Ted Lasso Season 4 Finale Streams Today on Apple TV — ‘Being Alive’ Ends the Richmond Story

Three years after Ted Lasso walked away from Richmond, the show that refused to end has reached the end of its second ending. Episode 10 of Season 4, “Being Alive,” streams today — Wednesday, October 7 — on Apple TV, closing a ten-episode run that bet the whole season on a radical idea: that the most interesting team in Richmond is the one Ted started coaching only after the men’s game was done with him.

LOS ANGELES — The finale arrives with the table set by last week’s penultimate episode. Richmond’s women came into that hour chasing a win after a loss to Southampton, with pub owner Mae along for the away trip — invited by the team, and delivering a motivational speech on the team bus that reminded everyone why the Crown & Anchor is the show’s true home ground. Then came the gut punch the episode was building toward all along: Mae’s death, which turns the finale into a farewell twice over.

“Being Alive” opens where grief lives on this show — at the pub. The Crown & Anchor is closed for Mae’s wake, and the regulars gather the way they always have: Paul, Jeremy and Baz holding court with the quiz-night crew, Rebecca and Higgins commiserating over a loss that has nothing to do with football. It is the kind of scene Ted Lasso has always done better than anyone else on television — the joke that lands right before the silence. And in the episode’s warmest beat, the trio learns that Mae left the pub to them.

The episode’s biggest swing belongs to Roy Kent and Keeley Jones. The couple is expecting a baby — news that reframes every one of Roy’s gruff certainties — and then Roy gets the call every retired player dreams about and dreads in equal measure: the head coaching job at Chelsea. His reaction is to join Keeley in throwing up near the sink. Then he does what Roy Kent does: he takes it to the Diamond Dogs, made whole by a visiting Nate — with a new addition, coach Alice, who joins as a cat.

Roy’s decision lands him in Rebecca’s office, and it is the scene the season has been building toward. He tells her he is taking the Chelsea job. She is furious — and then she isn’t. The two reach an understanding that plays like the show’s thesis in miniature: people change, clubs change, and loving a place does not have to mean staying in it forever. Their final scene together is, by one critic’s account, truly excellent and very Ted Lasso.

The finale also resolves the season’s boardroom chess match. Zelda’s plan — quietly buying up Richmond shares, with Mae’s shares as the fulcrum — is laid bare, and it is strikingly plain: she wanted to be heard in a sport run by men, so she schemed her way toward owning a Premier League team. Rebecca’s response is the surprise: forgiveness. And in the episode’s most soapy turn, Zelda’s remarks about marriage prompt Rebecca to propose to Matthijs.

The finale is also a reunion. Nate is back, and he is not alone: the men’s team’s old guard — Dani Rojas, Isaac McAdoo, Sam Obisanya, Colin Hughes, Zoreaux, Maas, Montlaur and Moe Bumbercatch — turn up in the stands to cheer on the women. Asked whether he ever second-guesses leaving Richmond for Manchester United, Sam told Decider: “Sure, but as Dorothy learned, sometimes you have to go away to know where home truly is.” There is even a glimpse of Will Kitman, assisting Isaac as he shaves Beard’s head near the episode’s end.

The coda is pure Ted Lasso. A haunting rendition of “The Parting Glass” gives way to Mary Oliver’s “When Death Comes” in voiceover over the closing montage — and the final image lands the season’s arc with a wink: Ted’s new office placard reads “assistant manager,” a direct callback to the season’s opening scene, which found Ted working in a supermarket. The show ends, as it always ends, at the beginning of an ever-repeating cycle.

Critics have been warm. ReadySteadyCut gave the finale 4.5 out of 5, calling it a blockbuster, emotionally resonant finale, and concluded that bringing the show back after its three-year hiatus was worthwhile — if not quite a patch on the show’s all-time great run of form. The season’s governing word, from the premiere on, was “change” — and the finale finally decides what that word costs.

The open question is what comes next. There is no official renewal for a fifth season. But the finale leaves its threads deliberately dangling: Roy and Keeley’s baby, Ted’s unresolved romantic life — he asked one woman out this season who wasn’t available, and the stage manager played by Charlotte Riley remains a possibility — and a Rebecca who has proposed marriage while steering the club into a new era. Abbie Hern, who plays star striker Gemma Jay, told Decider the episode felt like the beginning of an ending — and then, tellingly, like a beginning.

All ten episodes of Ted Lasso Season 4 are streaming now on Apple TV, alongside every previous season. For more on the season’s biggest swings, see our Reacher Season 4 preview and the Lanterns season report card; the East of Eden limited series is also worth your queue. The full catalog lives in TV browse.