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

Jack Pearson from This is Us

This Is Us made it abundantly clear from the get-go that the patriarch of the Pearson family was going to meet his untimely demise in a way that would devastate his children for years to come. Regardless, it was still a harrowing sight to watch as Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia) died from smoke inhalation-induced cardiac arrest after saving his whole family from a fire. Hey, at least the dog survived, right?

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