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A couple of years ago, Ted Lasso came out of virtually nowhere to become an Emmy-winning comedy and perhaps the first true hit for AppleTV+. These days, however, the show finds itself in a much different place.
Now in the midst of its third and likely final season, Ted Lasso boasts an 85% critics score and 71% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, which is the lowest of the three seasons thus far.
Perhaps more worryingly, though, is the general online discourse, which sees many current and potentially former frequently complaining about how outright bad these latest batch of episodes are.
yeah man it’s time for Ted Lasso to tend to the rabbits pic.twitter.com/0DOXlRAvrx
— Eric Italiano (@eric_ital) May 3, 2023
this ted lasso episode sucks like so so bad
— dr lyle evans (@1918friends) May 3, 2023
Ted Lasso season 3 kinda sucks. Way too many characters with no idea of what to do with any of them. Very Rise of Skywalker lack of commitment to any narrative decision.
— Ron Heck (@ronheck) May 1, 2023
People can’t seem to believe how far the series — which took the pop culture world by storm when it first debuted back in 2020 — has fallen off.
I’m not surprised that people are saying Ted Lasso sucks now. I saw the cracks forming in season 2, so I decided not to renew my Apple subscription for the third season. Shame as the first season was a good comedy series about underdogs that most people can relate to.
— Dino’s Reviews (@reviewsdino2) May 2, 2023
https://twitter.com/Pondhino/status/1652074915061719040
More people need to be talking about the massive quality cliff #TedLasso fell off of between seasons 2 and 3 or else they're gonna try to make a season 4.
— Colin Bartolome, 🥉 (@CPColin) May 3, 2023
If AppleTV wasn’t yet committed to the idea of ending Ted Lasso, perhaps the reception to season three will serve as all the proof they need that the series has run its course.
This is like a school assembly skit by a group called ActUp that you see in 4th grade https://t.co/GuylCQDOUI
— Claire Penis (@ZeroSuitCamus) May 3, 2023
Ted Lasso was fine, not the genius show or the terrible thing it was made out to be at time.
Series 3 has been a pretty remarkable drop off though, an incoherent mess. Like that second season of Rome where they had to cram 50 years of history into ten episodes suddenly
— The Ryan The The (@Ryan_Cygnet19) May 3, 2023
Ted Lasso Season 3: https://t.co/pxzd6SXZro
— zook (@zooklife) May 3, 2023
this ted lasso season will be one of those that in 10 years someone will sit down to binge the show and when they get to season 3 and see it aired during 2023 they’ll check to see the drop in quality was due to the writers strike that’s how bad s3 is
— alexandra (@jackiebukharts) May 3, 2023
Part of the issue with the latest season of Ted Lasso is that the series has seemingly abandoned its formerly comedic core — wherein it understood that its strength was being a story about a loveable gang of misfits — in favor of a preachy, saccharine, self-righteous tone that seems to be imbued in every single line. Bill Lawrence, who co-created the series with Jason Sudeikis, has another new “comedy” on AppleTV+ titled Shrinking that suffers from the same issues.
In addition to Saturday Night Live alum Jason Sudeikis as the titular Ted Lasso, the series also stars Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Juno Temple, Jeremy Swift, Phil Dunster, Brendan Hunt, Nick Mohammed, and more.
The third season of the hit AppleTV+ series, which premiered on March 15, is set to conclude with its 12th episode on Wednesday, May 31.