More often than not, our favorite romances on TV are of the slow burn nature. We wait years and years (and years, in some cases) to see the will they/won’t they back-and-forth and tension actually go somewhere. But as much as we enjoy it, sometimes it gets to be just a bit too much.
Scroll down as TV Insider take a look at these and more of the slow-burn romances on TV that have frustrated us the most (though that doesn’t mean we don’t still love them).
Brett & Casey, Chicago Fire
It took a while, but Casey (Jesse Spencer) and Brett (Kara Killmer) finally got together in the Season 9 finale … only for their time together onscreen to be short. Spencer exited the series early on in Season 10, Casey left Chicago, and by the following premiere, Brettsey broke up via a phone call. But that wasn’t it! Casey returned to Chicago for work near the end of Season 11, then in the finale, proposed to Brett after she found out she’ll (eventually) be able to adopt the baby she wants. And now the wait continues, but given that nothing has been said about Spencer returning to the show full-time, we might still only have those few episodes of Season 10 to see them actually together onscreen.
Ross & Rachel, Friends
One of the reasons why Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) are the superior Friends couple is that they didn’t have the frustrating back-and-forth that Ross (David Schwimmer) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) did. First, it was for them to initially get together. Then, after he cheated on her (“We were on a break!”), they got married in Vegas (then divorced), they eventually had a daughter, and they dated other people (and couldn’t stand the other doing so), they ended the series together … and she gave up a great job offer in Paris. Because that happened in the finale, we didn’t even get a chance to see why they’d make it last other than saying they would.
Luke & Lorelai, Gilmore Girls
Listen, we loved the initial slow burn, the scenes in his diner as Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Luke (Scott Patterson) flirted over coffee. We loved their kiss at her inn, we loved seeing them navigate their relationship and go “all in.” We didn’t even mind the initial breakup, in the scheme of things. But when he didn’t tell her about the daughter he found out he had, they broke up, reunited in the series finale, then didn’t get married until the end of the revival on Netflix, our exasperation hit a high.
Barney & Robin, How I Met Your Mother
This one is tied into the part of the How I Met Your Mother ending that we just can’t believe. After spending years watching Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin’s (Cobie Smulders) on-again, off-again and all of the final season with their wedding weekend, it all turned out to be for nothing, with them divorcing, her ending up with Ted (Josh Radnor), and the titular mother dying.
Mulder & Scully, The X-Files
Remember when a bee was the main source of our frustration when it came to Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully’s (Gillian Anderson) relationship? Oh, we were so naive. To think seeing them kept apart by abductions should be considered easy. The revival took their relationship (more than) a step back — and that’s not even taking into account the truth about the identity of William’s father.
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Source: TV Insider
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