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

Marissa Cooper from The O.C.

Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton) was far from The O.C.’s most likable character, but her death felt like a particularly dark moment for the teen drama. In an attempt to improve her life and cut out toxic presences, Marissa broke up with her “bad boy” boyfriend Volchok (Cam Gigandet), but Volchok ended up drunkenly crashing his car into Ryan’s (Ben McKenzie) while they were en route to the airport. The accident cost Marissa her life. Fans felt like Marissa’s death was unfair—she never got the chance to start over.

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The More You Know

  • The blue meth in Breaking Bad is rock candy.
  • For a long time, TV producers were hesitant to kill off main characters. The drama/comedy show M*A*S*H, set during the Korean War, broke through that barrier in "Abyssinia/Henry," when Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake's plane was shot down.
  • The word “friends” is said in every episode of Friends.
  • Breaking Bad: When you combine the titles of Season 2's first, fourth, tenth, and thirteenth episodes you get "Seven Thirty-Seven, Down, Over, ABQ," which is a foreshadowing of the plane crash at the end of the season.
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