Colin McKenna

**Colin McKenna** is a supporting character in Season 1 of Netflix's *Uncoupled (TV Series)* portrayed by Tuc Watkins. He is Michael’s former partner, a hedge fund manager who blindsides Michael when he leaves him on the eve of his 50th birthday.

## Physical appearance

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## Character traits

Described by many as handsome, but unfortunately, he is never very open about his emotions.

## History

In Chapter 1, Colin and Michael lie in bed on the morning of the former’s 50th birthday. Colin feels a bit too old and is insecure about going beyond fifty and entering a new phase in life. He asks for nothing fancy and quiet celebrations for the birthday. Unbeknownst to Colin, Michael had secretly planned a surprise party for Colin. It is time for the party and Colin arrives. He has a solemn look on his face and readies himself to give Michael the big news. He is leaving him. As he delivers the news, Michael inadvertently reveals the surprise party that Colin will have to attend. Eventually, Colin is pressured to take his shirt off and wear some angel wings since it's his birthday. After the party is done, Colin is fraught with him for organizing the party when he asked for something low-key. He takes a cab and goes to the apartment he has taken for himself. The next morning, Michal receives a message from Colin that he has booked them an appointment with a couples counselor for the next day. Michael tells Suzanne what happened with Colin, who is equally incredulous. Michael and Colin attend the counselor’s session. The latter is still not forthcoming and is reluctant to confront the former’s accusations. Although they book the next appointment, Colin forgets to take Michael’s present. They had initially planned to go together to the party but Colin says he will come separately. But at the Jonathans’ party, Colin messages Michael that “they have nothing more to work on” and he isn’t coming.

In Chapter 2, Suzanne begins her tardy recollection of when she saw Colin near the High Line and finally reveals that the person’s identity is none other than Tyler Hawkins. Michael is in shock. As he frenetically starts to rethink when Colin and Tyler might have first met, he recollects that it might have been at their company’s Christmas party. He was the one who introduced them and they even looked at Tyler’s Instagram that night. Later, Michael has a nightmare about Colin and Tyler, together, making love against the glass window opening up in the street. Through unsent texts that Michael keeps writing and erasing, he showcases how much he misses Colin. As he does so, Michael reminisces when Colin and he were first moving in together and seeing the new space. At a charity event, Michael is forced to confront Tyler. But the young realtor reveals that he is not in a relationship with Colin. The only communication he had with him was getting him an apartment and what Suzanne saw through the windows was just a courtesy he extends to all his clients. Later, as Michael walks past his mailbox in the apartment building, he scratches out Colin’s surname, “McKenna”, from it.

In Chapter 3, Michael is trying to move on from Colin by trying to pick up single men in nightclubs with loud music, but unfortunately, he is still preoccupied with Colin leaving his life in the way that he has. At Stanley's art gallery, some of his clients are just leaving, who are acquaintances of Michael, and close friends of Colin. They mention in conversation about Colin’s dinner party the week before to which Stanley also went. Michael is extremely upset with him for “betraying” him, despite Stanley’s attempts to explain to him that he went only to find out what happened. “His side of the story”, as movies have taught us. Michael is not ready to listen to him and leaves angrily.

In Chapter 4, Michael explains to Billy that his mother’s visit to town and apparently her being in the dark over Colin. The only worrying thing is that she absolutely adores Colin and will be very antsy when she learns about this. Michael has lunch with his mother. He finally reveals Colin and he broke up and she does not take it well. She pushes him to introspect and find out “what he did wrong”. While waiting for Claire, Michael expresses his concern over the second notice on the liquor bill from Colin’s party. He is a little low on cash but does not want to ask Colin for it. Later, Michael discovers Colin has come to visit his mom. Michael suspects that his mother called Colin to push both of them back together. But Colin reveals that he is still on the family thread and read the text about Michael’s mother. He felt concerned and came in to visit her. Colin is late for a meeting and leaves. Michael gives him a cold send-off but is prompted by Lisa to run after him. The two have a very touching and genuine conversation. Until Colin mentions that he got a new dog. That is enough to send Michael on a rant and angrily come down on Colin for refusing to get a dog when they were together and Colin said he never wanted a dog. Colin walks off. At a party, his and Michael's counselor tells Michael, that there was never a chance for the two men to get back together because Michael only heard what he wanted to and didn’t even let Colin speak. He instead asks Michael to cherish the people in his life who decided to stay. Colin is not coming back and Michael must accept that. As Stanley and Michel make up, Michael notices on his phone that Colin has left the family thread after Michael’s mother sends a text on it.

In Chapter 5, Michael laments how Colin has ruined his evolution in relationships with time and changing cultural paradigms. Later, Michael is surprised when his parents set him on a date. This after how hard his parents were rooting for him to get back together with Colin. At the healer’s convention, Michael is called up by him to the stage. The healer snaps around sixteen times in front of Michael’s face and he is apparently healed. Suzanne is told by him that he needs to get the man of out her bed. The next morning, Michael wakes up a changed man. He is noticeably less angry at everything else and feels that he is over Colin. He even cries in front of Stanley for Colin, sympathizing with him.

In Chapter 7, Horst offers fake sympathies to Michael about breaking up and even mentions that Colin is in a new relationship. This catches Michael unaware and he instead goes into over-thinking mode. Horst says that Colin has hooked up with someone he knows and he saw photos on Instagram too. Billy and Stanley try to calm him down saying he has Corey to look forward to and must focus on him.

In Chapter 8, Michael spots Colin with whom he thinks is his boyfriend and goes up to say hi. The man with Colin is actually his boyfriend, and Colin has come there alone. Later, Michael announces that the ban for his friends to talk with Colin has been lifted as it is too exhausting to stay mad anymore. He goes up to Michael's table and has fun chit-chatting. The mortgage thing is just about to come up as a drunk Teresa – the mother of one of the Jonathans – gives a toast. She actually cites the splitting up of Michael and Colin as the reason why her son went ahead with the decision to marry. Both take it like champs and revel in the celebrations. Colin then expresses to Michael that he wasn’t unhappy in their relationship. What prompted him to separate was an urge to write new pages in his life every day and not have his fate decided beforehand. The mundane continuity of domestic life was suffocating for him and he decided to act on his instincts. Michael says he is okay and relieved with his explanation and then mentions the mortgage. Colin is circumspect and asks Michael to give him time to think it over, “financially”. Surprisingly, Michael agrees and goes back to his table. Suzanne is visibly disappointed and decides to confront Colin about his decision. She says it is great to see and talk to him again after the bitterness of the split. The two catch up about their lives. Suzanne then mentions that Colin should agree to Michael’s request. His sudden declaration of moving out hit Michael like a train and when Colin says it’ll be weird for him to imagine Michael living there with someone else, Suzanne says it was him who put him in this position. They all dance as a group and Michael even has a duet with Colin. The group teasingly probes but Michael says it is nothing. They are not getting back together. Michael goes back to his apartment and is shocked to see Colin there, waiting for him. He says he thinks he has made a mistake and wants to get back together with Michael!

## Appearances

### Season 1 - 4/8

* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 8