Ted Lasso is back after I binged three seasons back-to-back. Season four was like a reboot. Going from a male to a female soccer team. Meaning new and returning cast members. Ted is Jason Sudeikis, with, Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, and Jeremy Swift.
In season four, Ted returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women’s football team. Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.
Apple TV is yet to announce whether they will continue Ted Lasso's journey. It sort of ends the same as season three, like it could end, it could return. No real commitment.
Either way, let's check out how season four concluded. Warning spoilers below.
The team mourns the loss of Mae at her pub.
At the bi-annual shareholder meeting, Zelda reveals that she has bought out the other shareholders and now controls the club in a ploy to gain access to the male club owners by owning a team in the men's Premier League. However, her plan is foiled when it is revealed that her lackey Hugo has turned on her and that Mae has bequeathed her shares to Rebecca.
Ted steps down as manager of the women's team to become the assistant for his successor, Alice.
Meanwhile, Roy accepts the manager position at Chelsea while Baz, Jeremy, and Paul inherit the pub and Rebecca asks Matthijs to marry her.
So there are still some plots left up in the air. I'd like to see the series return.
Annette Badland's storyline as Mae Green, the landlady of the Crown and Anchor pub in Richmond, was one of my favourites from this season.
A supporter of the women's team throughout Season 4, even getting the opportunity to travel on the team bus to an away game against Bristol City. Mae dies at the end of the match, leaving the pub to Baz, Jeremy and Paul, and her 2% stake in Richmond to Rebecca.
It was a sad start to the finale, however, in true Ted Lasso style, you end up smiling by the end of the episode.
Bring on season five? Apple TV renewed the former miniseries Imperfect Women this week, so anything could happened. Previously they also renewed Presumed Innocent, which was also meant to be a miniseries. So despite Ted Lasso apparently ending once, there could be more life in the series yet!
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