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Ted Lasso, Season 4 Review
Bottom Line
Choose Season 4 if you want Richmond’s warmth, strong returning chemistry, and a promising women’s-team reset led by standout Alice. Skip it if overlong episodes, recycled romance, and underdeveloped new players were already your biggest frustrations.
Best for
Best for viewers who still enjoy Richmond’s warmth and ensemble chemistry and want a women’s-football reset with new characters, social stakes, and a strong Alice Chilton arc.
Not for
Less suited to viewers already frustrated by long runtimes, sentimental detours, recycled Roy-Keeley drama, or the show spending too little time developing its new players.
Verdict
Season 4 finds its best reason to exist in the Lady Greyhounds. The women’s-team reset opens useful stories about funding, facilities, pay, media attention, and what belief can accomplish when structural obstacles remain. Tanya Reynolds’ Alice Chilton is the clearest new standout, while the returning cast still has easy chemistry and warmth. The tradeoff is focus: long episodes, recycled Roy-Keeley material, and other legacy subplots repeatedly crowd out the new players, leaving much of the squad thinner than the premise deserves. Comedy is similarly uneven, ranging from laugh-out-loud Lasso banter to broad or strained gags. At its best, the season feels purposeful and comforting again; at its weakest, it looks like a revival still trying to justify why it came back.
Feature Scorecards
Summary
43 reviewed features-
Very positive 4.5-5.010 (23%)
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Positive 3.5-4.413 (30%)
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Neutral 2.5-3.412 (28%)
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Negative 1.5-2.48 (19%)
Pros
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The new ensemble is a major bright spot, led by especially strong praise for Tanya Reynolds and solid notices for Faye Marsay, Abbie Hern, and Jude Mack.
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The returning ensemble still clicks easily, and familiar pairings retain the warmth and comic rhythm that made the original run work.
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Season 4 can still land heartfelt moments, from Ted confronting shame and purpose to quieter scenes of the women balancing football with everyday pressures.
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The Lady Greyhounds are the season’s strongest reason to exist. Their resource gaps, team-building, and fight for respect create meaningful stakes, even when legacy subplots steal time.
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Even mixed takes often find the revival warm, charming, and easy to watch; its best episodes recover the comfort and energy of earlier Ted Lasso.
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The strongest episodes deepen the old BELIEVE philosophy by asking what optimism can and cannot solve when players face structural and financial pressures.
Cons
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The biggest structural weakness is crowded focus: legacy romances and side stories often squeeze out the Lady Greyhounds, leaving several new players underexplored.
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Ted’s return to London and his family’s relocation are frequent credibility sticking points, with several sources finding the transition much too easy.
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The women’s-sports framing has real substance when tied to concrete inequities, but some sources find the feminism too blunt, preachy, or undercut by thin characterization.
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Long runtimes remain a recurring complaint. Several episodes still feel stretched beyond the tighter half-hour rhythm that once suited the show better.
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Busy episodes can feel overstuffed, especially when several legacy subplots compete with the women’s-team story for attention.
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The Kansas City premiere is sharply divisive: some find it a promising reset, while others see an overlong, contrived prologue that delays the real season.
Cast & Creators
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Alice ChiltonReynolds is the clearest breakout of the new ensemble, giving Alice Chilton a mix of severity, vulnerability, dry humor, and emotional weight that repeatedly stands out.
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GemmaHern gives Gemma enough presence to register as a potential standout, with praise for how readily she fits the new team.
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LizzieMarsay makes Lizzie an appealing presence among the Lady Greyhounds, with her performance singled out as warm and one of the stronger new additions.
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Keeley JonesTemple’s Keeley remains a favorite presence, carrying familiar warmth and energy even when the season gives her uneven story material.
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Zelda SouthportUllman’s guest work is praised as scene-stealing, bringing an outsized comic presence to Zelda.
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Roy KentGoldstein slips comfortably back into Roy Kent’s gruff comic register, and his return remains a dependable source of character humor.
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Compared With Category Average
Compared with other TV Shows, this product is above average in dialogue quality, supporting cast performance, character likability, near average in humor, sports storyline quality, below average in bingeability, episode structure, villain quality.
Comparison summary
43 compared features-
Above average 0.4+ pts higher8 (19%)
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Same as average within 0.3 pts16 (37%)
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Below average 0.4+ pts lower19 (44%)
Largest category differences
| Attribute | This product | Category average | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| bingeability | 2.0 | 4.4 | -2.4 |
| episode structure | 1.5 | 3.6 | -2.1 |
| villain quality | 2.0 | 3.9 | -1.9 |
| casting fairness | 2.0 | 3.8 | -1.8 |
| suspense | 2.6 | 4.2 | -1.6 |
| realism | 2.0 | 3.4 | -1.4 |
| pilot episode quality | 2.6 | 3.8 | -1.2 |
| character balance | 2.0 | 3.0 | -1.0 |
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FAQ
Is Ted Lasso Season 4 a return to form?
At its best, yes: several sources describe later episodes as recapturing the warmth, humor, and character focus of earlier seasons. Others still find the revival uneven and overly dependent on familiar habits.
Does the women’s team make the revival feel fresh?
The Lady Greyhounds are the clearest source of fresh material, especially stories about pay, facilities, childcare, media attention, and unequal support. The recurring complaint is that the show does not spend enough time developing the players individually.
Who is the standout new character?
Alice Chilton is the most consistently praised newcomer. Tanya Reynolds is repeatedly singled out for bringing dry humor, vulnerability, intensity, and emotional weight to the role.
Is Season 4 still funny?
Comedy is mixed. Some episodes and Ted-style banter are described as laugh-out-loud funny, while other sources say the gags feel broad, strained, or too sparse.
Are the episodes still long?
Yes. Multiple sources flag roughly mid-40-minute runtimes as a continuing weakness, although some later episodes are praised for moving more quickly and engagingly.
Does Season 4 focus more on Ted or the Lady Greyhounds?
The season tries to broaden the story around the women’s team, but legacy characters and relationships still take substantial space. That balance is one of the most disputed parts of the revival.
Sample Expert Reviews We Analyzed
These are a few of the reviews included in our analysis.
Video Reviews
Article Reviews
fangirlish.com
Ted Lasso Season 4, Episode 7, “Yes & Baby,” puts Ted’s culture of believing in believe to the test with a new sign for the women’s team.
- Review score
- 3.3
ladygeeksmedia.com
Ted Lasso Season 4, Episode 7, "Yes & Baby" delivers an interesting look into the club's dynamics.
- Review score
- 3.8
nytimes.com
An agent makes mischief and Roy is single again.
- Review score
- 3.4
butwhytho.net
Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7 understands everything these women carry into each match and leaves the final episodes to build up to a win.
- Review score
- 3.9
avclub.com
Yes & Baby" sheds some—although not nearly enough—light on the women's team at the center of Ted Lasso's fourth season.
- Review score
- 4.3
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