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Apple Shares 'Ted Lasso' Season Four Streaming Date and Teaser Trailer
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ipedro
macrumors 604
After Ted Lasso's three season arc concluded and he decided to return to the US, Apple had a great route to take here: Ted Lasso returns home from Europe to coach a "fictional" MLS team. Perfect tie in with Apple's broadcasting rights for MLS which could've helped elevate the league both domestically and internationally. Going back to the UK undoes the entire ending of his arc.
0815
macrumors 68000
was a great show, I really enjoyed it. Had a nice clean ending ... don't get the point for adding a new season.
More like Season 1.
1 was awesome.
2 was barely watchable, but got through it.
3 was horrendously bad.
Hard for me to watch this show or any Apple show set in the modern era. Fifteen Apple products prominently displayed in every shot is extremely distracting.
So sad they are doing this... story was wrapped up well, three seasons was perfect, this feels like a corporate mandated move... also didnt see Sassy anywhere in the trailer??! 🙁
Oblivious.Robot
macrumors 6502a
Apple is going to Savant it, and say that season 4 was the true ending.
Season 1 was incredible, season 2 still had hope but season 3 felt like corporate and suits milked it dry to preach. To quote Trent Crimm, “His coaching style is subtle, it never hits you over the head.”
Season 1 was incredible, season 2 still had hope but season 3 felt like corporate and suits milked it dry to preach. To quote Trent Crimm, “His coaching style is subtle, it never hits you over the head.”
LionTeeth
macrumors 6502
Dismissing that it exists is one of the problems with your side of things.
LionTeeth
macrumors 6502
Well that would mean if I didn't like Breaking Bad... I would have to dedicate 3-4 hours of my life to get into it?
That is crazy lol why don't films have this problem? A good movie is a good movie. You don't have to watch two other movies in order to like this one.
Mad Men drew me in from the first scene. Watched every episode, and have re watched. I disagree with this "give it a few episodes", no if it draws me in it draws me in. It should be good enough to do that.
I feel like the third season was ten years ago and my first thought was, "Wow! They look great!" A bright spot during bad times comes back to be a bright spot during bad times. Can't wait.
kurtfoster
macrumors regular
Can’t wait! This show and a couple of others are the only ones that I enjoy on Apple TV+. Everything else is kind of blah, at least for me.
Also the laptops on peoples' desks are never connected to a charger, and phones only show notifications when a text message is needed to advance a plot point.
lotones
macrumors 6502
yeah, I'm sure it had nothing to do with the several million viewers who actually enjoyed the show and wanted to see more.
kingtj1971
macrumors 6502a
I think it's unfair to compare a movie to a TV series, first of all?
A movie has to entertain for the 1 hour and 30 minutes to 2 hours or so it's typically supposed to slot into, and then it's over. (You can do sequels, obviously, but they tend to take years to finish between each one.) A TV series lets the writers slowly build up their characters and the story so by the time it gets "exciting", it's not just a shallow scene. You really CARE about the people involved in a deeper way.
A TV series also has the luxury of taking the story multiple directions over time, potentially flipping its entire genre. (A great example of this that comes to mind was the series "Scrubs". It started out as a medical sitcom, but people who invested the time to watch it for multiple seasons saw it evolve into some really thought-provoking and deep stories that were far from comedy sketches. It only worked because by then, viewers were really familiar with the characters and what made them tick. It gave them a launchpad to do something different.)
I won't argue that all too often, the writers just waste the opportunities - making a show that doesn't hold people's attention. But I usually find if a show starts out "slow", yet I feel like there's potential there, it pays off to watch a couple more episodes. I felt like that when the TV show Jericho came out. Episode 1 was a lot of nothing, except there was just something about the main character, Jake, that made me want to know what else was going to unfold. Turned out to be one of my favorite TV shows of all time.
I find the parallels between Ted Lasso and the iPhone interesting.
In both cases you have something that the majority of people really like, but some people have to come out and criticize it and pretend they don’t know why so many others like it.
Maybe they like it because it’s actually good.
In both cases you have something that the majority of people really like, but some people have to come out and criticize it and pretend they don’t know why so many others like it.
Maybe they like it because it’s actually good.
macdisciple
macrumors 6502
Maybe that's why. I did not like it until ⅓ through S1. S2 was good too. S3 was a bit much.
CapitalIdea
macrumors 6502a
Well, you’re not the only person on the planet.
ds2000
macrumors 6502a
Same here, I've rewatched TNG, DS9 and Voyager a few times, real story telling, solving problems with diplomacy and not all pew pew pew. TV series get strung out, the walking dead killed box sets for me, season 1 was 6 episodes (from memory) and a masterpiece then they went to 20. So many series need to just stop after 3 seasons.