5 TV Romances We Just Couldn't Understand (& 5 We Completely Bought)

The wonderful world of television allows us to escape our dreary lives for a while. It allows us to think about something else, something different from the mundane, something miles away from the same old routines of daily life. Television offers us another world. A world where could imagine living, eating, and spending our days. A world where at the very least we can live as a spectator.

The best thing about television is the characters. The characters are the ones who attract us to the world that we want to spend our time in. If there are no characters, there is no show, no plot, no storylines, and no fantasy.

The characters are the ones who we aspire to be, we recognize ourselves in them, we recognize our friends and family in them, and most of all, we want what's best for them. Television romances can be the backbone of any great television show. Therefore, it is important to get them right. It is important to make them recongisbale, truthful, and most of all, they have to be beleivable.

Black Mirror isn't known for happy endings, loving relationships, or even real and truthful human emotions. Instead, the high-concept show focusses on the negatives of society, the overbearing nature of technology and how it is quickly destroying the human race as individuals rather than as a collective.

Therefore, fans of the show were shocked when series creator and writer, Charlie Brooker, threw a curveball right in the middle of the third season and delivered one of the sweetest love stories ever seen on camera, that of San Junipero.

San Junipero focussed on the relationship between two women (Yorkie and Kelly) who end up in a simulated reality where the dead can live and the elderly can visit to see if they like it. Confusing? Yeah, it is a bit, but then what's Black Mirror without a little confusion.

Yorkie and Kelly then embark on a romance that is not only extremely touching but also amazing in that it has nothing to do with the fact that they are two women. In fact, the story could have worked just as well if Charlie Brooker had followed the conventional heteronormative route with one man and one woman and the same old story that we see on our screens every single day. But he didn't.

By creating an "unconventional storyline" with "unconventional characters" Brooker has steered away from the classic heteronormative narrative and instead, and most importantly, included those that are rarely represented.

Plus, the chemistry was great and nobody died for once (kind of) yay!