valley of the doll
07/09/2009
» Gettin’ horizontal with Maddie: 22 TV series not ruined when two characters hooked up | TV | A.V. Club
11. Oz (Tobias Beecher and Chris Keller)
Tobias Beecher is Oz’s version of the ordinary man stuck behind bars, and embedded in his story is the suggestion that within all of us lies a heart of darkness, just waiting to escape. Keller, meanwhile, is a violent sociopath. Naturally, they fall in love. Though the two spent five of the series’ six seasons indulging in a back-and-forth romantic tug-of-war that could induce whiplash, the sheer operatic grandeur of their relationship pushes the storyline so far over the top that it becomes weird, tragic theater. At a time when gay relationships weren’t appearing anywhere on TV, the genuine and destructive love between Beecher and Keller veered between cautionary tale and heartbreaking romance, though it was never anything less than genuine in its portrayal of two men who never expected to fall in love with each other.
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