Why Do All the Brooding TV Men Also Need to Be Boxers?

cosmopolitan.com:

. While I genuinely love the relationship that Simon has with his professional boxing instructor, Will Mondrich, and Will’s wife, I was not pleased to learn that I was going to have to watch people watch boxing matches and try to remember who's rooting for who in order to follow the plot.

It's so boring, sorry!! And Bridgerton isn't the only show to employ boxing as a subplot or character pivot. On Riverdale, Archie’s angsty love of songwriting has been erased and replaced with a love of punching dudes in the face with gloves on.

Now, instead of betraying girls with his choice of duet partners, he’s looking at a boxing scholarship, teaching at-risk youth to fight at the center, and throwing matches because of some Hiram Lodge nonsense.