10 Greatest TV Couples of the Last Five Years

Television gives romance room to breathe, from slow-burn friendships that finally ignite to sudden, heartbreaking love that reshapes a series. This roundup focuses on couples from shows that began within the last five years, celebrating relationships that grew on screen in memorable ways.

In The Last of Us, the third episode, "Long, Long Time," turns to the past to tell the story of Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett). The tonal departure and the performances by Offerman and Bartlett expanded the series’ emotional stakes, offering levity amid apocalypse and a depiction of undying love that ends in devastating loss.

Yellowjackets weaves trauma and longing through Tai Turner (Jasmin Savoy Brown and Tawny Cypress) and Van Palmer (Liv Hewson and Lauren Ambrose), a secret romance that spans a 1996 plane crash and the present.

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