15 (5) Unexpected TV Show Deaths That Almost Ruined Your Favorite Shows

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15 Unexpected TV Show Deaths That Almost Ruined Your Favorite Shows https://t.co/6gXxbL0VCV
- BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) July 7, 2020

[Beware: Here Be Spoilers]1. Jane the Virgin, when Michael collapsed and stopped breathing due to injuries from his gunshot wound.

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2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when Buffy found her mom's lifeless body on the couch.

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3. Dexter, when Dexter came

Comments

[analievelyn]

is the walking dead still good?

[burntxtoashes]

i haven't watched this season, but last season was really boring

[crucified]

If you like that dirty rat Daryl Dixon, sure. Otherwise, no.

[laurondo]

I stopped watching it awhile ago because every episode was practically the same.

[meow_tan]

including joyce's death on the same list as glenns from twd is stupid and misunderstands that character death can be an important tool in a tv show to tell a story and send a message. joyce dying didnt hurt btvs- dawn never having much purpose after season 5 did

[friarsfire]

Agreed. [Spoiler (click to open)] I kept waiting for Dawn to do something magical or even somewhat nonmagically exceptional being the key that could bring in an eternity of darkness and whatnot. Instead, we got Xander as a teenage girl without the sometimes useful military knowledge. But she did knock Xander out that one time so there’s that.

[insomniachobs]

That was what I didn't get. We got a one liner that blithely dismissed it as apparently not a problem any more (and to be honest sounded like a naive assumption on Dawn's part), then nothing about it ever again.

[pussyriot]

Yeah looking back it doesn't make sense within the context of the show that this massive ball of energy that can rip down dimensional walls was transfigured into a human and that human isn't even like... mildly telekinetic or something?

[_scarlett_icons]

JT on Degrassi. Adam on Degrassi.

I don’t think I’ve watched the episode after John Ritter died, for 8 Simple Rules since the first time it aired. I just can’t.

[franklotion]

they really did the episode after well, like middle school me was :(((((((((

also, hard agree on JT's death... liberty finding him RIP and i was so upset that adam died, like everything was finally going his way with the hormones and becky and etc then bloop...

also drew dating becky????
???
????

[xdaisyxlovesxbb]

i've watch the 8 simple rules ep twice, once when it aired and another to rewatch it years later, and it was brutal. i still remember when i heard on the news of his passing and was in shock bc i didnt realize he had died. i do think the ep was done beautiful and it really was a great tribute to john. i dont think i can watch it again anymore.

john was really the light of the show especially when you watch bloopers and he was always hilarious. the show simply wasnt the same with david spade and james garner. i do really love that the cast still remain close.

[vandthemoon]

They really did a great job with that 8 Simple Rules episode. You could tell how real their emotions and pain was. It still makes me sad to think about.

[deja_vu822]

As sad as it is, Joyce's death def didn't almost ruin Buffy. It's one of the best episodes.

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[vivilicious]

Came here to say this. It was a great episode... and Joyce being gone didn‘t ruin anything. It actually added a new angle to the story.

Now when Tara died though, I was pissed off. That was just so completely pointless.

[tsarinakate1]

Seriously Justice for Tara

[doriiansz]

That Buffy episode has been in the back of my head ever since I watched
it years ago. I love my mom and don't want to experience sth like that irl.

I watched some of the JtV episodes after that, but they really lost me as a viewer doing that. Finding out later what a messy anti-Black fool Gina is made me realize I really didn't lose anything dropping the show the moment I did.

[patchsassy]

JtV was just OK after that. But then in the final season, Michael comes back and turns out he wasn't dead all along, just a telenovela trope.

[milkradio]

Yeah, that Buffy episode traumatized me. I am terrified of finding one of my parents dead like that. It’s so mundane, but so horrifying.

[ghastly]

IA about "The Body" remaining in your head.

My mom & I don't always have the best relationship but are currently living together (after her divorce + failed rebound relationship) & earlier this year I was taking care of her while she was really sick, and she needed help going to the bathroom. Then she had a seizure on the toilet and I had to hold her up so she didn't break her neck on either the bathtub on one side or the sink on the other, while she's seizing. It took me a solid month before I could use that bathroom without seeing her face during that seizure. I just kept thinking about "The Body" the whole time.