So I just started rewatching the show. Many of the gentle jokes about Britishness work, but they drop a huge clanger in episode 1 that, if I recall, continues.
Rebecca offers Ted tea, the joke being his sequence of coffee requests are ignored. The owner of a football team would absolutely have the means to provide someone with a cappucinno. We drink a ton of coffee here.
What’s worse, however, is that they repeatedly show Rebecca drinking black tea out of a glass. Anyone who has spent any time in the UK would know that this practice, while not unheard of (drinking black tea is a bit more common in other parts of Europe) would be extremely unusual.
I like the show a lot, but feel a bit sad that jokes about the British drinking tea, such low-hanging leaves (hur hur), were bungled.
Just thought I’d mention this!
I took Rebecca’s incongruous tea in a glass as intentional.
A visual joke about the contrast between Richmond, a small community based club with modest facilities, hence the limited old school hot drinks options, and Rebecca’s image as a smooth business professional with an upper class lifestyle, hence the ostentatious presentation in the glass.
A little hammed up and unrealistic, but not necessarily a goof.