Re-reading Wet Sand and reaching the TJIan fight in S1, really made me realize just how perfectly TJ, Ian, and Joseph embody the dynamic of a married couple in the middle of one of their quarrels, with Joseph tragically cast as the side piece who awkwardly wandered into the middle of a story whose pages had been written long before he ever appeared : He genuinely never stood a chance.
Joseph wasn't walking into a love triangle, he was walking into a marriage that had simply forgotten to call itself one.