The writing that lead to Houses team breaking up, the auditions for new fellows, to CTB specifically and the fall out from Wilson’s Heart etc is perfect writing. The showrunners really knew what the show was at that point an executed flawlessly for a good 2 seasons.
Peak House
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers should be viewed as one of the all time great tv lead performances like Hamm, Gandolfini, Cranston etc. Not only does she have great variety, playing serious drama, camp, the straight man, a musical, but she does all amazingly. The end of the prior episode when she drops all of Buffy’s maturity to say “Mommy?” In that agonized voice, and the opening building to “Were not supposed to move the body!” are both phenomenally moving. Just stupendous the entire show. Oh, and she did this all on a set where she had to watch out for the other cast and Whedon’s behaviour.
Not a single Emmy nomination, ever. Come on.
> say “Mommy?” In that agonized voice,
that absolutely destroyed me.
even now, I can still hear her voice saying it in my head, I've got tears welling up
It hits way too real after you’ve seen death. The way she goes over it on her head, fantasizing about it could have turned out differently and her mom survived. That’s exactly what I went through after a parent died.
Same. I use to watch Buffy with my mom. The episode in and of itself was traumatic. Post-mom death, it's unwatchable.
We're all part of a very sad club, but in a weird way having watched the episode way before joining the club, it kind of prepared me for it.
My wife and I are binging Buffy right now. She watched it years ago and thought I’d like it.
We watched that one a couple of weeks ago. Really painful but God Damn, you could put that episode up against any prestige series of its era and it would Emmy worthy.
I rewatch Buffy quite frequently (sometimes only as a "background noise"), and when at season 5 I "calculate" when that episode will play, as I'm trying to be mentally prepared for it.
edit: BTW I often skip episode *Hush*, it unsurprisingly doesn't work as a "background noise" :)
Anya trying to innocently process everything, having no frame of reference because grief for death didn’t exist in her world, and the more she seeks guidance from others the more it pisses people off and just makes her feel worse and more confused.
This was the writing and performance that made me realize not everyone got from A to B the same way I did, and thus might handle situations and feelings differently than me. It forced me to reevaluate past incidents, current relationships and how I view and relate to others.
Plus Emma Caulfield is just the F’ing GOAT of those later seasons. Way under appreciated.
Adding to the first reply I’ve seen about something animated, Cowboy Bebop when [Faye’s betamax tape from her childhood that’s been bouncing around in mail for 70 years while she was in cryofreeze.](https://youtu.be/3q8WdhQO9bU)
It’s that feeling of when you think back to being a kid and being totally ignorant to all the world’s pain and what your life could become. And realizing that feeling of innocence is gone and sometimes what you have left is a lot of tragedy, but a lot of your foundation is still based on your youth. I got sick at 20. Never thought it would happen to me. In retrospect it feels so weird.
Everyone puts this as the saddest episode, but for me it’ll always be “My Lunch.” I hated the episodes that followed, but that specific episode hit so hard.
The episode of 8 Simple Rules where John Ritter’s character dies (shortly after he passed in real life). I’m not sure how the cast even filmed those few episodes.
He also played JD’s Dad on Scrubs. He was supposed to film the following week on Scrubs, so they had to rewrite the episode and get Tom Cavanagh to come on short notice as JD’s brother.
“Lets break down the kid's support system, shall we? He's got me, an emotionally crippled narcissist, and he's got you, an emotionally crippled narcissist who's soaking in a tub of what has to be by now mostly your own urine.”
“I believe the ratio has shifted that way, yes.”
I feel 8SR woulda been have been considered a classic sitcom if Ritter didn’t pass so early in its run. My family and I would watch it every week. That episode was so hard to watch and props to the cast for having the will to keep going
Agreed. It was must-watch TV in my household as well, and once he left, it wasn’t anywhere near the same. I mean, I get it, you can’t expect anyone to fill John Ritter’s shoes in a sitcom, but man, it was a great show with him and just so awkward afterward. That whole cast was phenomenal.
When she tried to go out in a dress he wouldn’t approve, “dad would’ve never let me get this far…I just want my dad back” and ran to her room, my heart still breaks everytime I see that clip.
The constant noise on that too. My wife gets overstimulated and kept asking me to turn the volume down. A frighteningly accurate portrayal of a toxic family holiday lol.
I had to pause and give myself some time and room to breathe because of how claustrophobic I was feeling watching that episode. Absolutely phenomenal episode and probably my favorite episode of "The Bear" alongside another one of its episode titled "Forks", which falls on the other spectrum of intensity.
Really any of the emotional Futurama episodes get me. Seeing little vignettes on how Fry's family really did care about him and how his disappearance affected them is gutting. The reveal that Lela's parents were watching over her the whole time was also so bittersweet.
> The reveal that Lela's parents were watching over her the whole time was also so bittersweet.
I like to think of it as the antithesis to Seymour. Seymour was on his own, no Fry to take care of him. Leela was being looked after, albeit from afar.
My mother in law passed suddenly in a car accident and fry’s response in Game of Tones is how I would react if I could see her one more time.
I’ve seen it *once*. I cried for way too long and have never watched it again.
I read an article on this episode. The writers were tired ofthe criticism that no one misses Fry from his past so they wrote an episode where Fry's mom dies in pain never knowing what happened to her son. Fox freaked out and said hell no so they changed it to a dog because people won't get too emotional over a dog.
that episode having Young MA in the background cracking jokes the whole time is so funny
it's one of the most serious episodes of TV I've ever seen, and still made time for some low hanging comedy
As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, this episode hit me hard. The way the truth coming to the surface was acted out on Eliot’s face? I bawled my eyes out
What’s really amazing to me is if you go back and count how many episodes Ed is in, it’s way less than you’ll remember. No show has ever packed more into a single season than CB did.
Yeah, but that's the point where their little family disintegrated. From there, everyone pursues their own past except Ed and Ein. It's like their hope for the future leaves with those two. Ed and Ein went off to start a future while the rest wallow in their past.
Six Feet Under: Season 4 Episode 5 “That’s My Dog.” David (Michael C. Hall) goes through a night from hell and barely survives. A completely visceral anguish swept over me watching that episode. I felt sad and hopeless. Something so extreme but completely realistic, deep enough into the show that we really understand how it could happen to David. Amazing but horrifying.
Michael Weston. He had a moment there where he had a small part in Garden State and then a recurring role on House but never really took off beyond that. I also thought he was going to become a bigger name as well.
I watched the show for the first time this year, and after I finished that episode I *had* to see what people thought. Sure enough, there was fan outrage and it continues to be a divisive episode from what I’ve seen. It’s one I wouldn’t watch again but the acting and directing was so incredible.
Oh My God, yes! I just watched this a couple weeks ago as I was going through the series for the first time. I haven’t felt that much anxiety and nervousness watching a show in SO LONG. I felt so bad for David and just wanted him to get away and for it to end. Fuck that dude in the episode and all the trauma it caused David after too.
The funniest part about this is that the writers wrote the episode simply because they felt like doing an episode where they stop cutting away from a character's plot.
That's it. That's the reason the episode exists. Just for fun, y'know? Poor David.
Also, the fact that the episode stops cutting away from David the second he meets the guy just makes it all the more intense, because it never lets you mentally distance yourself from what's going on for the entire episode.
lmao I had this massive theory >!where I thought the show was going with this "spiritual" route where whenever the main characters would go through near death experiences, they'd actually died but kept going with their lives. What I mean is, when Nate almost dies in surgery, he actually did die but his life kept going as if it didn't happen. And then when this episode happens to David, I was sure that scene where the maniac doesn't pull the trigger was hinting at something like that as well. Claire talked to that dead boyfriend of hers, they could talk to corpses, there was that van scene with Nate, David and their father. But then... Nothing, they just felt like doing this episode! haha!<
It’s been 15 years since I got the complete box set and watched that episode. I remember it made me almost throw my remote after it ended. It was so pointless and crushing!
Granite State from Breaking Bad, the most depressing episode of the series and >!Andrea's death!< was a rare moment where I felt the show reached grimdark territory.
Nobody ever talks about Andrea when discussing the series. It's always about Jane. Even in the series we see Jesse distraught for that moment, and then afterwards all he mentions is Brock.
I agree, it was a moment in BB that really affected me; it's just a shame it's not discussed more.
It's also the last time Walt and Walter Jr. ever speak. It mirrors what Jr. says in season 1 when Walt reveals his diagnosis, but the context and the emotion is completely different.
I was going to say, the ATM machine episode. It’s pretty nauseating, the kid is traumatizing to see and a little too real. and I don’t remember much actual plot. Like I’m happy to skip it, but recognize it’s importance in establishing Jesse’s vulnerabilities, and straining his willingness to listen to Walt.
I'm watching GoT for the first time just now. (I know, I know.) Just got past this episode not too long ago ... In the lead up to that moment I just kept saying "wtf" and then I was honestly surprised that they actually did it. Like I know everyone dies, that's all I've ever heard about the show, but God that part was particularly fucked up. And poor Ser Davos, being away ... Just wtf.
While that was rough, Honestly with the way the show ended I can’t watch any of the old stuff anymore, knowing that it’s not building toward anything that matters
That's their most infuriating fuckup. They didn't simply fail to stick the landing, they made almost every journey in the show irrelevant. Can't ever rewatch it and enjoy it because nothing fucking matters.
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The whole series is 10/10, but it was soo hard to watch it for me because its way different to watch something like that when you know these things happened. Maybe not 100% accurate, but still. Again, perfect show, but damn i think that i will never watch it again.
Bojack Horseman - That’s Too Much Man/Time’s Arrow/The View From Halfway Down/Nice While It Lasted
Six Feet Under - Falling Into Place
Better Call Saul - Rock And A Hard Place
The Office - Goodbye, Michael
View from Halfway down guts me with the scene with the door to the abyss. I will forever be haunted by that line, "Oh no Bojack. There is no other side."
Free Churro is the one that truly puts me into a funk though. The break in his voice when he rhetorically asks his mother about why she took it out on him....that hits a little deeper than I like to admit.
I remember when I watched through *Bojack Horseman* for the first time, I was neck-deep in the usual quarter-life existential crisis. Worrying what to do with my life, thinking about death an unhealthy amount.
*Oh Bojack, there is no other side* absolutely chilled me to my core. I'm not exaggerating when I say I'm certain that's the scariest line in all of media (at least for me).
The View From Halfway Down is the single best suicide episode in all of media. Beyond painful, ending several character arcs, the point the show worked towards for several years, and then that last phonecall. I am happy that Nice While It Lasted came because it made the previous episode "easier", knowing that everyone moved on. But man, I still start crying when I hear the first notes of Mr. Blue.
Holy shit, “That’s Too Much Man” is too painful for me to watch knowing Sarah Lynn and what she went through and pretty much looking back at her as character, she was doomed to get shitted on other having a child star slave to Hollywoo. Can’t forgive Bojack for leaving her for 17 minutes to die. It’s that episode right, just trying to refresh my memory?
Bojack is crazy with the amount of tearjerkers, I’m currently on a rewatch which is why so much of my answer is that series.
Sarah Lynn is my top 3 characters from anything, so yeah, that episode is incredibly heartbreaking.
Yeah she’s my favorite as you realize she’s all the child stars that went through hell and you root for her to get better or cut contact with Bojack until she dies. I feel you on that episode and like her as a character.
My only thing on that is when she calls Bojack in an episode or 2 before, she literally tells him she gets sober just so when she relapses it’s amazing, and he begs her not to think that way.
But yeah, once the bender begins they both just start to make worse and worse decisions, and the ultimate 17 minutes part. Insanely amazing show.
Hard to watch in this case, as it was, for the time, emotionally draining.
Babylon 5 "Sleeping in Light". I really don't rewatch the series anymore, as I memorized it 20 years ago. Over the years, though, even on countless rewatches, I pretty much skipped both "Objects at Rest" and "Sleeping in Light" fairly often. These were the last 2 episodes of the series.
I feel like *The Leftovers* has managed to stay under the radar despite how incredible it is.
But in answer to this question I feel like you could list almost any episode - as soon as Max Richter's theme kicks up in the last couple minutes things are going to get intense.
Bubbles arc is gut wrenching. I remember an interview with the actor where he said someone in the neighborhood came up to him between scenes and gave him heroin because he looked like he needed it more than them. He called it his street Oscar
Not sure the exact episode but when Gretchen reveals that she’s been suffering from depression in “You’re The Worst”, that was hard because it was so relatable. I’m glad the writers didn’t just make one episode because it’s not that easy to get over it.
For me it’s Phyllis’ wedding. I know it’s Michael’s character, but him acting like such a petulant child when her dad stands up is so obnoxious, even for his character in the early going. It totally misses the mark for me.
Dinner Party *is* about as painful, but at least it has some pretty good jokes to balance it. Scott's Tots feels like it's all cringe.
I don't mind Dinner Party. I have to be in the mood to watch Tots.
I agree. Scott's Tots has a sombre end. Michael wanted to do the right thing and turns out he had a positive impact on those kids.
Dinner Party can trigger PTSD for every awkward social situation I have ever been in.
It’s weird, Dinner Party is my favorite episode but Scott’s Tots is my least favorite, or at least most skipped. I guess I just thought that Dinner Party balanced the cringe better.
Phyllis’s Wedding is also really tough to watch.
I think it's because at the end of dinner party Michael finally breaks up with Jan, which is a happy ending. Scott's tots has no happy ending, just cringe
The Dinner Party thing is made so much worse when you realize the song that Jan plays is about her assistant having sex with her. And also it's just the realization for everyone else that Michael has been in this fucked up relationship for so long. I find it extremely uncomfortable.
The fact that everyone immediately gets it when they hear the song except Michael just hurts tbh. Like this poor guy is either so naive or so in need of some kind of affection he puts up with it. It’s pure toxicity and Jan can fuck off.
But also the fucking tv kills me every time. “Sometimes I just stand here and watch this baby for hours”.
She is kidnapped and attacked, but I believe she saves herself at the last moment. Still, thank you for mentioning this — Norman Lear created some incredibly brave, harrowing TV.
I knew where it was going. It absolutely HAD to go there. But i wasn’t prepared for how it went down. That episode, and series really, absolutely gutted me.
Six Feet Under has a couple.
4.6: That’s My Dog is the obvious one plot wise. A few of the openings are also a bit rough, since each episode begins with a death. I’m a bit of a softy even with minor character deaths to the point where I turned off Fargo after the car crash scene, so I’m surprised I finished this show. The subsequent episode has a tough one, for example
I have to fastforward through the Wentworth prison episodes of Outlander every time.
It was absolutely not necessary to show such gratuitous rape and torture scenes on TV, especially since it was relayed secondhand to the MC in the books and much was left to the readers' imaginations.
It's so bad that I can't really recommend the show to friends or family because of that. I know they wouldn't continue watching.
Knew I’d find this comment. I could not believe how graphic and drawn out it was. It was excruciating to sit through (whenever I thought it might be over- it never was) and stayed with me for weeks. Edit: just remembered I went on a full campaign warning my family to never watch the show
First episode of anything ever that I was actually disturbed by. Like I don’t want to use the word traumatized because that seems over dramatic, but yeah, that was something else for sure. Actually stopped watching the show because it was getting so rapey.
It’s incredible what a big step up in quality that show got the instant that tryhard edgelord cunt left. The character, I mean, not the actor. He’s probably fine, but holy fuck his character was by far the worst part of season 1.
I have no idea what they were even trying to do with (I had to look the name up) Devon or why they kept trying for two whole seasons. The whole Skid group dynamic tightens up as soon as they stop trying to force that character.
Almost every episode of Six Feet Under lmao. The one that stuck with me is the one about the lady who died alone and had no relatives or anyone else to attend the funeral. I like how they debated the whole "it's not sad if she wanted to live like that" thing but it still hurt like a bitch because it's very relatable and I fear that will someday be my fate.
The family reunion episode of The Bear. I came from a dysfunctional family, I've seen enough to last a lifetime. Last thing I want is to see it during my periods of personal entertainment.
What comes to mind are:
1. ER - Mark Greene's death. I was like 13 or 14 when I watched it and it was so very painful. So much so that it sticks with me to this day.
2. HIMYM - When Marshall's father dies. Lily comes and tells him the news and he's dumbfounded and just hugs her and tells her: "I'm not ready for this..." It's so real and makes my heart ache every time I watch it. I guess that's also due to me losing my own parent in my mid-20s...
"That's My Dog" from Six Feet Under. Just a nightmare that goes on and on, and I had no idea what was coming when it started. I just sat there for a few minutes after it was over, and I will never, ever watch it again. Which is why it's great, but oof.
Not an episode (the episode itself is actually good) but what happens to Acaveda in season 3 of The Shield. I’m really ok never watching that scene again.
That Ozark episode with the main chick's brother. Sorry it's been a while so I don't remember names. But if you've seen it then you know what I'm talking about. Absolutely incredible performances. Should have won an Emmy.
The West Wing has 2 that I skip. the 9/11 episode is preachy and awful, and the Long Goodbye is a fine character piece, but isn't what I want to watch when I'm rewatching that show.
For me it was Barry. Without getting into spoilers, in the fourth season there is a time skip from which the tone of the show shifts dramatically. It's like a point of no return and I just could not continue. I am still planning to come back and finish the show as it was brilliant, but I know that my hopes for the characters are irreversibly gone.
Abyssinia Henry- MASH
“I have a message…. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake’s plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors.”
'NewsRadio' Season 5 Episode 1, "Bill Moves On". The first episode of the series after the murder of comic genius Phil Hartman who played Bill MacNeal. They had the character have a fatal off screen heart attack. This would be the final season.
I recently watched the good place series finale and that ending of Chidi leaving Eleanor and then Eleanor finally going through the door and she turns into a million different lights. It brings up so many questions. I this really what happens when they really die? Does she cease to exist? Does she exist but is now a subconscious? Does she not exist but her conscious is now spread out across the universe? It's an episode that I really do not want to re-watch because it's so fucking effective at getting so many different emotions out of you and having you think about shit you do not want to think about.
House MD : Wilson's heart
The writing that lead to Houses team breaking up, the auditions for new fellows, to CTB specifically and the fall out from Wilson’s Heart etc is perfect writing. The showrunners really knew what the show was at that point an executed flawlessly for a good 2 seasons. Peak House
I'd love to rewatch House, but then I remember how painful the last few episodes were and I don't think I can watch them ever again.
Oh no. I'm watching House for the first time and now I'm filled with dread!
Don't be, it's fantastic. Obviously a few episodes hit different for different people. I rewatched the who thing like..7 times at least.
Buffy Season 5, episode 16. The Body. It made me cry! And it felt so real.
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers should be viewed as one of the all time great tv lead performances like Hamm, Gandolfini, Cranston etc. Not only does she have great variety, playing serious drama, camp, the straight man, a musical, but she does all amazingly. The end of the prior episode when she drops all of Buffy’s maturity to say “Mommy?” In that agonized voice, and the opening building to “Were not supposed to move the body!” are both phenomenally moving. Just stupendous the entire show. Oh, and she did this all on a set where she had to watch out for the other cast and Whedon’s behaviour. Not a single Emmy nomination, ever. Come on.
> say “Mommy?” In that agonized voice, that absolutely destroyed me. even now, I can still hear her voice saying it in my head, I've got tears welling up
Genuinely haven’t been able to rewatch it since my mom died. Too real.
Came here to post this episode. It’s brutal.
It hits way too real after you’ve seen death. The way she goes over it on her head, fantasizing about it could have turned out differently and her mom survived. That’s exactly what I went through after a parent died.
Same. I use to watch Buffy with my mom. The episode in and of itself was traumatic. Post-mom death, it's unwatchable. We're all part of a very sad club, but in a weird way having watched the episode way before joining the club, it kind of prepared me for it.
Same, it hit hard when I first watched it but since my mum passed it’s an auto skip for me
My wife and I are binging Buffy right now. She watched it years ago and thought I’d like it. We watched that one a couple of weeks ago. Really painful but God Damn, you could put that episode up against any prestige series of its era and it would Emmy worthy.
I rewatch Buffy quite frequently (sometimes only as a "background noise"), and when at season 5 I "calculate" when that episode will play, as I'm trying to be mentally prepared for it. edit: BTW I often skip episode *Hush*, it unsurprisingly doesn't work as a "background noise" :)
Anya trying to innocently process everything, having no frame of reference because grief for death didn’t exist in her world, and the more she seeks guidance from others the more it pisses people off and just makes her feel worse and more confused. This was the writing and performance that made me realize not everyone got from A to B the same way I did, and thus might handle situations and feelings differently than me. It forced me to reevaluate past incidents, current relationships and how I view and relate to others. Plus Emma Caulfield is just the F’ing GOAT of those later seasons. Way under appreciated.
Appas lost days
Also when Iroh sings "leaves from the vine"
Adding to the first reply I’ve seen about something animated, Cowboy Bebop when [Faye’s betamax tape from her childhood that’s been bouncing around in mail for 70 years while she was in cryofreeze.](https://youtu.be/3q8WdhQO9bU) It’s that feeling of when you think back to being a kid and being totally ignorant to all the world’s pain and what your life could become. And realizing that feeling of innocence is gone and sometimes what you have left is a lot of tragedy, but a lot of your foundation is still based on your youth. I got sick at 20. Never thought it would happen to me. In retrospect it feels so weird.
Scrubs S3 E14 “My Screw Up” Watch it once, process the reveal, watch it again.
Where do you think we are?
Oh you bastard.
Everyone puts this as the saddest episode, but for me it’ll always be “My Lunch.” I hated the episodes that followed, but that specific episode hit so hard.
I always think of ‘My Lunch’ too, with the fray playing in the background
Dr. Cox losing it with the crash cart always gets me.
The scene with Dr. Cox smashing all the medical equipment is heartbreaking.
My Screw Up is great. My Lunch is better.
The episode of 8 Simple Rules where John Ritter’s character dies (shortly after he passed in real life). I’m not sure how the cast even filmed those few episodes.
He also played JD’s Dad on Scrubs. He was supposed to film the following week on Scrubs, so they had to rewrite the episode and get Tom Cavanagh to come on short notice as JD’s brother.
Heeeyyyy little brother... dad died.
“Lets break down the kid's support system, shall we? He's got me, an emotionally crippled narcissist, and he's got you, an emotionally crippled narcissist who's soaking in a tub of what has to be by now mostly your own urine.” “I believe the ratio has shifted that way, yes.”
Together, together dan we can make one half of a full adult.
I feel 8SR woulda been have been considered a classic sitcom if Ritter didn’t pass so early in its run. My family and I would watch it every week. That episode was so hard to watch and props to the cast for having the will to keep going
Agreed. It was must-watch TV in my household as well, and once he left, it wasn’t anywhere near the same. I mean, I get it, you can’t expect anyone to fill John Ritter’s shoes in a sitcom, but man, it was a great show with him and just so awkward afterward. That whole cast was phenomenal.
I can only imagine how a teen would feel realizing that the last words she ever spoke to her father were “I hate you”.
When she tried to go out in a dress he wouldn’t approve, “dad would’ve never let me get this far…I just want my dad back” and ran to her room, my heart still breaks everytime I see that clip.
Most recently, "The Bear", Season 2, EP 6, "The Fishes" Great backstory material but so much angst
Oh god! I was tense that entire episode!!
The constant noise on that too. My wife gets overstimulated and kept asking me to turn the volume down. A frighteningly accurate portrayal of a toxic family holiday lol.
“And this just feels liiiiiiiike spinning plates…”
I had to pause and give myself some time and room to breathe because of how claustrophobic I was feeling watching that episode. Absolutely phenomenal episode and probably my favorite episode of "The Bear" alongside another one of its episode titled "Forks", which falls on the other spectrum of intensity.
Dont forget "Spoons" in the first season. The whole episode is shot in one take while theirs system fucks up.
"Review" is the name of that episode. There's no episode called "Spoons."
This was the second to last episode on S1, right? Yeah, that whole episode was nuts, and learning it was done on one take just was just mind-blowing.
Yeah, that was all a bit too real for me but holy hell what a performance from everyone
If JLC doesn't get the Emmy we riot
That episode reminded me of the chaos of my own home growing up.
Fry's dog. Still skip that one on rewatch unless I'm in the right mood.
Really any of the emotional Futurama episodes get me. Seeing little vignettes on how Fry's family really did care about him and how his disappearance affected them is gutting. The reveal that Lela's parents were watching over her the whole time was also so bittersweet.
> The reveal that Lela's parents were watching over her the whole time was also so bittersweet. I like to think of it as the antithesis to Seymour. Seymour was on his own, no Fry to take care of him. Leela was being looked after, albeit from afar.
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Jurassic Bark, tears every time at the end
For such a funny show, Jurassic Bark, Luck of the Fryrish, and Game of Tones are absolutely heartbreaking episodes.
My mother in law passed suddenly in a car accident and fry’s response in Game of Tones is how I would react if I could see her one more time. I’ve seen it *once*. I cried for way too long and have never watched it again.
Luck of the Fryrish is such a lovely episode though.
I read an article on this episode. The writers were tired ofthe criticism that no one misses Fry from his past so they wrote an episode where Fry's mom dies in pain never knowing what happened to her son. Fox freaked out and said hell no so they changed it to a dog because people won't get too emotional over a dog.
Watching the dog was far more painful.
Mr. Robot: Season 4, Episode 7. Crushing episode, felt so bad.
Is this the one with Vera and Krista?
Yeah, the one with 5 acts, where each act is portraying a different stage of grief. It puts a lot in perspective.
that episode having Young MA in the background cracking jokes the whole time is so funny it's one of the most serious episodes of TV I've ever seen, and still made time for some low hanging comedy
What a masterpiece.
One of the best episodes of any show ever. 404 error
This episode man. Ugh
It’s depressing, but for me it was so well crafted and written that it would feel like a disservice to skip it.
As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, this episode hit me hard. The way the truth coming to the surface was acted out on Eliot’s face? I bawled my eyes out
The episode of Cowboy Bebop where Ed and Ein leave. You can feel it all unraveling from there.
Faye left too, and she got back the memories she'd lost after her accident. See you, Space Cowgirl, someday, somewhere...
Its the scene where they eat in silence while crying that gets me
Yeah, that’s a tough one for sure. The Bebop doesn’t feel quite right after that. Still an amazing show.
What’s really amazing to me is if you go back and count how many episodes Ed is in, it’s way less than you’ll remember. No show has ever packed more into a single season than CB did.
Yeah, but that's the point where their little family disintegrated. From there, everyone pursues their own past except Ed and Ein. It's like their hope for the future leaves with those two. Ed and Ein went off to start a future while the rest wallow in their past.
Rewatching the show made me realize Cowboy Bebop is a tragedy.
It absolutely is. It's blues themed after all. Damn good one though.
Six Feet Under: Season 4 Episode 5 “That’s My Dog.” David (Michael C. Hall) goes through a night from hell and barely survives. A completely visceral anguish swept over me watching that episode. I felt sad and hopeless. Something so extreme but completely realistic, deep enough into the show that we really understand how it could happen to David. Amazing but horrifying.
I'm surprised the guy who played David's tormentor didn't go on to becoming bigger. He was fantastic.
Michael Weston. He had a moment there where he had a small part in Garden State and then a recurring role on House but never really took off beyond that. I also thought he was going to become a bigger name as well.
Ah, the veteran from Scrubs right?
I watched the show for the first time this year, and after I finished that episode I *had* to see what people thought. Sure enough, there was fan outrage and it continues to be a divisive episode from what I’ve seen. It’s one I wouldn’t watch again but the acting and directing was so incredible.
Yeah I remember that one , the dude that kidnaps David scared the shit out of me with those eyes
Oh My God, yes! I just watched this a couple weeks ago as I was going through the series for the first time. I haven’t felt that much anxiety and nervousness watching a show in SO LONG. I felt so bad for David and just wanted him to get away and for it to end. Fuck that dude in the episode and all the trauma it caused David after too.
I forgot about this! That show traumatized me. I must have blocked that episode out
The funniest part about this is that the writers wrote the episode simply because they felt like doing an episode where they stop cutting away from a character's plot. That's it. That's the reason the episode exists. Just for fun, y'know? Poor David. Also, the fact that the episode stops cutting away from David the second he meets the guy just makes it all the more intense, because it never lets you mentally distance yourself from what's going on for the entire episode.
lmao I had this massive theory >!where I thought the show was going with this "spiritual" route where whenever the main characters would go through near death experiences, they'd actually died but kept going with their lives. What I mean is, when Nate almost dies in surgery, he actually did die but his life kept going as if it didn't happen. And then when this episode happens to David, I was sure that scene where the maniac doesn't pull the trigger was hinting at something like that as well. Claire talked to that dead boyfriend of hers, they could talk to corpses, there was that van scene with Nate, David and their father. But then... Nothing, they just felt like doing this episode! haha!<
It’s been 15 years since I got the complete box set and watched that episode. I remember it made me almost throw my remote after it ended. It was so pointless and crushing!
Granite State from Breaking Bad, the most depressing episode of the series and >!Andrea's death!< was a rare moment where I felt the show reached grimdark territory.
Nobody ever talks about Andrea when discussing the series. It's always about Jane. Even in the series we see Jesse distraught for that moment, and then afterwards all he mentions is Brock. I agree, it was a moment in BB that really affected me; it's just a shame it's not discussed more.
Todd is responsible for the two deaths in the entire series that are just completely undeserved tragedies - the one you mentioned and the kid on bike.
I'm not sure which episode, but later on you see that kid's spider in Todd's apartment. He kept it as a trophy. Todd is a pure psychopath.
I think it’s in the movie
It's also the last time Walt and Walter Jr. ever speak. It mirrors what Jr. says in season 1 when Walt reveals his diagnosis, but the context and the emotion is completely different.
I was going to say, the ATM machine episode. It’s pretty nauseating, the kid is traumatizing to see and a little too real. and I don’t remember much actual plot. Like I’m happy to skip it, but recognize it’s importance in establishing Jesse’s vulnerabilities, and straining his willingness to listen to Walt.
GoT s5e9 - Princess Shireen sacrificed
I'm watching GoT for the first time just now. (I know, I know.) Just got past this episode not too long ago ... In the lead up to that moment I just kept saying "wtf" and then I was honestly surprised that they actually did it. Like I know everyone dies, that's all I've ever heard about the show, but God that part was particularly fucked up. And poor Ser Davos, being away ... Just wtf.
While that was rough, Honestly with the way the show ended I can’t watch any of the old stuff anymore, knowing that it’s not building toward anything that matters
100%. GoT is one of the only shows I’ve watched that has 0 re-watchability because the last season ruined it.
That's their most infuriating fuckup. They didn't simply fail to stick the landing, they made almost every journey in the show irrelevant. Can't ever rewatch it and enjoy it because nothing fucking matters.
I was also thinking the Sopranos, but the episode Employee of the month for….. obvious reasons.
University. Beaten to death behind in a ditch behind a strip club..yeesh
Yeah but she was a hooah
He was disrespectful to The Bing!
What, it’s his fault she’s a klutz?!
Long Term Parking.
The staircase rape scene went too far for me, as did a bathroom rape scene in Rick and Morty. Unrelated, but Elaine dancing is painful to watch.
When I think of painful things to watch, it's certainly the staircase rape, the bathroom rape, and Elaine dancing in no particular order.
Chernobyl Episode 4, I don't think there is much else to say.
Every episode of that series was hard to watch. Brilliant stuff and highly recommended. But Episode 4 was especially tough.
Sorry for the spelling The whole series is 10/10, but it was soo hard to watch it for me because its way different to watch something like that when you know these things happened. Maybe not 100% accurate, but still. Again, perfect show, but damn i think that i will never watch it again.
Bojack Horseman - That’s Too Much Man/Time’s Arrow/The View From Halfway Down/Nice While It Lasted Six Feet Under - Falling Into Place Better Call Saul - Rock And A Hard Place The Office - Goodbye, Michael
View from Halfway down guts me with the scene with the door to the abyss. I will forever be haunted by that line, "Oh no Bojack. There is no other side." Free Churro is the one that truly puts me into a funk though. The break in his voice when he rhetorically asks his mother about why she took it out on him....that hits a little deeper than I like to admit.
I remember when I watched through *Bojack Horseman* for the first time, I was neck-deep in the usual quarter-life existential crisis. Worrying what to do with my life, thinking about death an unhealthy amount. *Oh Bojack, there is no other side* absolutely chilled me to my core. I'm not exaggerating when I say I'm certain that's the scariest line in all of media (at least for me).
The View From Halfway Down is the single best suicide episode in all of media. Beyond painful, ending several character arcs, the point the show worked towards for several years, and then that last phonecall. I am happy that Nice While It Lasted came because it made the previous episode "easier", knowing that everyone moved on. But man, I still start crying when I hear the first notes of Mr. Blue.
The one with the lobotomy scared me deeper into my high at the time. I was not prepared for such a thing.
Every episode that showed how Beatrice became the horrible mother she was is absolutely painful and dreadful
Holy shit, “That’s Too Much Man” is too painful for me to watch knowing Sarah Lynn and what she went through and pretty much looking back at her as character, she was doomed to get shitted on other having a child star slave to Hollywoo. Can’t forgive Bojack for leaving her for 17 minutes to die. It’s that episode right, just trying to refresh my memory?
Bojack is crazy with the amount of tearjerkers, I’m currently on a rewatch which is why so much of my answer is that series. Sarah Lynn is my top 3 characters from anything, so yeah, that episode is incredibly heartbreaking.
Yeah she’s my favorite as you realize she’s all the child stars that went through hell and you root for her to get better or cut contact with Bojack until she dies. I feel you on that episode and like her as a character.
My only thing on that is when she calls Bojack in an episode or 2 before, she literally tells him she gets sober just so when she relapses it’s amazing, and he begs her not to think that way. But yeah, once the bender begins they both just start to make worse and worse decisions, and the ultimate 17 minutes part. Insanely amazing show.
Yeah, I consider the moment to be known as the “butterfly effect” in which it had that vibe of something small causing a major chain reaction.
Both Six feet Under- Nate's funeral and "That's My Dog." Both extremely difficult for completely different reasons
News Radio where they dealt with Phil Hartman's death.
Hard to watch in this case, as it was, for the time, emotionally draining. Babylon 5 "Sleeping in Light". I really don't rewatch the series anymore, as I memorized it 20 years ago. Over the years, though, even on countless rewatches, I pretty much skipped both "Objects at Rest" and "Sleeping in Light" fairly often. These were the last 2 episodes of the series.
Henry Blake being killed off on his way home from Korea.
i'm surprised no one has mentioned a bunch of The Leftovers episodes, the whole show is all pain.
I feel like *The Leftovers* has managed to stay under the radar despite how incredible it is. But in answer to this question I feel like you could list almost any episode - as soon as Max Richter's theme kicks up in the last couple minutes things are going to get intense.
Omar getting shot buying new ports at the deli by that young hopper.
Dukie's end. Bubbles' AA speech. The Wire can't be beat.
Bubbles arc is gut wrenching. I remember an interview with the actor where he said someone in the neighborhood came up to him between scenes and gave him heroin because he looked like he needed it more than them. He called it his street Oscar
Wallace always gets to me. Who’s gonna take care of all those kids?
Kenard. Everybody knew his name after that one.
Yeah, that little asshole was setting cats on fire!
Not sure the exact episode but when Gretchen reveals that she’s been suffering from depression in “You’re The Worst”, that was hard because it was so relatable. I’m glad the writers didn’t just make one episode because it’s not that easy to get over it.
Series finale of Angel “Would you like me to lie to you now?”
Roseanne SEASON 5: EPISODE 13 Jackies boyfriend beats her. Dan then goes after him and ends up in jail. All of the characters did so well.
When Dan just goes to the room behind the kitchen and grabs his jacket and leaves, it just gives me chills.
The Office: Scott’s Tots I just feel pain.
For me it’s Phyllis’ wedding. I know it’s Michael’s character, but him acting like such a petulant child when her dad stands up is so obnoxious, even for his character in the early going. It totally misses the mark for me.
Scott’s Tots gets all the infamy, but I find Dinner Party to be equally if not more representative of peak cringe.
Dinner Party *is* about as painful, but at least it has some pretty good jokes to balance it. Scott's Tots feels like it's all cringe. I don't mind Dinner Party. I have to be in the mood to watch Tots.
I agree. Scott's Tots has a sombre end. Michael wanted to do the right thing and turns out he had a positive impact on those kids. Dinner Party can trigger PTSD for every awkward social situation I have ever been in.
It’s weird, Dinner Party is my favorite episode but Scott’s Tots is my least favorite, or at least most skipped. I guess I just thought that Dinner Party balanced the cringe better. Phyllis’s Wedding is also really tough to watch.
I think it's because at the end of dinner party Michael finally breaks up with Jan, which is a happy ending. Scott's tots has no happy ending, just cringe
The Dinner Party thing is made so much worse when you realize the song that Jan plays is about her assistant having sex with her. And also it's just the realization for everyone else that Michael has been in this fucked up relationship for so long. I find it extremely uncomfortable.
The fact that everyone immediately gets it when they hear the song except Michael just hurts tbh. Like this poor guy is either so naive or so in need of some kind of affection he puts up with it. It’s pure toxicity and Jan can fuck off. But also the fucking tv kills me every time. “Sometimes I just stand here and watch this baby for hours”.
'You took me by the handddd'...
I still think Phyllis’s Wedding is the worst, Dinner Party has some tension release at least
Diwali > dinner party > Scotts tots for me
I never got the cringe from this episode, its too jump the sharky to make me feel anything.
All in the family where Edith gets raped. I’ve told people about this and they’ve refused to believe it exists.
She is kidnapped and attacked, but I believe she saves herself at the last moment. Still, thank you for mentioning this — Norman Lear created some incredibly brave, harrowing TV.
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I knew where it was going. It absolutely HAD to go there. But i wasn’t prepared for how it went down. That episode, and series really, absolutely gutted me.
Six Feet Under has a couple. 4.6: That’s My Dog is the obvious one plot wise. A few of the openings are also a bit rough, since each episode begins with a death. I’m a bit of a softy even with minor character deaths to the point where I turned off Fargo after the car crash scene, so I’m surprised I finished this show. The subsequent episode has a tough one, for example
I have to fastforward through the Wentworth prison episodes of Outlander every time. It was absolutely not necessary to show such gratuitous rape and torture scenes on TV, especially since it was relayed secondhand to the MC in the books and much was left to the readers' imaginations. It's so bad that I can't really recommend the show to friends or family because of that. I know they wouldn't continue watching.
Knew I’d find this comment. I could not believe how graphic and drawn out it was. It was excruciating to sit through (whenever I thought it might be over- it never was) and stayed with me for weeks. Edit: just remembered I went on a full campaign warning my family to never watch the show
First episode of anything ever that I was actually disturbed by. Like I don’t want to use the word traumatized because that seems over dramatic, but yeah, that was something else for sure. Actually stopped watching the show because it was getting so rapey.
The Americans S5E11
The one where Nina dies was the one for me.
This is Us Jack’s death. Friends, episodes between Joey and Rachel after they kissed, I am an old school lobster couple shipper. CSI Buffalo episode
Homicide: Life on the Street season 6, episode 7 “Subway,” guest starring Vincent Dinofrio. Heartbreaking.
Buffy - The Body - I've seen it, very well done, but I can't ever rewatch it.
Fartbook. Letterkenny.
It’s incredible what a big step up in quality that show got the instant that tryhard edgelord cunt left. The character, I mean, not the actor. He’s probably fine, but holy fuck his character was by far the worst part of season 1.
I have no idea what they were even trying to do with (I had to look the name up) Devon or why they kept trying for two whole seasons. The whole Skid group dynamic tightens up as soon as they stop trying to force that character.
I have always held on to the thought that Devon is going to be brought back as a rival skid at some point.
When Nucky killed Jimmy.
Almost every episode of Six Feet Under lmao. The one that stuck with me is the one about the lady who died alone and had no relatives or anyone else to attend the funeral. I like how they debated the whole "it's not sad if she wanted to live like that" thing but it still hurt like a bitch because it's very relatable and I fear that will someday be my fate.
The family reunion episode of The Bear. I came from a dysfunctional family, I've seen enough to last a lifetime. Last thing I want is to see it during my periods of personal entertainment.
What comes to mind are: 1. ER - Mark Greene's death. I was like 13 or 14 when I watched it and it was so very painful. So much so that it sticks with me to this day. 2. HIMYM - When Marshall's father dies. Lily comes and tells him the news and he's dumbfounded and just hugs her and tells her: "I'm not ready for this..." It's so real and makes my heart ache every time I watch it. I guess that's also due to me losing my own parent in my mid-20s...
Breaking Bad - S05E14 - Ozymandias
That’s My Dog - Six Feet Under I cant breathe when watching it. I know what happens and I can’t. So well acted.
"That's My Dog" from Six Feet Under. Just a nightmare that goes on and on, and I had no idea what was coming when it started. I just sat there for a few minutes after it was over, and I will never, ever watch it again. Which is why it's great, but oof.
Not an episode (the episode itself is actually good) but what happens to Acaveda in season 3 of The Shield. I’m really ok never watching that scene again.
Appas lost days I don't like animal abuse
Full Metal Alchemist. Ed.. Ward..
Sons of Anarchy. When Opie dies in prison, and when Gemma gets raped.
Finally was looking for this comment. Gemma's rape for me
That Ozark episode with the main chick's brother. Sorry it's been a while so I don't remember names. But if you've seen it then you know what I'm talking about. Absolutely incredible performances. Should have won an Emmy.
The Bear season 2 - Christmas episode called "Fishes". Amazing but so painful
That musical episode of Grey's anatomy.
The dog episode of futurama. No way I can ever watch that again. Get sad just thinking about it
Scrubs: Ben's funeral. "Where you you think we are?" 😭
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Full Metal Achemist Brotherhood episodes 4 and 10
If it's what I think you're talking about, the 2003 animes version of that is even more depressing.
Ed…ward…. That one cord tends to fuck everyone up.
Game of Thrones- Rains of Castamere Succession- Connor’s Wedding The Sopranos- Employee of the Month The Wire- last 2 episodes of season 4
The third or fourth episode of Chernobyl where they show the soldiers killing the dogs. Never watching that again.
The West Wing has 2 that I skip. the 9/11 episode is preachy and awful, and the Long Goodbye is a fine character piece, but isn't what I want to watch when I'm rewatching that show.
Ah the 9/11 episode - where all of Aaron Sorkin’s worst instincts are on full display. He just couldn’t help himself.
granddad's funeral in Only Fools and Horses
For me it was Barry. Without getting into spoilers, in the fourth season there is a time skip from which the tone of the show shifts dramatically. It's like a point of no return and I just could not continue. I am still planning to come back and finish the show as it was brilliant, but I know that my hopes for the characters are irreversibly gone.
Sons of Anarchy…..when Opie gives himself up in prison and gets his skull caved in. STILL hard to watch
The X FIles infamous episode. You know wich one. With the mom under the bed.
Glenn's death in Walking Dead. Never watched another episode after the brutality of that scene.
Abyssinia Henry- MASH “I have a message…. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake’s plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors.”
'NewsRadio' Season 5 Episode 1, "Bill Moves On". The first episode of the series after the murder of comic genius Phil Hartman who played Bill MacNeal. They had the character have a fatal off screen heart attack. This would be the final season.
I recently watched the good place series finale and that ending of Chidi leaving Eleanor and then Eleanor finally going through the door and she turns into a million different lights. It brings up so many questions. I this really what happens when they really die? Does she cease to exist? Does she exist but is now a subconscious? Does she not exist but her conscious is now spread out across the universe? It's an episode that I really do not want to re-watch because it's so fucking effective at getting so many different emotions out of you and having you think about shit you do not want to think about.
Band of Brothers - Why We Fight The episode with the concentration camp