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.

Dorothy, You’re The Worst

It’s probably rude to dunk on a character in the throes of a quarter-life crisis, edging towards her mid-30s and still working as an improv teacher as her dreams of Hollywood stardom drift from her grasp. It’s a sad story, for sure and packs an emotional wallop when she lands on “some people aren’t meant to achieve their dreams,” but getting there is a lot. She does not support Edgar, who suffers from PTSD and heroin addiction, when he needs her. Furthermore, his emotional problems outweigh her professional ones, making her appear pretty selfish in the face of all he’s going through. To be clear, this all makes sense on the plot level, and the performance from Collette Wolfe is spot on, but dealing with a 35-year-old improv teacher in intense loser denial for two seasons is a tall ask. [Matt Schimkowitz]