Most touching TV-series

[Admiral Stukov]

I'd just like to find out wich is the most touching TV-series you've ever seen?
Mine would defenatly be Doctor Who (the 2005)series. The finale almost brought tears because of the wonderful mix of brilliant humor and deep sadness.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Battlestar Galactica. That show was a diamond in the rough, it had it's ups and downs but overall it was one hell of a ride.

Edit: Ninja'd by a nanosecond!.

 

[Blakeyboy90]

Rather a tenious link as I don't watch a lot of television, but amongst the comedy I find 'Scrubs' has its moments of touching and emotional moments.

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

The Wire

Spoiler

Why Wallace man?

OR The Frys Dog Futurama episode.

 

[Woodsey]

Lost.

If that show doesn't rip the strings from your heart, there's something wrong with you. Never have I felt so much empathy towards characters; both ones that I like and even ones the writers led me to hate.

I don't cry much, but I've cried several times in a lot of episodes of Lost before.

 

[Nepeccel]

Ross Kemp: Return to Afganistan

It really opened mine, and a lot of people's minds, to what is really going on in Afganistan

 

[Cherry Cola]

I cried during the 8th season of scrubs. But not for the reasons you might suspect...

Me watching scrubs: WHYYY!? WHY IS THIS SERIES SO SHITTY ALL OF A SUDDEN!? ;_____________;

 

[Admiral Stukov]

Yeah Battlestar Galactica would be my second choise.

 

[Syphous]

OR The Frys Dog Futurama episode.

Yes! The ending of that episode was sad as hell. Another touching Futurama episode was the bee hive one.

 

[bouncymike999]

Twilight Zone

 

[RanD00M]

The Frys Dog Futurama episode.

That is one of the saddest moments in TV history.

 

[FranzTyphid]

scrubs has mad me feel very emotional at times and
"Mondays bongo day!"

 

[Lord George]

Godamn Firefly, now thats an emotional and sincere show, also Buffy.

 

[sokka14]

aargh! scrubs is a hypocritical pile of shite when it comes to anything serious. it only ever did one touching episode (when ben dies).
and futurama? wtf!? it's practically insulting their attempts at "touching" moments.
personally, firefly is one of the most moving series i've seen.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Clannad. Yes it's an anime but it's tugged on my heart strings so much harder than anything else I've ever seen on tv.

 

[Pimppeter2]

and futurama? wtf!? it's practically insulting their attempts at "touching" moments.

Have you seen the Dog episode? Its the most touching thing I've ever seen in a cartoon.

Made a 6'3 220 pound grizly like me cry

 

[rees263]

aargh! scrubs is a hypocritical pile of shite when it comes to anything serious. it only ever did one touching episode (when ben dies).
and futurama? wtf!? it's practically insulting their attempts at "touching" moments.
personally, firefly is one of the most moving series i've seen.

I challenge you to watch season 5 episode 20 of scrubs without feeling a tug on the heart strings. It is impossible.

 

[stone0042]

The Office. Oh, and i was thoroughly depressed when I learned the fate of Scrubs, if that counts.

aargh! scrubs is a hypocritical pile of shite when it comes to anything serious.

How dare you, my friend, how dare you.

 

[Therumancer]

Ross Kemp: Return to Afganistan

It really opened mine, and a lot of people's minds, to what is really going on in Afganistan

I recommend a double feature with a subtitled version of "Battle Royale 2" to help reach emotional balance.


Okay, okay. All jokes aside, off the top of my head I can't think of any TV series that I felt were paticularly touching as a whole. I mean most of them have their moments, but I can't think of any that were consistant.

One of the big reasons is that when I watch TV it's usually on DVD after the fact. Meaning I watch episodes back to back as opposed to with a week in between and tend to pick up on a lot of inconsistiencies. Also I feel that a lot of the moments intended to be touching are simply too contrieved, oftentimes relying on a lot of "huh, WTF" occurances so I'm oftentimes caught blinking dumbfounded as much as being touched....

The worst offender to this is probably "Heroes" a sign that they pretty much should not be doing a "super hero" show without the FX budget to do it right. The show seems to constantly try and have touching moments, but 99% of the time (especially in Season 3) it occurs to me that none of these situations make the slightest sense if the characters behaved like they had three brain cells between the entire cast. "OMG if we had actually used our powers with a modicum of common sense, we could have averted this but we didn't so now witness the touching tradgedy!"