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

Blackadder goes forth.

A documentary on Netflix about the epidemic of ketamine use in a small suburb of Canada (Toronto I think).

At the end a beautiful young man who'd lost his child, family and everything because of his addiction says he can't give up the drug and go back to 'normal' life, because this is the only life he knows, he doesn't know anything else.

Unbelievably sad and so worth watching.

Mel’s death in Benidorm. For such a silly tv show it doesn’t half hit you hard when it wants to.

there’s a tv show aimed at teens called dance academy. So far so lighthearted - but when one of them dies and watching the others finding out and how they process it is absolutely heartbreaking. Wasn’t expecting to be crying so hard watching that with my niece!

Doctor Who, Matt Smith the Rings of Akhaten speech

Buffy when Angel lost his soul and basically tells her she's nothing, but she stops the sword in front of her face.

Buffy when she admits she was in heaven and they dragged her back into the coffin.

When Derek Shepherd from Greys Anatomy died and Meredith fainted when telling the other doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial.

Blackadder Goes Forth, particularly as that really did happen to thousands upon thousands in the First World War.

Dopesick. All of it (I have to admit we didn’t finish it because it was too depressing) but particularly the bit where the young miner girl gets injured in a work accident. Because you know, right then, she’s fucked. And then the sense of absolute doom when her family doctor, who delivered her and has known her all her life, prescribes her opioids, believing the Sackler marketing lies and truly thinking he’s helping her. Just utterly heartbreaking.

Handmaids tale when June finally meets her daughter and then has to say goodbye after 10 minutes, I could not stop crying and I feel all upset even thinking about it.

It's A Sin - the scene where Ritchie is in the car with his old friend at home, describing all the things he'll never get to do. Then at the end where it flashes back to them all laughing in a park with ice creams before any of them got ill.

Also, the episode of One Foot in the Grave where Margaret visits an old blind man and fakes reading out a letter from his family in Australia, and the man later goes on to be murdered by a fake 'toy salesman'/burglar when he buys toys for his grandchildren to send off the back of Margaret's 'letter'.

For me also, usually the last episode of anything, especially Friends, where they lay the keys on the counter, and Frasier, when Niles says "I'll miss the coffees". I usually only ever watch the last episode once, then never again because I end up sobbing!

Me too, and when Del holds newborn baby Damian at the window and talks to his mum.

Yes! I did not anticipate the ending, it left me with such a sad feeling in the pit of my stomach.

The episode of Upstart Crow about the death of little Hamnet. That last scene where Will and Anne sit silently by the fire and the voice-over " Grief fills the room up of my absent child........."
To watch some thing where you are smiling at the start of the episode and weeping at the end shows brilliant writing.

@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.

Yes, Soldier Soldier!

London's Burning always had a few deaths each year too. Nick in the cinema, John in the factory...

This

Barbara’s death on tv was one of my saddest moments.

English Patient, when he’s trying to get back to his love who is dying and no one would listen to him. The desperation was heartbreaking…

Sonia's death on the beach in Neighbours. Finished me off that day!

Love this scene as well. It gets me every time I watch the series.

It was called Criminal Justice and was made by the BBC. Matthew Macfadyen was the husband. Harrowing.

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.

The boy in the striped pajamas. Very very sad and made me feel numb for a long time after

Very few things move me to tears. In our house it is my DH who is sobbing at the TV. But anything with animals being hurt upsets me. I don't often watch daytime tv but many years ago there was a programme about a safari park. I did watch a few episodes of it. There was a baby giraffe and I watched its progress. I am not sure why but I got very invested in that little giraffe. Then its health declined and it died. I cried for some time over that.

I didn't even watch it that much, my then housemate was a fan, but this was just, I will never watch it again.

If you have not seen it DO NOT WATCH.

Not fiction but the series Anne, just four episodes and I was dry eyed until the end credits, then they ran the names of the 97, that broke me. I actually called, "you bastards" at the TV. I was alone. I was aiming that at whoever did that.

I knew what happened, I remember the events of the day and the years and years of trying to get justice.

But just seeing the names. Thinking back it was absolutely right to do that.

Not a film many would have seen but The Station Agent has one of the most heartbreaking scenes where Olivia tries to kill herself after hearing her husband is having another baby after their child dies. Her friend Finn tries to help and you can see how much he is in pain trying to help despite her yelling abuse at him and to go away. Superb acting from Peter Dinklage

Oh god I've welled up just reading that.