established in director Seth MacFarlane’s Ted movies, the Ted TV show gives new depth to the franchise’s leading duo, Ted and John Bennett. Starring MacFarlane alongside Max Burkholder, Scott Grimes, Giorgia Whigham, and Alanna Ubach, this series picks up with the two leading characters in the mid-1990s, as they go through their high school experience and work to figure out where their lives are going. This also comes with plenty of family tension, but only some of it is tied back to the shenanigans John and Ted find themselves in on a daily basis.
One of the most notable sources of tension in Ted comes from Whigham’s Blaire Bennett and her uncle, Grimes’ Matty Bennett, whose politics and world views differ greatly almost all the time. Fans saw this reach a breaking point late in Season 1, and Season 2 delivers a similar moment for the family.
Speaking exclusively with MovieWeb, Ted star Giorgia Whigham addressed where things come to a head for her Blaire Bennett and Scott Grimes’ Matty Bennett. Specifically, Whigham loved the moment when she got “to throw up on Scott,” bringing the friction and tension between them to a breaking point. Noting it being less about the characters’ politics and more about personal issues, she explains how they reach a point where Blaire knows “she won’t be on the same page” with Matty about anything and that they “just need to understand each other:”
“One of the most epic moments for me was getting to throw up on Scott. Really, that’s just taking us to the end of the day to get there. I just realized, the friction there, there’s all this tension anyways. And, with tension, you’re always trying to build, build, build to a breaking point. I just think in that scene, specifically, it’s really funny that the breaking point is her throwing up on him, which is really fun, but I think the friction this season just has to do with a little bit more serious topics, because they’re personal to her. It’s less about politics. Well, it is about politics, honestly, but it’s less about the greater politics. It’s her going through these things. So, I think the friction is a little more personal this season, but they get to a point where she knows she won’t be on the same page ever. They just need to understand each other.”
In the middle of Season 2, Blaire and Matty’s relationship changes forever when she throws up on him in the middle of dinner, causing jaws to drop around the dinner table. Tensions mount and Blaire ends up making an important but controversial decision about her future, which incites more massive arguments with her aunt and uncle.
While this storyline is limited to one episode, it makes for one of the most dramatic moments of the whole season, after seeing more lighthearted moments like the ones in the Dungeons and Dragons episode and the phone sex line in the season opener. Looking ahead, while this era of Ted‘s story is unlikely to be revisited again, this scene between Blaire and Matty will stick out as one of the most surprising plot points of this show’s run.
Ted Season 2 is now streaming on Peacock.
- Release Date
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2024 – 2024-00-00
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Peacock
- Writers
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Dana Gould, Jon Pollack, Brad Walsh, Julius Sharpe, Paul Corrigan, Seth MacFarlane