Ted Lasso scores with hotly anticipated Season…
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After a three-year hiatus, Apple TV’s Emmy-winning hit “Ted Lasso” is back with a fourth season that resets the show with a jolt of much-needed power.
Season 4 stumbles out of the gate with a tepid season premiere. When it finds its footing, it’s the best “Ted Lasso” has been since Season 1.
Ted (Jason Sudeikis) and Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) in Season 4. Michael Becker
Keeley (Juno Temple) returns to “Ted Lasso.” Colin Hutton
Premiering Aug. 5, Season 4 sees folksy former school soccer coach Ted Lasso (collection creator/star Jason Sudeikis) — who spent earlier seasons as an unlikely Premier League soccer membership supervisor in the UK — back in Kansas. His soccer days are behind him.
The comedy initially aired for three seasons from 2020 to 2023. In the world of the show, a few years have handed since the occasions of Season 3.
Ted is working a mundane job and raising his son, Henry (performed by Gus Turner from Seasons 1 to 3, now recast as Grant Feely).
When his previous pals and colleagues, including Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham), Keeley Jones (Juno Temple) and Leslie Higgins (Jeremy Swift), go to, they persuade Ted to return to his previous stomping grounds across the pond — this time, to coach their budding girls’s soccer staff.
Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) and Keeley (Juno Temple) in “Ted Lasso” Season 4. Michael Becker
Jeremy Swift, Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple and Jason Sudeikis in “Ted Lasso” Season 4. Apple TV
Unwisely, the season premiere takes almost an hour to set that up, even though we all know that Ted teaching a girls’s staff is the premise of Season 4.
It’s in the trailers! So, that’s a needlessly laborious observe to start on.
But, after that misfire, Season 4 has a comparable format to Season 1, as Ted tries to assemble and encourage a staff of underdogs and work out how to make their clashing personalities work — and everybody has their own drama.
Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) in “Ted Lasso” Season 4. Colin Hutton
Jermey Swift, Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple and Jason Sudeikis in “Ted Lasso.” Apple TV
Former participant Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) returns as the boys’s coach who is conveniently sharing the power. This permits him to consistently pop up, like a foul-mouthed model of a sitcom neighbor. He continues to have a “will they or won’t they” dynamic with his ex-girlfriend, Keeley.
Season 4 is different enough that it doesn’t really feel just like the show is repeating itself (give or take some plot threads, such as Roy and Keeley circling each other). There’s a new staff, with new characters and distinctive points.
It’s also acquainted enough that for audiences who discovered the show cozy when it got here out during the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ll discover the new episodes to be a return to type.
Jason Sudeikis in “Ted Lasso” Season 4. Apple TV
Brendan Hunt (from left), Tanya Reynolds, Jason Sudeikis, John Ternus, Tim Cook, Hannah Waddingham, Jeremy Swift and Juno Temple at the Season 4 “Ted Lasso” premiere in LA on July 28. REUTERS
It looks as if a course-correction from how it veered off the rails in Seasons 2 and 3, which acquired bogged down with plots that didn’t work, including Nate’s (Nick Mohammed) heel flip. He’s mercifully absent.
The show seemingly ended in 2023, until Season 4 was announced in March 2025.
The first three seasons have been a culture-clash story, following goofy Ted in England, teaching an underdog males’s staff, which included Roy and Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster, who has been cagey about if he’s returning).
Nick Mohammed, Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt in “Ted Lasso” Season 1.
Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) and Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster) in “Ted Lasso.” Luke Varley
After premiering in 2020, “Ted Lasso” shortly turned a phenomenon. To date, it has 61 Emmy nominations and 13 wins. The comedy put Apple TV on the map for its later exhibits, including “The Studio” and “Widow’s Bay,” to also dominate awards season.
The show was a star-maker for Goldstein, Waddingham and Temple. Fittingly, they all get a lot of focus in Season 4.
The new season mixes them with new characters, including the hard-nosed girls’s coach, Alice Chilton (Tanya Reynolds), and working-mom participant Lizzie (Faye Marsay).
Ted (Jason Sudeikis) and Alice Chilton (Tanya Reynolds) in Season 4. Colin Hutton
Faye Marsay (from left), Annette Badland, Jude Mack, Abbie Hern and Hannah Waddingham at a “Ted Lasso” event in LA on July 30. FilmMagic
The new gamers’ personalities are launched slowly. Returning characters dominate the plot.
Does all of the “Ted Lasso, but this time, with women” stuff work? No.
In some locations, it’s woven in effectively, such as in Rebecca’s efforts to lean into “girl boss” feminism. It’s intentionally and amusingly awkward, which fits her character. In other sequences, such as the first episode’s attempt to evaluate girls’s sports activities to baseball’s historic Negro Leagues, it lands with a thud.
The cringeworthy moments are minimal, though.
Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) in “Ted Lasso” Season 4. Michael Becker
Jason Sudeikis in “Ted Lasso.”
The episodes clip along at a regular tempo, and the humor mingles effectively with more critical factors about girls’s sports activities being underfunded and undervalued.
Season 4 is “Ted Lasso” at its best, offering team-building, sincerity, an emphasis on everybody making an attempt their best, all undercut with enough dry British humor to keep the entire thing from feeling too cloyingly candy.
For those who appreciated Season 1 and discovered your consideration stray, as Seasons 2 and 3 had diminishing returns, it’s price giving it another shot.
“Ted Lasso” Season 4 premieres Aug. 5 on Apple TV.
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