Saddest TV Deaths of 2020

With this year being such a colossal clusterfrak, we found ourselves clinging to our favorite characters like never before. So when many of those beloved touchstones were violently ripped away from us, we, well, let’s just say we did not take it well. After reviewing the tsunami of obituaries that 2020 left in its wake, we’re paying special tribute to the 20 TV character deaths that hit us especially hard the past 12 months.

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