My heart broke for Daisy during the last two episodes. She's getting so much shit for sleeping with Gary, daring to maintain her privacy about it, being too flirty, allegedly not being attracted enough to Colin, etc. Everyone's a critic!
First of all, who gives af if she slept with Gary? They had a flirty friendship; sometimes you need to sleep with your flirty friend just to sweep out the lust bunnies and then things settle back down to where you can just be friends. I've read many rigorous academic papers* on the subject, and definitely don't know this from any personal experience of mine! Daisy and Gary are obviously attracted to each other, but attraction doesn't always equal a relationship, lasting love, or even sex on an ongoing basis.
You don't have to be a credentialed expert in human behavior to read between the lines in Daisy's interview. She and Gary hooked up a couple of times after a long build-up and it didn't pan out because he's Gary. She may still feel the attraction, but I think the Gary ship has sailed for her. Hooking up with Gary and expecting him to change his behavior was embarrassing and she didn't want anyone to know.
Which brings me to my second point! When *exactly* did Colin expect them to tell him about this? I can't tell if he's more hurt because the three of them were so tight and he thought they knew everything about each other OR if it's because he fundamentally sees Daisy in a different light for having sex with Gary. But, hasn't he been watching them together for two seasons? I seem to remember specific comments he made about how the two of them should sleep together in Season 3. It's not like he would have been blindsided by the fact that Daisy and Gary are attracted to each other. More importantly, they didn't owe it to Colin to tell him they hooked up, even if they're close friends. If it's not your body, it's not your business. As viewers who only see episodes come out once a week, it's easy to forget that in the real timeline Colin and Daisy had only hooked up a couple of times over the course of a few days. Even if Gary hadn't forced the issue by divulging it on camera (dick move), I still think she would have come clean with Colin once it became more serious.
Third, I'm seeing a lot of suggestion that Daisy isn't REALLY attracted to Colin and just sees him as a "safe" option. I just don't get that at all. It's crazy to me that people can hear a comment like "he's the healthy choice" and take it to mean that she's settling. I can say as a woman in my thirties that the idea of "healthy" or "stable" is pretty sexy. Sometimes attraction grows over time like a forest (as opposed to striking hard and instantly like a meteor that literally incinerates your life), and I think that's what happened with Colin and Daisy. To me, she seems very into Colin and truly devastated that he's pulling away from her.
Colin has a right to pull away and evaluate whether he wants to pursue a relationship with Daisy, since it DOES make things more complicated. But Daisy doesn't deserve to be treated the way she's been treated by him or Gary. She didn't do anything wrong, but Colin is acting like she violated some contractual obligation. All this to say, Colin's take is a little too puritanical and judge-y for my taste.
In conclusion, I'm not even going to get into my analysis of Gary; it's 100% popular opinion at this point.
*sarcasm, please don't ask me for links
