You'll Never Recover from These Seriously Devastating TV Character Deaths

Matthew Crawley from Downton Abbey

It’s a travesty that a man like Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens) had to perish in such a violent and devastating way. The new father died in the midst of a terrible car accident mere hours after the birth of his firstborn child. Right after Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay), too? Seriously? Matthew deserved better.

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