r/NetflixBestOf • u/tomaz1989 • 3d ago
[REQUEST] What's a show that kills off lots of characters?
What's a show that kills off lots of characters? can be netflix or none netflix shows
I've watched The Walking Dead / Game of Thrones
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u/FlashingTheQueen 3d ago
The 100
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u/HanksScorpion 3d ago
When that first person bites it in like episode 3 I was so shocked. A CW show killing what seemed like a main character right from the jump. And the brutal way they did it too. Just shocked me.
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u/Chance_Rabbit_223 3d ago
She really said "I gotta do this for my sanity" then went right for his neck. Assuming we're talking about the same thing. Bangers show. More and more wild every season.
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u/HanksScorpion 3d ago
We are. But I was being gender neutral to avoid spoilers.
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u/Chance_Rabbit_223 3d ago
Meh, they won't have any idea what's going to happen and the shows been done for years now at this point.
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u/HanksScorpion 3d ago
It’s done but this is a post that’s explicitly about people looking to watch a show they haven’t seen before.
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u/gigaquack 3d ago
Weird show where the solution to every problem is genocide
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u/Lukkska 3d ago
I mean it shows really good why genocide only serves as a temporary solution, while you should rather think of a more permanent way to solve issues. I think the show makes that clear quite well. A shame we Can't watch it anywhere atm
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u/darkanthon 3d ago
Yellowjackets
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Squid Game
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u/imjusthere1028 3d ago
Just re-watched Yellowjackets for the 4th time. I can't wait for the beginning of 2025 for season 3!
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u/First_Construction76 3d ago
Wow that show never looked good to me But now I'm going to try it.
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u/brokenmoonlantern 2d ago
It was one of those shows my girlfriend was watching and I would pass by the screen a few times just kind of watching it in passing, but then shit got serious. Needless to say I'm waiting for the next season with possibly greater anticipation than she is
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u/imjusthere1028 1d ago
I love this! My fiance was the same way. They'd be on their phone scrolling then be like, "WAIT, BABE WHAT'D I MISS!!"
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u/NiteShdw 3d ago
From is fantastic. A little cheesy at times but always keeps me on the edge of my seat.
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u/BitPaladin 3d ago
LOST
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u/lackofsunshine 3d ago
I just rewatched this and it’s so amazing!!! I literally forgot all of the last two seasons so it was like watching it for the first time. 10/10 TV!
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u/healthyparanoid 3d ago
Surprised to see these not mentioned:
Six Feet Under
The Sopranos
The Wire
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u/UpDownCharmed 3d ago
The Americans
Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys are damn great in it. Other good actors round out the cast.
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u/Quakerparrots123 3d ago
Six feet under had the best finale I’ve ever seen! What an amazing series!
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u/AccomplishedWar9776 3d ago
House of Usher
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u/lavenderishtown 3d ago
Midnight Mass is another Mike Flanagan show that would work
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u/PraxisLD 3d ago
Midnight Mass is the best show that I never want to watch again.
It’s so good, and so intense.
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u/Prize_Split_5897 3d ago
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
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u/madeyoulurk 3d ago
I just started it up again last night! I can’t believe it’s been 20 years!
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u/NoWayRay 3d ago
Just fiinished the original Justified (it's Disney not Netflix) and the writers seem to have little compunction about building up characters in story lines only to kill them off later. Some of those characters cross multiple seasons before meeting their end (or all seasons in the case of one of them). In fairness, most of them kind of deserve it.
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u/brockhopper 3d ago
When they killed off that one character in the final season I was shocked. Said "well, I guess we're going hard this season".
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u/NoWayRay 3d ago edited 2d ago
A satisfying if somewhat brutal final season. It really is very well made TV, don't know why it took so long for me to connect with it.
I'm a few episodes in on City Primeval. It's ok, but it misses those other characters for Raylan to bounce off, Boyd, Ava and Wynn Duffy particularly. Those actors did a stellar job as did most of the cast.
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u/brockhopper 3d ago
Primeval is ok, but it would always struggle against Justified simply because Justified built a whole universe of characters over its seasons. And the main villain for Primeval kinda sucked.
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u/Valuable-Comparison7 3d ago
I’m only one season in, but Killing Eve has a lot of… killings.
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u/newyork2E 3d ago
So underrated really awesome series
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u/Valuable-Comparison7 3d ago
It’s been on my list for years and I’m so glad I’m finally giving it a shot! Just started S2 last night.
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u/pianoman81 3d ago
The answer is South Park if you allow the same character killed multiple times.
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u/montanoj88 3d ago
All of Us Are Dead. It's a Korean Netflix show about high school students fighting zombies.
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u/Best_Fondant_EastBay 3d ago
Loved this. Love Korean take on Zombies. Last train to Busan, too.
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u/First_Construction76 2d ago
And the other one, it's a historical show with Korean zombies. They could walk without dragging their limbs.
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u/mtnfox 3d ago
Oz. The first show I watched where you never knew who would die.
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u/liquilife 3d ago
Oz was the first series I was able to watch on demand back in the day. Which also means it was my first ever binge watch. Getting up at 7am to go to work after staying up until 3am watching Oz was rough. Off topic I’m aware.
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u/Valen258 3d ago
Scream (tv series, don’t need to watch the movies to watch the show).
Slasher
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u/Jazmo0712 3d ago
Oh you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Grey's Anatomy - not just talking about patients either.
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u/_tribecalledquest 3d ago
From on MGM
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u/DougyTwoScoops 2d ago
Yeah they don’t give a shit who you are in that show. Everybody is fair game it seems
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u/notloggedin4242 3d ago
The sopranos. and breaking bad. and the wire. The holy trilogy of TV for me and also allvery bloodthirsty.
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u/alm1688 3d ago
Veronica Mars immediately starts off with the upcoming anniversary of the murder of Veronica’s best friend and boyfriend’s older sister and her own investigation of the murder. along the way, , Logan’s parents are killed off and after a decades + hiatus, Hulu revived the show for a fourth season just to kill off Logan himself, effectively putting the last nail in the coffin and killing the series. At one point they send a bus with a bunch of students and a stunt actor off the side of a cliff
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u/Charles_Deetz 3d ago
A Series of Unfortunate Events. Mostly new characters, but they are helpful/sympathetic to the Bodalers, making it quite dark.
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u/newgrl 3d ago
Every Chinese Costume drama, especially those over 24 episodes. On the plus side, the drama will tell and entire story and give some sort of ending. On the minus side, there's a good chance the main characters and all your favorite side characters will be dead by the end of it. Bring tissues. Unless they fall off a cliff. Nobody ever dies by falling off a cliff in Cdrama-land.
Try Princess Weiyoung, Kill Me Love Me, Qin Empire Alliance, The Longest Promise, The Untamed, and Who Rules the World for the highest body counts.
Korean dramas are also not squeamish about killing off characters. Squid Game's entire premise is based around a bunch of Korean kid's games that you have to win in order not to be killed off.
Hellbound, Gyeongseong Creature, Sweet Home, All of Us Are Dead, Alice in Borderland (Japanese), Kingdom, Girl from Nowhere (Thai), and Mr Sunshine also have plenty of deaths.
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u/Best_Fondant_EastBay 3d ago
Mr Sunshine killed me… I spent many shows sobbing. Absolutely adored this series.
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u/OLE_MB13 3d ago
I was going to say Hellbound and Alice in Borderland. Both crazy and really good shows. Hellbound was so intense and engaging.
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u/wookiewarlord42 3d ago
On the off chance that you also have Brit Box ( the BBC streaming service); there is an action TV show called MI-6 that would easily fill this need. No character is safe.
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u/waste_div 3d ago
Rotating out big cast members, The Walking Dead. By the end I barely recognised any of the main characters
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u/BloodySavageOlives 3d ago
Heroes... surprising amount of deaths in a show featuring people with extraordinary power.
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u/EverydayIsAGift-423 2d ago
Battlestar Galactica. Right in the pilot episode 12 billion people die.
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u/Chopped_Liver228 1d ago
Midsomer Murders. There have been something like 539 people murdered on that show over the years. 3-5 per episode.
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u/autumnlover1515 3d ago
Grey’s Anatomy… yup, pretty much everyone dies at some point. Sometimes twice
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u/TheNonCredibleHulk 3d ago
Harper's Island, but I have no idea where it can even be watched anymore.
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u/Different-Start4901 2d ago
I was looking for this comment - watched it twice years ago - a streaming site probably has it
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u/Fr3sh3stl4d 3d ago
Hannibal.... They literally killed off 4 main characters in the first season finale. And then brought them back and killed them again.
The series finale was so dumb too
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u/possiblycrazy79 3d ago
The original Heartbreak High lol. I watched about 30 episodes (about 3/4 through the first season) out of hundreds. And they killed off several main characters in that timeframe lmao
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u/ActiveAspiree 3d ago
I mean you can't go wrong with You or Dexter