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What's your most upsetting tv death?

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MrsSteveMcDonald · 23/04/2021 18:38

Just watching Bones for the first time and absolutely gutted about Sweets which made me wonder which other tv deaths have upset MNers.

Lots of potential for spoilers here so apologies in advance.

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AvaCallanach · 23/04/2021 23:18

Helen Baxendale's character Rachel in Cold Feet. It was such a huge shock. And very poignant how she remained in the series in James Nesbitt's mind. My eldest is the same age as Rachel's baby Matthew was and I always recall a scene where Matthew crawls for the first time and James Nesbitt points this out to ghost Rachel who smiles and says "I would have loved to have seen that". I howled. I am feeling emotional thinking about it now actually.

jackstini · 23/04/2021 23:18

Please change title to include spoilers!! Sad
So many shows bloody ruined - thanks a lot

LemonCake79 · 23/04/2021 23:19

Ones that made me cry...

Kate Rowan in Heartbeat.
Quinn and Brody in Homeland.
Alex in Ashes to Ashes.
Every person and animal who dies in Warhorse*

  • DH threatened to switch it off if I didn't stop sobbing.

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LadyGAgain · 23/04/2021 23:23

Omg. So many.

Ollie Alexander character in It's a Sin
That awful scene in Cucumber
Ronnie and Roxie in Eastenders
Most of the passengers on the Titanic
I can't go down the black hole of Schindler's list and the pianist etc...

PufferFishGoneWrong · 23/04/2021 23:23

Sweets, I hear ya!

LadyGAgain · 23/04/2021 23:24

Oh and all those souls in the Handmaids Tale

3CCC · 23/04/2021 23:24

Patrick in Offspring was like a punch to the stomach. Out of the blue & sudden

WhateverJohnnyMcNofriends · 23/04/2021 23:26

[quote HopingForRainbow2021]@WhateverJohnnyMcNofriends that was awful wasn’t it! I still find that one comes to mind sometimes - haunts me![/quote]
It really was! It still pops into my head sometimes too. Awful.

Another one that really got to me was Marshall's dad in How I Met Your Mother. It aired just after my dad died and I was in bits. The countdown of numbers through the episode towards Marshall finding out is awful. Sad

PufferFishGoneWrong · 23/04/2021 23:27

@bluebird3

Rita in Dexter
This one too.
NamechangedGamechanged12 · 23/04/2021 23:28

George - Greys Anatomy. Devastated me for weeks 😭

SFHJ · 23/04/2021 23:29

Sids dad in skins must have been one of the first series

PufferFishGoneWrong · 23/04/2021 23:29

@0blio

And how could I forget Hank in Breaking Bad Sad
Didn't see that one coming.
MingeOnFire · 23/04/2021 23:29

Daphne in neighbours, my first TV death and was traumatised for ages
Matthew and Emily in Brookside
Carter in Person of Interest - was never the same after
Jon Boulton in The Bill

Freeekedout · 23/04/2021 23:29

@JassyRadlett

Meg in Home and Away! She was young and had cancer and died on the beach at sunset in the arms of her boyfriend. This was way back in early ‘90’s. I was only 18 and it really moved me. To the point that it’s probably the only scene from home and away that I actually remember! And I doubt anyone else does!

Me too. So vividly. And poor Cathy Godbold who played her died of cancer a few years ago.

I came on to say Meg from Home and Away. I didn't know the actress who played her died, that's very sad.

I've tried and failed to get the poem that Blake read at get funeral, if anyone knows where I could find it please let me know, it was beautiful. It started "Death is but a door, that and nothing more."

PleaseReferToMeAsBritneySpears · 23/04/2021 23:31

@Luckyme2

Meg in Home and Away! She was young and had cancer and died on the beach at sunset in the arms of her boyfriend. This was way back in early ‘90’s. I was only 18 and it really moved me. To the point that it’s probably the only scene from home and away that I actually remember! And I doubt anyone else does!
I remember it vividly. She was beautiful. I was about 16/17. Around that time I met a girl in a club who looked just like her. I was totally mesmerised!
spotcheck · 23/04/2021 23:31

Quinn in Homeland. I proper cried

PleaseReferToMeAsBritneySpears · 23/04/2021 23:32

@JassyRadlett

Meg in Home and Away! She was young and had cancer and died on the beach at sunset in the arms of her boyfriend. This was way back in early ‘90’s. I was only 18 and it really moved me. To the point that it’s probably the only scene from home and away that I actually remember! And I doubt anyone else does!

Me too. So vividly. And poor Cathy Godbold who played her died of cancer a few years ago.

What? Oh no ☹️

PleaseReferToMeAsBritneySpears · 23/04/2021 23:34

@jackstini

Please change title to include spoilers!! Sad So many shows bloody ruined - thanks a lot

I'm sorry and I don't mean to be rude but it was pretty obvious. You could have stopped reading.

MolotovMocktail · 23/04/2021 23:37

Eden in Handmaid’s Tale
Rita, Deb and Frank Lundy from Dexter

alexio · 23/04/2021 23:40

Lexie, Derek and Charles in Greys Anatomy

PufferFishGoneWrong · 23/04/2021 23:40

@AbsolutelyPatsy

yes Brodie in homeland, shocking
This one too.
Graphista · 23/04/2021 23:41

I LOVE Bones! Heartbreaking when sweets dies but I was also heartbroken when Vincent Nigel-Murray died @WhySoSensitive I've watched it so many times now I can mouth along to the script! I even remember the music from the soundtrack when used in other shows! The music used from the episode "the sense in the sacrifice" was used in a season 12 episode of criminal minds - night song by the family band. Any bones fans will probably instantly recognise it. Flynn's death was also a shocker!

What is ‘Bones’

A fantastic crime procedural drama with the leads being "bones" temperance Brennan who is a forensic anthropologist, she is feisty, prides herself on her pragmatism and flawed but amazing, and sealey booth (played by David boreanaz) as her fbi partner who is a former ranger sniper, passionate and idealistic. They're opposites but work well together and there's the lab/museum team which includes Brennan's best friend Angela, and Camille Brennan's boss who's also booths ex and Jack another scientist who's a secret billionaire plus later the "squinterns" who are the lab interns who rotate through episodes of which Vincent Nigel-Murray was one (they all gave quirks - his was being a vault full of trivia he often quoted also british) it's just fabulous, lots of back story, good crime plots and several "will they won't they" romances too - plus some excellent cameos

Mark greene ER was also just gut wrenching and so well done, also Lucy's death was such a shock, Pratt and Lucy knowing they were going to die and nothing anyone could do about it. Gants death made me so angry, they all saw he was struggling and did fuck all.

@TheAnswerIsCake ER recently dropped on all4 the whole series - summer last year I think? So a lot of us have been watching it all again

It's a sin - all the deaths, was particularly evocative for me for a number of reasons

But I think the one I found hardest was Barry frost in "Rizzoli and isles" mainly as it happened due to the suicide of the actor who was just so so young too. Awful

Wills death in good wife was a total shock, I didn't read spoilers back then

I'm watching greys anatomy not quite for the first time, I got as far as Denny's death 1st time around which was a total sob fest, I'm only at s2 and just watched the moron bazooka makers episode and even though the bomb disposal guy was only a 1 episode guest I was still caught out.

Sybil in downton led to some interesting conversations with other mums who were shocked to learn that can still happen now.

One for the oldies among us - Meg in home and away - just absolutely wrecked me as a storyline. @Yogaposer glad I'm not the only one remembers this one. @AnneShirleysNewDress yes she was - even more heartbreaking I've just read that the actress who played her also died of cancer at just 43

Prue on charmed - BUT it's pipers grief in "hell hath no fury" that really gets me "how could you leave me?!"

DH says Reece in Person of Interest.

Yes but I actually found Joss's death and Reece's reaction - basically literal scorched earth approach! While Johnny cash's version of hurt plays? Omg! If that doesn't get to you you're not human!

Hayley Hotchner in Criminal Minds. Definitely! Especially when she tells hotch about raising their son after she's gone, knowing foyet is going to kill her...

Cassie in unforgotten

Karen in desperate housewives recently rewatched that, again made all the more poignant by the actresses own illness, she died the day before the episode was shown in the Uk, also Mike - again a shocking one.

Kate on ncis - don't even get me started on Zivas storyline

Also - Stan Ogden in Coronation Street - Hilda with his specs, sob

Omg yes, minds me of my gran and grandad on mums side. He died relatively young he had a watch (not expensive or posh) which he always wore and gran wouldn't let it away from her side for years.

Max and Susannah's children in Brookside.

Yes! Another really shocking one! I miss brookside not been a show like it since really

My DH was traumatised by Joe DuBois’ death in Medium that one just plain annoyed me! As for ghost whisperer! Ugh!

I remember being really upset at the episode of soldier soldier when someone left his safety off and killed another soldier during a training exercise.

I Often mention that one on these threads, it was Tony Wilton that died but it was the stellar but understated performance by Annabelle apsion as his widow that did for me. She was holding it together until... she was ironing or sorting laundry and came across a shirt that still smelled of him and she just held it to her face to inhale his scent and broke down Sad

Haven't read every single post but I'm surprised I haven't seen one mention Kutner in House (apologies if I've missed you if you have!)
I hated that one it was such a cop out and offensive to the actor

Ambers death was awful though love Anne dudek (she's in sooo many shows in small parts too)

I think complaining about spoilers on a thread that will OBVIOUSLY have spoilers is plain daft!

WingingItSince1973 · 23/04/2021 23:43

Dr.Digby in Holby City 😥

KatherineParr · 23/04/2021 23:44

As soon as I saw the thread title I immediately thought of Meg Bowman in Home and Away, but I thought I would be the only person to think of her after all these years. Just goes to show the quality of the acting and script writing.

Mummyoftwo91 · 23/04/2021 23:44

Glen from the walking dead