Originally Posted by
90'sCartoonMan
That's what I think it is. Characters have to have drama and bumps in the road, and the longer we see their successes and failures, the more it looks like they're making the same mistakes over and over or they're making mistakes that don't feel organic. It becomes forced the more it goes on. Like in the case of Jefferson and Lynn, maybe the idea was to not get them re-married until the very end of the series. So they have to keep throwing obstacle after obstacle in their way until they fix their relationship in the end.