This Wednesday the last episode of the third season of Ted Lasso has been broadcast. From Apple TV they tried to turn the broadcast into an event: they even summoned the fans in front of the television at a specific time, which is not usual. Those who have seen the episode can sense that, as the US media indicated, the series as we knew it has ended. Even the actors are talking about it on social media. And yet, the content platform continues without confirming whether the public has seen the final ending.
You just have to see the words of Hannah Waddingham, who plays Rebecca Welton in fiction, yesterday on social networks. She was in Los Angeles with cast members Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt, Nick Mohammed and Jeremy Swift to picket the writers’ strike. “On our last day as the Richmond Greyhounds…there’s nowhere else I’d rather be. Many thanks to our magnificent scriptwriters room. We would be NOTHING without you,” she said, referring to the series’ writers, who include Sudeikis and Hunt, both actors and writers, creators and producers for Ted Lasso.
That “last day” was in line with speculation: the end of the third season is also the end of the series. Because? Sudeikis explained during the promotion of the episodes that it was “the end of the story that we wanted to tell, that we hoped to tell and that we loved to tell.” In fact, he stated that even though the fans wanted more episodes, he hoped that after seeing this closing they themselves would say, “Man, you know what, I get it, we’re good. We don’t need more.”
Ted Lasso has not been subtle either in introducing a plot that could mark a before and after. Coach Lasso, after all, has been blocked all season because he misses his son, who lives on the other side of the Atlantic. In parallel, information emerged indicating that Jason Sudeikis, who plays him, was in a similar situation: tired of having to live during the production of the series away from his two children who live in the United States, the ones he had with his ex-wife. , director Olivia Wilde.
But the idea of ??firing her permanently seems impossible considering that Ted Lasso is the most successful fiction on Apple TV and that it has allowed him to win two Emmy awards for best television comedy in a row. Actors like Hannah Waddingham and Jeremy Swift, for example, have already spoken favorably about the possibility of starring in spin-offs derived from the series.
The key to this matter, however, is perhaps in one of Nick Mohammed’s latest posts, Nate in the series. He uploaded an image of the “believe” sign that is in the Richmond locker room with the addition of “in Nate”. In other words, “believe in Nate.” Does this mean that, despite having hinted at the end of the Richmond Greyhounds, they could continue on the screen with Nate occupying the central role among the team’s technicians and with the rest of the cast? Could the Ted Lasso name even stick with a spin-off centering on Ted Lasso himself in a new venture in the United States?
Apple, while viewers continue to speculate about the future of Ted Lasso without Ted Lasso and the events of the last episode, remains silent.
