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

Zeek Braverman from Parenthood

This Is Us might be a tearjerker, but Parenthood is coming for blood. In the series finale, Braverman family patriarch Zeek (Craig T. Nelson) passed away in his sleep, napping in his favorite chair. He had just witnessed his daughter Sarah’s (Lauren Graham) wedding and invited his granddaughter Amber (Mae Whitman) and her son to move into his home. Apparently, Craig T. Nelson wished Parenthood hadn’t killed off Zeek, but the show just had to deliver another punch to the gut.

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