{"id":873777,"date":"2026-10-07T09:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873777\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:34:15","slug":"ted-lasso-season-4-finale-recap-big-changes-how-things-leave-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873777\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4 Finale Recap: Big Changes & How Things Leave Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: This post spoils the Season 4 finale of Ted Lasso<\/a>, titled \u201cBeing Alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother finale episode of Ted Lasso has hit the net, bringing its fourth season, which branched out into the women\u2019s team storyline, to a close.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe episode kicks off with a funeral reception for AFC Richmond\u2019s own Mae Green (Annette Badland), owner of the Crown & Anchor pub, at the very pub she helmed for years. The trio of lads who have been around since Season 1 of the soccer comedy, as well as the new trivia opponents who briefly provoked the Lady Greyhounds enough to get them landed in jail, are all at the pub, which is closed for a private event, to mourn Mae.<\/p>\n

\n\tTed (Jason Sudeikis<\/a>), Michelle (Andrea Anders), Henry (Grant Feely) and Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt<\/a>) are in attendance as well. Michelle questions Beard about his physical transformation, which has become noticeable throughout the season, from his husky-like blue eye contacts to his tan and gray hair, which brings up Mae\u2019s favorite sheep, Doug, who had an ear tag like Beard\u2019s dangly earrings.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Lady Greyhounds are there as well, and Niamh Harrigan (Aisling Sharkey) challenges her teammates to split the G, which an older gentleman points out is a tradition that actually started in Britain, not Ireland. He then proceeds to chug just the right amount of Guinness to achieve the feat with the specific beer.<\/p>\n

\n\tRebecca (Hannah Waddingham) and Higgins (Jeremy Swift) toast to Mae before Higgins gets a call from HR. Keeley (Juno Temple), who we found out was pregnant in Episode 9, runs to her bathroom in a black dress to presumably hurl. Roy looks after her in his all-black suit. He, too, gets a call, but he declines to answer. It\u2019s his \u2018Prick Agent\u2019 Patrick calling, which could mean something about his contract at Richmond ending or continuing.<\/p>\n

\n\tRoy voices his concern that, because Keeley is pregnant and they are bringing new life into the world, Mae\u2019s soul had to leave it. This tradition of sharing uncomfortable truths at a funeral stems from Season 2, in which Rebecca\u2019s father died. Weirdness struck at that funeral as well. Keeley points out that things keep changing, like her body, and more.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tBrett Goldstein as Roy Kent in \u2018Ted Lasso\u2019 Season 4 finale<\/p>\n

\n\tPatrick, Roy\u2019s agent, calls once more, and Roy finally picks up to learn that he\u2019s been offered the head coaching job at Chelsea. He then takes his turn running to the bathroom to puke in the toilet.<\/p>\n

\n\tTed and Michelle check on Henry, who had grown close to Mae this season, and he wonders what will happen to the pub. As is the theme of the episode, Ted reaffirms that \u201cbig changes happen in bunches.\u201d Henry then goes to play darts after sarcastically answering, \u201cI know, I live in London now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlice Chilton (Tanya Reynolds<\/a>) framed the team selfie with Mae on the bus. Beard\u2019s ex Jane (Phoebe Walsh) shows up to the private event that has closed the Crown & Anchor in a red dress and hat, calling Mae Meg. One of her rings gets caught on Beard\u2019s earring, and she rips it out of his ear.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Harrigan twins serenade the late Mae with \u201cThe Parting Glass,\u201d even though Mae was not Irish. Higgins had something to tell Rebecca before that duet.<\/p>\n

\n\tHenry leaves the pub, and Ted goes to check on him. \u201cI just wish that she could help me with my homework again,\u201d Henry says through tears. Henry then asks Ted how his dad died. Nana (Becky Ann Baker) told Henry that his grandfather fell and hit his head on some stairs, which Ted says is true. <\/p>\n

\n\tLongtime viewers of the show know that that\u2019s not what happened \u2014 Ted\u2019s dad committed suicide. He and Beard unpack this later at the office. Here it might be noteworthy to mention that a new voice sang the show\u2019s title theme for the season finale, written by Tom Howe and Mumford & Sons. Could the below be related?<\/p>\n

\n\tWe meet Lizzie\u2019s (Faye Marsay) co-parent Ben (Simon Lipkin), a rocker man who doesn\u2019t always show up for the mother of his two sons. He says he will try to get the kids the following day, when Lizzie will be part of the Lady Greyhounds\u2019 final match of the season, but he\u2019s a flake.<\/p>\n

\n\tBack to that thing Higgins mentioned, he and Rebecca were summoned to a shareholders\u2019 meeting, even though they don\u2019t know who will show up, because it seems \u201cRupert\u201d has bought out all the shares, meaning there are no real shareholders anymore.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tL-R: Tanya Reynolds, Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt in \u2018Ted Lasso\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\tEnter Keeley in some pink pajamas with a new video idea to sell out Nelson Road. It is the opposite of the black-and-white, very serious promo video from the beginning of the season. Keep your eyes peeled, because Nathan Shelley (Nick Mohammed) shows up in a blink and you\u2019ll miss it moment, holding his baby daughter and watching the clip. His and Jade\u2019s (Edyta Budnik) daughter\u2019s name is Athena.<\/p>\n

\n\tTeam captain Lizzie is missing in the locker room before the final match. Nate the Great then shows up to say hi to the coaches before their big day. Turns out he\u2019s coaching the Polish national football team \u2014 with two other people. Roy interrupts this life update to summon the Diamond Dogs for advice about his predicament. This brings Ted, Beard, Higgins, and Nate to act silly in front of Alice, who takes Ted\u2019s suggestion to act like a cat. Roy reveals Keeley\u2019s pregnancy, and how he\u2019s worried about being a good dad. The Diamond Dogs have some great nuggets of fatherly advice. Beard reveals that Jane faked a pregnancy for 11 months. Alice might drop the biggest piece of wisdom at all: \u201cDon\u2019t disappear when you feel inadequate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMatthijs (Matteo van der Grijn), who we haven\u2019t seen in a few episodes, calls Rebecca, apologizing that he can\u2019t be there for the meeting. Higgins reveals the Milk sisters have sold their shares, and Zelda Southport (Tracey Ullman) gasps, doing a terrible job of hiding that she now owns those shares.<\/p>\n

\n\tShannon is in the starting lineup of this final match. Ted gives a simple speech to the women, thanking them. He nods to Mae, who hopefully has good Wi-Fi at the pubs up in heaven. Nelson Road Stadium has been sold out for this last women\u2019s match. Dani Rojas (Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez), Isaac McAdoo (Kola Bokinni), Jan Mas (David Elsendoorn), Stephen Manas (Richard Montflaur), Thierry Zoreaux (Moe Jeudy-Lamour), Colin Hughes (Billy Harris), Moe Bumbercatch (Moe Hasim) and Sam Obisanya (Toheeb Jimoh) are in the audience with Roy, clapping for the ladies. <\/p>\n

\n\tRoy asks Sam if he ever questioned leaving Richmond for Man U, and Sam quotes The Wizard of Oz, citing Dorothy and saying that \u201cSometimes you have to leave to know where home truly is.\u201d This saying ties in with the Wizard of Oz layers in Season 4\u2019s first episode when Keeley, Rebecca and Higgins visit Ted in Kansas City. Turns out Sam was actually citing his Aunt Dorothy, but a story for another time. Keeley gets to watch the game until she yells at the ref.<\/p>\n

\n\tJust as Annette Badland teased to Deadline<\/a>, Mae\u2019s shares come in clutch from beyond the grave at the Bi-Annual Shareholders\u2019 Meeting, only attended by the three lads from the pub. Zelda, in a black-and-white Cruella de Vil coat, admits that she bought all the shares, making her owner of AFC Richmond with a controlling interest of over 50% of the shares. Her goal all along was to own a men\u2019s Premier League team to make men listen to her.<\/p>\n

\n\tTed tells Henry the truth about his grandfather\u2019s death. Back at the Shareholders\u2019 meeting, Rebecca and Higgins fake scream at each other and reveal that the Milk sisters didn\u2019t actually sell their shares to Zelda after all. Turns out, Hugo Riddles (Alex Blake) \u2014the HR who called Higgins \u2014 teamed up with Rebecca and Higgins, but the math isn\u2019t mathing because now it is 49%-49%. Elaine Pinter (Helen Schlesinger) of Pinter & Sons zooms in to speak on behalf of former client Mae Green to tell Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. La Fleur and Mr. Primrose (the three pub lads) that they\u2019ve become owners and proprietors of the Crown & Anchor pub.<\/p>\n

\n\tMs. Green\u2019s 2% ownership stake in AFC Richmond goes to Rebecca, as she declared in her will. This puts Rebecca back at 51%.<\/p>\n

\n\tRoy approaches Rebecca to tell her about his decision to go to Chelsea. She does not take it well at first, mocking him and his eyebrows. Roy then mocks her right back. They share a very sweet hug, and she earns her nickname from Roy and Keeley\u2019s future child, Auntie Supreme.<\/p>\n

\n\tTed asks Rebecca if he can chat with her about the newly opened manager position. Cut to Beard, who is reading how Emma Stone is starring in Jane\u2019s play at the West End, with Richard Schiff starring as the Bearded Coach. Matthijs shows up, points out Beard\u2019s lack of blue contacts, and makes fun of the guinea pig left behind on his head.<\/p>\n

\n\tRebecca says \u201cFuck it, marry me\u201d to Matthijs after she\u2019s had a revelation while munching on one of Ted\u2019s biscuits. He says yes!<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJuno Temple as Keeley Jones in \u2018Ted Lasso\u2019 Season 4<\/p>\n

\n\tAnnette Badland\u2019s voice narrates the end of the episode, with Isaac giving Beard a precious haircut, handed an electric razor by Will the Kitman (Charlie Hiscock).<\/p>\n

\n\tRoy packs up his office, and he finds an envelope with his name on it, containing a note from Ted that says he\u2019s going to be a great dad. Ted gives him an army man like Henry gave Ted when Ted first moved across the pond. Keeley comes to walk him out of his office wearing ruby red heels.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlice starts a sticky note countdown of 112 days until the first game of the next season for the Lady Greyhounds. Turns out she\u2019s the one who\u2019s been lowering Ted\u2019s chair this whole time. Ted gives her a going-away present, which seems to be a whistle in a red box, meaning she has been promoted to Head Coach of the Lady Greyhounds. Beard shows up, rocking a buzz cut, wondering if he missed it. A plaque outside their office declares Alice Chilton Manager of the AFC Richmond Women\u2019s team. Willis Beard and Ted Lasso are Assistant Managers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: This post spoils the Season 4 finale of Ted Lasso, titled \u201cBeing Alive.\u201d Another finale episode…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[5896,23536,88,23321,23540,13022,92],"class_list":["post-873777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-apple-tv","tag-brendan-hunt","tag-entertainment","tag-jason-sudeikis","tag-tanya-reynolds","tag-ted-lasso","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}