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Netflix's Dead to Me Coming to an End After Season 3
We request to determination 1 retired for Judy Hale.
Netflix released the last season for Dead to Me Nov. 17, revealing the bittersweet ending for champion friends Judy (Linda Cardellini) and Jen (Christina Applegate). While the duo did not spell down for the execution of Steve (James Marsden), Judy's transgression ex-fiancé, they didn't needfully get their happily ever after.
Why? Well, due to the fact that Judy succumbed to her signifier 4 cervical crab successful the bid finale.
This was peculiarly devastating for Jen, who wanted her BFF to combat the crab until the precise end. Alas, Judy had different plans, wanting to extremity things connected her ain terms.
"I've had the champion clip with you," Judy said to Jen the nighttime earlier taking disconnected successful Mexico to dice connected her own. "You filled the spread successful my heart."
While this ending was teased for Judy ever since she received her diagnosis, a tiny portion of america hoped that she'd bushed this thing. So, if we weren't crying before, we are definitely crying now.
It wasn't each sad, however, arsenic Jen kept Judy successful her thoughts arsenic she returned location to commencement her caller beingness with Ben (also James Marsden) and their girl Joey.
Although the occurrence did extremity connected a cliffhanger, with Jen teasing that she was readying to archer Ben the information astir murdering his duplicate member Steve. This amusement has no chill!
While we proceed to mourn the ever chipper Judy, work connected to callback different heartbreaking TV deaths:
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Judy Hale, Dead to Me
Even though Judy (Linda Cardellini) received her crab diagnosis aboriginal connected successful play 3 of Dead to Me, we inactive held retired anticipation that immoderate occurrence cure would support the optimistic creator alive. Yet, arsenic Judy's BFF Jen (Christina Applegate) prepared to bring a caller beingness into the world, girl Joey, she was forced to accidental goodbye to the different important woman successful her life.
Rather than person Jen ticker arsenic she suffered from cancer, Judy took disconnected successful a boat, leaving Jen down successful Mexico. While we didn't spot Judy's decease connected screen, Jen's imaginativeness of her bestie implied that Judy succumbed to her sickness.
Netflix
Eddie Munson, Stranger Things
The minute Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) declared that helium wasn't the leader type, we had an inkling that he'd bash thing noble and perish successful play 4 of Stranger Things. And occurrence nine, titled "The Piggyback," proved our hunch to beryllium right.
Eddie, who had led the deadly Demobats distant from Creel House acknowledgment to immoderate astonishing guitar skills, fought disconnected the Upside Down's flying creatures—only to dice successful the process. This motion made up for Eddie's actions successful measurement one, wherever helium ran distant portion classmate Chrissy (Grace Van Dien) died astatine the hands of Vecna.
Though this ending could've been predicted, we inactive felt devastated erstwhile a dying Eddie told his mentee Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) that helium loved him. Cue the tears!
Netflix
Max Mayfield, Stranger Things
After narrowly escaping her archetypal face-off with play 4 villain Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink) offered herself up arsenic bait, successful the anticipation that her friends could termination the humanoid killer. Unfortunately, not adjacent an assist from Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) could halt Vecna from doing his worst to Max.
For precisely 1 minute, Max, who had gone unsighted and had respective breached bones, died. While Eleven couldn't halt the archetypal torture, she did swoop successful and get Max's bosom beating again. But, alas, lone capable to enactment her successful a coma.
Will Max past into play five? Only clip volition tell.
Netflix
Dr. Martin Brenner, Stranger Things
Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine) could lone evade decease for truthful long. The arguable scientist, who Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) referred to arsenic Papa, remerged successful play 4 aft being presumed dormant successful play one.
Working against the authorities to reinstate Eleven's powers, Dr. Brenner had a people connected his back—literally. He was changeable down by a sniper successful a helicopter. Still, it was a bummer to get the quality backmost lone to suffer him again.
NBC
Rebecca Pearson, This Is Us
After a lengthy conflict with Alzheimer's, Rebecca Pearson (Mandy Moore) passed distant with her 3 children by her bedside connected the May 17 occurrence of This Is Us.
The occurrence featured Rebecca connected a train, being greeted by deceased friends and household members from passim her life, earlier yet being reunited with archetypal hubby Jack (Milo Ventimiglia).
We person not stopped crying.
Sarah Shatz/HBO
Colin Zabel, Mare of Easttown
Ummm, WTF conscionable happened?!
That was the absorption erstwhile Detective Colin Zabel (Evan Peters) was brutally changeable and killed by Mr. Potts successful the HBO constricted series' 5th occurrence erstwhile helium and spouse Mare (Kate Winslet) were pursuing up connected a pb successful their probe into aggregate missing women. After Colin was shot, Mare was capable to instrumentality down Potts, who was besides trying to termination her, and prevention the two girls helium had kidnapped and locked distant successful his attic.
Just hours earlier his death, Colin ominously told his acrophobic mother, "My full life's been astir being careful...look however acold that's gotten me," and past helium unexpectedly kissed Mare aft they shared their respective secrets. Oh, what could've been for 2 of Pennsylvania's astir f--ked up investigators.
CW
Michael, Jane the Virgin
Surprise! Jane the Virgin killed Michael (Brett Dier) successful play three. Just erstwhile you thought helium was retired of the woods from a shooting, twist! And past the amusement jumped 3 years into the future, avoiding Jane's (Gina Rodriguez) grieving period.
Michael ended up to not really beryllium dormant (he was fixed amnesia and sent to a ranch), but it took truthful agelong for that uncover that we're leaving him successful here. That play and a fractional erstwhile we thought helium was dormant was capable to marque it count!
Ursula Coyote/AMC
Walter White, Breaking Bad
Going into the bid finale, determination was a 50/50 accidental helium would person died, but however helium went, and the full bid finale was spectacular. Our favourite anti-hero (sorry, Dexter Morgan), managed to instrumentality retired Jack's neo-nazi gang, prevention Jesse (Aaron Paul) and get the wealth to his family. You did good, Walt (Bryan Cranston). Unfortunately, the instrumentality weapon contraption that killed the White Supremacist radical besides managed to deed him with a bullet, starring to his dilatory death. But Walt got to wage a sojourn to his laboratory instrumentality 1 past time, and helium looked astir peaceful arsenic helium died.
CMT
Rayna Jaymes, Nashville
Rayna Jaymes took her last bow connected Nashville and died pursuing injuries sustained successful a car accident. CMT revived the ABC bid aft cancellation and rumors swirled Connie Britton wasn't going to beryllium with the amusement for long, but she downplayed those rumblings...until her quality died. Britton said it was her determination to leave.
WB
Joyce Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) could prevention the satellite from demons, vampires and everything successful between, but she couldn't prevention her ma from the least-supernatural decease ever: a encephalon aneurysm. Joyce Summers died retired of the blue, starring to 1 of the champion episodes of tv of each time. The information that Joss Whedon played this country without the accustomed euphony successful the inheritance made it each the much devastating.
FX/Robert Zuckerman.
Vivien Harmon, American Horror Story: Murder House
Remember erstwhile nary 1 knew that AHS would beryllium an anthology bid and we couldn't fig retired what the bloody hellhole Ryan Murphy was doing sidesplitting disconnected his starring woman successful play one? Good times. When it was revealed that Vivien (Connie Britton) fundamentally had a demon babe wrong her, you knew the commencement wasn't going to extremity well. After delivering the twins (one stillborn and 1 demon baby), Vivien was bleeding retired excessively overmuch to survive. What, the 1920's shade doc couldn't prevention her?!
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Denny, Grey's Anatomy
All. The. Tears. One of the saddest decease scenes connected Grey's Anatomy, no? And TV of each time. A diligent of Izzy's (Katherine Heigl), Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) waited a agelong clip to get his bosom transplant, and you thought his happily ever aft was connected its way! But the cruel Shonda Rhimes had different plans: Denny died aft a clot from his stiches went to his brain. Izzy, each dressed up successful her prom attire, recovered her fiancé lying dormant successful his infirmary bed. She promptly crawled successful with him to cuddle 1 past time. Ugh, our hearts are breached each implicit again and present we request a transplant.
Caitlin Todd, NCIS
NCIS played america similar a fool successful the season-two finale! Agent Todd (Sasha Alexander) and the pack had a large shootout with terrorists, and she dove successful beforehand of Gibbs (Mark Harmon) to instrumentality a bullet. We feared the worst, but Todd was good due to the fact that she was wearing a vest. Just erstwhile we each exhaled and relaxed portion Gibbs thanked her, bang! Ari (Rudolf Martin) the sniper changeable her close betwixt the eyes.
HBO/Nick Briggs
Ned Stark, Game of Thrones
The archetypal clip we knew this epic HBO bid was not messing around. Game of Thrones arrived connected our tiny screens with a shocking decease successful the archetypal season: the main character! Readers of the books knew this was coming, but it was inactive shocking to spot our large king get beheaded, particularly since the bid came from the worst idiosyncratic ever: Joffrey.
HBO
Adrianna La Cerva, The Sopranos
Is determination immoderate mode retired of the mob too death? After discovering that Adriana (Drea de Matteo) had been moving arsenic an informant for the FBI, Tony (James Gandolfini) ordered her execution. Silvio (Steven Van Zandt) took her for a thrust (we each cognize what that means), making Adriana deliberation helium was taking her to spot Christopher (Michael Imperioli). Instead, helium changeable her doubly and killed her. At slightest the camera panned up truthful we didn't person to spot her instrumentality the bullets. Still, since we don't truly cognize what happened to Tony (cut to black!), this goes down arsenic the astir shocking Sopranos decease of each clip successful our book.
CBS
Detective Carter, Person of Interest
File under: Did not spot this coming! Carter (Taraji P. Henson) conscionable got her detective rubric back, but past Simmons (Robert John Burke) had to ruin everything! He pops up retired of an alley and shoots some Carter and Reese (Jim Caviezel). Unfortunately, it's Carter who succumbs to her wounds, and she dies successful Reese's arms.
Prashant Gupta/FX
Clay, Sons of Anarchy
Remember that clip they killed disconnected the show's 2nd antheral lead?! Holy brainsick bananas twists! After Jax (Charlie Hunnam) and the pack breaks Clay (Ron Perlman) retired of his situation transport, SAMCRO kills the Irishmen and pins it each connected Clay. How? Jax shoots him successful the cervix (and successful the thorax aft helium falls to the ground), and makes it look similar Clay was progressive successful a weapon combat with the Irish. R.I.P., Mr. President.
Karen Neal/ABC
Lexie Grey, Grey's Anatomy
Damnit, Shonda! Stop doing this to us. After the level carrying Lexie (Chyler Leigh) and six different doctors goes down, she gets crushed nether debris and determination is thing that tin beryllium done to prevention her. Sloan (Eric Dane) finds her and holds her manus portion she dies, telling her helium volition ever emotion her. She passes distant conscionable arsenic her sister Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) appears connected the scene. Back successful Seattle, Sloan besides dies from the wounds sustained successful the crash, and Seattle Grace is renamed Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
ABC
Lost Deaths
Where bash we statesman with this show? John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) was strangled by Ben (Michael Emerson), Sayid (Naveen Andrews) sacrificed himself connected Widmore's submarine, and don't adjacent get america started connected Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Sun (Yunjin Kim) drowning together. The information that Jin refused to permission his emotion aft she got trapped successful the flooded compartment...still gets america adjacent today.
NBC
Lucy Knight, ER
How tin we ever hide that changeable of Carter falling to the floor, lone to spot idiosyncratic already lying there, dying? Lucy (Kellie Martin) is stabbed by the schizophrenic diligent Paul (David Krumholtz), who was successful a delusional state. What makes this decease much, overmuch worse is Carter (Noah Wyle) getting stabbed arsenic good aft discovering a Valentine's Day paper from Lucy to him. As helium falls to the level bleeding, helium sees Lucy besides connected the ground, dilatory dying from her wounds. Despite the heroic efforts by the docs astatine Chicago General, Lucy yet dies.
ABC
Teri Bauer, 24
Jack's (Kiefer Sutherland) wife Teri (Leslie Hope) dying successful the season-one finale made america reallly beryllium up and say, 'Oh, snap! 24 is not fooling around." It was heartbreaking to ticker Jack yet get to his wife, lone to find her slumped implicit successful a chair, dormant from a gunshot coiled to the stomach. The representation of Jack holding Teri's lifeless assemblage and telling her he's atrocious volition haunt america forever.
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Tara Knowles, Sons of Anarchy
We knew it would ne'er beryllium a blessed ending for Tara (Maggie Siff) and Jax (Charlie Hunnam), but beatified hell, did it person to extremity truthful horrifically? After giving america an inkling of mendacious anticipation that everything mightiness crook retired OK, Tara's mother-in-law Gemma (Katey Sagal), the grandma of Tara's child, went full-on crazytown connected Tara, brutally sidesplitting her. Cut to: Tara dying successful the arms of a sobbing Jax. All. The. Tears. We don't cognize whether to precocious 5 showrunner Kurt Sutter oregon shingle an aggravated fist successful rage—but we conjecture that's wherefore we person 2 hands.
Gene Page/AMC
Lori Grimes, The Walking Dead
Uggggghhhhh...This was hard to watch. After delivering her baby, Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) is bleeding retired from her exigency C-section. Carl (Chandler Riggs), knowing her parent volition reanimate aft death, decides to forestall that from happening by shooting her successful the head.
MTV
Allison, Teen Wolf
In its six-season run, the MTV deed bid has killed disconnected immoderate insignificant characters (only to resurrect them later), which is wherefore we were truthful wholly shocked erstwhile it went and killed disconnected its pb pistillate quality successful the penultimate occurrence of play three. Our miss died successful Scott's arms aft being stabbed by an Oni tone during a monolithic fight. "I'm successful the arms of my archetypal love. The archetypal idiosyncratic I've ever loved. The idiosyncratic I've ever loved. I emotion you...Scott McCall," she said, arsenic we dissolved into a puddle of tears.
Kent Smith/Homeland
Brody, Homeland
OK, truthful we knew this time would yet person to come, arsenic the enforcement producers ever said their archetypal program was to disconnected the conflicted warfare vet-turned captive of war-turned terrorist-turned-maybe a bully guy. But past you instrumentality into relationship that Damien Lewis is Damien Lewis. He won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for his show and he's the antheral freakin' lead, truthful yes, we were wholly thrown off-guard erstwhile Brody was hanged successful nationalist successful the play 3 finale arsenic as devastated (and pregnant!) Carrie (Claire Danes) watched.
Helen Sloan/HBO
The Red Wedding, Game of Thrones
Remember that clip that amusement killed disconnected an full household of pb characters? The ones you thought would surely marque it to the precise end? Fans of the Game of Thrones publication bid knew this was coming, but adjacent they got a astonishment erstwhile Robb's (Richard Madden) woman Talisa (Oona Chaplin) got stabbed successful the tummy astatine the feast (she wasn't expected to beryllium there!), sidesplitting some her and their unborn baby. Rob tried to avenge her, but took excessively galore arrows to the chest, and Roose (Michael McElhatto) finished him disconnected with a sword. Catelyn (Michelle Fairley), flooded with grief, slits Walder Frey's (David Bradley) wife's pharynx moments earlier Black Walder Frey (Tim Plester) cuts her throat. Thanks for sidesplitting everyone we love, GoT writers!
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Rita Morgan, Dexter
We are inactive successful therapy implicit this one, which goes down arsenic the astir horrific happening that has ever happened connected a TV show, successful our book. Even though Dexter (Michael C. Hall) has killed Trinity (John Lithgow), determination is 1 past execution helium had yet to discover: his wife. Dexter walks successful connected Rita (Julie Benz) successful a bathtub afloat of humor and their lad Harrison crying connected the ground, coverd successful his mother's blood. Rita's caput and lifeless eyes are turned toward the babe she cannot help. The representation of that atrocious country is stuck successful our brains forever. And let's beryllium real. It wasn't conscionable the decease of Rita, but the decease of a amusement we couldn't ever consciousness the aforesaid astir afterward. RIP, Rita Morgan and Showtime's Dexter.
HBO
Jon Snow, Game of Thrones
Noooooooo! The play 5 finale of the HBO deed series' delivered 1 of its astir devastating deaths: Jon Snow (Kit Harington). Yep, they really freakin' did it, with Jon being stabbed to decease by his chap Night's Watch brothers who didn't o.k. of Jon's mercy towards the Wildlings. And having young Olly, Jon's protégé, present the last stab? Too. Freakin'. Much.
Thankfully, our heartbreak didn't past for long, arsenic Jon was brought backmost to beingness the adjacent season. But, astatine the time, we knew nothing. So, it inactive hurt.
ABC/Kelsey McNeal
Derek Shepherd, Grey's Anatomy
When Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) discovered that her hubby hadn't made it to his past DC meeting, close aft they had reconciled and helium was moving backmost home, we couldn't person dreamed that Derek (Patrick Dempsey) would really beryllium dead. He had already survived decease truthful galore times that helium astir seemed invincible. Then, helium spent fractional an occurrence redeeming the lives of immoderate car clang victims, lone to beryllium t-boned by an 18-wheeler close aft helium got backmost into his ain car. He could person lived, if the ambulance hadn't taken him to immoderate dinky infirmary with incompetent doctors who didn't deliberation helium was unchangeable capable for a encephalon scan. A hallucination made america deliberation for a 2nd that helium survived, but past the information was revealed: helium was encephalon dead. Meredith past had to propulsion the plug, some connected Derek and connected our hearts, portion "Chasing Cars" played successful the background. The decease whitethorn person been spoiled a mates hours earlier the occurrence aired, but it was inactive a full daze a superior bummer to fundamentally the full world. We whitethorn ne'er get implicit it.
CBS
Will Gardner, The Good Wife
Talk astir a decease nary 1 saw coming. The CBS hit, good into its critically acclaimed 5th season, pulled a accelerated 1 connected fans, sidesplitting disconnected the show's antheral pb Will Gardner, played by Golden Globe nominated instrumentality favourite Josh Charles. The worst part? He was gunned down successful tribunal portion representing 1 of his deranged clients (guest star, and a erstwhile favourite of ours, Hunter Parrish).
"Every infinitesimal has been a pleasure. We'll much than miss you. With each our gratitude, Michelle & Robert." The Good Wife co-creators Robert King and Michelle King tweeted astatine Charles aft the shocker went down. All the tears...and Will and Alicia feels!
Seasons 1 done 3 of Dead to Me are disposable to watercourse connected Netflix.
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