In this cautionary and calculated tale, relationships are truly gruesome things, forever fraught with knots.
"Broken Together", described as "Coldplay pop", is a piano ballad; the song's protagonist "smashes the facade of a fairy-tale relationship, forgoing the happy ending with the realization that 'maybe you and I were never meant to be complete'".
We Need a Resolution is a laconic tale of relationship bust-up lifted to new heights by a coda of Egyptian horns and Aaliyah's bedraggled vocal.
With any film, I look first for real characters, and then for the actions which fall naturally into the tale (war, relationships, etc).
Tales of relationships undone by neglect and the pressures of a high-profile career are hardly novel, after all.
After wowing us with its tales of relationships, racial politics and rigatoni, Aziz Ansari's marvellous Master Of None comes back for a second run on Netflix, where you'll also find a TV adaptation of satirical college comedy Dear White People and Drew Barrymore's dark California sitcom Santa Clarita Diet.
Joe Swanberg, Jake Johnson and Anna Kendrick reunite a couple of years after Drinking Buddies for another relationship tale.
Their video, Speed Dating (another Huff Post pick), is a wanly comedic tale of a relationship's near misses.
A tale of debilitating relationship angst delivered in a shiny nursery rhyme wrapper, it already feels like a hit.
This might be the first relationship tale that begins with cricket eating and involves a bleach-squirting muscle car and a homemade flamethrower.
But what of the other strand of Ovid's tale, the emotional relationship between Pygmalion, the creator, and Galatea, the creation, ending in marriage?
