15 Toxic TV Couples We Still Love Anyway

We may avoid toxic relationships like the plague in real life, but on TV, it’s a different story. Tell Me Lies is proof of that. As much as we wanted to pull our hair out watching Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White) emotionally terrorize Lucy (Grace Van Patten), we quite simply couldn’t look away over the course of its three seasons. Rest assured, it’s not because we were at any point rooting for Stephen and Lucy to be together — Stephen shows his irredeemable qualities too quickly for that.

However, we’d be lying if we said we haven’t rooted for a toxic TV couple or two in our day. Though Tell Me Lies doesn’t fit the bill, its recent ending did get us thinking about all of the unhealthy pairings that we shipped anyway.