TV’s 12 worst love interests

Seeing a love story unfold on screen can be a beautiful, heartwarming, life affirming experience. Seeing the wrong love story unfold is, like, one of the most annoying things that can happen while watching TV. There is no better example of this than the Che Diaz phenomenon. Fans not only hated Miranda’s new And Just Like That… partner, they delighted in hating Che, to extremes that have rarely been seen on television.

A bad love interest can make your blood boil and set your teeth to grinding. Sometimes the character is annoying on purpose (especially if they’re a temporary pit stop on the way to true love), but sometimes they just represent a bad miscalculation on the writers’ part about what the audience wants to see. Here, The A.V. Club picks our least favorite love interests on television, from the annoying to the insufferable to the totally unforgivable.

Alice, Only Murders In The Building

We love that gave Mabel a queer love interest in season two, but did she have to be so goddamn aggravating? After a whole season of watching the incredible chemistry between Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short, adding Cara Delvigne to the mix was a real bummer. She and Gomez were so stiff around each other that it was hard to believe their characters even liked each other, much less experienced any sort of mutual attraction. Luckily, Alice turned out to be a red herring and disappeared by the end of the season. So long, Alice! You will not be missed. [Emma Keates]