16 Plot Twists That Got People Hooked On TV Shows, And 15 Plot Twists That Made People Want The Show Canceled Immediately
We've asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us what they considered to be the worst and best plot twists on TV shows. Here's what they had to say:
🚨Obviously, there are massive spoilers ahead!🚨
1.Good plot twist: When it was revealed that the dead body the students were burning was Annalise's husband, Sam, on How to Get Away with Murder.
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2.Bad plot twist: When Ezra revealed he met Alison and knew who Aria was and that she was underage before they "first" met in the bar on Pretty Little Liars.
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3.Good plot twist: When Ted said, "And that's how I met your Aunt Robin" at the end of the How I Met Your Mother pilot.
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4.Bad plot twist: When Love Quinn told Joe that she was also a stalker and murderer on You.
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5.Good plot twist: When it turned out all of the families were related at the end of the Modern Family pilot.
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6.Bad plot twist: When Alex left Seattle to be with Izzie on Grey's Anatomy.
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7.Good plot twist: When it turned out that Rebecca and Jack's scenes in the This Is Us pilot took place in the '80s and that Kevin, Kate, and Randall were actually their children.
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8.Bad plot twist: When Cece was revealed as "A" on Pretty Little Liars.
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9.Good plot twist: When Eleanor revealed that she had no idea what she was doing in the Good Place and she was not the person everyone thought she was in The Good Place.
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10.Bad plot twist: When 13 Reasons Why revealed that Justin Foley had HIV-1 that progressed to AIDS, and then he suddenly died.
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11.Good plot twist: When Alex showed up at the same prison as Piper in Orange Is the New Black.
12.Bad plot twist: When Rory told Lorelai she was pregnant at the end of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.
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13.Good plot twist: When the smoke monster appeared in the first episode of Lost.
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14.Bad plot twist: When Logan was killed off on Veronica Mars.
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15.Good plot twist: When Sarah spotted the woman who jumped in front of an oncoming train, and they had the same face on Orphan Black.
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16.Bad plot twist: When Chuck found out his father, Bart, had faked his death on Gossip Girl.
17.Good plot twist: When the pilot of Mad Men ended with Don going home to his wife after the episode made him seem like a bachelor.
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18.Bad plot twist: When How I Met Your Mother is revealed to actually be a story about Ted's love for Robin and not the mother.
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19.Good plot twist: When it was revealed that Judy was the driver in the hit-and-run that killed Jen's husband on Dead to Me.
20.Bad plot twist: When Riverdale revealed that Charles and Chic were dating.
21.Good plot twist: When it was revealed that someone knew the girls were on the island in The Wilds and that them being "stranded" was intentional.
22.Bad plot twist: When David turned out to be alive on Revenge.
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23.Good plot twist: When Prince Charming turned out to be alive and lying in a hospital bed on Once Upon a Time.
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24.Bad plot twist: When A.D. turned out to be Spencer's long-lost British twin on Pretty Little Liars.
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25.Good plot twist: When it was revealed that Mabel knew Tim Kono, the murder victim, in Only Murders in the Building.
26.Bad plot twist: When Rufus and Lily met their secret son on Gossip Girl.
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27.Good plot twist: When A-Train suddenly ran through and killed Hughie's girlfriend in The Boys.
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28.Bad plot twist: When Olivia got kidnapped on Scandal.
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29.Good plot twist: When the princess was released by her captor right before the prime minister had sex with a pig on television because he was told that was a condition of her release in Black Mirror.
30.The last bad plot twist: When Jane found out that Michael was still alive on Jane the Virgin.
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31.And the last good plot twist: When everyone found out that vice principal Martin Harris was Kate's kidnapper AND Kate accused Jeanette of seeing her while she was being held captive in Cruel Summer.
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