Ted Lasso chief Bill Lawrence has a fairly broad and diversified physique of work, however one of the key consistencies throughout it’s his love (and use) of widespread music. Almost each episode of Scrubs ended with some indie rock enjoying, and Cougar Town really named all of its episodes after Tom Petty songs. So possibly it is no shock that in “So Long, Farewell,” the season 3 finale of Ted Lasso, there’s a fairly significant needle drop in the closing moments. What’s arguably a little extra shocking is that the music used has ties to the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.
Even with over 150 episodes of Scrubs, Lawrence could not lay declare to being extra intently related to pop music soundtracks than James Gunn, so possibly it stands to motive that they might each make some related selections. In any case, as the episode wraps up and most of the characters get their closing experience into the sundown, “Father and Son” by Yusuf/Cat Stevens performs — the identical music used to drive dwelling an emotional level at the finish of Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2.
Stevens, who later modified his title to Yusuf Islam however continues to use each names interchangeably in his skilled life, first wrote “Father and Son” for an deserted musical starring Nigel Hawthorne, which might have been set throughout the Russian revolution. The music facilities on a boy who needed to be part of the revolution, which places a pressure on his relationship together with his father, who’s a conservative farmer. While the musical itself by no means occurred, “Father and Son” is correct up there with Harry Chapin’s “Cat’s in the Cradle” and Bruce Springsteen’s “My Father’s House,” in phrases of tear-jerking songs about tortured father-son relationships.
The solid and crew of Ted Lasso have lengthy introduced a three-season plan for the sequence, suggesting that immediately’s episode marks “the end” — if not of Ted Lasso, then a minimum of of the story that the creators first set out to inform with the characters. The query of a fourth season has been hanging over the entire third season of the present, with star and producer Jason Sudeikis giving some fairly noncommittal solutions alongside the manner.
By the finish of the episode, ome characters are extra cleanly resolved than others, with Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) rebooting her love life and Keeley (Juno Temple) getting her PR movie again up and working with Barbara (Katy Wix).
Still, two of these three characters laid the groundwork for a potential spinoff in the closing moments of the present, with Keeley pitching Rebecca on the concept of a ladies’s crew for AFC Richmond. Rebecca appears pretty open to the concept, which suggests an open door to observe up on the world of Ted Lasso with out having to undo anybody’s comfortable ending so as to accomplish that. A ladies’s crew would let Rebecca and Keeley proceed their tales — which ended on new beginnings relatively than completely clear endings — whereas presumably permitting area for different fan-favorite characters to duck out and in of the sequence as scheduling permits.
You can see all three seasons of Ted Lasso now on Apple TV+.
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