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.

Piz, Veronica Mars

Poor Piz. He never really stood a chance coming in between the star-crossed romance of Veronica (Kristen Bell) and Logan (Jason Dohring). It’s a testament to the fact that the gang loved Chris Lowell so much that he stuck around as long as he did (even returning for the revival film), because the fans were, well, not fans of Piz. This was a classic attempt to pair up the complicated, hard-edged heroine with an uncomplicated, golden retriever kind of guy. Except Marshmallows didn’t want uncomplicated—they wanted epic. It didn’t help that Piz hung around somewhat pathetically waiting for a shot with Veronica even when she was with someone else. By the time Logan gave Piz a real beating in the series’ penultimate episode, many of us were glad to see him take the punch. [Mary Kate Carr]