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The best bit of gripping TV/film you’ve ever seen.

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Jobhelpplease · 18/03/2022 13:27

Thought I’d lighten the mood a little and with an almost free weekend to watch whatever I want due to husband working away wondered if I could ask the most gripping bit of TV or film you’ve ever seen...

I’ve a couple to start us off, The Fall and in particular a scene between Jamie Dorman and Gillian Anderson.

Happy Valley

May I destroy you (I was still processing this for weeks after)

Normal people (just absolutely beautiful)

Give me yours.

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Wartywart · 18/03/2022 16:16

The scene in the series called The Serpent where the young man is waiting to get through passport control. ... Really enjoyed the whole series.

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Jobhelpplease · 18/03/2022 16:18

@Wartywart oh god that was edge of your seat stuff!!

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PAFMO · 18/03/2022 16:20

Money Heist when they bring Nairobi out.
Loads of scenes from Money Heist tbh.

From many years ago, various scenes from Platoon, The Killing Fields, and Salvador. Films I never want to see again, but think should be obligatory watching for everybody. And we have learned nothing it seems...

ItsDisneyBitch · 18/03/2022 16:25

It’s a sin was the best piece of television I’ve ever watched. I don’t think I could watch it again. It broke me. Lovely Colin saying I’m not dirty mum. Sad

KezzabellaB · 18/03/2022 16:31

@annabell22

The gang rape scene in The Accused is horrendous and therefore memorable- it must be 30 years since I saw it and yet it's the first one that came to mind.
Couldn't agree more. It was the most harrowing thing I'd ever seen at that point and still now has that effect on me. So brilliantly acted too
QueenBarbOfTheHardRockTrolls · 18/03/2022 16:35

Being Human series 3 where the detective is with Herrick and Herrick seems to be about to remember what he is - he's "just" lurking behind a door, but it's so menacing and tense.

MarshaBradyo · 18/03/2022 16:36

Succession the final scene with Logan yelling at his dc

Fauda and Chernobyl were good too

Canhearthemice · 18/03/2022 16:37

Homeland series 1-3. Absolutely brilliant!

Mercedes519 · 18/03/2022 16:41

The scene in ER when Lucy is on the operating table after being attacked and she hears them talking about her. And she knows she’s going to die. ER was always great at taking your breath away…so many moments. The helicopter crash. the mum who you thought was going to drink and then sets herself alight. Greene hearing his daughter had taken an overdose and running in to see his baby daughter.

MistyFuckingQuigley · 18/03/2022 16:44

The end of Its a Sin when his mum just causally told Gill 'he died yesterday'. Although you knew it was coming it still felt like such a shock.

Oh my god yes this. I was in bits when I watched this scene.
And I didn't see it coming! I mean I obviously knew he was going to die but I really thought the mum would let his friends see him one last time Sad I love Keeley Hawes.

Iwannerbeyourslave · 18/03/2022 16:48

'Ayra kills the Night King'. Haunting beautiful music, tension and stunning visuals. There are videos on Youtube of people from all over the world watching this scene and reacting to it.

PoxyAndIKnowIt · 18/03/2022 16:51

I've been beaten to it, but I was going to say Chernobyl, too. Absolutely stomach-churningly tense and scary in places.

Magicpaintbrush · 18/03/2022 16:55

Poldark - the bit after Ross has spent the night with Elizabeth and he comes home. Demelza's reaction, the look on her face when she hears his horse coming up behind her knowing full well that he has betrayed her and they now have to face each other knowing what he did, and her subsequent reaction. I could feel her pain through the screen.

Herecomesthesun2022 · 18/03/2022 16:56

Series1 of Killing Eve. Specially the scene where the guy is chasing Jodie Foster into a night club. Then he finds her

Herecomesthesun2022 · 18/03/2022 16:57

Not Jodie Foster. My mind is hijacker’s by references to The Accused. Jodie Comer

2Gen · 18/03/2022 16:57

There's loads of scenes that gripped me but the films that had the most emotional affect on me to the point that I haven't been able to watch them again, yet, are The Passion of the Christ, and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, both for obvious reasons!
Of TV, I've been gripped by Line of Duty , as have many, and by Happy Valley. One TV series I have watched several times over a short period, was Netflix's "Bloodline". I felt for poor Danny, and his son, so much. The way his father scapegoated him and the whole family allowed him to be served up, broke my heart. I wanted to smash that feckin' ukelele over his father's head and and when the mother found out the whole place was going to be swallowed up by the sea, I felt grim satisfaction that there was some justice for poor Danny, and for Eric O'Bannon, hapless, hopeless bollix that he was, another of that family's victims! I think this is one of the best dramatised studies of extremely toxic family systems that has ever been broadcast. Another TV show that's gripped me, particularly the way they destroy everyone who gets close to them, is "Power", the 50 Cent's programme, and the follow up series. The one on now, "Power:Book IV; Force", about the character we call "Unhinged Tommy" is just as good as the first series , as were the one about Ghost's son, "Power:Book II" and "Power:Book III; Raising Kanan", about Kanan as a teenager and how his upbringing shaped the monster he became! It's a compelling insight into the way the lust for money and power not only corrupts, but withers consciences and leaves trails of corpses in it's wake!

vesperlindor · 18/03/2022 16:58

The last episode of the Tunnel. DH and I just sat there in silence for about 10 minutes afterwards.

MaddieElla · 18/03/2022 16:58

I second the red wedding in GOT. Mouth wide open.

And the scene where Tyrion is accused of Joffrey's murder. The whole scene is so tense and he gives a speech so powerful. ,"I did not kill Joffrey but I wish that I had."

TV at its best. Loads of gobsmacking moments.

Moaningturtle · 18/03/2022 16:58

The double episode of Greys Anatomy with the shooter in the hospital. Come to think of it, the 007 scene in Greys, if you know, you know Sad

Chafingthedream · 18/03/2022 17:02

The last episode of The Victim, starring Kelly Macdonald. I could hardly breathe for crying and felt uneasy for a few days afterwards. Probably the most powerful drama I’ve ever seen.

SenseFromThoughtDivide · 18/03/2022 17:03

The last n of Trainspotting, Renton trying to rip off Begbie and his ‘mates’ in the most casual way possible

2Gen · 18/03/2022 17:03

I've just remembered another one! A group of us went to see "Mississippi Burning" when it was at the cinema in the 80s. We were stunned and barely spoke when we were in the cafe afterwards because we were sort of stunned! The depths and intensity of the hatred some of the characters had for black people was truly shocking and disturbing to us!

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Jobhelpplease · 18/03/2022 17:04

Thank you to those that suggested Captain Phillips, just watched, the acting was absolutely superb and that final medical scene, well not sure there are any more tears left to cry!!

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foxlover47 · 18/03/2022 17:04

The final scene in the sopranos , I skipped back thinking I'd missed the end

PuppyMonkey · 18/03/2022 17:05

@Wartywart

The scene in the series called The Serpent where the young man is waiting to get through passport control. ... Really enjoyed the whole series.
That was so tense, it was almost unbearable.

I’m sorry to be a GoT geek but honestly, there were some great bits of telly in it. The Red Wedding and fucking Joffrey copping it, I mean you just couldn’t believe it.

I think The Fall started off so well but lost its way. Agree that those first few scenes with Jamie were just terrifying to sit through. Some if Mindhunter is like that too, brilliant series about serial killers.