“That is one of the things that I always have found troubling about certain TV tropes,” Levy says. “It does provide an instant tension, but people watching know how solid this relationship is. It's a little harder to tell the story of a successful relationship. Knowing that it was a gay relationship, wanting to show the stability and the security of these two people just getting each other and having it be nothing but love and encouragement… Obviously, there's bumps along the road, which we explored, but that the relationship itself would never be put into question, that these two people were in it to win it.”