@Hughbert starmaker I believe was actually chosen for the actor who played mr Crandall. The storyline was budget cuts = teacher made redundant and it was mr Crandall made redundant and in the storyline the song is a farewell to a beloved teacher. In real life it was a farewell to a beloved cast member who was dying of cancer. So no death in the show, but very sadly one in real life.
Bruce Willis in Armageddon
That was very moving, but I have to say I found Deep Impact scene where tea Leonis character gives up her ability to survive to allow Laura innes' character to survive with her child, the sacrifice and then when she's on the beach with her dad as the tsunami is approaching... 
Fuck me, am off for a greet 
Minds me of my gran upon learning I had "discovered" weepie movies and a love of them "if you want a proper greet try..." and she reeled off a whole list which I still recommend in real life and on weepie threads here (film ones)
@Quincie I first watched upstairs downstairs very late to the party (having not been born myself at the original release time) maybe 10 or so years ago? And it's a fairly "gentle" show so that suicide was really shocking!
@RaraRachael I remember reading an interview with Robert Carlyle who was talking about how hard he worked on the scouse accent, he was going all method and using it in real life too and mentioned it to a cabby in Liverpool, the cabby turned around and said something like "well it's not working, it's clearly not a scouse accent you're from Widnes aren't you? I can tell! Liverpudlians will know" at which point Carlyle (from glasgow, not far from my part actually) just smiled to himself and knew he'd cracked it! He apparently also had people try and tell him his Scots accent in trainspotter was clearly fake 
Best most realistic family dynamic in an American tv show IMO
I agree but I'd add "functional" to that.
Best written dysfunctional family are the gellers - a toxic family so acutely observed
Also the placebo cover of running up that hill played over it making it feel really dark.
Yes, very effective use of music. It's this and the person of interest use of Johnny cash's hurt that I mention when discussing music use in film and tv on threads on here
@BlackAmericanoNoSugar I disagree that Aubrey who I think you're referencing was "sweets light" he was his own character but it takes more than a few episodes for that to bed in