Tara Knowles from Sons of Anarchy
The gruesome death of Tara Knowles (Maggie Siff) was unimaginably tragic for a number of reasons, the primary of which being that it came at the hands of her own husband’s mother, Gemma (Katey Sagal), who believed that her daughter-in-law would betray the Club. After Gemma tried drowning Tara, she ended up stabbing her in the head with a barbecue fork multiple times. Jax (Charlie Hunnam) arrived back to find her massacred body in a decimating moment that would set the events of the final season in motion.
Mark Greene from ER
You don’t know true sadness until you’ve seen Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) tell his estranged daughter that he loves her just before succumbing to brain cancer as a beautiful rendition of “Over the Rainbow” by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole plays softly in the background. The penultimate episode of ER’s eighth season marked one of the first occasions in which a main character was killed off without hindering the progress of the show. Even so, the doctor’s death left viewers with a Mark-shaped hole in their hearts.
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