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.

Christopher, Gilmore Girls

It’s so obvious that Christopher (David Sutcliffe) is a mere hurdle to Luke and Lorelai’s relationship. Plus, he’s a pretty bad father to Rory, despite his attempts not to be. He isn’t a problem for much of the show’s duration, and then—bam—season seven suddenly brings Christopher and Lorelai together for some damn reason. All it does is prove he’s not husband material. Instead, he’s insecure and immature, and, what’s more, he limits Lorelai’s growth as a person. He also has no actual chemistry with his love interest, making it hard to try and care for their relationship. [Saloni Gajjar]