best TV death scene
 

I'd always thought of the death scene Lt. Colonel Blake was the gold standard.

Buffy's mom was a breakthrough in somber television, it wasn't melodramatic in the least, but the raw starkness of it was more devastating.

Then Eddard Stark in season one of GoT shaked shit up

But I was reading an interview of Anthony Edwards for his new Zero Hour, I was reminded how perfectly executed they did his death.

"Be generous, with your life, with your love, with everyone."

"Don't cry for me"
"I won't daddy"

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Not to even mention one of the most memorable deaths in the movies as Goose, though was more impactful for Meg Ryans reaction than the death itself.

This isn't really in the spirit of things but my favorite is...

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Jimmy Smits death on NYPD Blue was pretty rough as I recall.

i'll get flamed for this, but i thought spike's death at the end of buffy was pretty bad ass to be honest.

it loses cred for his "resurrection" on the next season of angel tho. still quite memorable.

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Charlie from Lost. Season two finale I believe.

Omar

It was epic because of the character and who did him in, but it's not even the beast death in the series.

Snoop.

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Heck, you didn't see the actual killing, but 'Where the **** Wallace at, where's the boy String' and the subsequent fate of D'Angelo for asking were both above it.

Spartacus brain death FTW!

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Crown of Gold GOT. Shit by the end of this year they'll have all the top ones...heh.

Doakes getting blown to smithereens.

Gus - Breaking Bad

Stringer
Lem
Otis
Adriana
Whatever Jack's wife's name was
Mr. McMahon
Matthew Perry on Growing Pains

this thread will explode during season 3 of GoT. my favorite TV death is upcoming.

excellent choice

I think it was the best because it was so unexpected.

Fred G. Sanford, several episodes.

I guess a better question is 'what do you think makes a great scene?'

Poignancy
Emotion
Suddeness
Brutality
Creativity
Explicitness
How beloved the character was
An epic buildup

Do you like badass deaths or tearjerker deaths?

Thinking more about Dr. Green, his loss of the pre-eclamsic expectant mother in 'Love's Labor Lost' was pretty effing epic too.
Moving because went from healthy to dead over the course of the entire hour, and it was based on Dr. Greene didn't have the benefit of an obstetrics attending that day and made a tragic misdiagnosis, and Bradley Whitford straight up nails the helpless distraught husband.

Someone condensed it and set it cheesy music.

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Brutality, all day errrrrrday.

Anything in the Walking Dead works for me.

The part where Rick shot the legless zombie in episode one of season one was pretty powerful.

Then probably when they killed Shane.

Edard Stark sets the standard for me. I hadn't read the books and didn't expect it.

Probably next up is Varos deathly Spartacus blood and sand. It was riveting.

Jimmy's wife and her lover getting greased by Manny Horvitz in Boardwalk Empire

this you by any chance?

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Your ****ing post made me drag out the DVD, but I'm glad I did. It completely eluded me that Sansa nodded her assent right before Eddard confessed his treason.


Don't know if it's worse that that twat goes through life with no idea the gravity of that nod, or if she does.

Negatory. I'm probably the whitest guy on the forum.

And I'm glad you dug out the DVD. It is worth watching again.

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That never gets old LMAO

I'm only on season 3 of Breaking Bad and regretting clicking on this thread.

As you continue watching it won't be much of a spoiler, as the showdown becomes inevitable and you know who the stars of the show are.

And when it happens you won't be thinking 'oh that one time I read CP totally ruined THIS.'

And there are PLENTY of twists and turns to along the way.

Come back later and tell me I'm wrong.

His plane spun in, there were no survivors.

Whoops.

Boy I had forgotten this episode. I remember every female that worked at my hospital ocame to work that next day red eyed from crying through the night.

What a great episode that was.

Was it a worse morning than the one after Grey's Anatomy aired 'Into You Like a Train?'

Probably the two best episodes of medical drama I've ever seen aired.

I haven't watched many episodes of Grey's Anatomy. The few episodes I've watched have been pretty much ridiculous. Perhaps it's because I've kind of soured on the entire genre of medical shows.

I recall St Elsewhere as one of my favs.

Surprised there is no Six Feet Under references up in here.

In that one, there was a subway [or BART or whatever Seattle has] accident, and a steel pole rams through both a young white girl and middle aged black man, conjoining them through their chests. its obvious both can't survive. Pretty intense.

I'd submit that for all the Sopranos and The Shield did, ER was the genesis of the golden age of TV. And the first 2 seasons of Grey's Anatomy is epic TV, no matter how melodramatic it got subsequently. EPIC TV. I probably cried every 3 episodes at least. And I'm talking wailing and curling up on my bed. If you can suppress your souring on the genre, I'd recommend go back there.

Michael Chrichton and John Wells, the writing alone.

Then Shonda Rimes.

Titans IMO, up there with Milch and WAAAAAY the **** ahead of Sorkin.

Good God...
I thought I was the only person on earth who remembered that.

I did did recall that one, but if I was going with the titans of the industry, I'd pick this one over the other ones I did first

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A comedy where a lead actor's best friend was the Greek chorus for the whole episode, only to find out he;d been dead the whole time and the lead character was in denial the whole time. Great angle.

Silly and funny throughout than a gut punch at the end. Wow

"Where do think we are?" - ****ing WOW, that's a moment that simultaneously makes you want to curl in a corner and want it all to end and go out and express your love to everyone important in your life.

That brings up other questions, do you seek catharsis in fictional death? And do you desire to activate an urge to seek out the important connections in your lives from them?

Or do you just want awesome gore?

That episode sounds fairly reminicent to the very early Homicide: Life On The Street episode (those were so good with Yaphett Koto) where a man is impaled on a subway. Probably the best show of the lot.

I had forgotten Crichton was one of the original writers. You have convinced me to give it a second shot.

The Walking Dead - The scene where Rick takes a machete and plants it into the prisoner's cranium.

Gruesome awesomeness!


(Don't click if you have a weak stomach)

That was an awesome scene, cause everyone wanted Rick to do it

The guy trapped was Vincent D'Onofrio before L&O CI. Making his transfer from movie icon in FMJ to TV icon in L&OCI.

Yeah, Varro's death had me cussing at work the next day in a bad mood.. That episode was great..

Four HBO deaths were striking to me, maybe not the best, but three that shocked me in the manner and timing of the show.

Christopher Moltisanti, Phil Leatardo, and Richie Aprile on the Sopranos.

and

Jimmy Darmody on Boardwalk Empire. Was not ready for that one and was unsure what it would do to the show. Not sorry if this spoils the show for some of you, it's been 18 months already!

Two that I've watched in the last couple of days:

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(Couldn't find the whole scene for wes, with Illyria asking if it's time to lie to him, but it was a great full circle kind of scene - it ends when the crappy music comes in, obviously)

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The guy Gus killed with a certain box knife was pretty cool too lol.

Francis Wolcott - Deadwood

Tony B getting whacked by his cousin

I forgot about that one. Steve Buscemi, ftw! :thumb:

Another death scene that comes to mind is when Silvio whacked Adriana. I had to force myself to watch that scene. Her crying and pleading made me feel bad for her. On the other hand, I knew it was only a matter of time before they were going to kill off her character.

Yeah, they were both destined to die glorious deaths, but they were well executed.

Rep! That is exactly what I was thinking of when I opened this thread. Love me some Magnum P.I.

Season 3 GOT is going to own this here in a couple of months.

X2

I prefer the simple elegance of this one!

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Scrubs has a few like that.

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Not a single death, but its impact on a major character is enough to make the list, IMO.

I liked Scrubs. It definitely outlived itself, but there were a lot of decent stories in there.

Apparently one of the writers had some friends that worked in a similar situation and took some stories from them over beers.

My wife's a nurse and some of our good friends are doctors, to a person they all say that Scrubs was by far and away the most realistic of the medical shows on TV.

And from an interpersonal standpoint, I can go through my firm and attach characters to people in my office.

It should've gone for about 6-7 years rather than 10, but seasons 3-5 were as good as anything you'll see.

Didn't know this before, but Rob Cordry states that the hospital where Scrubs [and Children's Hospital] was filmed is where Hervé Villechaize died.

More of a near death scene but an incredibly well done scene from one of the later episodes of Oz:

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When Weyoun 7 gets hus neck snapped by Worf

Christopher Multisante in Sopranos.
or his girlfriend.

Spartacus.

Dear Liz Lemon: While other women have bigger boobs than you, no other woman has as big a heart. When I saw you getting ready to go out and get nailed by a bunch of guys last night, I knew for sure it was over between us, and for the first time since the ‘86 World Series, I cried... I cried like a big, dumb homo. And if it was up to me, we’d be together forever. But there’s a new thing called "women’s liberation," which gives you women the right to choose and you have chosen to abort me, and that I must live with. So tonight, when you arrive home, I’ll be gone.

Liked it.

Opie Killing the FBI agent during the last Episode of season three SOA.

Tig watching his daughter burn to death while chained first episode of Season 5 of SOA.

Opie Dying in season 5 of Soa by taking a steel bar to the back of the head.

All pretty intense.

The cast on that show, was just phenomenal. They each played a role that was perfect for them. I thought that it went about right. Probably could of done without the very last season where they had the school, but you will get no complaints out of me.

It was a desperation move to reboot it. But you can't argue with Eliza Coupe, Michael Mosely, Kerry Bishe, Nicky Whelan and Dave Franco. Those were some solid casting as well, Eliza and Michael in particular. Who knows how much more favorably they'd be viewed if they weren't replacements.

That reminds me, I glanced at a 'where are they now' page for a movie I'd heard of but knew nothing about. 'She's all That' from 1999. Holy **** does that show have a lot of future stars in it. All the way down to future Gilmore Girls and Heroes star Milo Ventamiglia as little more than an extra. Usher, Dule Hill, Freddy Prinze, Keiran Culkin, Gabrielle Union, Anna Paquin, Rachel Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard, Paul Walker, Clea Duvall, Jodi Lynn O'Keefe, L'il Kim, Sarah Michelle, so many little more than teenagers.

And I thought The Outsiders was packed.

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Kerry Bische....YUMMMMMMMY.

And yeah, I loved Michael mosely. It wasn't bad at all. I was just okay with it ending after season 7, The emotional goodbye......

Ugh... that may be my single least favorite scene in TV. I freakin' hated Gus walking out of that room with half his body burned off.

Mark Greene's death was done wonderfully. Even the lead-up, when he thought he had a recurrence, getting an MRI as somber music played in the background. Cinematographically skilled.

Lucy's death on ER was a very good episode as well. They even managed to humanize Romano in that episode. Not an easy task.

WRT: Scrubs--it's a death montage, but the scenes where all the transplant patients die set to "How to Save a Life," although corny in retrospect due to how ****ed out that song became, was still very well done. McGinley nailed that.

Rita's death in Dexter--although a total wet blanket it was still a "holy ****ing shit!" moment.

One I really liked for how understated it was--Derek Reese's death in Terminator: TSCC. He just got headshotted and dropped dead early in the episode. Its abruptness made it brilliant.

Definitely NOT the lesbian mother from Under the Dome last night. Cringe-worthy that was.

Well, half of his head. I thought the scene leading up to the explosion was good, but then having Gus calmly walk out of the room and straighten his tie before falling over was a little cartoony.

Radar announces death of Col Henry Blake. The reaction of the M.A.S.H unit during operation was very emotional.

The reaction was genuine - the cast had no idea what was going on. They were just told to adlib a surgery scene and Gary Burghoff was handed the note and told to walk in and read it.

I was a little kid when I first saw that. I cried like a baby.

Magnum was a great show- the supporting cast was excellent. Lots of babes on the beach as well.

:( yep who didn't love Blake.

Rita was a main character- did not see that coming. Lithgow was soo creepy on that show. He always creeps me out.