Top 30 Best TV Plot Twists You Didn't See Coming
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- Then they woke up and realized it was all a dream! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most unexpected surprises and revelations from TV series. Naturally, there will be tons of spoilers ahead! Our countdown includes twists from TV shows “Breaking Bad”, “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”, “Battlestar Galactica” and more! Is there an unexpected TV twist you thought would be on our list all along? Tell us your favorites in the comments!
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@@MurrayKing2015 no you weren't and a pinned comment doesn't count kid.
@@Reaperguy67 yes it does
@@MurrayKing2015 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
@@ChrisCreatswell 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 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!
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
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.
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 chicken-story from MASH scarred me for decades. Still brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.
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.
@@semperfiyorkies6084
I just finished the series last night and i was BAWLING UNCONTROLLABLY towards the end.
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 !!!’
"In addition to being one of the most underrated sci-fi shows ever made, FRINGE..."
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.
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.”
That watchmen twist of Angela jumpstarting the whole show on accident was bigger than the Dr. Manhattan reveal tbh
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 😅
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_
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.
"Where do you think we are?"
That line from Scrubs still gives me chills.
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
The River Song reveal makes me teary eyed every time.
Fine, I’ll rewatch FRINGE!
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 saw all of them coming, especially on my second time watching each show.
😂😂😂
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
@@andresagme100%
Hold the door...... Hodor
They should have put this instead of the red wedding scene. This one was pretty tragic.
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.
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.
Mr Robot should have like 4-5 spots on here at the very least.
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.
Dexter is still my fave series ever! The first season was perfection!
The Neck Bent Lady is possibility one of the best twists on TV shows, and it was spoiled for no reason on the thumbnail.
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 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 knew Agents of SHIELD had to be on this list
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.
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.
Not really sure if it counts as a plot twist, but in Lost season 2 when they reveal the hatch is actually a doomsday bunker basically with Desmond inside idk that was awesome
Lost had loads of great twists. The one that got me was Season 2 when Michael betrays them and shoots Libby
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.
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! 😕
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.
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.
i think the bent neck lady stills the best tv plot twists of all time
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.
"Ozymandias" from Breaking vad was the greatest moment in the history of television. 💯🎉
Yes Sir 😁
@@MurrayKing2015 do you even have a life since you have been spam replying multiple comments?
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@@BlackHatCinephile spam
"Breaking Vlad" The Romanian version of the show
Missing out the "I got this" twist in Sons of Anarchy is criminal.
good one!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 🤣
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.
That was a great list! Very impressive!
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.
It is always too soon to talk about Ben from Scrubs.
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...
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!
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
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 really like the revelation of the Blake Society in The Mentalist.
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! 🙌🏼
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
Ok hold up- Eobard Thawne/Harrison Wells/Reverse-Flash not being on this list is criminal.
Agreed,that was a brilliant twist
The Colossal and Armored titan reveal on Attack on Titan made me replay that scene like five times when I first saw it.
Anime could have it's own list. There's so many.
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.
I wish I was as naive as anyone who was surprised by Agatha’s twist.
I just adored Fringe , one of the best Syfy shows i ever watched
House of Cards: Frank Underwood giving someone a little push...
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@@BlackHatCinephile It's sad that you waste your time spamming pointless medals and defending spam comments. Also they weren't
Jon Snow’s death.
Red Wedding, but no Hodor?
Wait! Battlestar Galactica did NOT end that way!
They tried to establish a settlement to figure out their next move but several things happen, as well. Dualla kills herself after the reveal that Earth was a wasteland, leaving Lee distraught, and the Cylons eventually catch up to them, forcing everyone to leave again. Ellen Tigh's death during the evacuation and later awakening on a Cylon ship reveals her to be the final member of the Final Five, especially when she asks the nearby centurion for assistance in getting out of the pod like a mother to a child (later revealed to actually be the case between the Final Five and the current Cylons).
I think another one could be on Angel when he ends up finding out that the "Home Office" (which was believed to be hell) was actually Earth. Earth is hell, figuratively and literally. ¯\(°⏒°)/¯
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.
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 Red Wedding is my all-time shocking and upsetting twist. 😢
Westworld - The Man in Black reveal surprised me!!!!
That MASH scene was amazing. Usually, that show had me crying from laughter. That performance by Alan Alda had me actually crying.
What about the ending of Quantum Leap ??
I actually had an emotional breakdown the moment The Bent Neck Lady episode went to black. It effed me up.
you could say the truth about Dawn in season 5 of Buffy.
I'm so pleased that a number of my favorite shows are on this list!
The killer in season one of Veronica Mars shocked the crap out of me…
Me too. Great show!
Feels great to have been an active participate in watching a lot of this list live. Tv just isn’t the same these days
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.
They forgot to mention in battlestar galactica that the 13th colony was full of humanoid cylons and that they were the final 5!!!!
The Following had an awesome twist
A lot of these lists get things wrong, but they absolutely nailed with Nina being number one. I still remember watching it when it first aired. The next day at work - we were all 24 fans - nobody got any work done because all we did was talk about it. Then, of course, there was the horrific closing scene of the following episode (the season finale). God, I miss that show.
that MASH story still bothers me. saw it when aired... I could not get into Lost, and having read Pincher Martin by Golding recently to it, I called the ending of the series while still in season one..., hated St Elsewhere twist... Loved the Newhart twist... and was a little sad about the River Song twist as I cannot see Dr Who ever quite being as great as her story again. her last night with the Doctor was lovely. (24 years wasn't it?)
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.
It wasn't until I watched haunting of hill house that i realised sleep paralysis isn't normal
I've seen all of the best TV plot twists and they are my personal favorite
the river's identity twist made me so mad i thought it was so stupid lmao
The neck bent lady story made me sad for months 😭
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.
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
I didn't know that Mary was the assassin per say but i wasn't surprised at all by the reveal because it was a very Moffatt twist.
I knew Mary had to have some kind of dark secret
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.
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
I can't believe the ending of Sharp Objects isn't on this list