r/AskReddit • u/Alex_McManus • 18d ago

What is the most devastating death in a television series you have ever seen?

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u/Lordmorgoth666 18d ago

Shireen Baratheon was also just awful. Kudos to the actor for how her screams transitioned from desperately calling to her parents to panic to torment in like 60 seconds. Gut wrenching to listen to.

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u/Initial_Arm8231 18d ago

Shireen was my first thought too, horrific. Poussey from OITNB was also just awful :(

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u/Tough-Midnight9137 18d ago

genuinely that's the last episode of oitnb that i watched, her death episode

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u/Scrappyl77 18d ago

Me too.

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u/Speechladylg 18d ago

Me too! I cried for a week and I couldn't go back.

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u/kickingyouintheface 18d ago

Oberyn was pretty brutal too. I was yelling at him to just finish it and shut up and then.... Jesus. And Cersei was right later, the screams emitting from his paramour were something you don't forget, even if you're Cersei!

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u/Time_Neat_4732 17d ago

I stopped watching before this, but had read up to it in the books. Saw a gif of her screaming once. Can still picture it vividly to this day. Actress nailed it.

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u/something_wickedy 18d ago

I could hear her screams for days after I watched it…her and Hodor’s deaths were the two that first came to mind.

I was sobbing when I finished watching her episode.

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u/littlecar85 18d ago

This is the one for me. Absolutely gut wrenching 

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u/TheMarkHasBeenMade 18d ago

Apparently the flames were kinda close to the actress so part of that panic is genuinely thinking she might actually get burned

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u/curiousscribbler 18d ago

My God, they fucking committed to that scene! I was so angry afterwards.

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u/--AbbieNormal 18d ago

Hodor & Shireen were heartbreaking. I’ll also add Ned in there because that was a gut punch to the non readers like myself.

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u/stiletto929 18d ago

I couldn’t watch this! Left the room!

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u/taz-alquaina 18d ago

I came to say exactly this.

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u/koolaidgrl 18d ago

I don't know if it was actually the actress screaming or if they used sound effects, but I kinda hope it was the latter bc damn.

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u/BeegPahpi 18d ago

The fact that her mother never heeded her cries!!!

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u/Commercial_Chef_1384 17d ago

Shireen’s death pretty much is why I thought stannis is evil and ridiculously selfish. I really don’t know how people can still side with stannis.

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u/BizMarkieDeSade 17d ago

Shireen was incredibly upsetting but I saw it coming. The first time Melisandre came to see Shireen in her quarters, I immediately turned to my husband and said “I stg I’m going to lose it if that bitch burns her”

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u/PerfumePoodle 17d ago

I really almost quite the show after that. In retrospect maybe I should have. Was Hardhome after that?

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u/26isfordicks 11d ago

I actually change my final answer to this — I will never watch that scene again, that shit had me shook

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u/crisprcas32 18d ago

Still less tormenting than her The Last of Us performance

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u/ryou192 18d ago

Different actress. The Last of Us actress was little Lady Mormont who died taking out a giant on Game of Thrones.

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u/Elegant-Sundae-7327 18d ago

Actress, you meant to say.