- Ted and Dottie's confrontation. Too little, too late, but I nonetheless appreciated the "thank you, fuck you" sentiment.

- Trent Crimm being canonically gay.

- The Trent/Roy confrontation that gave us Trent's backstory and even inspired some Trent/Roy hate-sex fic.

- Trent being a little nerd. And his T-shirt journey.

- Trent and Colin bonding in Amsterdam.

- Jamie's arc, particularly including meeting his mother and seeing his childhood home.

- Jamie and Roy bonding, not including the writers making it all about Keeley at the end. If anything, they should have ended up as an OT3.

- Rebecca's speech to Roy: "Oh, bullshit, Roy! You want way more than that! You're just so convinced that you don't deserve anything good in your life, that you'd rather eat a bowl of shit soup and then complain about the portions."

- Ted/Rebecca not happening, though it was deeply unfair to tease it throughout the season and especially at the start of the last episode.

- A lot of telling, not showing when it came to sports developments. Don't really care about seeing the games on-screen but it felt lazy. Particularly when they devoted so much screentime to Keeley doing practically nothing at KJPR instead.

- Not getting at least one passage of Trent's book read out loud by James Lance. It also felt a little lackluster that Ted never expressed an on-screen reaction to Trent's script apart from that unfunny "laugh police" quip.

- The Nate/Jade relationship. Didn't interest me and I didn't understand why it was important for his character arc outside of the "this boy needed the love of a good woman all along" angle.

- Edwin Akufo. If they wanted to write a super league plot, they should have written one instead of introducing the idea in a one-off episode at the end of the season. The only thing I liked about it was Rebecca.

- Rebecca's arc. Strongly disliked the psychic prediction and how it colored the following episodes. Felt meh about the underdeveloped Boat Guy romance. She deserved more.

- Zava. Though he had some funny lines here and there, he entirely seemed to be a cheap plot device to drive the plot in a certain direction.

- Richmond not winning the whole thing. That's where they suddenly go for realism.

- George Cartrick getting the opportunity to confront Rupert on-screen, not Nate.

- Several emotionally important moments happening off-screen. Nate's blow-up at West Ham. Colin's coming out. Whatever happened after Bex and Ms. Kakes showed up at Rebecca's. The Ted/Rebecca confrontation. Ted announcing his goodbye to everybody.

- The way the show treated racism, homophobia, or Keeley's video leak like after-school specials that could be resolved in one episode.

- How they made Colin's coming out entirely about Isaac's feelings for ~drama. And Ted's tone-deaf speech about seven-layer dip.

- The resolution of the Shandy plot and practically anything to do with KJPR. I only liked Katy Wix's blood-thirsty Barbara.

- The absence of Dr. Sharon after Sarah Niles got promoted to serious regular, especially considering Ted checking out more and more emotionally throughout the season.

- Michelle/Dr. Jacob and how it was never shown to be a problem that he happened to be her personal therapist and couples therapist, particularly in the context of Ted feeling difficult about therapy due to his experiences in couples therapy. Why make that a thing when it's never talked about? And this coming from a show whose cast and writers were invited to the White House to talk about mental health?

- The Keeley/Jack love-bombing focus when they never critically examined Michelle/Jake or Beard/Jane and even pushed the make-up-with-your-abuser narrative with Jamie and his father.