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Coach Jason Sudeikis is back, so believe in ‘Ted Lasso’ again
Watch the folksy soccer manager’s return to Apple TV and Callum Turner, potential 007, headline rom-com “One Night Only.”
Brian Truitt
- Bask in the return of Jason Sudeikis’ folksy soccer coach in “Ted Lasso” Season 4.
- Callum Turner headlines the rom-com “One Night Only.” But is Mr. Dua Lipa right for 007?
- Greta Lee is having a busy summer, and now she’s trapped with her family in the Netflix sci-fi thriller “The Last House.”
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Whether you believe in “Believe” or live by the mantra “Be a goldfish,” you’re probably pretty excited by the return of “Ted Lasso.”
Jason Sudeikis‘ kind and quirky soccer coach returns for another season of the Apple TV sports comedy, this time managing a British women’s team. That’s a must-watch this weekend, in addition to the clever new romantic comedy “One Night Only,” starring Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro as strangers who meet on the only evening of the year that single people can have sex. But if you’re itching for something a bit weirder, the Netflix sci-fi thriller “The Last House” features Greta Lee and Wagner Moura as a mom and dad whose family gets mysteriously trapped in their house.
Now on to the good stuff:
Bask in the return of Jason Sudeikis’ soccer coach in ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4
If you’ve been missing the folksiness of “Ted Lasso,” Season 4 (streaming now on Apple TV) definitely delivers on all the usual feel-good vibes. A few years have passed since Ted (Jason Sudeikis) left his job coaching London’s AFC Richmond soccer club to go back home to Kansas City, and the season premiere finds his old boss Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) and others traveling to America to recruit Ted as the coach of Richmond’s new women’s team.
My colleague Erin Jensen talked with Sudeikis about how “it’s scary” to return to “Lasso” after what seemed to be the series finale, he says. “But it’s like, doesn’t that kind of mean you’re supposed to do it? Like, you’re supposed to walk toward the fear, face that, confront that?” Erin also chatted with co-creator Brendan Hunt (who plays Coach Beard) about how the new season could have looked very different, and Hunt and Sudeikis explain the reasoning behind why they recast Ted Lasso’s son in the show.
See Callum Turner, the potential new James Bond, in ‘One Night Only’
Like a rom-com spin on “The Purge,” “One Night Only” (in theaters now) imagines a New York City where premarital sex is allowed only once a year − for 12 hours − thanks to a government mandate. Sparks gradually fly when a broken-hearted pizza-shop owner (Callum Turner) keeps running into a drug-jingle singer (Monica Barbaro).
Turner (aka Dua Lipa’s husband) is one of the names being bandied about as the next James Bond. It’s a superspy role that I’m not sure he completely fits – Everyman comedy seems more his speed − but I digress. But my bud Patrick Ryan wrote a piece about how Turner could be an ideal next 007, pointing out how “he has an intoxicating combination of mischief and bone-dry wit.”
Stream Greta Lee’s Netflix sci-fi thriller ‘The Last House’
Patrick chatted with Greta Lee, the “Past Lives” star who’s having quite the busy summer. She voiced an antagonistic kids’ tablet in “Toy Story 5” and stars as the mom of a family trapped in their house during a rainstorm under seriously strange circumstances in “The Last House” (streaming now on Netflix). What if she got stuck in her house for an extended period of time? “I’d get hangry and low blood sugar in – I don’t know – an hour?” quips Lee, who worked with actual survivalists for the role. “I was like, ‘I am ill-equipped! I’m an actor; I should stay in that zone.’ ”
“Last House” is among the various new movies hitting streaming services. I rounded up what to watch there, including a couple of Italian-set rom-coms, “Solo Mio” and “You, Me & Tuscany,” as well as a Billie Eilish concert film co-directed by James Cameron.
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