Today in Maybe This Will Make Us All Feel Better news, Ted Lasso is officially returning for a fourth season, with Jason Sudeikis confirmed to return, too. Sudeikis will also serve as an executive producer, alongside Brendan Hunt and Brett Goldstein, among others. Goldstein will also write for the season, though it’s not clear if Roy Kent will be back on screen, too, though Juno Temple is in talks.

 

Season four will see Ted coaching a women’s soccer team. I’m less concerned about who he’s coaching and more about whether or not a fourth season can “fix” the divisive season three. Season one of Ted Lasso is perfect, season two is almost as good, season three fell off a cliff. Perhaps it was Bill Lawrence leaving to focus on Shrinking, or maybe it was Jason Sudeikis being Extremely Divorced, or maybe it was punting on storylines in case spin-offs got made, none of which did (biggest casualties: Roy and Keeley), but season three was quite unsatisfying. 

 

I’m not bothered that Ted didn’t stay in England, or that he never got with Rebecca—he missed his son too much for one, and the other was never a promise, it was mostly fan shipping—but I hate that season three speed ran Nate’s redemption arc. That should have been the focus of the whole season, and instead, it was a side plot. Maybe season four will at least remove some of the sour aftertaste of season three. We’ll see.

What else happened today…

How the pandemic has changed life for millennial women, particularly those who started the pandemic in their 20s and ended in their 30s. (Popsugar)

Nicolas Cage, cowboy vampire, made an appearance at SXSW. (Go Fug Yourself)

 

As Maria touched on yesterday in CSM, Duchess Meghan is launching a new podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder. I truly want the Sussexes to succeed, but this just seems like more “stuck in the 2010s girlboss era” stuff. Also, re: her surname being “Sussex”, I don’t think it was ever a legal thing, but peeresses are often known by their titles as their surnames. For instance, the Duchess of Devonshire was referred to as “Georgiana Devonshire”, not “Georgiana Cavendish”, even though Cavendish was the family surname. So calling her “Meghan Sussex” has historical precedence. I just thought they’d announced the kids as Mountbatten-Windsors? Maybe after everything that happened, though, they didn’t want to keep that name. Wouldn’t blame them in the least. (Celebitchy)

 

Blake Lively’s protective order to prevent Justin Baldoni’s legal team from publishing communications like texts, emails, and videos was approved yesterday. This means that communications will either be confidential or “attorneys’ eyes only”. At least until March 2026, that is. Anything entered into the court record will eventually be accessible to the public, as the judge is “unlikely” to seal the records. 

This is being called a “small victory” for Lively, but I see it as more of a procedural approval. There is still such a long way to go until there is any kind of real victory for anyone (besides Justin Baldoni in the court of public opinion, which he has won).  (Page Six)

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