I could see it on the rewatch. But I completely missed their friendship the first time, and I’m not alone.

I had a problem with this, too, and I have a close friend — he’s a psychotherapist — who quit Ted Lasso over the Colin/Isaac subplot. He thought it was really poorly written and developed. He thought that we needed more clear early examples that they were great friends outside of the locker room; we needed more of a picture of why Isaac might be unable to handle Colin’s reveal. The viewer gets left way too long with a sense that Isaac is a real jerk, and even though it eventually plays out well, it left us with a really unpleasant view of Isaac, which is wrong and unnecessary. It’s like the show itself was encouraging us to be judgmental instead of curious.

One of my few criticisms of the show. (Shandy is the other.)

Hurt people hurt people. When somebody is acting like a jerk, look for what’s hurting and forgive them.

This is literally the whole point of this show.