TV or film moment that haunts you? *SPOILERS for various films and TV programmes* Title edited by MNHQ

[JEdgarHoover]

I just watched the parachute death from Hollyoaks. I’ve never watched Hollyoaks, but oh my god, it was so haunting. I felt terrified.

I’m not sure I recommend anyone watching it! The only other times I’ve really been affected by tv was on This is England the tv series - the rape by the stepfather and then the crack orgy for the young girl with all the skanky men. Both made me feel really ill.

The only other tv that gets to me is Futurama at the end of Jurassic Bark - the dog WAITED 😭

Anything that you couldn’t watch again/haunted you?

Shakis funeral in eastenders... Absolutely sobbing.. So believable.

Hold the Door 😢

Agree with 3 Girls. So sad and scary because it was true.

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. If anyone saw that as a kid they know the scene. Slept with covers over my ears until well into my twenties!

I remember that scene in Star trek film scared the shit out of me and was stoma h churning

Another..One Day in May. The Bradford staduim fire. Its how quickly it went from a small fire to what it became in about 4 to 5 minutes. The story of the man who had to leave his elderly father to try and find help for him. Managed to get onto the pitch and find someone only for them to tell him to turn around and it was too late.

I watched the accused a few months ago.. Absolutely horrific rape scene.. :( so believable..

@Audit

I saw Mrs Brown's Boys once because relatives were staying and did not wish to miss that evening's episode.

I still have nightmares about it.

Definitely the most horrendous programme I have ever seen

@Kanaloa and @LobotomisedIceSkatingFan I came here to post about that episode of BB too. DS was about the same age as the little boy when I watched it, and had the same red hair, so it really got to me. The little boy never speaks either, maybe because he’s never been spoken too. Of all the horrible and sad things that happened in BB, that episode bothered me the most.

All those who’ve mentioned the Jurassic Bark episode of Futurama, what about Game of Tones? When Fry realises it’s his mum’s dream, not his, I sobbed.

Yes, that’s the weirdest thing - it’s a show full of horrible and depressing moments but that little boy is just so sad for some reason. Sadder than characters dying etc. I think it’s how he smiles at Jesse when he’s doing peek a boo at him, when most toddlers would be crying and screaming to wake up and see their mummy and daddy are gone and a strange man is in the house. He’s just resigned to this awful life.

The very first Black Mirror episode with the Prime Minister and the pig. I was

@Dueatchristmas

The rape scene in the toilets in 13 reasons why is traumatising and also another that sticks with me is from being about 9 or 10 years old and a girl fell out the window on Grange Hill.

Yes that scene was so gratuitous and it's a show aimed at teenagers! I think they've actually removed the full scene from Netflix now

@Cheeseismymiddlename

“And now imagine she’s white.”

Still takes my breath away, it was a moment in my life I realised I was possibly racist without even knowing it.

OMG YES!!!!

Because we all think he's gonna say "imagines he's YOUR daughter". That film was very ahead of it's time.

@Floogal

Many of the nspcc adverts. Some were too gratuitous

I remember the ones where they filmed teddies on the wallpaper of the child's room covering their eyes as a man says "this is just our little secret". Very hard hitting

The only one I can think of that nobody’s mentioned already is The Arbour. It’s a documentary about the woman who wrote the film Rita, Sue and Bob too. But the actors from the film appear in it and the dialogue is dubbed in by the real people. It’s very creepy and really sad. I found it on C4 about 3am years ago and I still think about it. I knew from the first scene that something bad was going to happen just didn’t know what and I found it genuinely touching and so sad

It's a sin - amazing piece of television but utterly heartbreaking

The episode of the prince of bel air when his dad shows up...and abandons him yet again! Touches a nerve with me cos my dds dad similarly useless! And I feel guilty about that cos I chose him as a dad

ER - loves Labor lost. Affected me before having dd damn near an impossible watch since having her as we both almost died at her birth due to a similar condition partially

Vincent Nigel Murray and sweets' deaths in bones

Rizzoli and isles - goodbye - one of those situations where the actor had died and they had to acknowledge that in the show. I didn't watch it the first time it was out and was unaware of the circumstances but it was so moving anyway, then I read up on what had happened and that made it all the more heartbreaking.

Greys anatomy there are SO many but one which stood out to me was the episode with a rape victim and they cleared the halls of men and lined them with women to make it as easy as possible for her to be transferred for surgery

Haley hotchners last words to hotch on criminal minds, knowing she was about to be killed and telling him how she wanted their son raised by him after she died

There was a scene on soldier soldier after Tony died and his wife had been doing the "stiff upper lip" thing then after the funeral etc she was doing laundry and one of his shirts was there and she just held it to her face and breathed in his scent and fell apart. Beautiful and powerful writing and acting imo

Not rtft will come back and prob add more

Phyllis sobbing on the steps of Nonatus House after Barbara died in Call the Midwife.

@BikeRunSki oh god call the midwife.. most episodes tbh. Especially when you watch it 2 weeks post c section holding your newborn

[quote Fleetw00d]@BikeRunSki oh god call the midwife.. most episodes tbh. Especially when you watch it 2 weeks post c section holding your newborn[/quote]
See my first post on this thread!

BikeRunSki

In one of the episodes of the first series of “Call the Midwife”, when the stories were still from Jennifer Worth’s memoirs, the voice of hit at the end said something like “Mrs Smith’s 9th pregnancy required in her first live baby, as she was able to have a c section on the new NHS”. That storyline was about a lady who had no difficulty in getting pregnant, but whose pelvis was deformed due to childhood polio, and all the previous babies had died in labour.

I watched that as I was feeding my 3 month old dd who’d been delivered by an emcs under GA on the NHS, after I’d haemorrhaged and her heart stopped. The surgeon told me afterwards that there had only a 50/50 chance that either of us would survive, and slimmer that we both would. That CTMW voiceover really resonated.

I remember the episode of CTM where it covered the history of a woman who came to be the cleaner at Nonatus House. It’s also in the Jennifer Worth memoirs and recalls her having been in an abusive children’s home, separated from her brother and then after leaving, forming an incestuous relationship with her brother and the pair lived together until he died. The story was covered in a way which both shocked the viewer/reader, but also showed such empathy for how the context meant this had come about and allowed you to feel sympathy and understanding for it. That story stayed with me.

Another CTM story that stayed with me was an early one about a young Irish girl who had become a prostitute in a Poplar cafe. Harrowing stories, along with the frequent coverage of real poverty in the post-war period.

Wombat
I've read these memoirs too. I just stumbled across the book at work and it's a brilliant read. And I'm not a CTM fan. The incestuous relationship was written about so sensitively but it was still a shock. It was also interesting that the writer said that it wasn't uncommon for this to happen. Particularly with siblings who had been separated for so long.

I'd actually like to watch the episode 🤔💭

@LloydColeandtheCoconuts

I'd actually like to watch the episode 🤔💭

The thread title warns of spoilers.

Agree with so many here. I first saw The Deerhunter in the 80s, and it traumatised me so much I could never ever watch it again. Yes to that episode of Inside Number 9 with Sheridan Smith. I have watched it twice and cried both times (and I'm not generally a crier).
One recent one for me - a Netflix series with Ted Danson called The Good Place. The final episode of that was totally traumatic, more so because it is really a sort of sitcom. All that day, after I had seen it, every time I thought about it it set me off crying - and here I go again now! Recommend the series though.

I can't watch sad things any more, not since a) having DD and b) losing DH. But the one that has stuck with me that hasn't been mentioned yet is the Channel crossing scene in Years and Years. I woke up in the night crying about it and have never forgotten it. So expertly written and just utterly, utterly heartbreaking.