From Friends to Rome: 5 Best TV Bromances We Won’t Ever Stop Raving About
Male relationships are often less dramatic, but still full of emotions.
Every show has a bunch of iconic relationships that actually turn into the best storylines which people follow with all their attention. And those relationships are not always romantic: friendships are also a popular thing in many shows.
And while there are plenty of series that have female friendship as a central plot, like, for example, Sex and the City or Desperate Housewives, male friendship is rarely put on the pedestal.
However, it doesn’t mean bromance doesn’t exist, so here we have 5 shows that highlight close relationships between guys.
1. Friends: Joey and Chandler
There’s no way we would have started the list with another couple. While Friends is literally the show about six of them, it was clear from the beginning that these two guys share a special bond.
The series even has several episodes which revolve around their friendship, like the one with bro bracelets and the one where Chandler sits in the box to prove to Joey he loves him. The many ups and downs of their relationship show how important they are to each other and how they are always ready to fix things up if something goes wrong.
2. Psych: Shawn and Gus
The first thing you notice when you see them on screen is how effortless their on-screen chemistry is. They are absolute friendship goals, and there is no other bromance couple on TV like them.
Long before it became mainstream, Shawn and Gus were going above and beyond in proving their loyalty to one another, no matter the stakes that were involved. And considering their tricky “business”, you can imagine how often that happened over the course of the series.
3. Scrubs: JD and Turk
People love Scrubs for many things, but the on-screen relationship between Turk and JD is the reason many viewers stayed with the medical sitcom and loved every bit of it. They had an amazing chemistry and gave us so many laughs and tears it's crazy.
They know everything about each other and are open about their feelings, a quality that easily makes them goals. They're very important to each other and the best part is that they're completely open about it: there's no denying it, just a simple desire to keep it going as long as they live.
“JD and Turk were openly emotional goals. They were completely unashamed of how much they loved each other and, despite all the jokes, the show never depicted their closeness as diminishing to either character,” Redditor Don_Quixote81 said.
4. Parks and Recreation: Ben and Chris
While Parks and Rec shows various different close friendships between female characters (many of which are even cringey as hell), there is a perfect bromance as well. Ben and Chris joined the show a little later, and at first we had no idea they were close friends, but thought they were just co-workers.
However, after some time we realize that they have a deep bond that goes way back in their lives. They are completely different, with Chris being very vocal and optimistic, and Ben being much more reserved, yet they make a perfect friendship couple, willing to do anything to help each other.
5. Rome: Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo
An unexpected choice, but when you think about it, the list wouldn't be complete without this historic friendship. In HBO's Rome, we meet two Roman centurions who go to great lengths to become each other's bros, even though they didn't even know the term back then. The two literally saved each other's lives many times in a split second, willing to risk everything they had.
“I think this is actually the best answer simply because of how their relationship grows over the series: they can't stand one another in the first episode, then very quickly become allies, then friends and then at the end of the series they're prepared to drag one another's half-dead bodies halfway across the Empire without a nanosecond's hesitation,” Redditor Werthead said.