![]() ![]() Really, though, if we're simply asking whether or not Ted Lasso will continue? I have to say, by way of another Wizard of Oz shoutout, the show has already answered that question.Jaime Tartt in Ted Lasso. The Jamie, Roy, and Keeley love triangle will spin madly on. Rebecca is still the owner, but we'd get a few shits and gigs from the fandom owning little slivers of the team. The team-Jamie, Zorro (!), Dani, and Sam-sticks around, largely the same. Newly minted Diamond Dog Roy Kent takes the helm as the new manager of AFC Richmond. We don’t need anymore, we got it.’ But until that time comes, I will appreciate the curiosity beyond what we’ve come up with so far.įunnily enough, Ted Lasso paints (rather deftly, by the way) a pretty clear future for Ted Lasso without Ted Lasso. Maybe by May 31, once all 12 episodes of the season, they’re like, ‘Man, you know what, we get it, we’re fine. The fact that folks will want more and are curious beyond more than what they don’t even know yet-that being Season Three-it’s flattering. For the record, here's what he said about this season and the show going forward: "This is the end of this story that we wanted to tell, that we were hoping to tell, that we loved to tell. Sudeikis is very likely done with the series. The episode stands as a beautiful reminder as to why, in the very worst moments of the pandemic, devastation everywhere, this was the show that captured the world.Īll of that said, we need to address Ted Lasso's future for a moment. Same goes for the "So Long, Farewell" song-and-dance number from AFC Richmond's finest, saying goodbye to Lasso via one giant, cheesy, heartfelt ode to The Sound of Music. Listen, you don't needle drop Cat Stevens's "Father and Son" unless you're trying to short the tissue market. really-and I mean really-turned on the big-sport-movie-emotions and let the spigot flow. Apple TV+Īnd with a finale like this? It's like a fresh box of Lasso's biscuits in the morning. This better not be the last time we see these two. Still, Ted Lasso more than earned a license to stumble and find its way at the end, just like its characters. Why not simply start with Nate finding himself again as a waiter (who falls in love!) at A Taste of Athens? Colin's coming-out journey was clumsy, as was Rebecca's early-season identity crisis. Same goes for Nate the Great at West Ham. So while the whole KJPR and Keeley exploring her sexuality side plot was a noble swerve, it felt like one giant audition for a Ted Lasso spinoff. The way Ted Lasso's creative team wrote each character, things don't feel quite right when someone doesn't have a direct link back to AFC Richmond. Yes, this season was uneven-at times wildly so. Sam Obisanya triumphantly suits up for the Nigerian national squad. ![]() ![]() The broken heart of Jamie Tartt is finally healed as he makes good with his father. ![]() Rebecca rediscovers her meet-cute, and maybe even a stepdaughter. Beard and Jane have an Office-esque Big, Sad, Beautiful Finale Wedding moment with the team looking on. In the rest of the Lasso-verse, the rest is just as copacetic. By the time the credits roll on Ted Lasso's Season Three finale, Lasso is back home in Wichita, coaching his kiddo's team, and making eyes at Michelle. Ted Lasso more than earned a license to stumble and find its way at the end, just like its characters. In the end, Lasso, just like Dorothy, uncovers the truth that was nagging at him all along: There's no place like home. That dreaming, really dreaming, is a matter of life and death. Confidence in who you are and always were. (I'm imagining Roy Kent as an angry, heartless Tin Man.) Fighting to reach the promised land with a diabolical force working against them-the elusive Premier League title and the never-ending threat of relegation-the makeshift team has to learn something to get to the end of the Yellow Brick Road. Lasso meets a whole bunch of colorful friends, all with a debilitating personality flaw. A mysterious force (read: an NBC skit spinning off into a full-length television series) rips Lasso away from his Kansas home, planting him in a strange, scary, and oddly beautiful land (England!). Ted Lasso is Dorothy Gale, through and through. Like You, Phil Dunster Already Misses Jamie Tartt.In 'Ted Lasso,' Nick Mohammed Has Come Full Circle. ![]()
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