*Spoiler Alert*
Even though we’re on a fresh new season of Insecure, it appears as if very few of the show’s characters have learned much from last season. Dro (Sarunas Jackson) is still making a f—ing mockery of the open marriage, Molly (Yvonne Orji) is still pretending like she has everything figured out when she hasn’t a damn thing figured out; and Issa (Issa Rae) is still circling the nonprofits drain and driving a Lyft for extra cash.
It would appear the main season-starting story arc involves Issa’s homelessness sending her to the couch of Y’Lan Noel’s Daniel, who might just serve as the season’s primary love interest in the wake of Team Lawrence’s death knell. The decision to move in with Daniel in the last scenes of season 2 made me scratch my head (if not outright aggravated me), so I’m glad it’s being dealt with immediately in season 3.
Here are five reasons why Issa walking through Daniel’s threshold to live is an awful idea:
1. They’re not really friends:
Sure, Daniel was introduced way back in the pilot as an “old friend.” But the last two seasons have been filled with a litany of drama directly associated with his resurfacing, from outright cheating to (ugh) spooge-in-the-eye issues and everything in between. For the love of Mary, Daniel is the catalyst for Issa’s breakup with Lawrence. No one believes the “I’m just crashing on the couch with my old buddy” bit…Issa needs more people.
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2. Daniel has a new woman on deck:
There are a lot of different dynamics involving the mingling of current boos and ex-boos. But Daniel must be a mad scientist to finagle smashing a woman while a woman he used to smash is posted up on the couch outside. Unless he flat-out lied, which is a total possibility. Either way, the dynamic has all the life expectancy of a mayfly and is destined to go up like a spark in a dry basement full of old newspaper.
3. Not staying with anyone else seems unrealistic:
The fact that Issa needs to hit up her best friend – who also happens to be a single, childless, highly-paid professional – to ask if she can come over to hang out simply rings hollow, even if Issa played it off last season by suggesting that she wouldn’t have Molly deal with her drama. There’s no way Issa should be staying with Daniel over her very best friend in the world. Hell, even if Molly doesn’t work, Issa also has her brother Ahmad (Jean Elie). Or maybe even Kelli (Natasha Rothwell). Point is, Issa has options.
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4. Daniel knows what he’s doing with this other dame:
Issa knew that Daniel was purposeful in loudly getting it in with some other woman in the other room. If he was trying to make Issa jealous or win her back with that, it was a terrible approach. This is how emotionally immature people deal with shit and I think I’d be annoyed if these two wind up on some happily-ever-after shit. But then, I was a fan of Mr. Big in Sex and the City. So who am I to talk?
5. There’s nothing healthy about Issa’s approach:
When Issa and Daniel kinda-sorta lay their cards on the table near the end of the season premiere, they both seem to admit that they had ulterior motives in their respective requests and allowances, but it’s all ridiculous. Nothing about the events in season 2 indicated to me that Issa was in the headspace to crash at Daniel’s crib on some “let’s be homies” type shit. Because, well, see #1.
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Dustin J. Seibert is a native Detroiter living in Chicago. Miraculously, people have paid him to be aggressively light-skinned via a computer keyboard for nearly two decades. He loves his own mama slightly more than he loves music and exercises every day only so his French fry intake doesn’t catch up to him. Find him at his own site, wafflecolored.com.