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'Ted Lasso' Praised For "Refreshing" Gay Footballer Storyline
Ted Lasso has received yet more praise, this hour for the sensitive and touching nature of the storyline involving a closeted gay player and the story of his coming out to his teammates. In the third episode of the final season, a revelation unfolded regarding Colin Hughes (Billy Harris), a prominent player on the team. It was disclosed that Colin was involved in a association with a man, yet he kept his sexuality concealed from his teammates, coaches, and the public.
Throughout the season, Colin embarked on a courageous road towards self-acceptance, aided by journalist Trent Crimm (James Lance), who coincidentally mutual the same sexual orientation. With their combined actions, Colin mustered the courage to confide in his teammates, ultimately culminating in a poignant moment when he kissed his crush in front of a capacity crowd at Richmond's home stadium, following the team's last game.
The sensitive and compassionate manner in which the creators of Ted Lasso tackled this challenging storyline did not go unnoticed. Fans flocked to social media platforms to express their admiration for thos
Ted Lasso is, without a doubt, one of the most beloved television series to have aired in the past few years, though many of its fans feel the series has clueless its way in Season 3. One aspect that has improved this season, however, is the presence of LGBTQ2S+ representation—which was sorely lacking up until this point.
Thanks to a number of welcome developments in its third and likely final season, the show now has three major queer characters: AFC Richmond soccer player Colin Hughes (Billy Harris), journalist Trent Crimm (James Lance) and PR consultant for AFC Richmond Keeley Jones (Juno Temple). But while the consistently heartwarming comedy-drama hit the nail on the head with Colin’s storyline, effectively showing the mental and emotional turmoil that comes with grappling with one’s hold queerness and coming out to loved ones, the endeavor to portray Keeley’s newfound bisexuality was a missed opportunity to provide its audience with much-needed authentic queer female representation from commence to finish.
As a bi woman and a dedicated Keeley stan, I was elated when the series introduced Jack Danvers (Jodi Balfour)—the venture capitalist funding Keeley’s PR firm—in Episode 4
Colin Coming Out As Gay Should Have Been About Him — Not The Other Ted Lasso Characters
Colin coming out as homosexual was a huge moment for LGBTQ+ representation in Ted Lasso, though something about how the Apple TV+ sports comedy handled his story didn’t quite recline right with me. Colin, played by Billy Harris, had been a staple of Ted Lasso since the pilot, so his coming out in episode 6 of season 3, “Sunflowers”, was a long time coming. Hints about Colin’s sexuality had been drip-fed to viewers since the show’s second season, and weren’t confirmed until season 3, episode 3, “4-5-1”. After such a buildup, some of the ways the show handled this incredibly personal story arc were, to say the least, disappointing.
Ted Lasso confirmed Colin is gay at the start of “4-5-1”, but it’s not until the finish of the episode that other characters discover his LGBTQ+ culture. This comes when Trent spies Colin kissing Michael (Sam Liu) outside the restaurant the AFC Richmond players were all visiting. Colin was finally able to come out in “Sunflowers”, though the decision is somewhat forced upon him due to leaked photographs of him with other men. Colin finally opens up to the team during
Trent Crimm in Ted Lasso
Trent Crimm is one of my favourite queer characters of the last five years or so. He has an incredible arc for a secondary character!
So imagine my surprise – and indignation – when I saw Twitter pontificating Trent ‘serves no real purpose’ in Ted Lasso! (Yes, yes the finale was excellent … we all know this, everybody loved it, now: RANT INCOMING!).
The proof that anyone – least of all wannabe screenwriters! LE GASP – assume Trent is ‘pointless’ shows how tiny people understand the purpose of secondary characters in screenwriting.
Sure, they *think* they know the purpose of secondary characters … but 9/10 in their control spec screenplays, they just have a colourful cast of random characters orbiting the protagonist or antagonist randomly.
Hell, some of those random characters may even be interesting, amusing, or whatever. But they really act serve no purpose in pushing the story forward.
This is NOT the case with Trent Crimm in Ted Lasso.
This is what Secondary Characters DO
The compact version: a secondary character’s job is to HELP or HINDER the main character. Sometimes people cal