First of all, for those who don’t know, we highly recommend watching Ted Lasso on Apple’s TV+. A comedy, it succeeds on the most basic level: it’s quite funny.
But it’s more than just funny. It’s good on many levels, including just being about people being decent to people, something we could all use more of and which may, in fact, explain its considerable success.
The show is about an American football coach at Wichita State who spends one year there, leading the team to a national championship, before taking a job with the Richmond Greyhounds, a fictional British soccer team (obviously they call it football), despite not knowing anything about the sport.