c’mon, that can’t be it - >!isaac being rude and unfair to colin for days (weeks?) “just” because he was hurt colin hadn’t told him he was gay!<.
throughout the episodes i kept thinking: there must be something more, something deeper. >!when isaac showed up at colin’s place i was sure we’d get some emotional story or insight into isaac’s life. but no:!<
!“you lied to me. for years.” !<
!and:!<
!“What is it about me that made you think you couldn’t tell me?”!<
!i GET that isaac would ask himself that. but colin didn’t keep just this from him, he kept it from anyone; why would isaac feel that he should take it so personally? yes, the two of them have been shown to have some bond over bullying nate in S1, but other than that i don’t remember them being shown to be sooo close that it would justify isaac making the whole thing about himself.!<
what am i missing here?
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.)
They show in season 1 that they’re close. Not explicitly them, but as part of Jamie’s clique. I really am not sure how people don’t see that.
I could see it on the rewatch. But I completely missed their friendship the first time, and I’m not alone.