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Ted Lasso(2020)

Also known as Τεντ Λάσο • Тед Лассо

Upcoming · Apple TV

M10 eps
S04
DramaComedySportsSport
ON AIR: AUG 5Season 4

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Ted Lasso drops an American football coach into an English Premier League club where he has no business being, and plays that gap for both laughs and something more durable. The comedy runs on sincerity rather than irony, so the jokes land differently than most workplace shows; Ted's relentless optimism is not a punchline but a genuine force that the writing tests against real institutional resistance.

Inside the club, the boss-employee friction carries actual stakes because the people trying to undermine Ted are not cartoon villains but characters with their own pressures and loyalties. Personal threads, a strained marriage, a father-son relationship, weave through the professional story so that the emotional ground keeps shifting between the locker room and home.

Best for

warm workplace comedy, cross-cultural team comedy and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Comedy

Commitment

Season 4 · 10 episodes

Where

Apple TV

Official Premise

In a shock development struggling English Premier League team AFC Richmond hires American football coach Ted Lasso as its new manager. Lasso knows nothing about soccer/football. With unshakable enthusiasm and positivity he rises to the challenge but little known to him there are forces within the club that don't want him to succeed.

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