9:57 pm - 02/15/2013
The Worst Couples on Television (2012 - Present)
Romance, love, sex. These are all staples of American television. It’s what inspires “ship wars” and couples’ nicknames like Chair, Dair, and Nair. Even if two people have never met, it doesn’t stop the internet from doing what it wants.
Hollywood is starting to catch up to the internet’s obsession with “ships” and “feels” and the various memes and gifs that they’ve inspired. Show creators, actors and actresses, and television writers have had to address it at some point or another on Twitter, or in interviews.
But there are some couples we could definitely live without – regardless of “shipper feels”…
Olivia/Fitz (Scandal)
There's no shortage of sexual chemistry between these two forbidden lovers (so, we know that we're probably about to piss off a lot of people here). But that doesn’t erase the gross power dynamic at play – Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) is the freaking president of the United States, after all. He’s controlling (see: “Hunting Season”) and too busy mooning over Olivia Pope, played by Kerry Washington, to properly lead the country (if he focused on his job more maybe this East Sudan thing would have been resolved already). Let’s not forget that incident in an elevator (as seen in a flashback) when a drunk Fitz forces himself on Olivia. That is, until his wife Mellie (Bellamy Young) catches them and has to apologize.
Chuck/Blair & Dan/Serena (Gossip Girl)
Because nothing says true love like selling your girlfriend to a guy who attempted to rape your step-mother… for a hotel. Or stalking some girl you talked to at a party for less than five minutes for the next 5+ years. Move over, Mr. Darcy. The new Queen Bees of romance have arrived and their names are Chuck Bass and… Gossip Girl? Yeah, we still don’t know about that.
In the series finale of Gossip Girl, Chuck (Ed Westwick) married Blair (Leighton Meester) so she couldn’t testify against him after he basically murdered his father. (In true sociopathic fashion, he shows no remorse about it afterward.) Then, in a flash-forward, everyone is in attendance as Dan (Penn Badgley) and Serena (Blake Lively) tie the knot. If there’s anything this show has taught us, it’s that when someone writes a blog constantly humiliating you and exposing your every secret… it’s a love letter. And boys who engage in attempted rape, treat women like property, and show violence towards you… are romantic heroes.
Damon/Elena/Stefan (The Vampire Diaries)
It’s been four seasons and we’re wondering how much longer The Vampire Diaries can continue to milk this love triangle for all it’s worth. Elena (Nina Dobrev) is caught between vampire brothers Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) – who were once in love with Elena’s doppleganger Katherine. At one point or another, they’ve both been sadistic killers. Damon even tried to kill Elena’s younger brother in an earlier season. Hell, he even tried to kill Elena. As of right now, Elena/Stefan, Elena/Damon, and their respective “shippers” are battling it out to see who reigns supreme as Florence + the Machine plays in the background of one of the show’s sex scenes. Personally, we’re bored by the whole thing.
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ONTD, who do you think is the worst couple on television?
Hollywood is starting to catch up to the internet’s obsession with “ships” and “feels” and the various memes and gifs that they’ve inspired. Show creators, actors and actresses, and television writers have had to address it at some point or another on Twitter, or in interviews.
But there are some couples we could definitely live without – regardless of “shipper feels”…
Olivia/Fitz (Scandal)
There's no shortage of sexual chemistry between these two forbidden lovers (so, we know that we're probably about to piss off a lot of people here). But that doesn’t erase the gross power dynamic at play – Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) is the freaking president of the United States, after all. He’s controlling (see: “Hunting Season”) and too busy mooning over Olivia Pope, played by Kerry Washington, to properly lead the country (if he focused on his job more maybe this East Sudan thing would have been resolved already). Let’s not forget that incident in an elevator (as seen in a flashback) when a drunk Fitz forces himself on Olivia. That is, until his wife Mellie (Bellamy Young) catches them and has to apologize.
Chuck/Blair & Dan/Serena (Gossip Girl)
Because nothing says true love like selling your girlfriend to a guy who attempted to rape your step-mother… for a hotel. Or stalking some girl you talked to at a party for less than five minutes for the next 5+ years. Move over, Mr. Darcy. The new Queen Bees of romance have arrived and their names are Chuck Bass and… Gossip Girl? Yeah, we still don’t know about that.
In the series finale of Gossip Girl, Chuck (Ed Westwick) married Blair (Leighton Meester) so she couldn’t testify against him after he basically murdered his father. (In true sociopathic fashion, he shows no remorse about it afterward.) Then, in a flash-forward, everyone is in attendance as Dan (Penn Badgley) and Serena (Blake Lively) tie the knot. If there’s anything this show has taught us, it’s that when someone writes a blog constantly humiliating you and exposing your every secret… it’s a love letter. And boys who engage in attempted rape, treat women like property, and show violence towards you… are romantic heroes.
Damon/Elena/Stefan (The Vampire Diaries)
It’s been four seasons and we’re wondering how much longer The Vampire Diaries can continue to milk this love triangle for all it’s worth. Elena (Nina Dobrev) is caught between vampire brothers Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) – who were once in love with Elena’s doppleganger Katherine. At one point or another, they’ve both been sadistic killers. Damon even tried to kill Elena’s younger brother in an earlier season. Hell, he even tried to kill Elena. As of right now, Elena/Stefan, Elena/Damon, and their respective “shippers” are battling it out to see who reigns supreme as Florence + the Machine plays in the background of one of the show’s sex scenes. Personally, we’re bored by the whole thing.
TWO MORE AT THE SOURCE
ONTD, who do you think is the worst couple on television?
because then eric and nora can fuck a lot
Bill left her to shag his maker Lorena and then nearly drained her dry and she still ended up back with him. Sookeh is soooo dumb. I wish they had sent Beehl to Peru like they did in the books.
But I guess with the spinoff that ship is just never even going to MAYBE happen :|
Chuck/Blair ARE the worst TV couple, ever, hands down.
..and then it's back to Chuck and let's forget everything you ever wanted for yourself because hey, he's Chuck Bass.
:| & I cannot stand people who are like "WELL BLAIR'S A BITCH SO SHE & CHUCK DESERVE EACH OTHER." ...No. No. On so many levels, no.
Granted I didn't show up until season 5, but it clearly should have been done by then.Fitz has a history of always being in Olivia's personal space, aggressively yelling at her, having her stalked by his people and being terrible to his wife. And he doesn't even have a great personality/character outside of Olivia/Fitz to make up for it.
I thought she had more chemistry with Edison tbh.
Let the shipping wars begin.
Come friend, join me! This will be fun!
Also, ICON LOVE!!!
I hate Gossip Girl so fucking much. SO FUCKING MUCH.
HE SOLD HER FOR FUCKING HOTEL I WILL NEVER BE OVER THAT SHIT
AND SHE MARRIED HIM
Edited at 2013-02-16 08:16 pm (UTC)
Anyway, I can't really decide which couple is the worst. They are ALL pretty horrible.
Except maybe Elena. She's just annoying in general.
Edited at 2013-02-17 03:57 am (UTC)
the rest of these couples suck majorly though.
Edited at 2013-02-16 04:18 pm (UTC)
You know, as shitty as Twilight is, and as many issues that Edward has, at least even Meyer didn't try to make it look like killing humans (to a human) is NBD.
Edit: And it's not so much that Elena is capable of overlooking murder and mayhem, it's that she hardly even reacts to it. Her reaction to Stefan's wall of victims is... Oh poor Stefan??? Like WTF.
Edited at 2013-02-16 04:29 pm (UTC)