A Ted Lasso -ADDROWN COME: The show doesn’t have to change, just grow

Streaming Wars is a weekly Opinion Column By IGN’s streaming editor, Amelia Emberwing. Check the last post: The Last Watch: Shows and Movies that stole my heart in 2024. This pillar has spoilers in the first three seasons of Ted Lasso.

Ted Lassos last season was met with some frustration of fans, whether it were senders of Ted and Rebecca who felt that their will-de-won’t-they became a definitive “not”, people are disturbed over it Uridic end of Roy and Keeley’s relationship, the belief that the storytelling was now tweet or the perceived malpractice of Nate Shelley. Since it ended, I have consistently been a firm belief that Ted Lasso as a series did not change; Our needs as viewers did. Season 1 debuted right in the middle of a global health crisis that left viewers with a desperate need for something warm and hopeful. When Season 3 premiered in mid -2023, America had returned to “business as usual” and while our “business as usual” has its own warts we didn’t need Ted Lasso, as we did when it was first sent.

Now, if one The latest post from Nate Shelley actor Nick Mohammed Must be believed, it seems that Ted Lasso and Company will return when we need them the most again. Mohammed went to social media to tell fans that unfortunately he had to re -plan his tour due to planning problems with another project. In his video, he notes that he does not want fans to get themselves in a tizzy who speculates what it might be while burning his screenplay and waving it around the screen. Behind the manuscript is the beloved “Believe” sign, synonymous with the Lasso road and intentionally fully visible to fans. “The last thing I want is people to get mad,” Mohammed jokes before ending his message to fans.

Naughty.

This information is not coming out of the blue – Ted Lasso’s continuation has been rumored since journalists were told in (what we thought) was the last Junket in the series we shouldn’t call Season 3 “The Last Season” or something that mirrors Small tips have been dropped by different role crew members here and there in the wake of the season 3 final and we started watching Reports of Season 4 Back in August last year. Mohammed was not part of the original reports, but it feels reasonable to take his teasing as a confirmation that Nate Shelley will return.

With all that in mind, there are some things I would like to see from Season 4 of the show. It feels reasonable to put the most important right in front, although it is likely to be the most frustrating for those who left the series with a sour taste in the mouth after season 3. I want the series to do exactly what it has always performed: Tell stories that are rooted in radical kindness and curiosity, while also challenging each one of its characters in meaningful ways.

Nate’s bow along with the devastating division between Roy (Brett Goldstein) and Keeley (Juno Temple) are perfect examples here.

Let’s start with Nate as it has been the biggest pain point between fans of the series. When Nate went Darkide, the change was met with what I would gently describe as a lot of meltdown. People demanded to know how the authors could do such a thing for such a lovely character as if the change came out of the blue. Meanwhile, Nate’s defining moment in the first season was fundamentally cruel to each member of the AFC Richmond to get them to pull their heads out of their donkeys and play better.

The fact is that these huge pendulum changes in people who are treated poorly or overlooked their entire lives are common. Nate that falls to the dark side after gaining an ounce of power is not unprecedented. It is actually one of the oldest stories in the linguistic book. But what makes the said story meaningful is that Nate doesn’t do stay average and creepy. When he begins to have meaningful conversations about his feelings and stops striking out, he finds balance again.

Roy and Keeley are another inevitability. One that somehow hurts even worse because of the fact that their collapse was because of their respective growth rather than in spite of that. The exception to this view is, of course, Roy, who ends the relationship before trying to figure out things because he was scared. But like the local gravel asshole that is pretty terrible about opening up to people, I’m here to tell you that his behavior is, oh … Right on goal. Still, Roy opened up in the first place is great progress. Keeley was already pretty emotionally safe, but found her growth in her professional skill that changed from “being famous for being almost famous” to a bonafide businesswoman, failure and all. In their respective growth, they were in different, complicated directions, and Roy killed their chances of solving the problem before they really even tried.

But ROY’s failure is not the point here: Keeley’s success is. I can’t emphasize enough how much I agree that their breakdown was a huge bummer. But when Keeley has both Roy and Jamie (Phil Dunster) knocking on her door, she both asks to take a hike in favor of taking a breath and deciding what her future looks like – and whether it includes one of The football stars.

Tedbecca of it all is a much simpler analysis: A whole lot of people have to become more comfortable with men and women being best friends. I also messed with the crazy kids! But their respective “endings” made much more sense than those who ran out in the sunset together. At the end of the day, the author’s job is to service the story, not what fans shout for most.

And to tie things together here, sometimes all it takes is a little patience with the storytelling. Rage over Nate was rooted in the assumption that he would remain miserable forever. But it should be remembered that Ted Lasso secondary to the core principles of kindness and curiosity is a show about growth, and anyone who has ever experienced an ounce of it can tell you that progress is not linear, and it often hurts Like hell.

What Ted Lasso does best is to cater to the pain of this growth with an inevitable heat. Of course, it’s if you’re open to it. Returns to my opening steezing that Ted Lasso did not change the Christmas Pisode “Carol of the Bells.” Both seasons saw challenging moments for the characters, with Season 1 with Ted’s devastating realization that he cannot solve his marriage and season 2 focusing on the climb and fallen by the beloved Nate Shelley. But the idea that good people can do bad things and go through the Dark Times hit some people in a way they couldn’t get out of, and a show that was once praised as a delight became too sweet or picturesque.

I don’t know what Ted Lasso Season 4 will look like. What I can tell you, though, is that I’m cursed to see it return and am excited that it will come back right when we need it again. The May Ssee’s screams about “Twee” and “Cringe” fall down as we all give back to the openness we once had for its warmth, and we all have to experience some of our own personal growth along the way.