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The Weepiest TV Moments of 2024
Sobbing over a television show is a gift, and these are the cries we’re most grateful for.
And when he responds to Dr. Schmitt (Jake Borelli) promising that you can cram a lot into a few months — Cal’s list includes space camp and rereading The Lord of the Rings — with a sob of “I don’t want to die,” well, it will break your heart into a million pieces. He is, as Ashley (Harriet Dyer) calls him moments before his sudden death, “a fuckwit.” That makes grieving complicated, as illustrated in this episode, written by Patrick Brammall, which uses a half an hour to show us a man slowly crashing through a spiral of grief. The most heartbreaking moment in a series full of them arrives when the McConville siblings gather at the morgue to verify that the remains found at the beach are in fact Jean — it’s the little blue safety pin they fondly remember their mother always wearing on her sweaters that confirms it.
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