Most heatbreaking scenes on tv

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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

Oh god yes.

Sobbed!!

I'm rewatching Grey's Anatomy at the moment and Season 2 episode where Bonnie and Tom are impaled on a pole and only one of them can survive gets me every time. I've seen it so many times and always end up crying.

@PenCreed loved the ending too, I spent a lot of the 90s visiting cousins in Belfast so the whole show brought back a lot of memories (my cousin's friends mums referred to me as the wee English girl so I was basically James 😆)

He’s amazing. There are an awful lot of mediocre actors out there but he has to be the best I’ve ever seen. Just raw and unedited, he doesn’t sanitise anything or care about how he looks on screen. It almost feels quite voyeuristic watching him at times.

Vicky McClure and Jo Gilgun come a close second.

Agent Sunshine in the West Wing

I have never been able to watch the final episode of Morse

Sister Evangelina's shoes being placed in the hearse

The scene from The Missing where he loses his son. It makes me feel panicky just thinking about it.

So many already mentioned (Dr Greene, Carter and Lucy, Hillary in Beaches) Another one was from one of the last series of Spooks. I can't quite remember what was happening but I think there was a spy on the inside wiping out the agents and the scene in particular was the two computer geek agents (tall guy and the shorter one with sandy hair, who I think) were taken into some woods to be killed but to look like suicide I think. But it was the look on their faces as they knew what was coming and they could do nothing about it.
I do cry at a lot of programmes tbh

Just looked it up and misremembered it I think. The one character who was killed was Colin Wells and it was during an attempted terrorist coup in the UK. The other one who I thought was killed was Malcolm Wynn-Jones but he was in The Greater Food film so perhaps not

For Stephen Graham fans try 'Help'.

www.channel4.com/programmes/help

There was an episode of Britain's Heros (or whatever its called) a few years ago. I can't even describe the scene without crying , it has stayed with me for years.

A young girl had a debilitating illness, and her family needed adaptations to her home in order to make her comfortable. Her mum had done a lot of fund raising, and her dad was working away in Iraq trying to earn as much money as possible to get the house renovated for his daughter.

The mum, daughter and her sister were on stage and they were going to speak to dad via video link to Iraq.
The presenter said to the young girl "say hello to daddy".

"Hello daddy"
"Hello sweet heart " he replied, as he walked on stage. The show had flown him back to the UK to surprise the daughter .
I cried and cried and cried.

And how she dies!! That was utterly shocking

Not sure how long ago it would have been on telly, but there was a documentary called 'the boy who's skin fell off' (even typing the title chokes me up) and my RS teacher in high school saw fit to show it to us during a lesson. I was sobbing so hard I had to leave the classroom.

It's a Sin, pretty much every episode.
Soldier Soldier, Tony Wilton dying and Joy gets told "not my Tone"
Glee when Finn dies
Sleepy time and Baby Race bluey episodes
Blackadder goes forth final scene
A lot of Call the Midwife
I was a mess when Sinead died in Corrie

And The Virtues (he's astonishing in both).

Mmm I still think there's nothing that compares to This Is England film and series

I deliberately left the room before the father died in Life is Beautiful. I decided that if I didn’t watch it I could pretend he escaped, was reunited with his family and they all lived happily ever after…

The Alan Bennett monologue “A Cream Cracker Under the Settee” with Thora Hurd. It was in our GCSE English anthology and we watched it in class. I wept for most of it. It was so utterly lonely and depressing (and brilliant).

Damon dying in Damon and Debbie, (a spin off from Brookie). So, so sad.