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

Sybill's death in Downton is so, so sad. They way it's done, the tension about whether she has eclampsia, then the safe birth of the baby and everyone giving a big sigh of relief only for her to die anyway. The acting is superb and I cry every time I watch it.

There is a scene in the same episode where Mary and Edith are with her body and Mary says something about it being the last time they will be together in this life that always sets me off too.

Me too.

I first saw that as a teenager and had to lock myself in the bathroom to sob!

Empire of the Sun when Christian Bale sees his mum at the end
Anne of Green Gables when Gilbert survives and they walk across the pond.
Sybil in Downton
Barbara in Call the Midwife (I am still traumatised)
Whitney dying in Beaches

Rachels death in the original series of Cold Feet.

Came on to say the rape scene in This is England series.
Never watched anything like it

It's the episode afterwards that gets me. I can sit through The Body completely stonefaced but the next episode where she tells Dawn she's been busy because when she stops it all becomes real breaks me

Agreed. One of the best pieces of television ever.

When Marshall's dad died in How I Met Your Mother. The subtle count down throughout the episode that you don't even notice at first viewing and the way he goes from happy and excited to devastated in about a second.

It aired around the time my dad died and when he says "I'm not ready for this" it hit me right in the heart as it entirely summed up how I felt and it still makes me well up when I see it years later.

My Girl - when the young boy dies 🥹

Bodies - when the woman in a coma sees a photo of her stillborn baby and her nipple leak. Didn’t quite understand the impact of that scene until I had my first and now I can’t even deal with just thinking about it. Absolutely devastating.

Just seen you said TV! In that case, I'll have to second Lady Sybil's death in Downton Abbey!

Blackadder Goes Forth final episode - devastating.
Only When It Hurts - Shruti. I knew it was coming but so so awful.

What channel is this?

Wolf Hall - the bit where his wife and children die from sweating sickness so quickly and the nurses/home helps are trying to revive his daughters.

It's a sin. Neil Patrick Harris's scenes. Callum Scott-Howell's. And the ending.
Absolutely criminal that Olly Alexander and the aforesaid didn't get every award going.

The West Wing, Mrs Landingham, Charlie breaking the news. Then a couple of seasons later, Leo getting the news about Zoey and running to tell the president. No words, you just see it through the window. There was also an episode about pardoning prisoners, and they decided not to release one to avoid accusations of nepotism. Donna then hears what happens to him and it’s heart wrenching.

Matthew's death in Downton. Bloody ruined my Christmas that year!

Agree. Made me cry so much when I read it, but the TV series too - so dreadful.

Scrubs- my lunch. Every single time.

The last episode of the walking dead got me. I was trying to hold it in the whole way through, but it got me.

@VelvetThunder me too. I just didn't want her to die and when she was smiling at her baby and being so brave I was undone.

When Hillary dies in Beaches.
Boy in the striped pajamas.

Agree re blackadder goes forth.

The scene in House of the Dragon when Rhaenyra gives birth to her still born daughter. The way she holds her and the e look on her face. Emma D’Arcy is a brilliant actor.

Could also pick any number of scenes from Greys Anatomy

@walkinthewoodstoday It was a short series on the BBC about 20 years ago. It stars Matthew MacFadyen pre Pride and Prejudice. I've just checked and you can watch it on Amazon for free if you get the BritBox week long trial.

It's wonderful! Very understated and very very moving.

We are rewatching Broadchurch and I had forgotten how raw and how sad a lot of series 1 is.