A fourth season of "Ted Lasso" is happening and one person who is happy about it is Hannah Waddingham. She won an Emmy for the show and first popped for American audiences as Rebecca, Ted's team owner nemesis-turned-friend. However, she expressed her feelings about "Ted Lasso" getting a fourth season with a phrasing that is a bit odd. As Waddingham put it, "It feels like it was the most beautiful, beloved dog that was buried, and now we’ve exhumed it, and I am here for it."
For starters, while she's a fine actress, we're not sure she would be drafting our PR bullet points. It's a strange analogy, to say the least. Also, point of fact, we don't recall "Ted Lasso" ever officially ending, even if many people did think the third season would be the last. That being said, it also kind of feels like it might prove prescient in a way Waddingham didn't intend.
The decline in quality of "Ted Lasso" has been steady, with the third season kind of a mess. So much so, by the time the third season wrapped up, our feeling was, "Sure, fine. If it's over that's totally fine." It felt like a show that needed to end because it already felt like it had gone on for too long. To use the "Pet Semetery" line we trot out for times like this...
With the trajectory of "Ted Lasso," one fears a fourth season that does feel akin to an exhumed dog corpse. Why is this here? Why did you do this? What possessed you to think this was a good idea?
Waddingham may be "here for it," but she also unintentionally gave us the analogy that will serve as apropos if the fourth season continues the decline of "Ted Lasso."
(h/t Variety)
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