‘Ted Lasso’ scores with hotly anticipated Season 4: review…
Believe.
After a three-year hiatus, Apple TV’s Emmy-winning hit “Ted Lasso” is again with a fourth season that resets the present 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 (sequence creator/star Jason Sudeikis) — who spent earlier seasons as an unlikely Premier League soccer club supervisor in the UK — again in Kansas. His soccer days are behind him.
The comedy initially aired for 3 seasons from 2020 to 2023. In the world of the present, a few years have handed since the occasions of Season 3.
Ted is working a secular job and elevating his son, Henry (performed by Gus Turner from Seasons 1 to three, 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 women’s soccer team.
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 everyone knows that Ted teaching a women’s team is the premise of Season 4.
It’s in the trailers! So, that’s a needlessly laborious be aware to start on.
But, after that misfire, Season 4 has an analogous format to Season 1, as Ted tries to assemble and encourage a team of underdogs and determine out how one can make their clashing personalities work — and everybody has their very 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 males’s coach who’s conveniently sharing the facility. This permits him to always pop up, like a foul-mouthed version 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 sufficient that it doesn’t really feel like the present is repeating itself (give or take some plot threads, such as Roy and Keeley circling each other). There’s a new team, with new characters and distinctive points.
It’s also acquainted sufficient that for audiences who discovered the present 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 like a course-correction from the way it veered off the rails in Seasons 2 and three, which obtained slowed down with plots that didn’t work, including Nate’s (Nick Mohammed) heel flip. He’s mercifully absent.
The present seemingly resulted in 2023, until Season 4 was announced in March 2025.
The first three seasons had been a culture-clash story, following goofy Ted in England, teaching an underdog males’s team, 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” rapidly grew to become 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 present was a star-maker for Goldstein, Waddingham and Temple. Fittingly, all of them get plenty of focus in Season 4.
The new season mixes them with new characters, including the hard-nosed women’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 nicely, 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 try to match women’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 alongside at a gradual tempo, and the humor mingles nicely with more severe factors about women’s sports activities being underfunded and undervalued.
Season 4 is “Ted Lasso” at its best, providing team-building, sincerity, an emphasis on everybody making an attempt their best, all undercut with sufficient dry British humor to maintain the complete factor from feeling too cloyingly candy.
For those who appreciated Season 1 and located your consideration stray, as Seasons 2 and three had diminishing returns, it’s price giving it another shot.
“Ted Lasso” Season 4 premieres Aug. 5 on Apple TV.
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