Earlier this season, "Ted Lasso" introduced a troubling storyline. Footballer Colin (Billy Harris), long suspected by watchful viewers to be gay after he corrected his Richmond teammates on the proper spelling of Grindr, hard launched a boyfriend, kissing goodbye to Sam Liu's Michael before heading out to train. Here's the troubling part. Trent Crimm (James Lance), formerly of The Independent and now writing an H. G. Bissinger-style book about the team, witnessed the two kissing again later in an alley at night, and started following Colin. The Apple TV+ show pretty heavy-handedly expected us to believe Trent would out the athlete.
The show is tolerating them, but their storylines are miserable.
