Alright, we have to speak about Ted Lasso Season 4 as a result of…I’ve phrases.
Now, since you come at me with pitchforks and tomatoes and all that stuff, I wish to preface this by saying I’m the largest supporter of this collection. I believe it is likely one of the greatest Apple TV+ reveals (though Severance overtook it in recognition this 12 months). Due to this present, I’ve had so many wonderful moments and met wonderful individuals.
However with the affirmation that Season 4 of the collection is lastly taking place after reviews have been floating round that it might occur, I knew I wanted to speak about it. So, let’s get into it.
As Somebody Who Loves The First Three Seasons, I am Right here For A Fourth
Earlier than I get into my subject with the upcoming fourth season, I need to say that I’ve wished extra from this present for so lengthy.
I like Ted Lasso. This present has given me a lot recommendation that it truthfully sat with me for hours on finish. It launched me to actors that I really love. The Ted Lasso forged has given me characters that I’ve associated to, liked, and cherished.
Heck, this collection even made me love watching soccer. I by no means liked watching soccer. I am an American soccer lady by way of and thru—I went to Penn State! However there’s nothing fairly like watching the Richmond soccer (soccer within the U.Ok.) staff win—or lose. These video games are electrifying, even when they’re all fictional. However they’re all primarily based on actual soccer experiences.
To study {that a} fourth season is confirmed is likely one of the greatest issues I’ve heard in 2025. However there’s one factor about this upcoming season that I would like to speak about.
However I am Not So Positive That Following A Lady’s Group Is The Appropriate Path, And Not For The Causes You Assume
From the report we received straight from the star, Jason Sudeikis, on the New Heights podcast, he stated that Lasso goes to be main a girls’s soccer staff now. I’ve a number of points with that, however not for the explanations you in all probability anticipate.
I couldn’t care much less that it is a girls’s soccer staff. Actually, I must be excited, contemplating I’m a lady, and I like watching girls play soccer. The U.S. Girls’s Soccer Group is legit and provides a number of the greatest sports activities viewing experiences I’ve ever witnessed within the final 5 years or so.
My important subject, although, is that we do not know these individuals.
I do know, I do know—your argument will probably be, “Oh, we did not know the staff within the first season. What’s so mistaken about assembly a complete new group of individuals?” To that, I say, sure, we did not know the principle gamers of Richmond within the first season of Ted Lasso, however we grew to know them and love them.
And now, in the course of the collection, we’re swapping out? For a complete new staff?
I completely perceive forged shake-ups, clearly. As somebody who has been working in leisure journalism for practically 5 years now, I’ve seen forged lists come and go and alter on the drop of a hat. However for one thing like Ted Lasso, the place the collection would not simply revolve across the titular character however the those that encompass him, it bothers me.
Giving us a complete new staff in the course of the collection sort of defeats the purpose of us loving the unique staff and watching them develop and adapt with time. I do not know if we will get the identical response in Season 4.
Ted Is Nonetheless In America At This Level, However Will He Come Again To England?
Additionally, the Ted Lasso Season 3 finale (initially the collection finale, however I assume not anymore) ended with Ted actually flying again to America, Roy turning into the brand new membership supervisor, and a lot altering so rapidly.
So, is he going to educate a girls’s staff in America? Or are we going to return to England once more and overlook all about these extraordinarily emotional goodbyes? I imply, I really feel like we have to as a result of the tradition shock that Ted skilled—in addition to his moments with the Richmond fandom—was an enormous a part of what made the present a lot enjoyable.
But when he comes again, are we going to get that very same expertise from somebody who’s teaching a girls’s staff? Or is that pitch that Keeley gave to Rebecca going to be the place Ted goes, and he has to construct a staff from the bottom up in England? I am undecided, and I do not know if it’ll work out the way in which we wish.
Are We Ever Going To See The Different Gamers Once more?
One other factor that bothers me about Season 4 of Ted Lasso and the staff change is that it seems like we’re by no means going to see the unique staff once more—those that we actually liked.
When the reviews of Season 4 first got here out a short while in the past, Phil Dunster was one of many few important characters who would not come again, which felt like a big loss. All of us ended up liking Jamie Tartt by the top of Season 3, and, reportedly, listening to that he will not be again is unhappy.
However it makes me consider what would possibly occur to all the opposite gamers—like Sam, Colin, or anybody else. Are they only… going to be within the background and talked about a couple of times, or will we truly see these characters once more?
I am going to Nonetheless Watch The Fourth Season, However I am A Little Cautious
Look, I can complain till the cows come dwelling, however on the finish of the day, I am nonetheless going to observe Season 4.
That is the lady who overtly cried throughout the Ted Lasso Christmas particular and would have actually achieved something for extra story a few years in the past. So long as Jason Sudeikis is again within the collection, which he’s, it is nonetheless going to be Ted Lasso.
However part of me feels melancholy concerning the potential to lose out on the staff that we have all grown to like. Maybe my thoughts will shift with time, and I am going to study to like the ladies’s staff simply as a lot, possibly much more. However solely time will inform.
I believe it is likely to be time for a Ted Lasso rewatch. It is time to calm down and preserve repeating, “Soccer is life!”