Ted Lasso Is (likely) Ending After Its Third Season

via: Variety

Brett Goldstein, who serves as a writer on “Ted Lasso” and stars as Roy Kent, has said that the show’s third season is being written as its last.

“We are writing it like that,” he told Sunday Times when asked if Season 3 would be the end. “It was planned as three. Spoiler alert — everyone dies.”

Goldstein’s comments are consistent with what other members of the “Ted Lasso” crew have said in the past. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in 2021, co-creator and star Jason Sudeikis also expressed that he saw the show ending after three seasons, though he hinted that he may be open to take it further if others had ideas and the opportunity presented itself.

“The story that I know is the one that I wanted to tell, and so that’s the one we’re telling with the help of numerous people in front of and behind the camera, so it’s by no means me typing every key stroke and saying every word,” he said. “It’s nowhere near like that. But the story that’s being told – that three-season arc – is one that I see, know, and understood. I’m glad that they are willing to pay for those three seasons. As far as what happens after that, who knows? I don’t know.”

“Ted Lasso” was developed by Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt and Joe Kelly based on a character Sudeikis originally played in ads for NBC Sports. The series debuted in August 2020 and quickly became a flagship series drawing a larger audience to Apple TV+, which had launched less than a year earlier. Season 2 premiered in July 2021. Season 3 is currently in production and is set to premiere later in 2022.
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Apple TV+ did not immediately respond to request for comment.

How I felt after reading that.

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​This story broke yesterday, but between a Celtics hangover, doctor's appointment, and some Monday night ubin, I couldn't blog it until right now.

WHAT THE FUCK?!?

I know it was in to bash Ted Lasso last season because it's cool to go against what's popular. Believe me; I get that. I've spent the last 20 years loving alt-rock. I refuse to check out Euphoria and made one TikTok after sort of learning how to use like two features, but Ted Lasso is genuinely one of the best shows I've ever seen. It's heartwarming, inspirational, funny, raw, honest, emotional, low-key sexy, educational, uplifting, and just a great way to spend 30-48 minutes.

Technically, this isn't official news that the third season will be the show's last, more so that it's getting written that way. But I mean, this feels like the writing on the wall. My only question is, why?

AppleTV+ is still a relatively new streaming platform, and to its credit, its library is only getting better, but Ted Lasso IS AppleTV+. This shit is partly on them for not locking Lasso down long-term. How are you not going to extend this masterpiece for at least four or five seasons? I get it, people have other projects or whatever, but Ted Lasso is massive. It just won like 800 Emmys. It's the main reason I keep my AppleTV+ sub, and I doubt I'm the only person on earth with that rationale. Three seasons is nothing. That's shorter than high school or a Presidential term.

Look, I love artistic integrity. You'll be hard-pressed to find 1,000 people alive who are more about artistic integrity than me. But talk about fumbling the bag!!! Writing the arc for three seasons is way too short. What are you thinking? Now it feels pretty obvious that this will be the season AFC Richmond wins the league. I mean, how else are they gonna end it? I guess they could go Rocky and have them lose, but guess what? There are like 42 Rocky movies. Maybe that proves their argument for an early end, but this news fucking sucks. I get it; you don't wanna have shit, filler seasons. You're trying to Barry Sanders it or, in this case, Eric Cantona it, but the world needs Ted Lasso. It's not time for it to end yet. We can't have the fucking pandemic outlive Lasso.

There are so many unforgettable, lovable characters with so much to offer. Why are you killing them all??? I mean, do you guys need help writing? Cause I'll gladly throw my hat in the ring (or boots on the pitch) if you're worried things are getting too stale. I mean, the show is about an American Football coach coaching soccer. How fitting would it be to have an American Football writer and former player (key loss for a 1-7 team, NBD) help spice things up like we're out to eat with Trent Crimm?

​So we're only gonna get one season of Ted vs. Nate, the not so great? There's only one more season of adorable little Phoebe and her hijinx with uncle Roy? What about Roy and Keeley? No more Higgins family hosting Christmas? What about that sexy redhead that lent Beard those pants? Are we never gonna see her again? Fuck man, this news stinks worse than Phoebe's breath. Here I am recycling jokes I used in meme format to start this blog. Damnit, I'm rattled. WHAT ABOUT MAE? Do you mean to tell me we only get one more season of Mae and those Richmond hooligans? Man, this is so fucked up. Hopefully, AppleTV+ can throw the bag at the folks behind Ted Lasso to convince them to give us at least; I don't know, five, or nine more seasons of this?