The 5 Best Love Triangles On TV (& The 5 Worst)

The 5 Best Love Triangles On TV (& The 5 Worst)

Television is filled with love triangles as they offer up tons of great drama. Some really work out for entertainment while others miss the mark.

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Love triangles are often the bread and butter of TV drama. They make sure the emotional stakes are always high, create opportunities for tons of angst, and, when done well, end up resulting in growth for one or more of the characters that make up the triangle.

The best love triangles create a believable and compelling source of conflict for the person at the center of the complicated situation. On the other hand, the worst love triangles can drag characters through the mud and end up feeling like they were written just to create drama (which works occasionally but not always).

10 Best: Addison-Derek-Meredith, Grey’s Anatomy

Over the course of nearly two decades, Grey’s Anatomy has had no shortage of love triangles. The first major one remains superior, even after all this time. Derek and Meredith are clearly meant to be endgame from the pilot of the show, and their relationship develops organically, despite the complications that arise from his status as her superior at work.

Just as they’re getting solid footing, things blow up when Derek’s estranged wife Addison shows up. Derek tries to do the right thing by giving his marriage another shot, leaving Meredith broken-hearted. This leads to an iconic speech delivered by Meredith to Derek, which all diehard Grey’s fans can recite word for word: “Pick me, choose me, love me.”

9 Worst: Brooke-Lucas-Peyton, One Tree Hill

This is the one that fans of the show literally refer to as “the triangle” and yet it’s not one of the best. Lucas always had a thing for Peyton and then chose to get involved with Brooke when it seemed like nothing was going to happen with her. The trouble is, of course, that Brooke and Peyton are best friends, which Lucas knew and seemingly disregarded.

It’s not a good thing to get in between two best friends. Luckily, Brooke and Peyton’s friendship survived all the back and forth that went on between the three, which is good. Regardless, Brooke Davis deserved better.

8 Best: Chuck-Blair-Nate/Chuck-Blair-Dan, Gossip Girl

While arguably the most was made out of the Dan-Serena-Nate love triangle, which pretty much went on from season one through season three, it was Blair who had the most interesting (and just the most, period) love triangles. It all started when she broke up with Nate (who was in love with her best friend Serena). While searching for a distraction, Blair goes to Chuck, and the rest, they say, is history.

A striptease and a limo hookup later, and Chuck and Blair clearly had the potential to be an endgame couple. They broke up because Chuck was still kind of the worst, and after a failed marriage, Blair chooses to pursue a relationship with Dan rather than get back with Chuck, who she still doesn’t trust. Fans had very mixed reactions about this pairing, and it was always clear that Blair would end up with Chuck.

7 Worst: Joey-Rachel-Ross, Friends

After the drawn-out will-they-won’t-they that Ross and Rachel had going on, it was an odd choice to have Rachel start dating Joey, their mutual friend and a member of the Friends main group. The thing is, Joey and Rachel aren’t an awful couple on paper. In fact, some have argued that they might make a better pair than Ross and Rachel.

But by the time they date in season 10, so much time has been spent on the fact that Ross and Rachel will inevitably end up together that it feels like a waste of time and a way to create drama that didn’t work for most fans.

6 Best: Frank-Claire-Jamie, Outlander

The popular and long-running Starz series Outlander, based on the novels by Diana Gabaldon, is a love story between Claire and Jamie. Fans of the novels know that Claire’s choice has always been obvious, as book Frank is racist and unfaithful, not providing much competition for Jamie Fraser, Perfect Man. The show’s choice to cast Tobias Menzies and rework the character a bit to make him more sympathetic and likable paid off really well.

Even as the chemistry between Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan is undeniable, viewers felt sorry for Frank and understood why Claire would want to try to get back to him before choosing to stay with Jamie. Claire and Frank were the kind of couple who probably could have made it work if she hadn’t traveled back in time and fallen in love with a giant Scotsman.

5 Worst: Karen-Jim-Pam, The Office

Poor Karen, she deserved better. After being rejected by Pam (who had fair grounds to do so, as she was engaged when Jim told her how he felt), Jim transfers to another branch for a fresh start.

He strikes up a sweet romance with Karen, and the two were a good couple until they return to Scranton, where a newly single Pam is waiting. Jim clearly wanted to be with Pam and any more time that he spends with Karen is just stringing her along for no real reason. The whole thing is messed up.

4 Best: Gregory-Elizabeth-Phillip, The Americans

This love triangle existed during season one of The Americans when Phillip and Elizabeth were finally starting to give their formerly loveless marriage a real go. Up until this point, Elizabeth was having an affair with Gregory, with whom she shared a lot in common and had more feelings than for her husband from an arranged marriage.

After having children together and growing closer, Elizabeth finally decides to give Phillip a shot and ends things with Gregory. They later share one last night together before he dies. Even though Phillip and Elizabeth are a compelling couple, Gregory helped flesh out Elizabeth’s character, as well as give more information on what was going on politically in America during the ’80s.

3 Worst: Mutt-Alexis-Ted, Schitt’s Creek

The beloved Schitt’s Creek kinda did a 180 on this love triangle, which was set up relatively early. At first, it seemed as though Alexis was meant to be with laid-back, small-town guy Mutt, but she was dating Ted basically because she wanted a boyfriend and he paid for her stuff.

She finally left Ted to be with Mutt, but they quickly found out that they didn’t really have anything in common and broke up. Alexis later falls in love with Ted, which makes the whole Mutt-detour kind of a waste of their time. Furthermore, neither relationship was meant to last.

2 Best: Luke-June-Nick, The Handmaid’s Tale

This is a very complicated love triangle: Luke and June are married, but he fled to Canada after a religious extremist group takes over America. June and Nick are forced to sleep together so that June can conceive a child and avoid being killed or worse, but they begin an affair in earnest, mostly as a way for June to exert some sort of choice in a world where she has none.

June and Nick fall in love, but their love is complicated by the existence of her husband, her powerless position, and his complicated past with the creation of the government that broke up her family. June and Nick have great chemistry, but viewers can’t help but feel awful for Luke, who clearly loves his wife and is raising the child she had with Nick.

1 Worst: Niko-Eve-Villanelle, Killing Eve

To be fair, from a story point of view, this love triangle is actually kinda great in terms of what it does for the main character, Eve. Niko represents stability and offers her a healthy relationship that may be boring, but at least doesn’t put her life in danger. Meanwhile, Villanelle is the complete opposite.

She’s unstable, violent, dangerous, and just way more exciting. But Niko’s whininess kind of makes it hard to ever root for Eve to end up with anyone but Villanelle (even as the biggest Villaneve shippers admit that the pairing can’t possibly end well).

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/television-love-triangles-best-worst/

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