23 TV Episodes That Surprised Even the Most Jaded Viewers
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The prestige TV era is all about shock value. If you don’t have as many plot twists as ludicrously expensive costumes, what are you even doing? But when everything is shocking, nothing is shocking. We’ve come to expect character deaths and resurrections, heel turns, and every Squid Game you can throw at us. A twist has to be truly shocking, or at least pulled off in an inventive way, to surprise today’s jaded viewers.
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One of them is Redditor JasonToddsSidepiece, who recently told r/Television, “Maybe I don’t watch enough TV, but nothing really shocks me anymore. The last time I was genuinely shocked when watching TV was when the Earth queen was killed in The Legend of Korra. Looking back now, it’s still shocking, but especially seeing her be killed as a kid shook me to my core.” They then asked, “When was the last time a TV show truly shocked you?” and the subreddit bonded over a lot of shared trauma.
Succession
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Better Call Saul
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Our Flag Means Death
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The Boys
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House of Cards
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Station Eleven
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The Good Place
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The Expanse
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Midnight Mass
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Dark
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/2/3/6/975236.jpg)
Breaking Bad
The Haunting of Hill House
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The Wire
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/2/3/3/975233.jpg)
BoJack Horseman
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Mr. Robot
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Sharp Objects
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/2/3/0/975230.jpg)
Invincible
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/2/2/9/975229.jpg)
Sons of Anarchy
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Severance
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Dexter
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/2/2/5/975225.jpg)
Game of Thrones
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/2/2/6/975226.jpg)
The Walking Dead
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/2/2/7/975227.jpg)
Lost
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