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!
Well, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea doesn’t have a culture like that either, yet Chelsea FC is pretty popular (albeit Stamford Bridge is a gnat’s whisker over the border in Fulham).
As for the tea: there are a few black tea varieties that Rebecca might drink without milk (like Earl Grey, Lady Grey, Lapsang Souchong and Darjeeling; although green tea more so).