If you didn't tear up during the Subway scene, you may be missing a heart.
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This episode is painful. Partly because I didn't realize just how much I secretly hoped that Robin and Barney would eventually settle down and have some kids. The last few moments are just heartbreaking.
I hated the monkey-wrench the writers threw into Jim and Pam's relationship since the beginning of season 9, but it was worth it just to see the desperation on Jim's face when he held onto Pam. Dubbing that with the minister's words on their wedding day was beautiful, but it's Pam's decision that will finally bring you to tears.
If anyone ever wondered when my heart broke for the first time it was the day I watched this episode on ABC Family as a child. Someone please just hug Shawn forever.
Few episodes really tackle the subject of assisted suicide, but this one does so in a fair and meaningful way. What'll get you is how much of the episode is spent talking around the subject of death or avoiding it entirely, with everyone wanting to discuss their own problems or philosophies, up until the moment that they're all forced to deal with it.
If you know anything about Alan Turing you know his life was not easy, but I came into this movie thinking that he would at least have a small glimpse of happiness when he finally perfected the Turing Machine before everything in his life went to hell, and sadly I was mistaken. He suffers for nearly the entire movie, and his brilliance is completely unrewarded.
TV-Y7 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In this episode for just one moment Iroh's given the opportunity to feel his grief and mourn the loss of his son. As one of the most loved and positive characters on the show, watching him fall apart is just so depressing.
This is one of those episodes that just punches you right in the gut. The emotional back and forth centering around J.D.'s problem and the light-hearted comedy of Carla and Elliot dealing with The Todd only distracts from the emotional wallop at the end of the episode. The look of pain and guilt on McGinley's face shatters me every time and highlights the cruelty of life when you work in an industry where you have to help people every day.
The horrible truth is most people with that kind of job, whether they're a doctor, social worker, therapist, firefighter, etc. have that moment where no matter how efficiently they did their job and followed protocol, they can't shake that feeling that someone else's demise is their fault.
What can I say? My eyes get a little misty every time Jess screams "turn on your lights!"
TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy
Here's what makes this episode so sad:
5. The audio at the end of the episode of Karyn Parsons crying backstage.
4. The brilliant choice by the cameraman to zoom in on the statue just before the credits rolled, perfectly summing up the sad tone of the episode.
3. Will Smith's speech at the end is completely improvised, and so much of the emotion he's giving comes from his own personal experience growing up with friends who didn't have fathers.
2. The hug, which wasn't part of the script and was actually James Avery hugging a distraught Will Smith, and the fact that James Avery is no longer with us.
1. How come he don't want me, man?
Why can't Mickey ever be happy? *Sobs*
While the show may have gone downhill in the later seasons, this still marks the end of one of my favorite shows, and I'm really gonna miss these guys. And Erin's moment was sugar sweet.
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
"I need you, dad."
Chet, you son of a bitch! That line and the zoom in on the photo at the end of the episode get me every time. It reminds me very strongly of the cameraman zooming in on the statue in Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse.
TV-MA | 59 min | Comedy, Drama
While Mickey and Ian's breakup was unfortunately undercut by the humorous scene that interrupted it, it was a horrible to watch Mickey's heart break in half. What made this so awful was that there was nothing Mickey could do. He tried everything to make their relationship work, but Ian wasn't willing to accept help at the time. That's the cruelty of mental illness.
I cried like a little baby. I think because I identify so strongly with Monica. It's difficult to find your place in life when you're striving to prove you're just as good as any man, hold onto your pride by not compromising your morals or conforming to what society expects of you, and at the same time allow yourself to be vulnerable.
TV-14 | 54 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
I've accepted that I'm at an age where I strongly empathize with parents. Lol The parallel between Hopper's daughter's death and Will's resurrection was so poignant, raw, and touching.
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
I felt this episode. Every black American felt this episode. Viola Davis was just phenomenal. Her speech was a goddamned work of art.
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
This is by far the most surprising of all of the tearjerkers. As a pretty low stakes silly cartoon I never expected it would evoke the kind of emotions and feelings out of me that other, more serious shows frequently do. And it did it in such a surprising way the emotional impact really wallops you over the head.
TV-Y7 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
I'm not typically a person to shed tears over animal cruelty. That's not to say I don't care or feel sad about it, I just don't subscribe to the whole "animals are better/more innocent than people" ideology. However this episode had me bawling. It's a mix of the prolonged suffering that Appa goes through in this episode, his continued loyalty to Aang, and his desperate need to get back to him. What makes it even more heartbreaking is how Appa's hope is systematically shut down, and how he's tortured again and again in such a way that it feels like society itself is spitting at him for daring to even believe that Aang cares about him. Eventually he's reduced to a near feral, distrustful shell of his former self, and while there is a hopeful gleam at the end of the episode, we do not get the reunion we wanted.
Bing Bong was too precious for this world! Aside from the symbolic letting go of your childhood that Bing Bong represents, there's another darker parallel that I see in Bing Bong that makes his death even sadder. Even at the end of his life, Bing Bong is not angry with Riley for forgetting him, and he still loves her enough to let her go, knowing she is better off without him. I think everybody has an elderly relative (usually a grandparent) that they take advantage of, don't visit enough, and often don't think about and you don't really feel the weight of your decision not to see them as much until they are gone. Much like Bing Bong, when they leave, they usually do it still loving you fiercely and wanting to spend more time with you than you did with them.
This one hit me where it hurt. Carla's speech at the end was beautiful and by explaining that Laverne was to Carla what Carla was to J.D. gave her loss some serious weight.
A movie about a mentally challenged man breaking barriers and becoming successful is bound to have sad moments. To name a few there's Mrs. Gump's death, Bubba's death, Lieutenant Dang's whole story arc, and Jenny's death.
Two of the saddest moments for me personally were the scenes when Jenny throws rocks at her childhood home, and when she contemplates suicide. And after watching this movie, I was genuinely surprised by how many people couldn't stand her character. While her actions did cause Forrest a lot of pain, you have to see things from her perspective. As a victim of incest, molestation and abuse, she knows firsthand the pain of it and battles her inner demons every day. To make matters worse, she falls hopelessly in love with a man who she can never really be sure is able to give consent or is mentally capable of an adult relationship, which only causes her to think that maybe she is just like the man she hates more than anyone. Is it any wonder she pushes Forrest away and drowns herself in drugs, sex, and abusive relationships? My heart weeps for her every time I watch this movie.
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
This one gets me because Sam is such a self-absorbed ass for a lot of this episode, so when he finally comes through for Dean and gives him some Christmas cheer it's that much more joyful.
God Jim. A thousand hearts broke when Pam said "What are you doing?" There should be a law banning anyone from ever making Jim cry.
There's always something so depressing about seeing a strong woman cry. When Karen finally allows herself to grieve and delivers her longtime employee and friend a beautiful and well-deserved speech I couldn't help but cry for her.
If you can make it through most of her speech, you'll lose it when she says " Honey, I'm not going with you to the cemetery, so don't get mad, okay? I just can't watch them put you in the ground."
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Ianto! *Sobs*
Stupid little forgetful fish. *Sobs*
It's a lot of things really. The remorse and loss you feel after committing to such a great show and such amazing and lovable characters is already a big enough wound (I think I'll miss Tig the most), but the scene where Jax says goodbye to his children will absolutely tear you up inside.
It's especially brutal because of Jax's request that his children only remember him as a bad person so they won't follow in his footsteps and it emphasizes just how much Jax is giving up.
TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When Zuko apologizes to Iroh it's one of the most touching moments of the show. There's a lot of tension in this scene due to the fact that it's initially unclear what Iroh's reaction will be. However, when the tension is released and a crying Iroh and Zuko hug you can't help but cry with them.
It's also the moment where Zuko's story finally comes full circle. In the beginning he was searching for a way back to his father, and now he finally has one. And it's painfully clear how much it means to Iroh after losing a son to have one come back to him.
TV-14 | 76 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
I wasn't ready for this. When Barb died in Season 1 I realized that Stranger Things wasn't going to follow Jurassic Park rules. By Jurassic Park rules I mean the protagonists would be fine, the bad guys would die, and children wouldn't even get a scratch. However, I did not expect Hopper to die. Especially not with so much left to resolve. He never even got a chance to go on that date with Joyce, and she wouldn't have moved away if he'd lived. Losing him was heartbreaking enough, but that goodbye video took every tear from me. "Keep the door open 3 inches" will go down right next to "I love you 3,000" as one of the saddest lines of 2019.
This one's kind of weird because it's a reality show and maybe I'm just in a weird place right now but I was largely unaffected by this episode and the divorce until the very end of the episode when Chrishell had to go into the office and tell Jason she needed to take some time away from work. That whole situation was so relatable to me.
Firstly, having to tell your boss that you can't work because your personal life is a wreck while you're in the middle of said crisis is so hard and so humiliating. And I related so much to her just wanting to be alone and not talk to anyone even though everyone was largely supportive. Her trying to leave as each and every one of her coworkers came in one by one was just awful to watch. She was literally at her breaking point. And I know what it's like when you're just trying to hold it in while every hug and "aw" is draining you and making you want to hide away from the world and break down even more.
PG-13 | 130 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
I'm a huge Potterhead so the fact that this was the last Harry Potter movie was already sad enough, but there is one scene that moved me to my core. It's the scene where McGonagall summons the statues. The score is hauntingly beautiful, the falling statues are such a poetic representation of the might of Hogwarts and then McGonagall, after 7 years of being a completely serious character, has to go and make a joke. It's a stark reminder of just how much I'm going to miss her and the Potterverse. It's sad tears, it's joyful tears, it's wistful tears. I love it.
Mother and son held against their will for years in a shed. Need I say more?
The plot twist was cruel enough, but the image of J.D. curled up in his patients lap was like a punch in the gut. It makes me yearn for a society where people can be that open and honest with each other, and reminds us that all death, whether you were prepared for it or it caught you off guard, is never easy to deal with.
If you know an alcoholic this is a hard episode to watch. It's this prolonged pain of watching someone so brilliant and gifted falling apart and pushing everyone who cares about her away until she finally comes crashing down. Even though Beth never really shows enough emotion to seem quite real there is something about her that you connect to anyway and you want the best for her.
I think this one hits me hard because I have a lot of friends whose parents got divorced when they were about Whitley's age and their parents did a spectacular job of completely screwing it up. I think a lot of times when people wait until their children are adults to get divorced they forget that, while more mature, kids are still going to react in almost the same way as they would if they were much younger. They'll still blame themselves, they still desperately need a bit of stability in the midst of all the change, and they still need their parents to be the bigger people and stop being selfish or dragging them into their personal crap. Whitley's dad does none of this, and ultimately Whitley has to let go of her family faster than she wanted to, and that is sad.
This show is just not fair! Toshiko pretending she's okay while lying in a pool of her own blood from a gunshot wound so she can comfort Owen is the definition of undying love. The horrible thing is that Owen is just too broken to return it. What makes it unbearable is that even at the end of their lives he couldn't pretend for her.
Knowing the backstory of this movie and what really happened to Pete Davidson's dad adds a lot of significance to the scene where he sees Ray firefighting for the first time. Just thinking about how horrible and significant that would be for a child who lost his father in a fire brings a tear to my eye.
This one got me more as an adult than as a child. Once you understand manipulation and abuse the patterns of abuse Gothel displays when using Rapunzel are cringy at best. Then there's Rapunzel's parents having their baby stolen from them and missing or for all they knew dead for so many years. The king being the more emotional one in that relationship was really lovely and heartwarming to see and goes against the usual trope but it's also always going to be hard to watch a big man cry.
I've had an emotional day. But Pierce singing "Annie believes in me" brought a little moisture to my eye.
TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Even knowing Will wasn't really dead it's still not easy to watch kids cry. Kids should never have to go through the death of a friend.
This is an emotional arc right here. Partly because a lot of the characters you genuinely care about start dropping like flies. Also partly because it's not always clear if some of them are really dead. I figured Hange and possibly some of Hange's team had found a way to avoid the steam long before Hange reappeared, possibly by hiding beneath Reiner. Armin while not my favorite character is definitely high up on the list, and I was not ready to see my homeboy's charred body.
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Dangit Touchstone! Stop sending orphans on Christmas!
TV-14 | 78 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
This episode was intense. My nerves are fried and I'm exhausted. *Exhale emoji*
It's a mix of childhood nostalgia and the fact that everyone in this film is so nice.
If toys holding hands as they face their death won't get you Andy's goodbye will.
This was such a good episode because it highlights the reality of life. That's what I love about Torchwood. Despite being a fantasy series, the characters are real and deeply flawed. Love doesn't always work out no matter how much we want it to. Death is absolute. People do horrible things to those they love most and sometimes they just keep it to themselves and carry it forever.
You can be a likeable and sweet person and people in your life can care about you but they can also kind of suck. Eugene is an extremely likable guy and a stark reminder that he is most people: a person living an ordinary life. Many people live those lives hinging on and believing fantasies that we are told by our parents as children. Some of us have time to undo that fantasy and fall to reality. Some of us never do. Some figure it out just in time. For just a moment we get a glimmer of the fantasy. Of the fallacious existence we want to live. But reality is that life is what you make of it. You do the best you can and try to own your life decisions and die without regretting them.
This is a hard episode and at the same time a very sweet episode. It really encapsulates the moment when you realize that the relationship that once worked for you doesn't fit anymore.