Ted Lasso

TV show fans love Ted Lasso for all the obvious reasons. The celebrated fictional American soccer coach, Jason Sudeikis, is back in season three of the ...

The investigators cleared him for appearing for the post of USMNT job. It became an issue as most fans slated the coach for the incident. Although he did not reveal the player, everyone knew he targeted Gio Reyna after he confirmed it with an Instagram post. [@brendanhunting ](https://twitter.com/brendanhunting)not watching your show anymore because you suddenly think that you know about the sport just because you play a coach in a show. After that, the Twitter page commented, “ [March 15, 2023]

“I wonder what the heck I'm still doing here,” muses folksy coach and nicecore avatar Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) near the start of his show's third (and ...

There are eight more episodes to go (and only eight, if the unconfirmed rumors about the show’s end are any indicator), and plenty of time left in the match. A mere four episodes in, “Ted Lasso” already has a lot of players out on the pitch, and many balls in the air. Add to that Roy Kent ( [Brett Goldstein](/cast-and-crew/brett-goldstein)) and Keeley Jones ( [Juno Temple](/cast-and-crew/juno-temple)) breaking up, and the latter pouring her focus on her new PR company, and you’ve got, as Ted might put it, more stories to juggle than a book-fair party clown. Even in his villainy, Mohammed takes pains to show the glimmers of sadness within Nate—his big step out into the spotlight still hasn’t filled that gaping void in his soul. If none of that sounds particularly fitting for what was at one point TV’s most well-regarded comedy, you wouldn’t be wrong; “Lasso”’s third season is downbeat, almost to a fault, its sincerity muting the charms of a cast of characters we’d come to love and admire in its first season. (It also managed to snag nearly a dozen Emmys for the trouble.) Season Two started to show the cracks in the Lasso firmament, as creators Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt, and

Ted & Co. face some big existential questions as 'Ted Lasso' heads into its final season. A recap of 'Smells Like Mean Spirit,' episode one of season three ...

Keeley considers Rebecca a mentor and a guru, but the arrival of Barbara (Katy Wix), the CFO appointed by her investors, suggests she still has a lot to learn about being business savvy (beyond not knowing what “CFO” stands for). Roy and Keeley are spending the evening together for the sake of Phoebe (Elodie Blomfield) to inform her that they have broken up. After eventually getting them onboard with the classic “I’m so dumb” / “How dumb are you?” joke structure, he unleashes a bunch of zingers at himself that charm the hell out of them (and wins Rebecca’s approval after Keeley texts her thumbs-up). He’s focused to the point of rudeness, but it’s social media that has his attention, and social media is telling him he’s about to have an amazing year. (“Let Ted be Ted,” Keeley tells her.) And Rupert, despite Rebecca’s protests, is very much in her head, even if she’s no longer driven to a destructive rage by his very existence. Dani (Cristo Fernández) seems happy enough in spite of the dire projections, and Jan (David Elsendoorn) remains as pragmatic in his thinking as usual, noting that most promoted teams only last a year, statistically speaking. Though Ted seems to have found some calmness (and cleaned up that mustache) by the time the credits roll, Greyhound quarters is an unsettled place. After a summer in London, Henry returns to Kansas City and Emily and, in Henry’s words, a troubling “political landscape.” (“I have a tendency to doze off with CNN on,” Ted explains to the friendly airline worker charged with getting Henry on the plane.) The episode begins with Ted looking a little rough (the unkempt mustache is the giveaway) despite what appears to be a major change in his life. (With the revelation that Doc has a boyfriend, or at least someone who sleeps over, she’s clearly had some changes of her own.) Oh, right, that also means we’ve begun a new season of Ted Lasso, the TV series that chronicles the ups and downs of the Greyhounds on and off the field. (The news arrived around the same time as both [Barry](https://www.vulture.com/2023/03/barry-season-4-trailer-release-date.html) and [Succession](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/succession-ending-after-season-4-jesse-armstrong-confirms.html) revealed that they, too, would be bowing out after their current seasons.

Nick Mohammed, Anthony Head and Jason Sudeikis in the third season of "Ted Lasso." AppleTV+. CNN —.

“Ted Lasso” doesn’t have anything left to prove, other than perhaps demonstrating that it can finish as well as it started. (While Sudeikis has indicated this season will conclude the story, he’s also mentioned possible spinoffs, which is surely music to Apple’s ears.) While the traditional pattern in television is to hang onto hits for as long as possible, streaming and premium TV producers are pushing for more finite runs, with “Succession,” “Barry” and “The Marvelous Mrs. That’s not a knock on the Emmy-winning comedy as much as a tacit endorsement of wrapping things up, with the show and its trademark niceness having run its course after offering [the right prescription for our Covid times](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/opinions/ted-lasso-season-2-perry-gabriele/index.html). The show’s simple pleasures come from a variety of sources, including just listening to the way Brett Goldstein’s Roy can creatively put together a string of expletives. Yet while Nate wants to please the new boss, it’s clear that his heart isn’t fully in that, suggesting his old coach’s sunny disposition might have rubbed off more than he cares to acknowledge.

Apple TV+'s 2-time Emmy® Award-winning best comedy series lifted spirits with Season 1, focused empowering its own leads and ensemble cast Season 2.

“Within [Roy] is a feeling that he’s not good enough and that is very hard to shift despite, you know, he is a Champion’s League winner. “Ted was absolutely a father figure for him, particularly in Season 1. He’s a catalyst for everyone sort of addressing their demons,” says Mohammed. “Season 2 was the most Ted changed,” says Sudeikis. Meanwhile, says Dunster, “Jamie’s come to terms a lot with who he was growing up. “Ted Lasso” isn’t a series centered solely on the sport, but about looking more deeply at people. In addition to Lasso, the series features other characters just as beloved by critics and fans. Though the team had a poor record to start, Ted quickly won over players, staff and supporters with his folksy charm. “Lasso” makes clear that constant uplift isn’t the only way to support someone — which is a way for the show to challenge its characters’ vulnerabilities and introduce Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Sarah Niles), a therapist hired to offer the team mental health support. During a difficult 2020, fans embraced the show’s warm emotions, welcoming characters who are easy to root for and relatable story arcs. Key to the show’s success is that audiences need not follow nor even understand soccer to appreciate it.

This feel-good comedy has recast the Premier League as a snuggly sporting Disneyland.

The same effect is achieved by Ted Lasso – a soccer show that you’ll only enjoy if you’ve never been near a real match in your life. They learn the invaluable life lesson that the network of pipes is interconnected – just like a smoothly-oiled Premier League team (I had a flashback to the old Bray Wanderers loos). Ted Lasso (Apple TV + from today) has meanwhile recast the Premier League – which Americans annoyingly pronounce without the hard “r” at the end of Premier – as a snugly sporting Disneyland. It is probable that the greatest player of the modern era – for clarity I’m referring to magazine, on Sky’s Soccer Saturday and by the Essex-based makers of the video game Sensible Soccer – became “football”. With its weird big-brother/small-brother dynamic with the United States, the UK went into gatekeeper mode and soccer – as it was frequently referred to in the pages of Shoot!

American coaches are at a disadvantage when it comes to jobs in Europe, but Ted Lasso shouldn't be blamed.

The sentiment there comes from an understandable place, but it's misguided. He seems so angry at it, but to go back to my earlier point, if you show that they’ll chew you up and spit you out." I watched the whole first season. "I love the humanness of it. what a curse to have that show break out at the same time he’s there. All you need to know](https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/ted-lasso-season-3-release-date-cast--how-to-watch/r0gp75badwbg1sonoez07otry)

For many, mental shelter during the long months of lockdown was found under a canopy slung between two televisual poles; Schitt's Creek and Ted Lasso.

Not in a way that threatens meltdown (he is still having regular sessions with his therapist Dr Fieldstone, played by Sarah Niles) but homesickness is encroaching along with a feeling that he has probably done all for his team that he can. It purrs along as smoothly as the luxury car with which Rupert rewards Nate for badmouthing Ted at a press conference. It cuts the sweetness with just enough vinegary exchanges to prevent the whole from becoming sickening. The makers have not messed with the formula. It is clear Nate is not happy with his choice and that all his behaviour stems from insecurity. Meanwhile, Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) and Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) get on with making that actually possible.

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Here's how important “Ted Lasso” is to Apple: CEO Tim Cook was among the hundreds gathered in Westwood last week for the show's Season 3 premiere.

At the “Ted Lasso” premiere, press was instructed not to ask about a Season 4, as publicists stressed that no decision has been made. “The problem is that in Season 3, five of the main characters die, so my plan for Season 4 is Ted comes back as a ghost, and it’s called ‘Ghost Ted.’ He’s haunting the corridors, but he’s just trying to inspire. He decides to address the toxic relationship he has with his dad, which explains a lot of his deep insecurities. When asked if he sees spin-off potential for any other characters in the series, writer and star Brendan Hunt (“Coach Beard”) also cracks wise. “Lasso” is too valuableto the streamer and the studio — and continues to be an awards juggernaut — to let it go just yet. Mohammed hints that a happy ending might not necessarily be in the cards just yet for his role. “It’s come to that place where if you made a poster of everyone in ‘Ted Lasso’ it would be fucking huge,” writer and star Goldstein (a.k.a. I have pitched a Season 4 idea to Jason that he is considering,” he says with a deadpan expression. “It’s written as, in the story we have been telling will reach a conclusion,” he said at the time. “The rewrites were the same as we’ve always done,” he says. “Roy Kent”) says. [Ted Lasso](https://variety.com/t/ted-lasso/)” is to Apple: CEO Tim Cook was among the hundreds gathered in Westwood last week for the show’s Season 3 premiere.

Ted Lasso” returns Wednesday for its third season and while there are certainly questions about whether AFC Richmond will finally go all the way — or if ...

“I’m sure they’re excited to see them because they’re all wickedly talented, but it’s a different vibe on that show and a different family, if you will. “Ted says, ‘It’s not about the wins or losses, it’s about making these players the best versions of themselves on and off the pitch.’ I really feel that’s the same lesson that ‘Ted Lasso’ has given us young actors on the show. I’ve kind of absorbed the Lasso way in the same way that all of the players have,” Jimoh says. He credits “Ted Lasso” for giving him creative opportunities of which he had only dreamed. “We always saw it as this three-movement suite or a three-piece story,” Hunt says, but admits the show’s success has added more questions than answers to that original plan. “We’re still editing the last few episodes, so it’s really something that I haven’t had the time to sit with, despite the fact that there’s a lot of wonder and curiosity ...

The third season of Apple TV+'s football comedy Ted Lasso is as watchable as ever, but its hybridised dialogue is an American takeover we can't get behind.

In tandem with an audience less familiar with handballs and the four-four-two, or who might otherwise assume a right-winger to be Trump or Ron DeSantis, Sudeikis' loveable oaf has come to understand the meaning of such sacred footballing colloquialisms as “wanker.” But despite the stereotype of all-American stupidity that Ted so deftly wields in a disarming press conference later in the first episode, Lasso really doesn't need to patronise its native audience by injecting familiar words — at least when it's not for a gag. (In a press conference, ally-turned-enemy Nate the Great makes a joke about how Richmond can't “finish twenty-first"; sure, but relegation would be your first point of reference for a piss-take.) There's hardly a mention of the transfer window, nor a cursory nod to the silly season, but there is talk of updating the roster, or something. Of course, the variously subtle and glaring lingual differences on each side of the pond, experienced by such a fish-out-of-water as Ted, have formed the bedrock of the show's agreeable humour since its inception. The premiere deals with AFC Richmond, the fictional club managed by the titular ex-NFL coach portrayed by [Jason Sudeikis](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fashion/article/jason-sudeikis-ted-lasso-season-3-premiere-2023), being tarred and feathered as the worst team in football's top tier by pundits and back pages across the land. [Phil Dunster](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fitness/article/phil-dunster-ted-lasso-fitness-diary)'s new Grealish curtains — but lingual crossbreeding is hardly new of Lasso's latest iteration. With a writers' room full of English talent and an ensemble boasting the same, you'd presume that such lingual incongruities would be picked up at some point in the creative process if in error.

The actor said that while he doesn't condone Nate Shelley's recent behavior, "he is quite fun to play."

"And you know, he was clearly bullied when he first started out as a kit man, by some of the players at the club, in AFC Richmond." "I don't condone it, but … "In order to sort of play it realistically I had to sort of find a real truth to why he was behaving that way," Mohammed said of his character.

American coaches are at a disadvantage when it comes to jobs in Europe, but Ted Lasso shouldn't be blamed.

The sentiment there comes from an understandable place, but it's misguided. He seems so angry at it, but to go back to my earlier point, if you show that they’ll chew you up and spit you out." I watched the whole first season. "I love the humanness of it. what a curse to have that show break out at the same time he’s there. All you need to know](https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/ted-lasso-season-3-release-date-cast--how-to-watch/r0gp75badwbg1sonoez07otry)

Here's where we left AFC Richmond and co. at the end of last season.

As he leaves, he tears the "BELIEVE" sign in the AFC Richmond locker room, and tells Ted he should be with his son. (They broke up in the wake of Rebecca's father's death.) Later, we see him purchase a property that he intends to make a Nigerian restaurant. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at [Hey Alma](https://www.heyalma.com/), a Jewish culture site. Trent Crimm has published a story in The Independent about his panic attacks, and Ted talks to the team and apologies for not being forthcoming with them. He also gets angry with Roy for not being angry with him about his attempt to kiss Keeley. Here's a handy, brief guide on where we left each character at the end of Ted Lasso season two:

Brett Goldstein, who plays Roy Kent, the Richmond player-turned-coach with a gruff exterior and a heart of gold, is a definite breakout. He played Hercules in ...

any of us, just how loving people are," he says, joking that he doubts the the cast of “Succession” gets quite the same reception. "Ted says, ‘It’s not about the wins or losses, it’s about making these players the best versions of themselves on and off the pitch.’ I really feel that’s the same lesson that ‘Ted Lasso’ has given us young actors on the show. “I’d worked for years and years and years and 12 people had seen all of it, you know, and then doing a show that loads of people watch is different. “We always saw it as this three-movement suite or a three-piece story," Hunt says, but admits the show's success has added more questions than answers to that original plan. "That answer will arrive probably when there’s enough space for the question to really land." “We’re still editing the last few episodes, so it’s really something that I haven’t had the time to sit with, despite the fact that there’s a lot of wonder and curiosity ...

The debut episode, titled “Smells Like Mean Spirit,” opens with Ted (Jason Sudeikis) at the airport with his son Henry (Gus Turner) waiting for the young one's ...

“There’s a lot of anticipation as to whether Nate is getting this redemption arc and all I’ll say is that it’s not up to me or even the writers. Ted is taken by surprise at the reveal, but even more so by who gave it to him: Henry’s mom’s “friend” Jake. “After the funeral episode, she’s like, this is my family and if you mess with my family you mess with me. Let’s say for the sake of argument he apologizes, gets on his knees and begs for forgiveness. Ted’s struggle to figure out the above and put into action the completion of what he set out to do his overarching journey this season. Nate’s betrayal at the end of Season 2 was the straw that broke the camel’s back and there’s no going back because he can’t re-write history. His toxic relationship with his father is one Nate should consider addressing above all else as it’s at the core of all his other issues. He’s got a lot on his plate and on each of those plates, so he’s trying to keep it spinning.” Fieldstone is back “as one more layer of support for [Ted]” this season for when he needs it the most. Regarding where viewers find Ted in the Season 3 premiere, Sudeikis said, “Like most of us, Ted contains multitudes. Like any relationship with a therapist, they can’t be there for you all the time.” “I guess I do sometimes wonder what the heck I’m still doing here,” he tells her.

Ted Lasso's Toheeb Jimoh will star in 'Romeo and Juliet' at London's Almeida Theatre. Isis Hainsworth will play Juliet, and Rebecca Frecknall directs.

Not my finest moment on the boards. It played a sold-out run at the Almeida and now has transferred to the Phoenix Theatre, where previews start Monday. She lit up the West End with an acclaimed 2021 revival of Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret at the Playhouse Theatre, now transformed into the Kit Kat Club. She also starred in Netflix film Metal Lords. Hainsworth officially was signed Wednesday night. So I heard that Frecknall cast Jimoh a few months ago.

Fans of "Ted Lasso" can stroll through Richmond Green, drink a pint at the real Crown and Anchor and watch live English football.

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Ted Lasso is back for season three, but, unfortunately, Roy Kent and Keeley Jones are no longer together. When we last saw the couple at the end of season two, ...

[Decider](https://decider.com/2023/03/15/ted-lasso-star-brett-goldstein-is-devastated-over-roy-and-keeleys-break-up/): "As a fan, I love Roy and Keeley. "But that doesn't mean that it definitely has to come to an end. I hope there's more, but who knows." [Entertainment Weekly](https://ew.com/tv/ted-lasso-nick-mohammed-nate-season-3/). [Ted Lasso star addresses season 3 finale spoiler concerns](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a43269057/ted-lasso-season-3-finale-spoiler-concerns/) [Ted Lasso season 3](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a37180295/ted-lasso-season-3-release-date-apple-tv/) spoilers follow.

Season three of Apple TV+ series 'Ted Lasso,' starring Jason Sudeikis as a bumbling London football coach, seems unsure of itself as it hurtles toward its ...

Narratively, Ted is lost trying to figure out why he’s still in London; structurally, Ted Lasso is amiss figuring out what kind of show it wants to be and what storytelling priorities it wants to hold on to in its final act. But this third season of Ted Lasso also seems to be settling into an odd duality: The series is stuck treating Ted’s refusal to educate himself about his job like an aw-shucks asset and the soccer itself like an afterthought. The third season of Ted Lasso ironically invites the same complaints as its series’ central sport: There is a formlessness to its concluding go-round that mirrors the “Soccer is just 22 people jogging” gibe, a sense that the show is running down time until its end. [second season](https://www.vulture.com/article/ted-lasso-season-two-review.html) complicated Ted’s relentless cheeriness, both by turning certain characters, such as [assistant coach Nate](https://www.vulture.com/article/ted-lasso-season-2-finale-nate-shelley-transformation.html), against it and by digging into the causes of Ted’s anxiety and aversion to therapy. That sophomore year was divisive, offering up [sentiment](https://www.vulture.com/article/ted-lasso-christmas-episode-serialization-debate.html) about how important it is to be good, compassionate, and supportive to others while showing that Ted wasn’t quite as adept at those qualities as the show had led us to believe. Soccer detractors will tell you the game is just two teams running from one end of the field to the other for 90 minutes.