8 New TV Couples We Could See Next Season
A season finale can bring some sort of major cliffhanger, leaving lives in the balance (as was the case with several in 2023), but it can also mean the start of new relationships. And so now we’re heading into the summer hiatus — though we don’t know how long that might last due to the writers’ strike — wondering if we might have new favorite couples to follow in the 2023-2024 season.
Over on 9-1-1, at least one new relationship is really beginning while another might follow. Some notable newer slow burns, including on Abbott Elementary and The Equalizer, might have no choice but to ignite after significant steps and confessions during their past seasons. And perhaps something will happen for the longest slow burn, across two shows now, Law & Order: SVU and Organized Crime.
Scroll down as we take a look at some of the new couples we expect to see next season. (For the purpose of this list, we’re considering those for whom there was a significant development in a finale or have been set up to take that important step. We’re also not looking at couples who could get back together, which takes Chicago Fire out of the equation after that finale proposal.)
Buck & Natalia, 9-1-1
Things were looking much better for these two at the end of the finale than in the previous episode, when Natalia (Annelise Cepero) left after too much of Buck’s (Oliver Stark) past and present came calling during their dates. And he’d even asked her to help him pick out a new couch, which he’s connected to girlfriends in the past. “I think that says everything, that he’s certainly interested in making her a permanent fixture in his life and seeing where this relationship can go. It’s an exciting thing for him,” Stark told TV Insider after the finale. Dating someone he met on a call hasn’t gone well for Buck in the past, but he has grown since then.
Eddie & Marisol, 9-1-1
Eddie (Ryan Guzman) had been looking to find the same magic and chemistry he did with his late wife — and just so happened to run into Marisol (Edy Ganem), whom the 118 had helped earlier in the season. She helped him find what he was looking for in the hardware store, and in the finale-ending montage, he called her and the two set up a date. But is she what he’s looking for? Will it last? They were still very much early days last we saw them and who knows what might happen by the time we see Season 7 on ABC? Whatever the case, we think he might at least be on the right path.
Janine & Gregory, Abbott Elementary
Season 2 featured not only Janine (Quinta Brunson) and Gregory’s (Tyler James Williams) first kiss but also ended with the two confessing their feelings … if only it went anywhere after that. She didn’t want to risk their friendship, and sure, hitting the pause button like that is a bit frustrating, but it’s understandable. Considering the steps they’ve taken already, we wouldn’t be surprised if we see them together before the middle of Season 3.
CSI: Vegas
CSI: Vegas recently enjoyed one of its series-high ratings weeks with 4.3 million, but it’s unclear whether the fifth series in the Crime Scene Investigation consortium will get a fourth season after its third season saw the show move to Sunday nights.
Robyn & Dante, The Equalizer
Assuming Dante (Tory Kittles) survives that major cliffhanger, it seems like we’ll likely see the end of the slow burn and the beginning of a relationship for him and Robyn (Queen Latifah) sooner rather than later. After all, while under the influence of a truth serum in the Season 3 finale, Dante confessed, as she listened, “She showed me things about myself I didn’t even know were there, showed me that justice wasn’t so black and white. I love her for that.” How much longer can they ignore what’s between them after that?
Adams & Griffith, Grey's Anatomy
Griffith (Alexis Floyd) didn’t go through with her wedding to be with Adams (Niko Terho), and it certainly looks like they’ll be together in Season 20. But there’s also the events of the Season 19 finale cliffhanger — which saw them operating on Sam (Sam Page) after Teddy (Kim Raver) collapsed — to consider. Might that affect their personal relationship?
Helm & Yasuda, Grey's Anatomy
Yasuda (Midori Francis) asked Helm (Jaicy Elliot) to be her date to Griffith’s wedding since it would be before the other doc would become her boss … but considering those kisses and everything else we saw from them, something tells us they won’t be able to stay away from each other next season, despite the complicated work dynamics.
Benson & Stabler, Law & Order: SVU and Organized Crime
It’s been a loooonnng slow burn for Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), but the two did seem to take steps towards one another in the most recent seasons of their shows, from an almost-kiss to that heartfelt gift in the finale crossover (though he is going to be wrapped up in a new case for the foreseeable future). He removed the “E” on the ornament she gave him that Noah’s half-brother’s parents gave her, so it read “Liv Love Laugh,” and he gave her a compass on a necklace to “lead [her] to happiness.” Will 2024 — Organized Crime is now a midseason show — be their year?
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I'm hopeful about Benson/Stabler - they are bordering on overdue at this point. Buck/Natalia and Eddie/Marisol are the most uninspiring, chemistry-less, boring relationships that show has ever offered - let's hope the writer's expectation is wrong and we don't see them ever again. Also big yes to Janine/Gregory - I'd love to see it happen next season.
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Why do these articles keep trying to push Buck and Eddie's "relationship" with bland love interests? There was truly no point introducing two last minute love interest to the show especially since neither Eddie or Buck have any chemistry with the love interests that were written in.
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I cannot believe that the 911 showrunner just put Buck and Eddie together with these personality free women just because they are in fact women that had a nice smile but were lacking everything else.
Are they really that afraid of making Buck and Eddie happen that they rather put them together with these freaking cool girlies (sarcasm) instead of continuing to tell Buck and Eddie‘s epic lovestory.
I for one WANT my happy end.
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First of all: I don‘t want to see Natalia (and that awful actress) ever again. The three episodes with her horrible acting were bad enough. But not only that. Her character and Buck‘s were absolutely weird together. Everything was lacking. Chemistry, fun, excitement and heart. They weren‘t even convincing as a couple. If there really is more (HOPEFULLY NOT PLEASE LISTEN TO YOUR AUDIENCE ABC) then i really think the showrunner just hate their fans.
As for Eddie, well Marisol is already forgotten by me and the other fans and i expect her to be gone by the start of Season 7, because seriously Eddie Diaz deserves better than a last second replacement love interest because he had none by the end of the season. And with whom did they come up: The girl that acted like being in love with her brother a couple of episodes before.
Nah you can keep these useless characters Kristen Reidel
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Hard pass to both of the 911 (possible) couples. The women should be written out of the show during the hiatus. No one wants to see them again in Season 7.
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It's funny that you put Buck x Natalia and Eddie x Marisol, the blandests in this list to Janine x Gregory, one of the most developed and anticipated couples, in this list esecially Eddie x Marisol before Janine x Gregory. It's either you want to make them look extremely awful in comparison or you're taking advantage of outrage from the first two couples to drive more clicks to your article.
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„..It’s an exciting thing for him.“ BUT NOT FOR US OLIVER STARK. The death doula is one of the worst love interest the show has ever created. I absolutely hate her character. She is basically the nicer version of Taylor Kelly and had been chosen to pander to the not so slim people.
The DIYer is just another boring Latina…..
I‘m not looking forward to S7 if these are the women for our guys. In fact i sure as hell won‘t bother to watch any of that.
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Are you joking with these 911 ones? I never want to see either of those characters again. Eddie and Buck as characters deserve better than a rushed love interest plot thrown in at the end with literally any person so long as it was a woman (because that's the only thing that matters at this point I guess), and Ryan and Oliver as actors deserve better than these vapid, wooden actresses the show keeps throwing at them the past few seasons to work against. Ryan and Oliver have amazing acting chemistry with all the rest of the cast and even one-off emergency victims to say nothing of the chemistry they have together. But heaven forbid two characters the show didn't plan at the start to be gay be allowed to grow and flourish into something beautiful that the show has already built a heavy foundation for. Please listen to the audience and stop wasting time on these side characters and go back to the rich found family feels the show had before Kristen "bio family over everything even if they're awful" Reidel took over and PLEASE let the already perfect partnership with Buck and Eddie FINALLY bloom into the romance both characters truly deserve.
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Janine & Gregory are adorable and I can't wait to see how their relationship unfolds!
As for 9-1-1, both those boring, bland, pointless relationships can and SHOULD end over the hiatus. Neither character brought anything to the show, the chemistry was non-existent, Natalia in particular was unwatchable, and both Buck and Eddie deserved better than to have a relationship thrown at them (undermining everything they just went through) purely so the showrunner could keep anyone from speculating about Buck and Eddie starting a romance together if that was truly the end of the show. The only requirement apparently for Buck and Eddie to have a love interest is that they are women. How boring and tired when the show has several other beautiful love stories, and has already made Buck and Eddie into the perfect partners for each other! ABC we are BEGGING you to get KR out of the showrunner spot and put someone in charge who understands pacing and what made the show special in the early seasons, and who isn't so home of phobic that she would rather ruin both Eddie and Buck's characters and development (and take screentime away from other mains to waste on these random women storylines) than put them in the relationship that makes the most sense-the one they already have together. Marisol and Natalia could disappear without a trace and I would not notice or complain about it.
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YES to Olivia and Elliot and Josh and Allie. NO to Buck and that woman. She gave me the creeps!
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Is Kristen Reidel paying for these articles to put Buck and Natalia and Eddie and Marisol in a positive light. Because these women (and „possible relationships“) had become an epic fail, disaster with the 911 fandom. Nobody likes them, nobody wants them. Just make them go away asap.
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Are you kidding me with the 911 couples? Helllllllllll noooooo to both of them.
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Oh please someone save us from a Buck/Taylor 2.0 and Eddie/Ana 2.0.
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The 911 fandom is not interested AT ALL in watching more of these uninteresting and boring women for Eddie and Buck that only are there to look good and nothing more. Eddie and Buck should become a couple instead. They are eachothers soulmates.
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With Marisol's actress posting transphobic things on Instagram from anti-trans blogs, I sure hope her and her terrible acting do NOT return to the show for s7. ABC please have some tact and some taste. Fans and our beloved characters deserve better than this.
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It's laughable that 911 is trying to put these two bland, chemistry-less relationships on the same level as the other new or possible relationships from other shows. Kristen should be embarrassed by the product that she put out this TV season. Almost the entire season was filler, and the finale didn't live up to the hype and seemed thrown together - with no thought to the characters - by someone who missed a deadline. ABC has some decisions to make, which could make or break their ratings.
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Gotta love the person that came through and down-voted all the posts about 911 but didn't have the guts to post what they actually like about those relationships. Could it be because the show in an attempt to string fans along with Buddie hints to keep the show trending and to not get backlash like they did with Taylor (who was awful to Buck and the firefam and never made sense as a LI), and Ana (who made ableist remarks about Chris), and Lucy (who was just a waste of screentime since her scenes could have been done (and better) by anyone else on the team and Buck isn't the cheating type but KR wanted cheap drama), ultimately made two characters that are such blank paper doll cutouts that there's nothing at all to like or hope for about the relationships? Or did they just decide that people unhappy with KR throwing out years of character development (and rewriting history about Shannon 🙄) and wanting better for characters they love who DESERVE epic love stories of their own, just "hate women for no reason"?
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The 911 TPTB must be desperately hoping to spark something with those two actresses. They must be working cheap like the redhead did. No chemistry for either and lousy acting. Giggling isn’t acting. Get real ABC. Fox this mess
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To 911 and Buck and Eddie
I can't believe they have picked this many talentless women to waste screentime on just to throw someone, ANYONE at Buck and Eddie to avoid putting them together. The two latest additions: Natalia and Marisol.
As a viewer i felt insulted by this move from the showrunner. I couldn‘t care less aboutt these two women. I don‘t want to see them wasting screentime with this nonsense. I will never like or accept these women as Buck and Eddie‘s partners. But maybe we are lucky and the are going to disappear until the show returns.
I‘m zero interested in watching more of this or them.
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I would be thrilled if Season 7 of 911 starts like this about the two NOT WANTED BY THE FANDOM AT ALL couples:
If they’re going to say that they are resolving things off screen then let them break up off screen so I don’t have to sit through these unnecessary ‘relationships’.
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Over on 9-1-1, at least one new relationship is really beginning while another might follow.
You sure about that? The fandom absolutely loathe Natalia and Buck. Eddie and Marisol aren‘t even a thing for the 911 fans that‘s how bad they were received.
I hope not one of these two „couples“ survive the hiatus.
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SVU - yes if you can keep Elliott sane.
The 911 couples - not only no but…just cause TPTB thought the show was Cx so let’s end with everyone happy - now it’s up to ABC. to demand a new showrunner and decent writers - and undo all this pandering to the happily ever after fried - pandering the the plus size girls and hire one as a fan-girl death doula wonk - who’s written as someone who’ll put Buck under a microscope like a bug and figure out how death affected him.
And giving sweet Eddie up as a 7th grade horny teenager to a giggle girl who last we saw was in love with her brother (again - bad writing!) - just wrap a bow around them and call it quits.
I’m no buddie fan but this ensemble deserves better treatment as serious participants in a former -(S1-3) excellent show. If not - don’t bother. ABC - you’re wasting time and money. Just let it die. The so-called “magic” that Eddie’s looking for isn’t here. It left when Minear left Reidel in charge. Decisions like that will make him canceled again.
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The writer need to put Benson/Stabler together but something has to happen to Benson real bad and Stabler fines out about it and realizes that he has very strong feelings for Benson so he makes a appearance on SUV goes to fine out. She's been kidnapped by FBI . There is one bad apple in FBI FORCES Stabler don't know what to do but he has to get Benson and let her know that he is in love with her the rest is up to the writers .
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Never been a big Stabler fan. Olivia can do better
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