The 25 Saddest TV Character Deaths of This Century

The 25 Saddest TV Character Deaths of This Century

[Editor’s Note: This list was originally published in February 2018. It has been updated to include new shows, including “The Last of Us.”]

Dwelling on death isn’t exactly healthy if you think about it the wrong way — except TV deaths, which leave special, agonizing scars. Losing a TV character you’ve spent years with hits hard, and can often change the course of the series moving forward. Someone like prickly “Succession” patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) was integral not…