Ted Lasso is coming back, and that’s thrilling. However, it’s also a bit confusing considering Season 3’s finale felt pretty...final. To that point, Brett Goldstein was asked about returning to the beloved Apple TV+ series,

The actor, who plays Roy Kent on the Emmy-winning series and is also a writer and executive producer on the series, told an anecdote about a friend's dead cat on a recent episode of NPR's "Wild Card" podcast that was a perfect analogy to "Ted Lasso's" return.

“He loved his cat and the cat was run over and they buried the cat, buried it, and he was his child,” Goldstein said on a recent episode of NPR’s “Wildcard” podcast. “He lay in bed so sad, so, so upset and crying and he prayed and he prayed and he wished, ‘I wish the cat would come back.’”

Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein, who is also one of the writers on the show, talked about the strange situation the cast and crew found themselves in as they were returning to the show. Last month, Apple TV+ confirmed that the show was coming back for Season 4 after the series finale streamed in May 2023.

"We buried it, we all cried, we had a funeral. Are you saying we can bring anything back? It’s too much power," he says.

Writer-actor Brett Goldstein reveals his initial reaction to knowing that Ted Lasso is coming back for Season 4.

Goldstein jokes about how Ted Lasso season 4 is like the "resurrection" of a dead cat. He shares an anecdote about a