Eternity forces Elizabeth Olsen to choose between two hunks. The answer’s clear.

The Summer I Turned Pretty and Materialists made for strong indicators, but Eternity seals it: This has been the year of the unsatisfying love triangle. As my colleague Nadira Goffe has written , good love triangles in popular culture are increasingly a lost art. Eternity , the romantic comedy starring Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, and Callum Turner that hit theaters last week, initially seemed to have the potential to overcome the pitfalls of the trope, thanks to a clever premise with real stakes: Upon dying in her 80s or thereabouts, Joan (transformed back into her younger self, as played by Olsen) must choose which of her also-dead husbands she wants to spend the afterlife with, the man with whom she shared six decades and a family (Teller, as Larry) or the one who died tra