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. I cried ugly tears on several occasions watching that programme.

Ally mcbeal when Billy died in the courtroom. For years after I put that episode on when I needed to cry.

I watched all of ER when Channel 4 used to show it in the mornings in the late 90s and I was supposed to be revising for my exams on study leave I recently rewatched S1 and had to skip completely the episode Love’s Labor Lost. It was upsetting when I was 16 (and the memory has stayed with me) but after two tricky but after two tricky births it is genuinely unwatchable for me. Absolutely shattering.

I think my brain chooses to block this out. It breaks me.

Also, Desperate Housewives, when the birth mum takes the baby away from Gaby and Carlos and Gaby chases them begging. Heartbreaking acting.

Aberfan happened 4 years before I was born, but it is the event that shaped my career more than any. I did my geology degree in S Wales, my lecturer was one of the first people from the Coal Board on site. More than 20 years later her cried as he told us about it.

Harry Kane trying to take a penalty.

Good to see so much love/tears for Blackadder. It was perfectly done. "Who'd notice another madman round here?" 😭

David Tennant had loads of emotional moments. Mme Pompidou spaceship, sobbing, erasing Donna's memory, sobbing, Bernard Cribbins waving, sobbing again. But agree that the one that really did me in is when him and rose get trapped in different universes. Bawled my fucking eyes out I did.

ER also had numerous sucker punches. Mark Green obviously, and Pratt, and Carter and Lucy getting stabbed, and Carter's wife losing the baby. It was a very emotional programme!

There was an incredible series of standalone dramas featuring female lead characters about 10 years ago.

They were all amazing, I recall Maxine Peake being in one.

But the one that hit me hardest was the story of a woman who was being abused by her 'pillar of the community' husband. No one would believe the abuse she suffered. She eventually snapped and attacked him. She was pregnant at the time.
She was charged and stood trial. It was clear that she had reacted in response to the horrific abuse she'd suffered. But the focus was on the likely length of sentence she would get. There was a cut off point where she'd be able to have her baby in prison with her. If the sentence was any longer, she'd have to give birth in prison and then the baby would be fostered and potentially adopted. Cruelly, the sentence was about 2 weeks too long for her to be able to keep the baby. Absolutely devastating.

I wish I could remember what it was called.

The episode of the royle family where Denise is in labour in the bathroom and Jim is with her.

Agree with pp, Shruti in "this is going to Hurt"

Deborah James (Bowel Babe) last interview 😢😢😢

For Doctor Who, the Van Gogh episode. The scene in the museum at the end. Full on sobbing.

This Is Us cried buckets when William died.

Also final scene of After Life.

Oh what about Amy's goodbye 😢

John Noakes breaking down talking about Shep’s death

@Thesearmsofmine it really did. So many scenes. I remember Del and Rodneys oversized obelisk to their mum. . The writer has sadly passed. We will never have another OF&H xmas special. I have told my boys i want a Trotter mum obelisk when i pass. I am a born and bred Londoner and i hope i am repatriated back to London from this midlands hell. I want a full Trotter London Mum larger than life headstone.

The scene in detectorists, when Lance meets his estranged daughter, and has 20 years worth of unwrapped presents for her in his cupboard. Bloody love that show.

Dexter - when he finds Rita dead in the bathtub. Was such a shocking, upsetting moment, I felt unsettled for ages after watching it.

Lee scoresby’s death in His Dark Materials 😭

Lucy's death in ER

There was an episode of Long Lost Family where the woman had been brought up abroad but found out as an adult that her "parents" were actually something like her Aunt & Uncle?

It turned out her mum was English and her father had kidnapped her in the UK when her mother divorced him and he fled to his own birth country, but then gave her to this couple who were relatives of his to raise.

The bit that got me was when they found her mum (who was by now quite old) and she absolutely broke down when they told her they'd found her daughter.

I came to say this. Proper snot and tears by the end. In fact I don't think Ive been able to watch it again - it came on tv a few months ago and as soon as I saw the main actor, I had to turn it off

The Sandman episode 'The Sound of Her Wings'. Death visits different people to take them from the living world. The baby made me sob.

When Justin collapses then later dies in 13 reasons why.
The bathroom scene in 13 reasons why.
Joyce summers.
Buffy telling Willow that Angel is leaving her and she sobs saying she can't breathe.

Buffy season 3

"I think horrible is still coming. Right now, it's worse. Right now, I'm just trying to keep from dying"

I was born about 15 years after Aberfan. I have no Welsh connections and only tenuous mining connections but it has always affected me and there was something about how it was portrayed in the Crown that I found particularly devastating. Coincidentally I expressed an interest in Geology in my teens, but was completely put off by my teachers (not because of my academics it just wasn't a thing that girls from comps in deprived parts of London did apparently) so qudos to you

Two I've not seen mentioned yet -

The two-part Season 4 ending of House, with the bus crash and Amber's death. Phenomenal TV, but the very last scene where Wilson goes home and finds her note on the bed to say she's gone to pick up House... Cue proper wracking ugly sobs from me 😳

Going back a way, if anyone remembers Soldier Soldier, Tony's death in a fire/explosion. It just came out of nowhere and absolutely broke me.

It was utter silence in our house when we twigged. So well done. I had tears streaming down my face.

@shortpeopleproblems I remember the death of Sgt Tony Wilton, the range warden had a stash of illicit & flammable stuff in his office...