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Most heatbreaking scenes on tv

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Soubriquet · 21/12/2022 14:47

What are the scenes that made you feel real emotion or even cry when they aired?

I’ll start with

Glee. When Karofsky feels suicide is his only option after being outed and Blaine is singing cough syrup as he gets himself dressed. The emotion Karofsky shows hits hard.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The spies goodbye. It always makes me well up no matter how many times I see it.

The 100. When Monty has left a message to Clarke talking about how he and Harper didn’t cryo themselves and instead lived a life and had a son.

Lucifer. The end episode. Says it all

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Maggiesgirl · 22/12/2022 07:51

Claire's stillbirth on Outlander. The whole episode makes me cry.

Clawdy · 22/12/2022 07:52

There was a piece on our local news programme last year, where a researcher found the place outside a hospital where stillborn babies had been buried without parents knowledge many years ago. He traced one very old lady, and took her to the spot where her baby boy had been buried (just a number on a small metal disc on the ground). She placed a bunch of flowers down, blew a kiss, and whispered "Mummy's here."

Alwaysworryingoversomething · 22/12/2022 07:55

CoffeeAndEnnui · 21/12/2022 23:16

@Alwaysworryingoversomething, is there any chance your therapist might be trying to keep you on as a client until the end of time?! Because you will never be able to unwatch Jurassic Bark and it will haunt you FOREVER.

*not to make light of therapy, obviously. But really...don't watch it.

Hahaha I don't see him anymore (not because of that!) and I wish I could remember why it came up!

Agree with Blackadder Goes Forth, mentioned by so many here. Amazing television.

To be honest I cry at a lot of television.
Some David Tennant Dr Who episodes, people winning, people losing, people dying....I should probably avoid television altogether!

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Rudolphtheinsomniacreindeer · 22/12/2022 05:06

Someone has already mentioned but It’s a Sun, honestly I started crying at the end of episode 1 and didn’t stop until the end of the last episode. So beautiful and so heartbreaking.

It's A Sin was masterpiece from beginning to end. I think I must have felt every single emotion watching it

Gazelda · 22/12/2022 08:22

Thank you @DwightKShrute. The whole series was incredible, but that one has stayed with me. Utterly brilliant and devastating.

PoinsettiaPosturing · 22/12/2022 08:28

'The Train' - the penultimate episode of This Is Us.
Dopesick, when Billy goes to visit the doctor in rehab to apologise and the doctor just wants more pills Sad
'Not Penny's Boat' - Lost
Criminal Minds - When the reaper kills Hotchner's wife on the phone with them all
The handmaids tale, when Hannah is ripped out of June's arms at the beginning. Also, anything to do with Janine

DennisSkinnersMolotov · 22/12/2022 09:01

Cuppasoupmonster · 21/12/2022 18:45

I came on to see this. Nothing has even come close for me since in terms of raw emotion. I think for me the most emotional scene was the letter Combo read to the parole board - when he says as well as asking for forgiveness from other people, he’s also learned to forgive the people that have hurt him. For some reason it had me crying like a baby! Also when Lol is having her stomach pumped and is having a horrible series of flashbacks over the most painful moments of her life that led her there.

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Combo was my first real introduction to Stephen Graham, he's one of those actors who can be so subtle in his delivery, but it hits like a hammer blow every time. Combo was such a brilliant, flawed character. Just when you thought you could never forgive him for beating up Milky, he does that for Lol.

DennisSkinnersMolotov · 22/12/2022 09:03

Dead Man's Shoes. The gang's treatment of Anthony - utterly heartbreaking.

purpleme12 · 22/12/2022 09:03

Nothing has come close to This Is England for anything else any of the actors have been in for me.

lemons44 · 22/12/2022 09:33

@RightOnTheEdge I forgot about Bob in Stranger Things 😭😭😭😭

lemons44 · 22/12/2022 09:37

@LetsGoFlyAKiteee I'm really glad someone else said Haunting of Hill House and Haunting of Bly Mannor.

I cried so hard at the last episode of Hill House. It really got to me for some reason.

Then with Bly Mannor, the idea that she was just going into the house to find her child really upset me too.

Both such good series.

Whatwouldscullydo · 22/12/2022 10:05

When angel has to leave in buffy. I didnt like angel as a character really but the failed attempt at being " friends" and knowing you cant possibly be together without bringing the worst of you both out of of eachother is probably a bit too close to home.

Lexis death in greys anatomy. The way Mark just holds her hand after. They both did such a good job of making you feel the pain of loving eachother so much but it just not being a sensible idea to be together. Then when she died there was just no way to hide it any more.

I would agree with Joyce summers too. No big dramatic death. It just happened. Buffy found her. Was really well done.

The scene in buffy where buffy is talking to Giles about how shit shes doing how awful her life is and then says " and I've been sleeping with spike" and they just start laughing because what else can you do. We've all been there....

Marks death in ER. You knew it was coming. You knew he wasn't even that nice a man really. He deliberately surrounded himself with Doug so hed look good against his lower set of morals, you were angry he wanted to play this hero and rescue Rachel before he died despite his actions previously , yet somehow you were still shocked by it.

The train station scene in ER. Mark was such an idiot. He wasted Susan's time with the underlying motion of hope for thr 2 of them. He was incredibly selfish, he had years he dated other people he clearly just wanted her to be there forever on the back ground in case he decided he wanted her finally. He then went with that manipulative selfish grand gesture which made u want to throw him onto the train tracks. Yet still some how you were still shocked and sad she left anyway.

beguilingeyes · 22/12/2022 10:35

PoinsettiaPosturing · 22/12/2022 08:28

'The Train' - the penultimate episode of This Is Us.
Dopesick, when Billy goes to visit the doctor in rehab to apologise and the doctor just wants more pills Sad
'Not Penny's Boat' - Lost
Criminal Minds - When the reaper kills Hotchner's wife on the phone with them all
The handmaids tale, when Hannah is ripped out of June's arms at the beginning. Also, anything to do with Janine

'Janine' is Sally Bowles in Cabaret in London at the moment. I was so excited to see her. Also 'Colin' from It's A Sin. Colin Broke me.

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Soubriquet · 22/12/2022 14:27

I’ve never watched futurama, but I’ve seen stills of it on fb for Jurassic bark.

Those cartoon stills nearly made my cry. No way am I watching it

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BigusBumus1 · 22/12/2022 14:51

The Episode of Royle Family called The Queen of Sheba, when Nanna dies.

torquewench · 22/12/2022 15:01

An episode in the final of Soldier, Soldier (1997) when one of them jumped on top of a grenade to stop the explosion killing everyone.

Trinity65 · 22/12/2022 15:50

I have thought of another

The Book Thief. When Lissel's little friend, "with hair the colour of Sunflowers" (I may be wrong in that last bit as it was a long time ago) is one of the victims of the bombing one night, along with her beloved Foster Parents. And when we find out Lissel lived a very long life, without those who died of course. That upsets Me.

Trinity65 · 22/12/2022 15:52

I am on a roll lol

The Lovely Bones, especially when Suzie learns of the names and fates of all the other Children, including the young girl who was first to welcome Suzie to the Other Side. Then we saw them all. Awww. I guess they were waiting to move on with Suzie, the last victim I assume.

lbnblbnb · 22/12/2022 17:29

Matt Smith era Doctor Who: the Van Gogh episode, at the end when Van Gogh is walking around the exhibition hearing what people think of his work.

PineapplePear · 22/12/2022 17:35

Inside number 9 episode- 12 days of Christine. I’m not a cryer when it comes to tv/films, but in a short episode (30mins) it has me blubbering away every time.

Cant remember her name, but actress from two pints of lager is Christine, and it’s a brilliant performance.

JustCakeInDrag · 22/12/2022 17:43

PineapplePear · 22/12/2022 17:35

Inside number 9 episode- 12 days of Christine. I’m not a cryer when it comes to tv/films, but in a short episode (30mins) it has me blubbering away every time.

Cant remember her name, but actress from two pints of lager is Christine, and it’s a brilliant performance.

Sheridan Smith.

chumbleton · 22/12/2022 17:46

Truly Madly Deeply. When all the ghosts are watching out of the window at the end

PineapplePear · 22/12/2022 17:47

@JustCakeInDrag Yes that’s her, best performance I’ve seen of hers.

IHeartGeneHunt · 22/12/2022 17:51

Royle Family, Queen of Sheba- one New Year's Eve I was going through a miscarriage and the friend who was with me put that on to cheer me up not knowing what it was about. I was in pieces.
The year after, just having had a baby, I binge watched Dr Who and had to stop because nearly every David Tennant episode was breaking my heart. Especially the one where he kept appearing in the fireplace.

FortSalem86 · 22/12/2022 18:18

The boy in the striped pyjamas.

Death of the father in "life is beautiful" film.