Jason Sudeikis is defending Ted Lasso Season 3.
Ted Lasso premiered on Apple TV+ in August 2024. The series, which sees Sudeikis play the titular soccer coach, quickly became a hit as Ted Lasso Season 2 followed in July 2021 and Ted Lasso Season 3 then premiered in March 2023.
Ted Lasso has been nominated and won numerous Primetime Emmy Awards during its three-season run; however, many fans and critics weren’t as high on Ted Lasso Season 3 as they were the other two seasons.
In a new novel — Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show that Kicked Its Way Into Our Hearts — by Jeremy Egner, Sudeikis, who also developed the show alongside Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt, and Joe Kelly, opened up about the backlash Ted Lasso Season 3 received from some viewers.
What did Jason Sudeikis say about Ted Lasso Season 3?
“Much like live theater, the show, especially Season 3, was asking the audience to be an active participant,” Sudeikis said in the book, via TV Line. “Some people want to do that, some people don’t. Some people want to judge—they don’t want to be curious.”
He continued, “I’ll never understand people who will go on talking about something so brazenly that they, in my opinion, clearly don’t understand. And God bless ’em for it; it’s not their fault. They don’t have imaginations and they’re not open to the experience of what it’s like to have one.
“…Everybody’s in better shape than when they started. Like a good Boy or Girl Scout at a campsite, we left it better than we found it. And if you don’t see that in that show, then I don’t know what show you’re watching.”
The first three seasons of Ted Lasso are currently streaming on Apple TV+. Warner Bros. TV CEO Channing Dungey confirmed last month that there have been conversations about a potential Ted Lasso Season 4, though they are still in the “early days.”
