This year was filled with incredible TV shows. From new shows to returning favorites, there was something for everyone in 2023. A lot of these big shows also included TV character deaths that were either shocking, sad, or both. So, here are 31 we are still thinking about:
🚨 There are obviously MASSIVE spoilers ahead for some of this year's biggest shows, like Succession, The Last of Us, Yellowjackets, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Secret Invasion, Gen V, Barry, and more! 🚨
This post also contains mentions of suicide.
1. First, on Succession, when Logan shockingly died while on a plane, and Kendall, Shiv, and Roman found out while attending Connor's wedding.
2. On All American, when Billy went back to save Jabari after their bus crashed while the team was heading back from a scouting combine.
3. On 9-1-1: Lone Star, when Gabriel, Carlos's dad, was suddenly shot and killed only a few days before Carlos and TK's wedding.
4. On The Great, when Catherine failed to convince Peter to turn around and come home, and he fell to his death through an ice-covered lake.
5. On Lessons in Chemistry, when Calvin suddenly died after being hit by a bus, just when he and Elizabeth's lives together were getting started and before Elizabeth found out she was pregnant.
6. On Our Flag Means Death, when the crew was racing back to the Revenge, but Izzy was shot and ended up dying as Ed/Blackbeard held him on the deck of the ship.
7. On A Million Little Things, when Gary's cancer progressed and he sadly died after asking Eddie and Rome to get him the drugs needed so he could die peacefully.
8. On Chicago Fire, when Mouch suddenly flatlined after being hit by shrapnel, and the season ended with Mouch bleeding out and us not knowing whether he will survive.
9. On Sex Education, when Maeve returned from studying abroad in the US after finding out her mother died.
10. On Gen V, when Luke shockingly used his powers to kill himself after finding out about Brink's involvement with The Woods.
11. And on Gen V, when Cate killed Shetty after she forced her to reveal everything about The Woods and why it was created.
12. On The Summer I Turned Pretty, when Season 2 began with Belly revealing that Susannah had died between last summer and the present day.
13. On The Last of Us, when Sarah was shot and killed while she and Joel were trying to escape at the very beginning of the outbreak.
14. On The Last of Us, when Tess was bitten by an infected while she and Joel sneaked Ellie out of the Boston quarantine zone, and then she sacrificed herself so Joel and Ellie could escape.
15. On The Last of Us, when Frank, after living a long and full life alongside Bill, decided to die as he was getting sicker and sicker.
16. And then, on The Last of Us, when Bill decided to die alongside Frank because he knew he didn't want to live a life without him.
17. On The Last of Us, when Sam was bitten while trying to escape Kathleen and a horde of infected in Kansas City. Then Henry shot Sam after he attacked Ellie, and then killed himself.
18. On The Last of Us, when Riley and Ellie were bitten by an infected while exploring the abandoned mall, and Riley died, while Ellie found out she was immune.
19. And on The Last of Us, when Anna was bitten by an infected mere minutes before giving birth to Ellie, and Marlene had to kill Anna after finding her.
20. On The Fall of the House of Usher, when Verna arrived at Perry's party, the sprinklers went off, and everyone was locked inside the building as acid poured down on them.
21. Also, on The Fall of the House of Usher, arguably the most heartbreaking of the Usher family deaths was when Verna killed Lenore in the most peaceful way she could.
22. On Poker Face, when Cliff shot and killed Natalie, and her murder led to Charlie investigating what really happened to her friend, thus setting Charlie's entire story in motion.
23. On Secret Invasion, when Gravik disguised himself as Nick Fury and shot and killed Maria Hill. Then the real Fury found Maria as she was dying.
24. On Only Murders in the Building, when Sazz, who was dressed like Charles, was shot and apparently killed in Charles's apartment at the very end of the season.
25. On Ginny & Georgia, when Georgia shockingly smothered Tom, Cynthia's husband, with a pillow, and unknown to her, Austin saw the whole thing.
26. On Yellowjackets, when adult Misty accidentally injected Natalie with a lethal dose of a sedative after Natalie jumped in front of Lisa.
27. On Barry, the series ended with Tom finally convincing Barry to turn himself in, but Gene suddenly arrived and killed Barry.
28. On Shadow and Bone, when Alina stabbed and killed the Darkling after the duo fought, and Alina managed to destroy the Fold.
29. And on Shadow and Bone, when David sacrificed himself to save Genya from the Darkling's Nichevo'ya, aka his shadow creatures.
30. On Outer Banks, when Ward sacrificed himself to save Sarah after one of Singh's men threatened to shoot and kill her.
31. And finally, on You, when Joe tortured and killed the real Rhys, and we found out that Joe had been imagining the version of Rhys he was with all season. Meaning that Joe was actually the “Eat the Rich” Killer all along.
