What do you think the New interview with the writers a bout season 4
i basically agree with what @elixir448 said here but i will add:
i think the potential of a love triangle with someone besides dean could potentially be very exciting? i don’t think beth and rio will ever become an established couple but they will continue to orbit each other, and that could be a dynamic way to create tension and conflict in their relationship. plus, i love jealous!rio and we don’t really get to see that with dean because dean is not a real romantic interest for beth as much as he represents stability and familiarity? so i don’t think rio sees him as a romantic rival in that way. the potential that it could be someone that’s in the crime world with them is even more fascinating, as i think that would chafe rio in a much different way.
i think the possibility of the love triangle including a romantic rival against beth is very slim (since rio’s not a POV character), so i was very confused when a few people instantly jumped to the show making rio a cheater, haha. i think there’s not a lot of evidence for that in canon and though the interview is ambiguous, the choice would contradict the very intentional way that rio/dean have been contrasted thus far. i do notice trends/patterns that whenever there is the possibility of the show exploring a rio flaw, there seems to be backlash, whether that’s when he killed lucy, when rhea confirmed he can sometimes have an irregular presence in marcus’s life (implied that it was related to his job), when people believe he betrayed beth, or this. rio’s obviously a flawed person outside of these few choices anyway, but i think he’s a character that’s well-rounded and likable despite those flaws, and i love flaws because to me they make characters complex and interesting, and i think most of the ones he’s been given are consistent to his characterization and the circumstances of his life.
i’m fully prepared to love phoebe this season and i can’t wait for her to shine.
i’m glad it seems like we’re going to explore some annie/beth tension. i felt like it was a bit too easily dropped in the beginning of s3, so it’s nice to have it confirmed that’s coming back around again.
i think jenna saying that beth “realizes” that rio’s not a long-term romantic possibility is really wide open for interpretation. beth such a compartmentalizer that i’d be surprised if her realizing this impacts the push/pull dynamic that they have anyway; i more think (and hope) that the show is going to be exploring beth’s feelings for him and the anxiety that comes from the choice between stability (dean) and unpredictability (rio) if the teased triangle is actually just the same one it’s always been—which is beth x rio + dean.
i’m extremely excited for beth to come to terms with the fact that as long as her and rio are in the same space and criming, they’re linked.
