Ted Lasso will be back for a fourth season, despite the season three finale being titled “So Long, Farewell”. According to Deadline, Brett Goldstein (Shrinking, All of You), who plays Roy Kent on the show, was as surprised as fans to hear about Ted Lasso’s next chapter. 

Via Deadline, the new season is currently being finalized by the writers. Goldstein chose to compare this resurgence to a story about his childhood friend’s dead cat. 

“I have a friend that I went to university with, and I think about this a lot,” he told the NPR podcast Wild Card. “He had a cat that died. He loved his cat, and the cat was run over, and they buried the cat, buried it. And he was a child. They buried the cat in the garden, and he lay in bed so sad, so upset and crying, and he prayed and he prayed and he wished. ‘I wish the cat would come back.’ And then the cat did come back, and it turned out the cat they buried wasn’t their cat. And I think about that all the time.”

Goldstein continued “And so, I’m like, no wonder this guy is fucked in the head, because he thinks death isn’t real, so of course he’s insane. He’s such a weird guy, cause he thinks he can bring things back from the dead.”

“I guess I’m saying I feel like that kid,” added Goldstein. “Like ‘We buried it… We all cried, we had a funeral. Are you saying we can bring anything back?’ It’s too much power.”

Goldstein evidently saw parallels in this story to the comeback of fourth Ted Lasso season. Ted Lasso was co-created by Jason Sudeikis (We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Shrinking), Brendan Hun (Horrible Bosses, Key & Peele), and Joe Kelly (Detroiters). Deadline reported that the creators originally only saw the show as running for three seasons.