India, Aug. 6 -- Everyone's favourite football coach is back. Ted Lasso has been forced to return from the US to the UK to coach the AFC Richmond women's team. And it is here that Lasso, the character, mirrors Lasso the show, which Apple TV had to bring back for a fourth season despite neatly wrapping up the character's arc in the season 3 finale. Season 4 was a risky proposition and it starts shakily, but to the relief of anyone who has liked this heartwarming show, it gets back on track, even if it carries the hint of a predictable formula in its narrative now.

Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) is living a quiet life in the US with his family, when Rebecca Walton (Hannah Waddingham), his former boss, coaxes him to return to London and take up...