Gross’s Geoffrey Tennant - who, notoriously, had a nervous breakdown in the middle of a performance of “Hamlet” - returns to run the New Burbage Theatre Festival. I’m talking about “Slings & Arrows,” a gem of a show that I will never tire of recommending. Twenty years ago, a Canadian TV comedy debuted in which Gross played a disgraced Shakespearean actor who takes on the artistic directorship of a theatre festival very much like Stratford. Nonetheless, I still have a lot of affection for “Ted Lasso.” It made us feel things it made us smile and laugh and cry, sometimes all at the same time. Think the racist vilification of Nigerian player Sam Obisanya (Toheeb Jimoh) or Colin Hughes (Billy Harris) coming out as gay. “Ted Lasso” also had a tendency to raise meaty issues only to bat them away like it was heading a soccer ball. Still, the series also gave us a thoroughly enjoyable redemption arc in turning star player Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster) from an arrogant bully into a team player who was actively striving to do better - although even that was undermined by a plot device that had Jamie and friend Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) physically fight over their shared ex Keeley (Juno Temple). Not much of a reward for one of the show’s breakout characters. And, notwithstanding his supposedly genius-level IQ and the insecurity that roiled him since Season 1, he’s thrilled with this demotion? Nate was in full villain mode as Season 3 began but started to waver, and next thing you know he has quit West Ham (off-screen) and returned to Richmond, not - despite his reputation as a football “wonder kid” - as a coach but as assistant to the new kit man. He betrayed Ted and abandoned the team to become head coach for rival West Ham United. He began as AFC Richmond’s underappreciated and ridiculed kit man, rose to the coaching staff due to the brilliance of his football acumen and Ted’s appreciation, but he took a heel turn at the end of Season 2. Nowhere was the short shrift given a character arc more apparent than with Nate Shelley (Nick Mohammed). (In its promotional materials, Apple was still calling this the “season” rather than the series finale, but you can’t have a show called “Ted Lasso” when your title character has left the field.) Television Group Chairman and CEO Channing Dungey recently told our sister site Deadline that the potential swan song wraps in a manner that would allow the Powers That Be to “crack open a door” and “keep on going,” should they decide to extend the franchise.“Ted Lasso” has sometimes been compared to another famous feel-good show that dealt in love and kindness, “Schitt’s Creek.” But whereas character metamorphosis on that series tended to feel more organic - aided by the fact it had more than double the episodes and fewer folks to transform - on “Lasso,” it sometimes felt unmoored, particularly in this third and final season. ![]() Goldstein, who is also a writer on the show, previously confirmed that Season 3 was being written as the final one. ![]() There is no mention of it being the final season in the teaser trailer, the synopsis or this newly released poster (click to enlarge), which is shot from behind and sees Ted, Beard, Roy, Rebecca, Keeley and Higgins accompany the players out to the pitch. Still unconfirmed: Whether or not Ted Lasso will, in fact, end with Season 3, as Sudeikis initially intended. Things seem to be falling apart both on and off the pitch, but Team Lasso is set to give it their best shot anyway. Meanwhile, while Ted (Jason Sudeikis) deals with pressures at work, he continues to wrestle with his own personal issues back home, Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) is focused on defeating Rupert and Keeley (Juno Temple) navigates being the boss of her own PR agency. In the wake of Nate’s contentious departure from Richmond, Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) steps up as assistant coach, alongside Beard (Brendan Hunt). In the 12-episode third season of Ted Lasso, the newly promoted AFC Richmond faces ridicule as media predictions widely peg them as last in the Premier League and Nate (Nick Mohammed), now hailed as the “wonder kid,” has gone to work for Rupert (Anthony Head) at West Ham United. The footage is accompanied by the aptly titled “I Still Believe,” a 2010 banger by British singer-songwriter Frank Turner.Īpple has also released the following synopsis, revealing six key plot points:
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