Ted Lasso director says season 3 is the end “for now” as he discusses show future
Ted Lasso spoilers follow.
Ted Lasso director Declan Lowney has said that season three of the hit Apple TV+ show is the end "for now" and reveals it'll be years before anything happens, if it does at all.
Hit comedy Ted Lasso aired its third season earlier this year and the season finale very much felt like the end of the show as Jason Sudeikis' titular Ted left AFC Richmond and returned to America, with Coach Beard, Roy, and Nate taking over management duties.
Lowney, one of several directors who worked on the show, helmed eight episodes in total, including the final two episodes. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lowney spoke about that third season feeling like the end.
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"Everybody knew it was the end, but it’s also the end for now. It’s going to be two or three years before anything happens — if anything happens — so let’s try and tie up all these stories properly," Lowney said.
"I’m trying to remember how the script was delivered, because I’ve a feeling I might have gotten a big chunk of it, and then there’d be more coming — but I didn’t know how much more yet. I was like, 'There’s a lot of tying up to do!' And then Jason gave me the remaining pages and it was like, 'Ah! That’s what he’s doing here.'"
He continued: "But it is very hard to stand back and say, 'Shit, guys … there’s 80 pages here.' We shot it as we went along, and it’s very hard to gauge these things until you put it all together. Six weeks later, something else appears at the other end [in the edit], but it’s also about 10 minutes shorter than it was."
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Previously, Sudeikis spoke about the future of the show and clarified that they had only conceived the three seasons they made. He said: "This story is done. It sounds like such a political answer, but it's the truth. We only conceived these three [seasons], then this thing became this big old thing."
Ted Lasso season 1-3 are streaming on Apple TV+.
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