Zeek Braverman from Parenthood
This Is Us might be a tearjerker, but Parenthood is coming for blood. In the series finale, Braverman family patriarch Zeek (Craig T. Nelson) passed away in his sleep, napping in his favorite chair. He had just witnessed his daughter Sarah’s (Lauren Graham) wedding and invited his granddaughter Amber (Mae Whitman) and her son to move into his home. Apparently, Craig T. Nelson wished Parenthood hadn’t killed off Zeek, but the show just had to deliver another punch to the gut.
Nina Sergeevna Krilova from The Americans
By the time Nina was killed in the fourth season of The Americans, she had become one of the show’s most sympathetic and dynamic characters. The distressing sequence depicted the Russian officer as she was marched to a sterile room and shot in the back of the head. Nina’s death felt sudden and informal—the audience had just about as much time to brace themselves as Nina did.
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