2022 in Review: The 25 Most Heartbreaking TV Character Deaths
If your tear ducts feel bone dry after grieving TV death after TV death, brace yourself for one more cry to close out 2022.
As TVLine’s Year in Review continues, we’re looking back at 25 characters who met particularly tragic ends across broadcast, cable and streaming shows. And while many other characters bit the dust on TV this year, we’re zeroing in on the deaths that dealt the biggest emotional blows, with only one loss per show represented.
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Huge SPOILER ALERT for the list below. If you haven’t caught up on the following shows (listed alphabetically), bookmark this post and return later: 1883, Andor, Better Call Saul, The Boys, Chicago Fire, Dead to Me, Dexter: New Blood, Euphoria, FBI: Most Wanted, Fear the Walking Dead, For All Mankind, House of the Dragon, Killing Eve, Manifest, Mayans MC, The Midnight Club, The Orville: New Horizons, Ozark, The Patient, Russian Doll, SEAL Team, Stranger Things, This Is Us, The Walking Dead and Westworld.
But if you’re prepared to mourn, scroll on for 25 of the most heartbreaking TV deaths this year, and then leave a comment with the one(s) that hit you the hardest.
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