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

Chuck McGill from Better Call Saul

Chuck McGill (Michael McKean) wasn’t part of Saul Goodman’s (Bob Odenkirk) story in Breaking Bad, but his death in the prequel series was still surprisingly sad. Chuck appeared to be recovering from his mental decline when a paranoid episode led him to tear out all of the electrical wiring in his house. A gas lantern fell over in the night, causing Chuck to perish in a house fire that he himself had unwittingly caused.

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The More You Know

  • 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.
  • Monica’s apartment from the hit TV show Friends is estimated to be worth $3.5 million.
  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a trailblazer in bringing feminist issues onto the small screen, depicting Moore as a single female striving to make it in a male-dominated workplace.
  • Walter White Jr. never encountered Jesse Pinkman in all 62 episodes of Breaking Bad.
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