Thursday, August 06, 2026
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Here's the thing with celebrated TV series that spawn legions of adoring fans, devoted subscribers, and merch buyers: they never end, even when they should. Case in point? Ted Lasso, which creator/star Jason Sudeikis resurrected for a fourth season on Apple TV this week. So, can we believe in believe one more time? Don't get your hopes up. "There’s a distinctly negative energy in Jason Sudeikis’s performance as Ted Lasso this year," Eric Francisco writes in his review of the premiere episode. See what he means below. —Brady Langmann, senior entertainment editor
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The Apple TV sports comedy is still the same show. That’s kind of the problem.
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I want to live in the world of Ted Lasso. Not because the grass is always cut and everyone smiles a mile wide—frankly, that all screams “Written and Directed by David Lynch” too much for my comfort—but because things seem to always work out in the end. Even if they shouldn’t.
As of today, the Apple TV hit has made its unfathomable return for a fourth season. I say unfathomable because season 3 was not just written as a series finale but felt like it too. But here we are. Season 4. The first episode, aptly titled “Home,” brings the story to American soil to find Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) spending his post-coaching retirement, well, not doing much. Without a team to coach, Ted lives his divorced life like an aimless supporting character in other people’s stories. It’s only when his old Richmond pals, Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham), Keeley (Juno Temple), and Higgins (Jeremy Swift) show up on his HOA-regulated front lawn that Ted has direction again.
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Do you ever wonder who your favorite menswear experts’ favorite menswear experts are? Talk to anyone with a penchant for classic tailoring mixed with a healthy dose of personal flair and there’s a very good chance you’ll hear about brothers André and Keith Churchwell. Their fans run the gamut from fashion insiders and editors to writers like G. Bruce Boyer, the author of seminal books like Elegance: A Guide to Quality in Menswear (1985), and Derek Guy, an Esquire contributor you might know as @DieWorkwear—aka the “Menswear Guy”—on X.
“They really know what they’re doing,” says Boyer. “A lot of people will say, ‘Oh, well, he’s just a guy who looks good in clothing.’ That is never true. A guy who looks good in clothing knows why he looks good in clothing.”
The thing is, the Churchwells aren’t fashion guys by trade. The Nashville-born siblings are doctors—two of the most esteemed cardiologists in the country, in fact—who were born in the Jim Crow–era South and navigated their way to success despite the myriad obstacles thrown in the path of Black professionals.
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Peyton Manning is trying to describe his first car to me. It was a Jeep Wagoneer, for one, but there was something weird and somewhat lethal about it. “Um, Brady, like, the back windshield ... I’m trying to describe it,” Manning starts, unsure. “Like the washer fluid that you would use to wash your back windshield?”
Go on, Peyton.
“On this Jeep Wagoneer, it had a little tube. You could disconnect the tube, and when you hit the washer-fluid button, it would spray the car behind you. It was like a little hose.”
And how did the middle Manning brother—known prankster, goofball, and ballbuster—use this little hose? Take a wild guess.
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