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Tv series that stuck with you

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SecretLifeOfTeachers · 08/02/2025 22:21

I was watching an old episode of gogglebox - they were watching the final episode of Its a Sin and I instantly started tearing up. I remember when I watched it I couldn’t stop crying for hours - the scene where the main character is in hospital and tells his mum, he just looks like a scared boy. I thought it was a fantastic series but il never watch it again.
Is there a scene in a series that just sticks in your head and that emotion comes straight back as soon as you think about it?

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MsVi · 08/02/2025 22:49

Years and years ago. A series called survivors where there was a pandemic and only a few people survived. They shot an innocent guy for rape before the real culprit confessed. I was a child but it stayed with me.

Iloveeverycat · 08/02/2025 22:49

Tenko

Fernticket · 08/02/2025 22:50

Last episodes of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. The Life on Mars episode always gives me nightmares.

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RuthW · 08/02/2025 22:50

Tenko for me too.

PuppyMonkey · 08/02/2025 22:51

The usual things like Breaking Bad and Succession but actually the ones series I often recall is one from years and years ago starring Farrah Fawcett as a mum who killed all her children. I can’t even remember what it was called but I do think of it, so chilling.

InterestQ · 08/02/2025 22:52

Warriors - BBC drama about peacekeeping and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.

Andanotherone01 · 08/02/2025 22:53

Chernobyl. Absolutely masterful

Akrotiri1 · 08/02/2025 22:54

The last episode of Blackadder, when they were in the trenches - so brilliantly moving and poignant......

FofB · 08/02/2025 22:55

Derek.

The scene where the elderly people are sat in the nursing home, with the Radiohead song playing and the real pictures of them when they were younger- the most poignant piece of TV I've ever seen.

TaylorSwish · 08/02/2025 22:57

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 08/02/2025 22:40

The Flower Pot Men.

I still don't like to go down to the bottom of the garden when it's dark - just in case....

They were creepy fuckers.

TortolaParadise · 08/02/2025 23:01

Hill Street Blues
St Elsewhere
Grange Hill (Zammo era)
Moonlighting

Abracadabra12345 · 08/02/2025 23:03

Akrotiri1 · 08/02/2025 22:54

The last episode of Blackadder, when they were in the trenches - so brilliantly moving and poignant......

Oh I agree. Just so poignant

I also loved It's a Sin, OP

Wolf Hall and especially Mirror and the Light

Jellykat · 08/02/2025 23:03

The 1960s Singing ringing tree TV series, the most disturbing kids programme ever!
Also add Ken Dodd and the Diddy men..

CointreauQuaint · 08/02/2025 23:03

The haunting of hill house.

Mansionscoldandgrey · 08/02/2025 23:03

Years and Years. Anne Reid's character made a memorable speech about everything being our fault.

Thecarpetisbeige · 08/02/2025 23:04

The Widow (2019)

wipeywipe · 08/02/2025 23:05

Phoenix Nights

ffsgloria · 08/02/2025 23:05

I watched It's A Sin twice, I think it's the best thing I've ever seen on TV, so moving.

Moveoverdarlin · 08/02/2025 23:08

After Life. My DH and I weren’t just shedding a tear at the end, we were sobbing. I’ve watched it a few times now.

Fouradayistoomuch · 08/02/2025 23:10

cariadlet · 08/02/2025 22:44

I think I was in my teens when that was on. I loved it.

The scenes that have stuck in my mind must have been from the final series because they were after France had been liberated.

One scene is when a German officer was trying to escape with his French girlfriend. The car was stopped and he said that he had taken her hostage. They loved each other but he lied to protect her.

The other scene was of people rounding up women accused of collaborating with Germans and publicly shaving their heads as punishment. The mob who did it hadn't done anything themselves to resist but were so self-righteous. The resistance group was based in a restaurant that served Germans so was under suspicion, one of the women was in the line to be shaved and was only just saved in time.

I hated Allo, Allo when it started, partly because it was so shit and unfunny but also because it was a pastiche of The Secret Army so I saw that as a crap programme taking the puss out of a brilliant programme.

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Yes, the episodes after liberation stuck in my mind too as the resistance workers based in the restaurant were so unfairly targeted after their amazing bravery. Such a great series.

WaneyEdge · 08/02/2025 23:10

Top Boy - tried to re watch and I just can’t.
Happy Valley.
’My Screw Up’ episode of Scrubs.

brassandswitch · 08/02/2025 23:10

Band of brothers. I watch it without fail every single year, and the pacific

Youagain2025 · 08/02/2025 23:10

Where the heart is .

I used to like a documentary called life of grime to

Elle771 · 08/02/2025 23:11

SecretLifeOfTeachers · 08/02/2025 22:21

I was watching an old episode of gogglebox - they were watching the final episode of Its a Sin and I instantly started tearing up. I remember when I watched it I couldn’t stop crying for hours - the scene where the main character is in hospital and tells his mum, he just looks like a scared boy. I thought it was a fantastic series but il never watch it again.
Is there a scene in a series that just sticks in your head and that emotion comes straight back as soon as you think about it?

When I saw the title thread on my feed I instantly thought of Its A sin!!! 😭😭😭😭

Fouradayistoomuch · 08/02/2025 23:12

Moveoverdarlin · 08/02/2025 23:08

After Life. My DH and I weren’t just shedding a tear at the end, we were sobbing. I’ve watched it a few times now.

Oh yes, I loved that too especially the gorgeous dog. 🐕

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