and, without meaning to sound hyperbolic, the hugely popular soccer comedy-drama delivers another match-winning performance. Brimming with its signature styleTed LassoTinkering with tactics around,season 3 opens at the start of a, well, new season. The titular character – portrayed with optimistic glee and emotional gravitas once more by Jason Sudeikis – has spent the summer with his son Henry in the UK.
The only blot on season 3’s copybook is its sporadic tendency to meander from a story perspective. Episode 3’s final 10 minutes, for example, feel tacked on and a tad superfluous. There are essential narrative beats in this sequence that contextually require inclusion but, personally, I felt those elements could’ve been examined in half the time. The first four episodes of season 3 are some of the longest entries in the show, and it largely makes full use of each episode’s runtime.