Ted Lasso’s Jason Sudeikis Weighs In on Season 3 Backlash
#TedLasso's Jason Sudeikis Weighs In on Season 3 Backlash: 'Some People Want to Judge, They Don’t Want to Be Curious' https://t.co/p1v9HZOl5M
- TVLine.com (@TVLine) November 12, 2024
In the new oral history 'Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show That Kicked Its Way Into Our Hearts' by Jeremy Egner
Jason Sudeikis is asked about criticism the Apple TV+ comedy faced in its third.
In the book, it suggests that there was a small but hostile crowd of dissenters who bemoaned how the core cast had been scattered into different storylines.
Others, complained that the narrative had gotten too diffuse and unfocused, with specific mention of Keeley and Nate’s respective storylines.
Fellow co-creator/star Brendan Hunt (aka Coach Beard) brushes it off, saying that any flack the show has received is easily compartmentalized.
Sudeikis, series co-creator/star, offers a more pointed response.
“Much like live theater, the show, especially Season 3, was asking the audience to be an active participant. Some people want to do that, some people don’t. Some people want to judge-they don’t want to be curious. I’ll never understand people who will go on talking about something so brazenly that they, in my opinion, clearly don’t understand. And God bless ’em for it; it’s not their fault. They don’t have imaginations and they’re not open to the experience of what it’s like to have one. Everybody’s in better shape than when they started. Like a good Boy or Girl Scout at a campsite, we left it better than we found it. And if you don’t see that in that show, then I don’t know what show you’re watching.”
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