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

It's a Sin.
Pretty much the entire series but the last episode I was so angry I was sobbing and wanted to punch that horrible woman who called herself a mother right in the face.

Sambuca Kelly dying in Waterloo Road. The series was somewhat far fetched but that second was very moving.

@diddl Yes, what a cast!

Queen of Sheba for me too - just the thought of Scarlet Ribbons gives me a lump in the throat. The death of a loved family member so beautifully observed....

Re Buffy, not only the death of Joyce but also:

When Angel gets his soul restored but Buffy has to send him to Hell anyway (“Close your eyes” - damn you Sarah McLaughlin!)

When Giles finds Jenny and Buffy has to stop him from getting himself killed (“You can’t leave me! I can’t do this alone!”

Pretty much the whole final third of the Second season is a sob-ridden teen-angst fest!

An affair to remember 😭

Bit of a curveball but footballer Ian Wright re-meeting an old teacher of his who meant a lot to him.

I'm not a football fan and know nothing about IW but this is an extraordinary real life scene.

Just watch his face. So many emotions.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=6caCqn_nD6o

I watched Hachiko the other day and found the scene moving when Hachi was waiting at the train station, and Parker's wife joined him and said I'll wait with you too.

It’s a Sin when Richie and Colin die.

The Good Place when Eleanor goes through the archway.

In a League of Their Own when all the ladies meet up and the son tells them that his mother has passed away.

Re-watching Wolf Hall this week. The scene where Cromwell sits holding his little daughter’s hand as she dies had me in floods of tears.

This one for me too. I'm fairly certain I actually sobbed at that!

I was watching the series FBI: Most Wanted recently and they killed off the main character in that. I had no idea he was leaving the series so when he was shot I didn't think much of it, then in the next scene they showed his colleagues going to his partner to break the news to her. Luckily I was home alone at the time as I just sat there saying "No! He can't be!" then promptly burst in to tears along with his partner's character.

I honestly cry at anything though, but occasionally a programme brings out a full on sob and that's when I know it must be emotionally written!

Lots of these, especially Blackadder.
There's a scene in a film about the Balkan War called Warriors. A soldier has to search through a lorryload of bodies to find one survivor. It still haunts me 25 years later.

The Spies Goodbye always gets me as well OP. I loved Hunter and Bobby!

Vincent Nigel-Murray's death in Bones was heartbreaking.

And Bob in Stranger things. I'll never get over that! I thought he was too nice at first and was going to turn out to be a baddy but he was just actually just nice and a hero 🦸‍♂️

Most if not all of the Derek episodes 😭

It's a sin and After life both had me crying, and it takes a lot for me to cry during a tv programme

It's a sin, she'd more than one tear throughout the series.

There was a short, factual series called The Tower block on BBC years ago. Didn't air till gone 11pm.
There was a lad on there, early 20's, who had Tourette's. He was very intelligent, well educated but struggled so much with his disability. During the final credits, it said he'd committed suicide. That made me cry.

Ignore me on The Tower, I am confused.
Although it was an outstanding series, it didn't make me weep.

@GordonBennett71 I didn’t see that episode, why was it sad after they got married?

Barbara's death in Call the Midwife, Sybil's and Matthew's deaths in Downton.

All three made me 'ugly cry'. But the last scene of Matthew's when they show Mary in bed talking to Baby George about Matthew having to wait to see him again, OMG, I sobbed so loud at that scene that DH came out of the bedroom, certain that I had gotten terrible news.

TBH, both CtM and Downton have made me cry any number of times. William's death, Mrs. Patmore's heartbreak over her nephew, Sister Evangelina's death, Mother Mildred's memory of the heroin babies in Hong Kong, just to name a few.

Erin's dad waiting for them outside the gig in Derry Girls.

Oh god same.

For me it's not when the person dies, or the bad thing happens. It watching everyone else's reaction.
Like Buffy telling Dawn and Dawn disbelieving her and crying.
Anya not getting it.
Willow changing her clothes.

I'm going to add to that and say also when Giles finds Jenny's body.

And leaving Buffy and moving to Orange is the New Black, when Poussey is killed. Taystee breaks me.

Oh Vincent!! I cried HARD when he died.

Nicola Walker's fate in Unforgotten.

The ‘Sleepytime’ episode of Bluey

😳

Omg, I was still very upset the next day after watching that episode.