A while back, we asked for sad underrated TV scenes, and we got SO many submissions — here are some of the best monologues!
1. On Stranger Things, when Eleven stood up to Papa and said that he was the monster:
2. And when Hopper told Dmitri about his daughter and his experience in the Vietnam War:
3. On Euphoria, when Maddy confronted Cassie through the door about her relationship with Nate:
4. Also on Euphoria, when Rue was trying to find the suitcase:
5. On This Is Us, when Kevin broke down on his old high school football field:
6. On The Haunting of Bly Manor, when Jamie told Dani about the moonflower:
7. And Theo's speech about feeling nothing from Nell's body on The Haunting of Hill House:
8. On M*A*S*H, when Father Mulcahy talked about how the war had changed everyone:
9. On Fleabag, when Fleabag "confessed" to the priest:
10. On The Good Place, when Chidi told Eleanor a Buddhist belief about death as he said goodbye to her forever:
11. On WandaVision, when Vision comforted Wanda after Pietro's death:
12. On Killing Eve, when Villanelle talked about not feeling anything:
13. On This Is Us, when Kate got upset about the police killings of Black men and Randall talked about how exhausted he was:
14. On Doctor Who, when Amy realizes that nothing they'd done would make a difference for Van Gogh:
15. On NCIS, when Palmer talked a victim's son off the ledge:
16. On Chuck, when Chuck brought Sarah to their dream home and tried to get her to remember him:
17. On Doctor Who, when the Doctor said goodbye to Amy:
18. On Dexter, when Dexter gave Rita's eulogy:
19. On Grey's Anatomy, when Meredith told her mother why she was "ordinary":
20. And when Lexie confessed her love for Mark:
21. On Outlander, when Claire told Jamie what it was like to see their stillborn daughter:
22. On Once Upon a Time, when Emma told Snow about growing up an orphan:
23. On Supernatural, when Castiel confessed his love for Dean right before he died:
24. On Shameless, when Fiona told her mother how she's had to raise her siblings and how well they were doing without her:
25. And when Monica died and Fiona told Frank she was never there:
26. On Breaking Bad, when Jessie admitted to his group that he was there to sell meth and questioned their method of self-forgiveness:
27. On Game of Thrones, when Jaime told Brienne why he killed the Mad King:
28. On The West Wing, when Mrs. Landingham told Charlie about her twin sons dying in Vietnam:
29. On Sherlock, when John talked to Sherlock's headstone:
30. On Grey's Anatomy, when Bailey broke down to Derek after operating on her former high school crush:
31. On M*A*S*H, when Margaret confronted the nurses:
32. On BoJack Horseman, when BoJack gave his mother's eulogy:
33. On The West Wing, when Mrs. Landingham was killed by a drunk driver and Bartlet spoke to God:
34. On Breaking Bad, when Jesse told Walt he was done with him:
35. On M*A*S*H, when Hawkeye remembers that the woman he told to keep her chicken quiet actually was holding a baby, and that she killed her baby to protect them:
36. On Parenthood, when Zeek takes Amber to see her wrecked car after her car crash and tells her off:
37. And finally, Ben's taxi monologue in Ozark (this one is literally five minutes, and I couldn't even try to sum it up in a few screencaps, so I'm just going to link it below):
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"That one got me. The acting and writing of that scene was incredible."
What other TV monologues were incredible well-delivered? Let us know in the comments!
Submissions have been edited for length/clarity.