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The haunting of hill house was one of the only shows that jump scared me so bad that I actually screamed lol the jump scare from when Theo and Shirley were arguing in the car and Nell pops up and screams truly got me good. My neighbors even came to check on me after hearing me scream 😂 I was so caught up in the argument that I wasn’t expecting anything like that
I love how the Bent Neck lady reveal was so shocking to people but also makes _perfect thematic and narrative_ sense and really feeds into the tragedy of these siblings and it's themes of grief, death, and life. _And the rest is confetti_
@@GenJuhrureminds me of Liviu Librescu. He died holding a door closed during the Virginia tech shootings, saving his students. Guy was also a holocaust survivor.
The Red Wedding was also taken from the novels, and happened in season 3, during its peak, while the Hodor scene happened in season 6. After the show's decline started.
The Good Place will always be my favorite because after revealing such a huge plot twist, a ton of people thought that the show would just decline from there, but instead, the later seasons give such a nuanced take to the idea of an afterlife and continued to improve beyond just a fake good place. For those who haven't watched it but now know the big spoiler of the first season, I still really encourage you to watch it it's so worth it even if you know the first twist there is so much more to it than it's first season
I completely agree with all of this. The Good Place also has one of the most moving, meaningful and satisfying finales in all of television history. Good is such an understatement!
The real shock will be the look on the faces of those who do not go to the Good Place when they kick and find out what the Bad Place really consists of. Now there's a plot twist!
I've watched way too much TV in my life so few plot twists really shock me, this one I gotta say was a great one. The twist itself is pretty good, but not radically unpredictable, but they really manage to distract you from that possibility with all the goings-on each episode!
I saw the first season and kept thinking "wait, why would this be here for that person? Why would there be a thing with that character? " then the reveal and it's like oh that makes sense
My favorite part about Ward being Hydra is what happened behind the scenes when the cast found out. When they were told, Chloe Bennet (Skye/Daisy) gasped and said “I kissed him!” only for Ming-Na Wen (May) to say “Kissed him?! I f****d him!”
For me it was a point when Agents of Shield turned from another superhero show, that wasn't any different to what premiered on CW to one of the best sci-fi shows ever.
Wow, you're really easy to impress by average writing. It was a lame show with actors only cast for looks. The whole concept was like making the movie "Jaws" with no shark in it.
Fringe was a great show. The way I GASPED when Peter glimmered, showing he was from the other side and Walter tells Olivia, “don’t tell him, he doesn’t know.”
For me it has to be ER season 3 Episode 11: Night Shift. John Carter's friend and fellow intern Dennis Gant slips/jumps off a subway platform and gets hit by the subway train, gets taken to the ER where no one knows it's him until Peter Benton (Carter and Gant's boss) asks a nurse to ring Gant's pager only for the patient's pager to start beeping while they are working on the patient only for them to relise it is Gant. The shock and disbelief on Carter and Benton's face says it all and they fail to revive Gant because of his horrific injuries. I can't believe Grey's Anatomy ripped it off.
River Song didn't have time traveling capabilities due to being conceived on the TARDIS. She became part Time Lord because of it. She could travel through time because she had a time traveling wrist device. Sometimes she "borrowed" the TARDIS from The Doctor, without his knowledge.
The TARDIS even recognized her as an additional pilot, else she (revealed as such in The Doctor's Wife, and refers to all other TARDISes as her sisters) really wouldn't have answered any of Melody's summons.
My mom and sister JUST introduced me to "The Haunting Of Hill House" and when i saw Nell as The Bent-Neck Lady.......... .........my mind drew a BIG BLANK.
The chicken scene for M*A*S*H easily tops the list for me. Watched it 30+ years ago with my grandad, who is a vet. His reaction at the time and me not fully understanding the horror of it until I was older always sticks with me
I saw it when it aired in 1983. Alan Alda was incredible and the storyline was devastating. I'll never forget how distraught Hawkeye was and how broken his character was. Even watching the clip on this video broke my heart all over again.
It was a devastating moment and shocking to see, but I didn't find it surprising. Sydney was trying all along to get him to remember something, plus Hawkeye had a significant history of suppressed memory with the mold episode where the guy who he said saved his life had actually endangered it and I'd say the back problems associated with the former classmate having stellar success are worthy of mention.
Spoilers Alert: I'm very surprised that neither of the finales of Veronica Mars's first two seasons made this list. The fact that Logan's Dad was the killer in the first season and Beaver was the killer in the 2nd season, were probably the two most shocking plot twist I've ever seen on television! And I usually nail the guilty party in mysteries.
I always have felt that Veronica Mars never got the kudos it deserved. It’s VERY well written and I never understood why it was so underrated. Ofc that’s imho. 🤷🏻♀️
I remember watching The Good Place s1 finale and literally figuring out the twist seconds before it hit Eleanor … seeing everyone argue made me go ‘OMG they’re already in The Bad Place bc Hell Is Other People !!!’
The Season 4 finale of Dexter was one of the best episodes of tv I’ve ever seen! The Trinity Killer, Rita in the tub, and Dexter finding their baby sitting in her blood… just as he was found, bringing the entire series to a perfect ending… if it had only ended there!!
For absolute gut punches, my tops are MASH and Scrubs. I can never not tear up when JD asks Cox, "Where do you think you are?" Knowing those two characters, JD's compassion and love and Cox's heartbreak really bring on the waterworks. And MASH should be waaayy above the Simpson's, geez. The wisecracking Hawkeye Pierce losing his mind seemed strange as the episode unfolded. A chicken? So what, right? Then the reveal that the woman, at Hawkeye's insistence, kills her own baby.
Re: The Red Wedding... While that was shockingly violent, I don't think it was much of a twist. The Hodor reveal was much more of a shocking twist to me.
The discovery that Gul Dukat was actually working with the Founders and had made an agreement for the Cardassians to fight on the Dominon's side in the war on ST: DS9 was always one of my favorites.
It was well done. Unfortunately, the writers have killed anything and everything that was once good or beautiful about Doctor Who in the name of political ineptness! R.I.P. Doctor Who. R.I.P.
"Where do you think we are?" That scene of Scrubs made me audibly gasp the first time and makes me cry every time despite me watching it hundreds of times.
I feel like the Wanda twist is along the lines of the Red Wedding one. People familiar with the character wouldn't find it all that surprising that she was ultimately responsible and, even when I was watching, I told myself "finally" because it seemed like Marvel was going to finally start making her as powerful as we knew her to be.
On Thirtysomething, when everyone breathes a huge sigh of relief to find out Nancy's cancer is gone -- then the phone rings, and Michael finds out that Gary has died. Absolutely jaw dropping and devastating plot twist, and the biggest emotional rollercoaster ride of an episode I think I have ever seen.
Haunting at Hill House messes with your whole perception on time. Even though they do say time is an illusion and obviously it's not a straight line but definitely Nell being the bent neck lady definitely mind blowing. I've rewatched the series and I am still trying to piece together the puzzle pieces especially the order of events from the night they left the house and then the night they returned to the house.
Scrubs is absolutely the most underrated show ever. That plot-line is so devastating and Brendan Fraser and John C McGinley need sooooo much more recognition for their character acting.
I remember seeing a few videos of one of those "a real doctor watches X" for episodes of Scrubs and people made him watch My Lunch without telling him anything about it. He was literally stunned silent by it. For being a sitcom Scrubs had some incredibly heart-wrenching moments - I know they had to fight the network to keep the ending of the one in the first season that starts with "one in three people die in hospital" because the network thought it was too depressing.
I think, that The X Files has so many best Plot Twists, that you never saw coming. An Example is The Shooting Scene of Deep Throat in the Season 1 Finale, or the End of Season 7, in wich Scully Reveals, she is Pregnant. But there are so many of this scenes. And: The X Files is my Absolute Favorite Show
That agents of shield plot twist was big back in the day when this show aired. It was the headline for ABC television lol. It also arguably made Grant Ward's character that much better lol.
The whole setup for Captain America: The Winter Soldier was done to perfection. Using Agents of Shield to build the suspense, then revealing that Cap's greatest enemies weren't just still alive but had infiltrated the organization he is working for, then playing out the aftermath in Agents of Shield afterwards was perfect cinema and television harmony.
I really liked the plot twist from the House episode "Wilson's Heart", it bears some similarity to the MASH and Grey's Anatomy twist but does some really interesting delving into House's mind during the 2 episodes.
the Amber twist in House should be an honorable mention, or the hallucination episode where House think he kissed Cuddy and ends up put in a mental hospital.
An underrated one from an underrated show: Gabe is actually Dodge in Locke & Key. This show makes you like this kid only to reveal in the Season 1 finale that he was the villain in disguise.
Yes! Gabe was so likeable it was obvious he was Dodge as he was the new kid, still a nice twist. And Griffin Gluck did such a great job in season 2 balancing that role now that you knew the secret.
The MASH twist was a perfect example of the masterful writing of the show, while it is often seen as something of a comedy now due to the various "funniest MASH moment/s" videos on YT at the time it was actually societal commentary candy coated with comedy, the episode meant to comment on the inescapable effects of war on those who serve no matter their role. Hawkeye was a key part of the unit's "sanity through insanity" and really was seen as ultimately unshakable in the face of the issues they all went through, his compassion and principles appearing to make him untouchable by the war and simply waiting to return home the same person as when he left, only to reveal that no one leaves war unchanged and without trauma.
@@jacobyrassilon fair point, just like when I first thought Disney was going to muck about with Daredevil, Kingpin and The Punisher when they bought those characters, which I may still be a bit apprehensive about when Daredevil: Born Again gets released. So it's for the best for Disney to not to take any chances of ruining a golden character like Jack Bauer.
@@varunsrinidhi4747 They already destroyed the Kingpin in Hawkeye/Echo, showed us a glimpse of how they are about to destroy DD in She-Hulk and I can't even imagine how they will emasculate The Punisher. Disney is a place where great franchises go to be sanitized before their death.
The prison twist isn’t even in the top 5 twists in Mr Robot, lol. The 407 father reveal or the twist of who Elliot really is in the finale are way better.
Well Ward's betrayal was indeed shocking, I always find it heartbreaking. I always like him in Agents of SHIELD, but to think he was a villain all this time. At least he made a great one, even if it was still heartbreaking.
Hank Hill Being Born In The Women's Bathroom at Yankee Stadium King Of The Hill (1997- 2010) loved that episode back then also the episode Returning Japanese Parts 1 & 2
There's an episode of 'The Librarians' that I really like. They (a crew of supernatural 'fixers') find a famous magical haunted house that supposedly traps and murders people. Through the episode though, they find out that the house, while it IS sentient and aware, IT is a victim too. Its basically a wish granting entity that's been enslaved by a serial killer. I'm oversimplifying, but that's the gist. Good episode.
I love that episode particularly the twist that she's Katie Bender, a member of a real life family of serial killers who after their crimes were discovered and a posse went after them, the Benders disappeared and no one knows what happened afterwards. So putting a real life mystery in a fantasy horror setting is pretty clever.
Grant Ward being Hydra shook me to my core as a fan of the show, but also the fact they made him into a villain over 4 seasons and still a good sendoff as a character made me love the character too.
I agree and a close 2nd to me was Boomer shooting Adama while being congratulated for a succesful mission revealing she was connected to the "hive" all along.
flashforwards will forever be the best twist in media, from the lead up, visuals and overall suspense within the episode it truly redefined TV's watcher perspective
I think the most shocking moment is in the umbrella academy where Sir Reginald Hargreaves isnt who he says he is. Well at least this should have got an honorable mention.
24 Season 1 Plot Twist Was Excellent But Season 5's Plot Twist Was Good Too As It Was Revealed That The Mastermind Behind The Day's Events Was President Charles Logan
The worst part of Carl dying in The Walking Dead was that not to long before it happened, he bought a house because he got promised they wouldn't kill him off and then they pulled this on actor Chandler Riggs, that's why he was caught off guard, as far as I remember. Pretty messed up situation all around, the fans were NOT happy about it.
12:03 although I'm almost 30, I loved M*A*S*H, my wife did as well and we first saw this portion of Hawkeye's story. With all that happened in the show, we were certain that either we had seen the worst or we'd be able to digest whatever would come up while watching it. And about of 11 years ago when we watched this we were blown away. We usually would talk during/throughout the episodes we watched. And I still remember how quiet it was when this was revealed. Couldn't hear a thing but the TV, it kinda alerted me to how shocking it was. And like it happened last night, I remember turning to my wife to see how she was doing. Smh..I turned to look at her, streams of tears that had dropped and seeing one fall from her eye. Eyes wide open, not blinking, both hands cupped over her mouth. Almost like she was on that bus and just saw/realized what happened. Smh, I think that sh.t hit me so hard bcz it is not...AT ALL..often nor easy to make her shed a tear, let alone weep. We've known each other since we were 8. There has been maybe 4 or 5 times in our whole lives that she has wept like that...Didn't really know what to do or say. Just put my arm around her. Sh.t, I didn't realize how much watching this scene when Hawkeye breaks down and remembers the "chicken" was a baby until my wife laid her head on my right shoulder after i put my arm around her. I rested mine on hers and looked back up at the TV & in a second everything was blurry then suddenly clear and I felt my own tears race to their finish line of my chin. It may not be funny, certainly wasn't so then, but I remember thinking to myself, "Sh.t, bru. Pull yourself together.", lol. But yeah, that one f.cked us up. We actually never talked about it so I forgot all about it until now. But...yeah, that one was big rough on us..HUGE rough
@@nosemellonyes we can 💀 dark was hugely popular in the US. that’s not why it’s not on the list, there’s tons of other shows people are suggesting. They can’t include everything lol. Not that deep
24 was amazing. It struggled a bit because it was serialized before streaming, luckily Series on DVD just became a thing. My first memories of binging a TV show. My copy of the 1st season on DVD got many people hooked. I still remember my brother saying that he didn't have high expectations when he borrowed them but when he had a spare couple of hours before bed, he started watching, 6 hours later he went to bed.
The only reason i know the Bob Newhart one was because of the alternate/spoof ending they did for Breaking Bad, where Walter wakes up as Hal from Malcolm in the Middle next to Lois.
Exposing the Bent Neck Lady to anyone who hasn’t been gifted the experience of this series in a thumbnail even 6 years later should be an arrestable offense!
i had forgotten about that alias twist, but i remember now how stupid it was for vaughn to have given up on finding sydney and REMARRIED after only TWO years. he should know better than anybody that you can't assume someone's dead unless you have a body and two years was way too little time to move on and marry someone else.
I think the twist at the end of Mr. Robot was the best of all. Spoiler below ……… The narrator Elliott was really one of his alternative personalities and we never really met the true Elliott.
They killed Carl in the Walking Dead because the actor was about to turn 18. When child actors stop being child actors their contracts have to be renegotiated because adult actors get paid more then minors. They didn't want to pay for another adult actor so they killed Carl and replaced him with his baby sister. That's when I stopped watching. You have that real world bs on top of the fact they killed off a character watchers had been watching grow up throughout the series that isn't even supposed to die...yeah, no thanks.
So Carl made it to the list but not the death of Glen and Abraham on the walking dead. I literally had to take a break before I could continue the show 😭😭
kinda agree, especially after they previously did the "fake" Glen death under the trash dumpster. I just knew at that point he would survive until the end...oops.
Everyone knew Glen was dying and Abraham wasn't sticking around long either. Carl was being groomed for basically the entire show to take ricks place as leader.
@@kieranowens5346 Everybody hated the showrunner for killing off Carl. I remember Chandler Riggs posting that he was just talked to about staying for another three seasons and then this twist was pulled on him, apparently infuriating his dad.
Well, most people already knew that Glen had a date with Negan and Lucille, so that wasn't a surprise as much as it was just heart breaking. The Carl thing was Scott Gimple being a douche bag and not wanting to pay Chandler Riggs an adult salary after he turned 18, and deviated so much from the source material that it pissed off a lot of people.
same! for me, it wasn't a question of who created it- I knew it had to be Wanda- but it was whether she was fully conscious of what she's doing, because a lot of the time she acted genuinely confused.
Probably because similar shows did that too. Star Trek: TNG, Roseanne's Series Finale (the original one), etc. I think it got played out, especially since the "reality" wasn't the actual "reality".
I think bc that trope has been done soo many times tbh....Shutter Island, Charmed the tv series where Piper went through the same thing, they actually included one of the series on this list with the guy bein in prison/psych ward all this time, it's been reused to many times tbh
Every scifi show does that, and it always sucks. Is this mental hospital real or are my awesome scifi adventures real? Well it's not the series finale and this isn't St Elsewhere, so obviously this mental hospital is fake. We waste 45 minutes waiting for main character to get to where we were at minute 1.
not even going to mention DC shows, mostly seemingly made for 8 year olds intelligence with the consistent stupidity of characters and cringy one liners.
Killing a child, Walt? You entered villain territory with that move, but we love you all the more for it. I’m not saying what he did was morally right, but it was a shocking twist that pulled the rug out from under my feet.
On Succession- The very last episode of the last season was the better plot twist where the sister turned on her brother not only no making him CEO, but selling the company.
The greatest twist was Logan Roy dying, while you knew it could happen the way they did it was masterful to have it hit out of nowhere and give fake previews in the week before.
Was I the only one who connected the dots between River Song and Melody Pond before the reveal? There is an episode where they literally say "In the forest there are no rivers only ponds" and I was like, Oh, they are the same person.
Ben from Scrubs never fails to choke me up, even just thinking about it. It resonates so hard to being in denial of my own little sister's death, which happened a few years after I first saw that episode. I connect the two a lot, and rewatching it, while initially difficult, has helped me find a little closure. I miss you, Megan...
I saw this and was like "I wonder where on this list is Nina Myers gonna show up?" Knew it would be up there, but never expected it to be #1... I LOVE 24 dearly... I knew that would be on this list lol
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@@Marty.Robins no you weren't and a pinned comment doesn't count kid.
@@Reaperguy67 yes it does
@@Marty.Robins no it doesn't and you still won't be getting anything if you are.
How the fuck are you going to have one of the biggest twists in television as your thumbnail???
All of these years later, and Nell being the Neck Bent Lady stills gives me chills. I was staring at my screen for several minutes.
Spoilers lol
@@ChrisCreates11well yh there was a spoiler warning on the video. Plus the thumbnail already gives it away
The haunting of hill house was one of the only shows that jump scared me so bad that I actually screamed lol the jump scare from when Theo and Shirley were arguing in the car and Nell pops up and screams truly got me good. My neighbors even came to check on me after hearing me scream 😂 I was so caught up in the argument that I wasn’t expecting anything like that
@@Paige0_0me too. Lol
Same!
The bent neck lady literally blew my mind. Never saw that one coming. I rewatched that show so many times and its so well done
I love how the Bent Neck lady reveal was so shocking to people but also makes _perfect thematic and narrative_ sense and really feeds into the tragedy of these siblings and it's themes of grief, death, and life.
_And the rest is confetti_
I know red wedding is more iconic, but to this day i still shed a little tear everytime i remember the hodor scene
_Hold the door!_
@@GenJuhrureminds me of Liviu Librescu. He died holding a door closed during the Virginia tech shootings, saving his students. Guy was also a holocaust survivor.
that part made me SOB
The Red Wedding was also taken from the novels, and happened in season 3, during its peak, while the Hodor scene happened in season 6. After the show's decline started.
The Good Place will always be my favorite because after revealing such a huge plot twist, a ton of people thought that the show would just decline from there, but instead, the later seasons give such a nuanced take to the idea of an afterlife and continued to improve beyond just a fake good place. For those who haven't watched it but now know the big spoiler of the first season, I still really encourage you to watch it it's so worth it even if you know the first twist there is so much more to it than it's first season
I completely agree with all of this. The Good Place also has one of the most moving, meaningful and satisfying finales in all of television history. Good is such an understatement!
The real shock will be the look on the faces of those who do not go to the Good Place when they kick and find out what the Bad Place really consists of. Now there's a plot twist!
I've watched way too much TV in my life so few plot twists really shock me, this one I gotta say was a great one. The twist itself is pretty good, but not radically unpredictable, but they really manage to distract you from that possibility with all the goings-on each episode!
I saw the first season and kept thinking "wait, why would this be here for that person? Why would there be a thing with that character? " then the reveal and it's like oh that makes sense
Also: Ted Danson nailed that reveal scene so hard...
My favorite part about Ward being Hydra is what happened behind the scenes when the cast found out. When they were told, Chloe Bennet (Skye/Daisy) gasped and said “I kissed him!” only for Ming-Na Wen (May) to say “Kissed him?! I f****d him!”
For me it was a point when Agents of Shield turned from another superhero show, that wasn't any different to what premiered on CW to one of the best sci-fi shows ever.
@@bifa5414it’s what ruined the show for me
Wow, you're really easy to impress by average writing. It was a lame show with actors only cast for looks. The whole concept was like making the movie "Jaws" with no shark in it.
then the agents of hydra logo😦
@@miskatonic6210 guess you didn't watch huh? lmao
When you find out it's Ben who has died on Scrubs, that was truly a shocker and heartbreaker. The list would not have been complete without that one.
That chicken-story from MASH scarred me for decades. Still brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.
That's the one that hit me the hardest out of all of these. Instant flashback to extreme sadness.
The Mash story happened during WW2 when people were hiding in the sewers and a mother had to suffocate her baby to avoid being found
Fringe was a great show. The way I GASPED when Peter glimmered, showing he was from the other side and Walter tells Olivia, “don’t tell him, he doesn’t know.”
We still rewatch Fringe every few years.
For me it has to be ER season 3 Episode 11: Night Shift. John Carter's friend and fellow intern Dennis Gant slips/jumps off a subway platform and gets hit by the subway train, gets taken to the ER where no one knows it's him until Peter Benton (Carter and Gant's boss) asks a nurse to ring Gant's pager only for the patient's pager to start beeping while they are working on the patient only for them to relise it is Gant. The shock and disbelief on Carter and Benton's face says it all and they fail to revive Gant because of his horrific injuries.
I can't believe Grey's Anatomy ripped it off.
I remember that episode! You beat me to it!
@@Bluegirl285 I thought that ER would make it.... or when Carter was stabbed and Lucy killed. I was traumatized!
I had never watched ER until recently and it’s seems Grey’s anatomy ripped off alot of story lines
River Song didn't have time traveling capabilities due to being conceived on the TARDIS. She became part Time Lord because of it. She could travel through time because she had a time traveling wrist device. Sometimes she "borrowed" the TARDIS from The Doctor, without his knowledge.
The TARDIS even recognized her as an additional pilot, else she (revealed as such in The Doctor's Wife, and refers to all other TARDISes as her sisters) really wouldn't have answered any of Melody's summons.
i came to the comments to say this... im glad the Whovians are here :D
My mom and sister JUST introduced me to "The Haunting Of Hill House" and when i saw Nell as The Bent-Neck Lady..........
.........my mind drew a BIG BLANK.
I cried that entire episode.
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I just finished the series last night and i was BAWLING UNCONTROLLABLY towards the end.
I'm desperately trying to get my brother and his wife to watch this show. What do I tell them to make them watch it?
@@ValentinaStenseth
Does your brother and his wife like shows that have horror and mystery in them?
"In addition to being one of the most underrated sci-fi shows ever made, FRINGE..."
Oh really? I liked the weird thing off the week
Bent neck lady was so good haunting of hill house hidden ghosts was such a good idea
I just hate that its the thumbnail.. big spoils.
After watching the Bent Neck Lady episode my fiancé and I needed a spiritual cleansing 😅
The chicken scene for M*A*S*H easily tops the list for me. Watched it 30+ years ago with my grandad, who is a vet. His reaction at the time and me not fully understanding the horror of it until I was older always sticks with me
Amazing scene. MASH had a number of legendary moments, but this was probably the best.
I saw it when it aired in 1983. Alan Alda was incredible and the storyline was devastating. I'll never forget how distraught Hawkeye was and how broken his character was. Even watching the clip on this video broke my heart all over again.
It was a devastating moment and shocking to see, but I didn't find it surprising. Sydney was trying all along to get him to remember something, plus Hawkeye had a significant history of suppressed memory with the mold episode where the guy who he said saved his life had actually endangered it and I'd say the back problems associated with the former classmate having stellar success are worthy of mention.
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I'm very surprised that neither of the finales of Veronica Mars's first two seasons made this list. The fact that Logan's Dad was the killer in the first season and Beaver was the killer in the 2nd season, were probably the two most shocking plot twist I've ever seen on television! And I usually nail the guilty party in mysteries.
It wasn't just that Beaver was the killer, it was the fact that he was the one that SA Veronica. That broke my heart.😔
I always have felt that Veronica Mars never got the kudos it deserved. It’s VERY well written and I never understood why it was so underrated. Ofc that’s imho. 🤷🏻♀️
@@jenncarutis8464 I remember it being very hyped at least here in Sweden when it came out. For good reason - I followed it religiously!
I remember watching The Good Place s1 finale and literally figuring out the twist seconds before it hit Eleanor … seeing everyone argue made me go ‘OMG they’re already in The Bad Place bc Hell Is Other People !!!’
The Season 4 finale of Dexter was one of the best episodes of tv I’ve ever seen! The Trinity Killer, Rita in the tub, and Dexter finding their baby sitting in her blood… just as he was found, bringing the entire series to a perfect ending… if it had only ended there!!
I’ll say even with that ending it was one of the goats. New blood was an improvement.
I will NEVER forget when Kate showed up and you realized it was a flashfoward. We have to go back Kate HAUNTS ME. Arguably greatest plot twist ever.
"Where do you think we are?"
That line from Scrubs still gives me chills.
Same.
For absolute gut punches, my tops are MASH and Scrubs. I can never not tear up when JD asks Cox, "Where do you think you are?" Knowing those two characters, JD's compassion and love and Cox's heartbreak really bring on the waterworks. And MASH should be waaayy above the Simpson's, geez. The wisecracking Hawkeye Pierce losing his mind seemed strange as the episode unfolded. A chicken? So what, right? Then the reveal that the woman, at Hawkeye's insistence, kills her own baby.
Re: The Red Wedding... While that was shockingly violent, I don't think it was much of a twist. The Hodor reveal was much more of a shocking twist to me.
I know right, you spend 6 seasons thinking he is mentally disabled or something and then the shocking twist is heartbreaking
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Hold the door...... Hodor
They should have put this instead of the red wedding scene. This one was pretty tragic.
plus anyone who red the books knew it was going to happen
That watchmen twist of Angela jumpstarting the whole show on accident was bigger than the Dr. Manhattan reveal tbh
The discovery that Gul Dukat was actually working with the Founders and had made an agreement for the Cardassians to fight on the Dominon's side in the war on ST: DS9 was always one of my favorites.
oh yes, that was a heck of a twist in the tail.
I still think that the River Song/Melody Pond storyline was beautiful and incredibly well done 👍 ❤
It was well done. Unfortunately, the writers have killed anything and everything that was once good or beautiful about Doctor Who in the name of political ineptness! R.I.P. Doctor Who. R.I.P.
Cry me a river
I think it doesn't deserve to be higher on the list than the Bent Neck Lady, at all.
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"Where do you think we are?"
That scene of Scrubs made me audibly gasp the first time and makes me cry every time despite me watching it hundreds of times.
Fine, I’ll rewatch FRINGE!
Lol. Let's do it together.
I feel like the Wanda twist is along the lines of the Red Wedding one. People familiar with the character wouldn't find it all that surprising that she was ultimately responsible and, even when I was watching, I told myself "finally" because it seemed like Marvel was going to finally start making her as powerful as we knew her to be.
On Thirtysomething, when everyone breathes a huge sigh of relief to find out Nancy's cancer is gone -- then the phone rings, and Michael finds out that Gary has died. Absolutely jaw dropping and devastating plot twist, and the biggest emotional rollercoaster ride of an episode I think I have ever seen.
The River Song reveal makes me teary eyed every time.
Haunting at Hill House messes with your whole perception on time. Even though they do say time is an illusion and obviously it's not a straight line but definitely Nell being the bent neck lady definitely mind blowing. I've rewatched the series and I am still trying to piece together the puzzle pieces especially the order of events from the night they left the house and then the night they returned to the house.
Scrubs is absolutely the most underrated show ever.
That plot-line is so devastating and Brendan Fraser and John C McGinley need sooooo much more recognition for their character acting.
I remember seeing a few videos of one of those "a real doctor watches X" for episodes of Scrubs and people made him watch My Lunch without telling him anything about it. He was literally stunned silent by it. For being a sitcom Scrubs had some incredibly heart-wrenching moments - I know they had to fight the network to keep the ending of the one in the first season that starts with "one in three people die in hospital" because the network thought it was too depressing.
I think, that The X Files has so many best Plot Twists, that you never saw coming. An Example is The Shooting Scene of Deep Throat in the Season 1 Finale, or the End of Season 7, in wich Scully Reveals, she is Pregnant. But there are so many of this scenes. And: The X Files is my Absolute Favorite Show
I agree with you. Just when you think you've got it figured out here comes another plot twist! The X Files is the absolute best!
@@ceruleanblue09 oooooooooooh Yes. It's my absolute favorite series
Was thinking this, too. I haven’t forgiving them for killing off the Gunmen, either.
Remember the one with the Cheer song?
@@hadschihalefkn right
i saw all of them coming, especially on my second time watching each show.
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You went from a downvote, to an upvote, all in the space of one sentence. Well-done :)
@@istark haha
Dexter is still my fave series ever! The first season was perfection!
Great list! The Hodor reveal and Ned Stark dying in GOT were more shocking than the Red Wedding for me.
The Hodor one crushed me
Ned dying followed the first book (A Game of Thrones) so people who read it were not that shocked.
@@AdderTude What? No way...
The reveal that Peter Pan is Rumplestilkin's father in Once Upon A Time still has me shocked to this day
That agents of shield plot twist was big back in the day when this show aired. It was the headline for ABC television lol. It also arguably made Grant Ward's character that much better lol.
The whole setup for Captain America: The Winter Soldier was done to perfection. Using Agents of Shield to build the suspense, then revealing that Cap's greatest enemies weren't just still alive but had infiltrated the organization he is working for, then playing out the aftermath in Agents of Shield afterwards was perfect cinema and television harmony.
@@ryanberger81 Yep. Exactly.
Hated it when they gave him a redemption arc in the Framework.
Had to stop myself from feeling sympathetic toward him, lol...
I really liked the plot twist from the House episode "Wilson's Heart", it bears some similarity to the MASH and Grey's Anatomy twist but does some really interesting delving into House's mind during the 2 episodes.
i was thinking the same thing. my favorite episodes of the entire series.
Solution was given very early 'What is my necklace made off?' .. Enber. . House subconsciously knew it all the time.
this was the one i was thinking of too!
the Amber twist in House should be an honorable mention, or the hallucination episode where House think he kissed Cuddy and ends up put in a mental hospital.
An underrated one from an underrated show: Gabe is actually Dodge in Locke & Key.
This show makes you like this kid only to reveal in the Season 1 finale that he was the villain in disguise.
Yes! That was an awesome twist! Such a good show.
Yes! Gabe was so likeable it was obvious he was Dodge as he was the new kid, still a nice twist. And Griffin Gluck did such a great job in season 2 balancing that role now that you knew the secret.
The MASH twist was a perfect example of the masterful writing of the show, while it is often seen as something of a comedy now due to the various "funniest MASH moment/s" videos on YT at the time it was actually societal commentary candy coated with comedy, the episode meant to comment on the inescapable effects of war on those who serve no matter their role. Hawkeye was a key part of the unit's "sanity through insanity" and really was seen as ultimately unshakable in the face of the issues they all went through, his compassion and principles appearing to make him untouchable by the war and simply waiting to return home the same person as when he left, only to reveal that no one leaves war unchanged and without trauma.
So happy to see 24 on this...was nervous when getting in the top 5 and somehow wasn't said yet. 24 was awesome. perfect for binge watching
I only wish Kiefer Sutherland would come back as Jack in 24, even if it is one final mission to end all missions.
@@varunsrinidhi4747 THIS...
@@varunsrinidhi4747 FOX, which is where 24 first aired, was bought by Disney....do you really want Disney mucking around with something like 24?
@@jacobyrassilon fair point, just like when I first thought Disney was going to muck about with Daredevil, Kingpin and The Punisher when they bought those characters, which I may still be a bit apprehensive about when Daredevil: Born Again gets released. So it's for the best for Disney to not to take any chances of ruining a golden character like Jack Bauer.
@@varunsrinidhi4747 They already destroyed the Kingpin in Hawkeye/Echo, showed us a glimpse of how they are about to destroy DD in She-Hulk and I can't even imagine how they will emasculate The Punisher. Disney is a place where great franchises go to be sanitized before their death.
The prison twist isn’t even in the top 5 twists in Mr Robot, lol. The 407 father reveal or the twist of who Elliot really is in the finale are way better.
Absolutely
Agreed. They really dropped the ball on that one
i think the bent neck lady stills the best tv plot twists of all time
Well Ward's betrayal was indeed shocking, I always find it heartbreaking. I always like him in Agents of SHIELD, but to think he was a villain all this time. At least he made a great one, even if it was still heartbreaking.
I actually had an emotional breakdown the moment The Bent Neck Lady episode went to black. It effed me up.
"Ozymandias" from Breaking vad was the greatest moment in the history of television. 💯🎉
Yes Sir 😁
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Hank Hill Being Born In The Women's Bathroom at Yankee Stadium King Of The Hill (1997- 2010) loved that episode back then also the episode Returning Japanese Parts 1 & 2
that ended up being a dream
@@jsmith3946from my recollection it wasn’t a dream.
There's an episode of 'The Librarians' that I really like. They (a crew of supernatural 'fixers') find a famous magical haunted house that supposedly traps and murders people. Through the episode though, they find out that the house, while it IS sentient and aware, IT is a victim too. Its basically a wish granting entity that's been enslaved by a serial killer. I'm oversimplifying, but that's the gist. Good episode.
I love that episode particularly the twist that she's Katie Bender, a member of a real life family of serial killers who after their crimes were discovered and a posse went after them, the Benders disappeared and no one knows what happened afterwards. So putting a real life mystery in a fantasy horror setting is pretty clever.
@@julieporter7805 Yeah, that whole show was pretty good, but that particular episode was awesome.
The Neck Bent Lady is possibility one of the best twists on TV shows, and it was spoiled for no reason on the thumbnail.
True!
Thank you Watch Mojo for no longer putting the full spoiler in each number’s title intro! Finally giving us the option to skip spoilers! 🙌🏼
South Park "Scott Tenorman Must Die" when Cartman gets Scott Tenorman to eat the ashes of his parents.
I like to call it, Mr and Mrs Tenorman chilli” 😂😂😂
Grant Ward being Hydra shook me to my core as a fan of the show, but also the fact they made him into a villain over 4 seasons and still a good sendoff as a character made me love the character too.
I'd say that the bigger twist of Earth being a radioactive wasteland from BSG is that its inhabitants were cylon. That and Starbuck being dead.
I agree and a close 2nd to me was Boomer shooting Adama while being congratulated for a succesful mission revealing she was connected to the "hive" all along.
The odd thing was that everyone could see and touch Kara until her final goodbye to Lee after they land on our Earth.
I knew Agents of SHIELD had to be on this list
flashforwards will forever be the best twist in media, from the lead up, visuals and overall suspense within the episode it truly redefined TV's watcher perspective
I just adored Fringe , one of the best Syfy shows i ever watched
We rewatch it every few years and always catch something new. I love John Noble.
I think the most shocking moment is in the umbrella academy where Sir Reginald Hargreaves isnt who he says he is. Well at least this should have got an honorable mention.
24 Season 1 Plot Twist Was Excellent But Season 5's Plot Twist Was Good Too As It Was Revealed That The Mastermind Behind The Day's Events Was President Charles Logan
Fine... Ill go watch 24 again......
Charles Logan.....jeezus...
The worst part of Carl dying in The Walking Dead was that not to long before it happened, he bought a house because he got promised they wouldn't kill him off and then they pulled this on actor Chandler Riggs, that's why he was caught off guard, as far as I remember. Pretty messed up situation all around, the fans were NOT happy about it.
12:03 although I'm almost 30, I loved M*A*S*H, my wife did as well and we first saw this portion of Hawkeye's story. With all that happened in the show, we were certain that either we had seen the worst or we'd be able to digest whatever would come up while watching it. And about of 11 years ago when we watched this we were blown away. We usually would talk during/throughout the episodes we watched. And I still remember how quiet it was when this was revealed. Couldn't hear a thing but the TV, it kinda alerted me to how shocking it was. And like it happened last night, I remember turning to my wife to see how she was doing. Smh..I turned to look at her, streams of tears that had dropped and seeing one fall from her eye. Eyes wide open, not blinking, both hands cupped over her mouth. Almost like she was on that bus and just saw/realized what happened. Smh, I think that sh.t hit me so hard bcz it is not...AT ALL..often nor easy to make her shed a tear, let alone weep. We've known each other since we were 8. There has been maybe 4 or 5 times in our whole lives that she has wept like that...Didn't really know what to do or say. Just put my arm around her. Sh.t, I didn't realize how much watching this scene when Hawkeye breaks down and remembers the "chicken" was a baby until my wife laid her head on my right shoulder after i put my arm around her. I rested mine on hers and looked back up at the TV & in a second everything was blurry then suddenly clear and I felt my own tears race to their finish line of my chin. It may not be funny, certainly wasn't so then, but I remember thinking to myself, "Sh.t, bru. Pull yourself together.", lol. But yeah, that one f.cked us up. We actually never talked about it so I forgot all about it until now. But...yeah, that one was big rough on us..HUGE rough
Ummmm where’s Dark???? Literally had the best plot twists of all time
It's not in English and Americans generally can't read subtitles.
@@nosemellon it's dubbed brilliantly
@@nosemellon It's not that we can't, it's that you can't read subtitles AND watch the actors' faces. Plus the dub is actually awesome.
@@WynneL Yes, you actually can. 😂 I read them without even being aware of it, and I do not remember subtitled films any differently or less.
@@nosemellonyes we can 💀 dark was hugely popular in the US. that’s not why it’s not on the list, there’s tons of other shows people are suggesting. They can’t include everything lol. Not that deep
I can't believe Buffy being in Heaven isn't on here.
Mr Robot should have like 4-5 spots on here at the very least.
Laurel's return from the dead in Arrow was shocking IF you don't watch the Flash. If you do, you'd know it's just Earth 2 Laurel with a makeover.
24 was amazing. It struggled a bit because it was serialized before streaming, luckily Series on DVD just became a thing. My first memories of binging a TV show. My copy of the 1st season on DVD got many people hooked. I still remember my brother saying that he didn't have high expectations when he borrowed them but when he had a spare couple of hours before bed, he started watching, 6 hours later he went to bed.
Buffy's last episode deserves a mention. It changed EVERYTHING
I just went to the comments to add this also…!
Or that Glory is a god!
Fringe was my show! That reveal about Peter had my jaw dropping to the floor.
The only reason i know the Bob Newhart one was because of the alternate/spoof ending they did for Breaking Bad, where Walter wakes up as Hal from Malcolm in the Middle next to Lois.
Westworld - The Man in Black reveal surprised me!!!!
Exposing the Bent Neck Lady to anyone who hasn’t been gifted the experience of this series in a thumbnail even 6 years later should be an arrestable offense!
i had forgotten about that alias twist, but i remember now how stupid it was for vaughn to have given up on finding sydney and REMARRIED after only TWO years. he should know better than anybody that you can't assume someone's dead unless you have a body and two years was way too little time to move on and marry someone else.
That MASH episode is still absolutely soul destroying even now.
Missing out the "I got this" twist in Sons of Anarchy is criminal.
good one!
this!! 100%
I think the twist at the end of Mr. Robot was the best of all. Spoiler below ………
The narrator Elliott was really one of his alternative personalities and we never really met the true Elliott.
They killed Carl in the Walking Dead because the actor was about to turn 18. When child actors stop being child actors their contracts have to be renegotiated because adult actors get paid more then minors. They didn't want to pay for another adult actor so they killed Carl and replaced him with his baby sister. That's when I stopped watching. You have that real world bs on top of the fact they killed off a character watchers had been watching grow up throughout the series that isn't even supposed to die...yeah, no thanks.
I really like the revelation of the Blake Society in The Mentalist.
No Twin Peaks? Really?🤔
Probably because the show is one big plot twist itself 😅 but an honorable mention would have been nice, it’s a brilliant show
9:09 It also contained one of the best jump scares of all time. That scene with Nelly in the car is brilliant! I screamed SO loud. 🤣
I think a more shocking moment for Walking Dead was Rick telling them "Were all Infected"
So Carl made it to the list but not the death of Glen and Abraham on the walking dead. I literally had to take a break before I could continue the show 😭😭
kinda agree, especially after they previously did the "fake" Glen death under the trash dumpster. I just knew at that point he would survive until the end...oops.
Everyone knew Glen was dying and Abraham wasn't sticking around long either. Carl was being groomed for basically the entire show to take ricks place as leader.
Even though i never read the comics i knew that Negan killed Glen in the comics so i was expecting it
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Everybody hated the showrunner for killing off Carl. I remember Chandler Riggs posting that he was just talked to about staying for another three seasons and then this twist was pulled on him, apparently infuriating his dad.
Well, most people already knew that Glen had a date with Negan and Lucille, so that wasn't a surprise as much as it was just heart breaking. The Carl thing was Scott Gimple being a douche bag and not wanting to pay Chandler Riggs an adult salary after he turned 18, and deviated so much from the source material that it pissed off a lot of people.
WandaVision…umm huh? Who DIDNT know the world was created by Wanda??
same! for me, it wasn't a question of who created it- I knew it had to be Wanda- but it was whether she was fully conscious of what she's doing, because a lot of the time she acted genuinely confused.
not who created it, no. we all knew by the last episode that it was wanda. But how she created it was definitely a twist.
@@qm7497 only to people that couldn’t grasp the concept to begin with. That’s not the majority 🤣
The people who never watched any of the avengers movies.
How did the Buffy episode not make this list?!
When Buffy has flashes to "reality", showing she's just a delusional girl in a psych hospital.
Probably because similar shows did that too. Star Trek: TNG, Roseanne's Series Finale (the original one), etc. I think it got played out, especially since the "reality" wasn't the actual "reality".
I think bc that trope has been done soo many times tbh....Shutter Island, Charmed the tv series where Piper went through the same thing, they actually included one of the series on this list with the guy bein in prison/psych ward all this time, it's been reused to many times tbh
Because it wasn't a "twist", it was her imagination. Had it been the final episode of the series with that ending it would have been a twist.
Every scifi show does that, and it always sucks. Is this mental hospital real or are my awesome scifi adventures real? Well it's not the series finale and this isn't St Elsewhere, so obviously this mental hospital is fake.
We waste 45 minutes waiting for main character to get to where we were at minute 1.
Um, Buffy in a psych hospital was merely a spell.
MCU shows could only dream of being as good as AOS
Yeah :).
not even going to mention DC shows, mostly seemingly made for 8 year olds intelligence with the consistent stupidity of characters and cringy one liners.
True dat
I'd say Daredevil was up there. That first season was awesome.
@@AdderTude DD is not an "MCU show"... it's just popular so they are adapting it into the MCU
Killing a child, Walt? You entered villain territory with that move, but we love you all the more for it. I’m not saying what he did was morally right, but it was a shocking twist that pulled the rug out from under my feet.
The "it was all a dream" trope sucks, makes all you've seen and all emotions you've been gone through so far pointless! 🙄
It's a massive middle finger to the viewers, especially with the series finale since by the finale it's diehard fans watching.
@@arthas640 exactly! 😕
I love how you have River Song on here. I still love that 2 part finale and the song still gives me chills (in a good way) beautifull classic music.
I got mad shivers seeing Hill House show up. The bent-neck lady story loop absolutely floored me the first time watching it
Ok hold up- Eobard Thawne/Harrison Wells/Reverse-Flash not being on this list is criminal.
Agreed,that was a brilliant twist
On Succession- The very last episode of the last season was the better plot twist where the sister turned on her brother not only no making him CEO, but selling the company.
that ending was really godawful man
The greatest twist was Logan Roy dying, while you knew it could happen the way they did it was masterful to have it hit out of nowhere and give fake previews in the week before.
Was I the only one who connected the dots between River Song and Melody Pond before the reveal? There is an episode where they literally say "In the forest there are no rivers only ponds" and I was like, Oh, they are the same person.
You aren't the only one, by far. It was incredibly obvious.
@@bandgeekforlife406 Right! Thank you. This shows up so often as a "twist" and I just wonder if people didn't watch the show.
@@sagasvensson8920 i wonder that myself...
The Red Wedding is my all-time shocking and upsetting twist. 😢
The killer in season one of Veronica Mars shocked the crap out of me…
Me too. Great show!
Ben from Scrubs never fails to choke me up, even just thinking about it. It resonates so hard to being in denial of my own little sister's death, which happened a few years after I first saw that episode. I connect the two a lot, and rewatching it, while initially difficult, has helped me find a little closure.
I miss you, Megan...
0:45 Breaking Bad homaged this hilariously.
I saw this and was like "I wonder where on this list is Nina Myers gonna show up?"
Knew it would be up there, but never expected it to be #1...
I LOVE 24 dearly... I knew that would be on this list lol
I would've chose the season 4 reveal that Rita was the last victim of the Trinity killer because I did not see that one coming at all
I wish I was as naive as anyone who was surprised by Agatha’s twist.