From Eastenders mysteries to Del Boy’s bars – the best TV moments of all time
As Happy Valley comes to an end on Sunday night, with an expected confrontation between Sergeant Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) and killer Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton), we’re sure it will. is one of the most talked about moments in television.
ut how will it compare with others? Let’s take a look at some of the most famous TV moments that got everyone talking.
Warning, spoilers for various TV shows ahead.
Fading to Black, The Sopranos
Often billed as the best TV show ever made, HBO’s mob series has always faced an uphill battle to finish at the top (like another hit HBO entry on the list). this book…).
More than nine million viewers watched the series finale with breathless eyes to see if Tony would get spanked, only for the series to end with a blunt cut to black at the Soprano family dinner – making The fate of the mafia boss is not known.
The ending caused a lot of controversy, some people believe they lost power when it happened. It’s still talked about 17 years later, so while disappointing for some, there’s no doubting its legacy.
Who Killed Archie?, EastEnders
EastEnders loves mystery and does nothing better than a ‘killer…’ plot.
Characters like Dirty Den, Lucy Beale, and Vincent Hubbard have all been hanged, but nothing is as dramatic as the murderous revelation of who killed Archie Mitchell.
Ronnie and Roxy’s father and Peggy’s husband mean the suspects have made up a long list. But it was all revealed in an infamous live episode when Stacey Slater was revealed to be the one who beat him to death.
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The live episode itself is a much talked about moment on television, with some goofy lines (how’s Adam?).
You stay with me, Ordinary person
Just weeks after the pandemic hit and the UK was in the grip of some of the strictest lockdown restrictions, the BBC has decided to vent another heap of pain on us — why is Connell (Oscar nominee) Paul Mescal) and Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) just stay together?
Based on Sally Rooney’s popular Irish novel, The Ordinary follows the journey of powerful shaggy-haired Marianne and the GAA star dedicated to Connell from her secret school crush, through to her college days. their dire.
Millions of viewers watched the series in just a few viewings making it one of the most iconic shows of the pandemic era. It was only hit by….
I will never financially recover from this, Tiger King
Who would have thought that a series that opened with the aim of highlighting the dangers of exotic pets would lead to a terrible story of gay love affairs, severed hands, murders? purposeful (and alleged), and… Carole Baskin.
Tiger King has become the water-cooling moment people are talking about with their colleagues, friends… via Zoom/Group/2 ft apart while wearing a mask.
Love him, hate him, set him free — whatever your opinion of Joe Exotic, he and the group of misfits running his big cat ‘zoo’ have captivated the world. world when Netflix follows his journey that ends with him sitting behind bars.
Bar trouble, Only fools and horses
This is perhaps the most famous moment in British television history – and the most broadcast.
This is also perhaps the simplest moment on this list — it contributes nothing to the plot. Happless Del Boy simply falls through the bar through an open bar gate.
The moment may not have made him a millionaire (happened later in the series finale, then ‘undoed’ but subsequent episodes) but it certainly made television history and was engraving is still mentioned to this day.
David is dead, the famous brother
UK viewers may not be too familiar with US reality TV star Tiffany ‘New York’ Pollard before she joined the CBB house in 2016, but they certainly are by then.
The entry could be titled ‘David’s dead’ referring to the moment legend Angie Bowie told the aforementioned reality star that her famous ex-husband had passed away, leading to an unfortunate mix-up with housemate David Gest – there are so many moments in this series. can take the top spot.
“I’m afraid of suffocation, Darren” – is another iconic phrase in this series.
polar bear island, lost
What is a polar bear doing on a desert island? What’s that smoke? What’s in the cellar? What is a horizontal flashback?
Disappearance often leaves viewers feeling as confused as the islanders themselves, but the talking point comes only in two episodes of the series when Kate and Sayid come face-to-face with an attacking polar bear. in the forest.
Unlike many things in Lost (so they’re all dead?), the polar bear is explained to have been brought to the island for other suspicious people to experiment with.
Above all, Blackadder
Although Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis’ series is a comedy, Blackadder’s final moments remain some of the most poignant in British television history.
Titled “Goodbyeee,” the final episode of the series sees Captain Blackadder and his men “cross the line” in No Man’s Land to an unknown fate.
Victim revealed, White Lotus
The trend of watching the rich suffer continues to dominate television, with Succession, WeCrashed and Schitt’s Creek all receiving critical acclaim, but none of them can top HBO’s The White Lotus.
The first season finally revealed that it was the scheming hotel manager Armond who left a very infamous gift for one of his guests in the barrel at the beginning of the series, although the death of the hotel employee cannot completely reveal the death in the first part. series two.
Viewers were left stunned when they discovered series favorite Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) had slept with a school of fish in Italy after trying to escape being murdered.
Who is ‘H’? mission
The long-awaited finale of the anti-corruption cop series has finally revealed the identity of the corrupt cop known as “H” as Detective Director Ian Buckells.
However, the final curse hit again as people deemed the final episode boring and not satisfying enough to serve as the epilogue of the BBC series.
This has led to numerous reports of a rumored but unconfirmed 7 series.
I’m the knocker,
Breaking Bad
The series that put Netflix on the map in the UK enjoyed a legendary TV show and starred stars as Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, who played teacher turned drug lord Walter White with his companion Jesse Pinkman.
Although the series as a whole is acclaimed, the most talked about and most quoted moment is White’s monologue with his unsuspecting wife Skyler (Anna Gunn), in which he tells her that he not afraid of danger knocking on your door… you are the danger.
The New Ruler of Westeros, Game of Thrones
Love it or hate it, but mostly hate it, the final episode of Game of Thrones is still a hot (and sore) topic for fans today.
After seven seasons, three dragons and thousands of white walkers, more than five million people in the United Kingdom have watched Bran Stark crown the new ruler of Westeros rather than Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen or even Lannister.
The less said about the rest of the show’s epilogue, which was mostly filmed in Northern Ireland, the better.
Liam Neeson takes over the gang,
Derry girl
The return of Lisa McGee’s semi-biographical comedy has been expected by many after a long hiatus due to the pandemic. Erin, Clare, Orla, Michelle and James finally return to our screens in April 2022
In the opening episode of the final series “The Night Before” follows the girls (and James) as they anxiously await their GCSE results.
After a subsequent blunder involving ‘accidentally breaking into’ their school, the girls are dragged to the local RUC station only to be greeted by the unexpected arrival of a single visitor Liam. Neeson.
Canal trip, Coronation Street
Although fictional, Richard Hillman has been Britain’s most hated man since his first appearance in 2001’s Weatherfield.
The UK was strangled when he killed poor Maxine, who had just returned home early from a party and made his mother-in-law Audrey Roberts think she was about to go insane.
However, his final act, in which he ties the Platts’ family into a passenger van before shoving them down the canal remains one of the series’ best moments.
Dream Shower, Dallas
A lot of TV shows use dream sequences for added effect, but in 1985 the American TV series Dallas took it a step further when their entire ninth season was shown as a dream and Bobby JR’s brother Ewing (who became the subject of his own iconic TV show.) is still alive.
This means that his untimely death in the previous series was entirely due to the imagination of his wife, Pamela. Bobby Ewing in the shower remains one of the biggest turning points in television history.
Last episode of Happy Valley airs on BBC One, Sunday, February 5 at 9pm
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