Broadchurch has mercifully managed to avoid all that, and is a stronger series as a result.
There are a number of cues that showrunners could take from the Broadchurch model, across aspects from character development to cinematography.
By avoiding such clichés, Broadchurch allows Hardy and Miller to become independently realized characters on their own, without reducing them to their sexualities.
The third and final season of Broadchurch, BBC America’s show about a series of crimes in a normally tranquil British seaside town, may be its strongest yet.