creek_chub wrote:Misplaced wrote:Honestly, I think it could have worked if the marriage and its issues had little screen time -- It's there, but not in your face (like the O'Brien's thing got to be for me). Sure people can struggle in their marriages, but not always. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it doesn't have to be a major adversity either. I don't know if I'm making sense.
I feel like the Paris/Torres relationship handled this balance well. We occasionally saw the good stuff as well as the bad stuff but on the whole the relationship itself wasn't a major focus. And in the instances where the relationship did come in to play it (to me, anyway) felt very organic and not forced, although given the circumstances of the show they probably had more leeway to bring up relationship arcs in a natural manner.
You make perfect sense Misplaced. I agree with both of these - I wish sometimes the writers were able to find the drama that's needed to weave a story around without it always being a struggling relationship. The thing is, stable relationships are sometimes hard to come by in the industry, so there's not a lot of great examples.
One of my favorite married-couples-on-screen lately was the husband and wife team of teacher/counselor and coach in Friday Night Lights. That was
real and coach didn't have to be single and struggling with a dating relationship for the series to have plenty of drama.