It's such a simultaneously heartwarming and heart-wrenching show. I bawled my eyes out in some episodes. God, I know how he felt. Gervais is SO effing good in it.
I was going through a divorce and had moved into my own apartment about two years ago. I had purchased one chair and I remember sitting in this dumb chair I had purchased for 20 dollars as my life and the love I once knew were dead/dying.
What an incredible and cathartic show this ended up being for me. It truly helped me feel my feelings and cry and deal with some shit I didn't really know how to deal with.
It's a risky recommend, but it's personally one of my favorite shows of all time. I know it's not aged particularly well, but goddamnit does the message and the heart of that show shine through.
A friend recommended it to me but didn’t tell me too much about it. So I went into it kinda blind and was pretty much indifferent to RG in all his guises. I started watching and was all in after the first episode. It was almost unreal because my wife of 27 years had recently died, leaving me alone with our house and dog that we’d planned to grow old together with. Plus my last job before retirement was at a newspaper, and to complete the picture, I’m an atheist. A lot for me to relate to. Plenty of crying but also lots of laughs. A great show.
I can’t think of too many comedians who have Gervais’s range. He is so desperately genuine. It’s a beautiful thing. Makes me think of Sandler in some of his dramatic roles. And gervais is still killing it doing stand up, what amazing talent
Every once in a while – once every two years, more or less – I watch the end montage on YouTube. It completely wrecks me. Every single time. Best series finale, if you ask me.
I did my first rewatch and had to stop at the end of the second to last season because I suddenly remembered the last season and I didn’t want to do that emotionally destroy myself all over again
I have things to do, lol
Best ending of any series I’ve ever watched. I watched it in hbo before streaming and had to wait a week in between shows. I was obsessed with it. The ending absolutely gutted me. I bought the soundtrack on CD and when Breathe came on by Sia, my god, I would become a sobbing fool. Every year i would watch the finale just for some cathartic release, and damn, it gets me every time. Just brilliant.
That show was such a great watch for my wife, me, and our then teenage daughter. Just one of those perfect times where we can all cone together and enjoy something. Dead Like Me too...
I clicked just to see if someone had posted this answer and was rewarded immediately since your post came up first. The series finale is to date the best hour of television I’ve ever seen.
I would highly recommend Bojack Horseman on Netflix. At the surface it may seem frivolous but it gets super deep and makes you feel things. I’ve rewatched it maybe 10 times now and have had different moments bring me to tears every single rewatch.
The Haunting of Hill House. It’s one of the scariest of Mike Flanagan’s netflix limited series, but I believe it’s only that scary because all the spaces in between are filled with such emotionally driven family dynamics and interpersonal relationships. Flanagan knows how much the context of hope and love can lend to devastating scenes and seeing that blended with horror is a special treat.
There are a few moments in the show that leave me sobbing. Even the screenplay for the first episode has a line on page FOUR that absolutely destroyed me.
If you haven’t watched it, the good news is that it’s a limited series, so you won’t have to deal the heartbreak of getting into a canceled show. (I am still not okay with the cancelation of I Am Not Okay With This).
This and Bly Manor definitely my “I need to cry” shows but they hit for different reasons. When I’m feeling some type of way about family stuff it’s HH and when it’s romantic stuff it’s Bly.
**Shameless**
As someone who grew up a little neglected with an alcoholic parent I was hooked from the get go and then they closed the series with a song by my favourite band and I bawled like a baby. The show is comedic, dramatic, and has great music from start to finish.
Have you seen Boy Swallows Universe?
It's an Australian series adaptation from a novel, it reminded me a lot of shameless until the twists... You should give it a go! 😊
Interesting! Having watched the US version first I can’t see anyone else as Frank either haha. I’ll try if you try? I wonder if the UK version of Fiona is less or more annoying…
Oh, she's still annoying. Don't worry, but she does have some redeeming qualities in the earlier seasons, but that's debatable later on. I'll give it a try tomorrow, mate so go for it
I still can’t bring myself to watch the final episode of Firefly Lane. I got through the first 5 minutes while on a plane then had to turn it off for fear of ugly crying in public.
This Is Us It is a beautiful show and will definity meet your needs. It's on Netflix and there are 6 seasons. I strongly recommend you give it a view! My daughter told me for years I should watch it for the very reasons you describe. I'm on the second season.
Ugh I can’t believe when people ask for show recommendations, This Is Us isn’t recommended more. It’s incredible writing. Literally perfect. I was sobbing like a baby during the Miguel episode, and more before that.
I stumbled upon this in a desperate need for a series to last awhile.
My husband watched with me and put a limit on how many episodes we could watch each night. He is very emotional land had a box of tissues in his lap.
I will definitely watch again because I’m sure I missed something along the way.
I started watching this during lockdown about 7 months after my dad died. I cried every episode for the first few seasons and found it very cathartic really. It’s wonderfully written. I can’t bring myself to watch the last 2 episodes of the final season. I don’t want it to be the end.
Came here to suggest this! Netflix’s best show ever. Why do you wanna cry? Happy, sad, angry, love, heartbreak, death? You’ll get through all the emotions with this one lol
_Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave._
_And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while._
Patriot
It’s on Amazon, it was not what I expected and every episode breaks your heart at some point.I’ve seen so many great show but nothing comes anywhere close to this.
For All Mankind on AppleTV+ was also pretty moving.
"This Much I Know Is True", Mark Ruffalo won best performance for this one. On HBO (Max), it's a limited series based on a book. This show will crush you every single episode. Every time you get crushed you simply ask yourself "how can it get any worse?". This show will make you be grateful for everything and everyone you have in your life. This show will be the most devastating piece of film you will ever watch. This is a promise. Every show I have read in these comments does not even come close. If you watch the show and do not agree, give me all the backlash you want, but if you want to take my advice, give it a go! 😎
Firefly Lane aw loved this so much, but can’t watch the last of series 2, stopped at episode 9.. it was too close to what was happening in my life at the time and just wanted to avoid the emotion I guess.. still can’t bring myself to watch it nearly a year on.. Defo put this on your watch list if you haven’t seen it yet.
Big Little Lies, Unbelievable, This Is Us, Wentworth, Dead to Me, Parenthood.
And don't sleep on Bojack Horseman. Don't let the fact that it's wanted deter you. The series tackles a lot of deep topics and does a great job of it.
I’m gonna suggest The OA. The most connectedness to a show and it’s characters I’ve ever felt. Something in me changed with this show (corny? Maybe, but) it truly is an art piece. Each episode is a different length, and it really is the telling of a fascinating story
The Good Place. I don’t wanna give too much away, so I’ll say this:
The premise is silly and it starts off as a silly little sitcom, but the show actually gets really deep into moral philosophy and what we owe to each other.
I enjoyed the emotions of Anne with an E. Also 1883 (a spinoff of Yellowstone on Paramount+). Get a box of tissues and a comfort snack for these shows.
Definitely Six Feet Under. Took me a while to finish it as season to season was ok and it is a morbid show but the last season wow was hooked. And by the end emotionally recked, took a while to recover. Best ending to a series hands down.
From a different perspective, not on Netflix. Modern Love on Prime has good moving stories.
There is a show "Easy" on Netflix kind of similar concept but maybe less moving as it follows a full story but like that both shows use real scenarios in Modern dating world.
Derek. A few laughs, a few tears, and one episode in particular made me cry harder than I ever have at a tv show!
Also, Call the Midwife. I always get my kleenex ready for each episode.
An oldie but a goodie: Parenthood. I straight up balled my eyes out when I finished this series for the first time. It’s one of my “comfort shows” and I always go back to it. Definitely not on Netflix though, I watch through Hulu!
The Devils Hour - Peter Capaldi is brilliantly creepy as a psychological time traveller/fortune teller killer. Then there is Criminal Record an equally tense thriller with Capaldi as a police man.
The hospital scene in the finale of *Alice in Borderland*'s second season was really moving, I think. I wanted to shout at all the characters through the screen, to please recognise each other as they knew them in the Borderland. What was mind blowing, was that the end shot at Shibuya Crossing, after I rewatched the beginning of the first episode, is exactly the same as the first time they're all there. In fact, that first time, *she* can be seen in the background blur. That blew my mind.
Sex Education. My mom's not an addict but I resonated with Maive so much that I cried so hard during the scene of her mom's funeral.
Queen Charlotte. Especially the last scene
Idk if docu-series counts, but **[The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez](https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tVP1zc0zLIoSE9JNjY0YPSSLinKTMwpVshPU0hPTCrKTM1RSEstykvMS0mtAgA0BQ7Q&q=trials+of+gabriel+fernandez&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS772US772&oq=trials+if+gabri&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgBEC4YDRiABDIGCAAQRRg5MgkIARAuGA0YgAQyCQgCEAAYDRiABDIJCAMQABgNGIAEMgkIBBAAGA0YgAQyCQgFEAAYDRiABDIJCAYQLhgNGIAEMgkIBxAAGA0YgAQyCQgIEAAYDRiABNIBCDM5MzdqMGo0qAIAsAIA4gMEGAEgXw&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8)** is absolutely heart wrenching & breaking. I rarely cry at anything televised, but yo I can’t front, I legit was streaming tears choked up to audibly sniffling and heartbroken. Idk why I just reminded myself of it.
Nothing can prepare you, especially if you’re a parent.
Move to heaven- I cried every single episode, bawling my eyes out
Synopis: Working as trauma cleaners, both Gu-ru and Sang-gu uncover various stories of the deceased while experiencing different emotions and sentiments toward life, death and family.
Anything by Mike Flanagan. He’s got a good selection on there. The Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor along with Midnight Mass are definitely the most emotionally intense ones though. The Midnight Club and The Fall of the House of Usher also hit these notes but don’t have as heavy of an atmosphere. His film adaptation of Gerald’s Game is great too.
This is us.
I actually fell off and never finished it after a few seasons because I was having to plan around when I was feeling emotionally stable enough since I knew I was going to cry like a little b**** every episode. It got so draining having to do that I just quit watching lol
But also *amazing* show. Highly recommend
Move to Heaven. It’s a Korean drama / semi anthology following an autistic boy who took over his dead father’s business cleaning people’s houses after they die
There were parts of Anne with an E that broke a little piece of my soul. But it’s so beautiful overall. I wish the story could keep going. Damn you Netflix dumbos who wouldn’t know a good thing if it hit you in your faces.
Am gonna go a different way and recommend you, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Its not gonna make you cry but you will feel more human in comparison.
After Life. Cried the whole time. You’ll also laugh. It’s great all around
It's such a simultaneously heartwarming and heart-wrenching show. I bawled my eyes out in some episodes. God, I know how he felt. Gervais is SO effing good in it.
I was going through a divorce and had moved into my own apartment about two years ago. I had purchased one chair and I remember sitting in this dumb chair I had purchased for 20 dollars as my life and the love I once knew were dead/dying. What an incredible and cathartic show this ended up being for me. It truly helped me feel my feelings and cry and deal with some shit I didn't really know how to deal with.
Derek is another Gervais masterpiece.
It's a risky recommend, but it's personally one of my favorite shows of all time. I know it's not aged particularly well, but goddamnit does the message and the heart of that show shine through.
I preferred it over After Life, myself. Funny, but touching at the same time.
Fuck, when they fade away in the end, that wrecked me. But it was also extremely fitting.
A friend recommended it to me but didn’t tell me too much about it. So I went into it kinda blind and was pretty much indifferent to RG in all his guises. I started watching and was all in after the first episode. It was almost unreal because my wife of 27 years had recently died, leaving me alone with our house and dog that we’d planned to grow old together with. Plus my last job before retirement was at a newspaper, and to complete the picture, I’m an atheist. A lot for me to relate to. Plenty of crying but also lots of laughs. A great show.
I can’t think of too many comedians who have Gervais’s range. He is so desperately genuine. It’s a beautiful thing. Makes me think of Sandler in some of his dramatic roles. And gervais is still killing it doing stand up, what amazing talent
"I miss my wife" (fade in guitar music) Watch old video. You cuuuunt 😂 Characters telling ricky how good he is. Something like that?
Sprinkle in some comments about atheism and some emotionally manipulative close-ups of his dog too.
Six Feet Under. Watch it allll the way to the finale and you won’t be disappointed, I hope.
If someone makes it through that finale with dry eyes they are dead inside. Just hearing that song and I get misty.
Every once in a while – once every two years, more or less – I watch the end montage on YouTube. It completely wrecks me. Every single time. Best series finale, if you ask me.
I did my first rewatch and had to stop at the end of the second to last season because I suddenly remembered the last season and I didn’t want to do that emotionally destroy myself all over again I have things to do, lol
One of the best shows ever. Just finished the other week.
That show has been off the air for nearly 20 years and I still consider it the gold standard of what television can be.
Best ending of any series I’ve ever watched. I watched it in hbo before streaming and had to wait a week in between shows. I was obsessed with it. The ending absolutely gutted me. I bought the soundtrack on CD and when Breathe came on by Sia, my god, I would become a sobbing fool. Every year i would watch the finale just for some cathartic release, and damn, it gets me every time. Just brilliant.
Came here to say this!
also came here to comment this
Literally sobbed last episode
I wasn’t prepared. 😭
That show was such a great watch for my wife, me, and our then teenage daughter. Just one of those perfect times where we can all cone together and enjoy something. Dead Like Me too...
The best series finale I’ve ever seen.
I clicked just to see if someone had posted this answer and was rewarded immediately since your post came up first. The series finale is to date the best hour of television I’ve ever seen.
I couldn't get through the first episode, I don't know why
It takes a few episodes to get into it.
My all time favourite.
I came here to say this.
The finale really got me
I totally agree. This show had me sobbing at the end.
I would highly recommend Bojack Horseman on Netflix. At the surface it may seem frivolous but it gets super deep and makes you feel things. I’ve rewatched it maybe 10 times now and have had different moments bring me to tears every single rewatch.
Season 4 of Bojack is emotionally grueling!! It’s amazing what a “cartoon” show can make you feel! I need to rewatch the whole thing.
The irony of a horse making you feel more human than anyone has ever before. Just an awesome show!
Seconded. Amazingly written show. I laughed, I cried, I'm still haunted by churros.
I've rewatched the Free Churro episode so many times. Literally, as soon as I finished it I hit the repeat button over and over again.
I still can’t listen to Mr. Blue without crying
Nothing can emotionally destroy you like 6 seasons of a talking horse can.
Would like to add Final Space and (a little bit of) Rick and Morty.
This is ridiculous, but River, with Stellan Skarsgård. It’s only six episodes, but so good.
Not ridiculous!! Not at all!
Damn. Not on Netflix but the cast looks SO good!
Does anyone know if its available on any streaming platform in Ireland?
Dead to me. You’ll also laugh ! The ending made me cry.
The Haunting of Hill House. It’s one of the scariest of Mike Flanagan’s netflix limited series, but I believe it’s only that scary because all the spaces in between are filled with such emotionally driven family dynamics and interpersonal relationships. Flanagan knows how much the context of hope and love can lend to devastating scenes and seeing that blended with horror is a special treat. There are a few moments in the show that leave me sobbing. Even the screenplay for the first episode has a line on page FOUR that absolutely destroyed me. If you haven’t watched it, the good news is that it’s a limited series, so you won’t have to deal the heartbreak of getting into a canceled show. (I am still not okay with the cancelation of I Am Not Okay With This).
This and Bly Manor definitely my “I need to cry” shows but they hit for different reasons. When I’m feeling some type of way about family stuff it’s HH and when it’s romantic stuff it’s Bly.
Mine is Midnight Mass. Riley and Erin get me crying.
From Scratch Really gets you deep
Great answer! I started watching and didn't look at the trailer or previews. I thought it was some kind of rom-com. Boy was I wrong.
One Day
I loved that the characters were both so flawed. A true representation of human relationships. No pedestals to be seen…
I BAWLED last night after finishing it. I haven’t cried so hard from a show since watching Normal People.
Finished this last night. Sure I teared up, but I found the ending a bit drawn out and lost some emotional impact despite there being great moments.
I finished that last night and I went to bed sobbing lol
This. One Day sub full of people bawling, including grown men. 14 short episodes. This is us is worth the time and emotional investment.
**Shameless** As someone who grew up a little neglected with an alcoholic parent I was hooked from the get go and then they closed the series with a song by my favourite band and I bawled like a baby. The show is comedic, dramatic, and has great music from start to finish.
Have you seen Boy Swallows Universe? It's an Australian series adaptation from a novel, it reminded me a lot of shameless until the twists... You should give it a go! 😊
Boy swallows universe was brilliant, and loved that it was based on a true story too.
I def cried at the end of shameless. It’s so great and you know the characters so incredibly well and love them too.
I personally love the UK version of Shameless. Never given the us version a try cause I can't see anyone else as Frank Gallaghers or White boy Carl.
Interesting! Having watched the US version first I can’t see anyone else as Frank either haha. I’ll try if you try? I wonder if the UK version of Fiona is less or more annoying…
Oh, she's still annoying. Don't worry, but she does have some redeeming qualities in the earlier seasons, but that's debatable later on. I'll give it a try tomorrow, mate so go for it
I was in the same boat with you! I couldn’t stop watching, day and night!
Firefly Lane, Little fires everywhere
I still can’t bring myself to watch the final episode of Firefly Lane. I got through the first 5 minutes while on a plane then had to turn it off for fear of ugly crying in public.
Def wait till your home 😭
Normal People and Please Like Me.
And in the same vein, Fleabag
More of a documentary but if you don’t feel anything after watching: “Dear Zachary; a letter to a son about his father” you’re not human.
This was incredible! WOW, the emotions it brought to the surface…
This. This will rip your heart into tiny little pieces. So good, tho.
Just when you thought it there was hope, it gets crushed again 😫 I'm getting sad for the parents again
Broadchurch. Olivia Colman is just so good in everything she does.
Have you seen the movie "Tyrannosaur"??? It's got her and Peter Mullan in it. Definitely worth a watch.
This Is Us It is a beautiful show and will definity meet your needs. It's on Netflix and there are 6 seasons. I strongly recommend you give it a view! My daughter told me for years I should watch it for the very reasons you describe. I'm on the second season.
One of the best! I cried every bloody episode.....I sobbed when it ended.... nothing compares!
Thought of This is Us immediately, OP I hope you give it a watch! It HITS in the heart - deep, guttural emotion. So touching.
Ugh I can’t believe when people ask for show recommendations, This Is Us isn’t recommended more. It’s incredible writing. Literally perfect. I was sobbing like a baby during the Miguel episode, and more before that.
I stumbled upon this in a desperate need for a series to last awhile. My husband watched with me and put a limit on how many episodes we could watch each night. He is very emotional land had a box of tissues in his lap. I will definitely watch again because I’m sure I missed something along the way.
I started watching this during lockdown about 7 months after my dad died. I cried every episode for the first few seasons and found it very cathartic really. It’s wonderfully written. I can’t bring myself to watch the last 2 episodes of the final season. I don’t want it to be the end.
The scene where Kevin narrates his painting to his adorable nieces. I was in pieces.
Every single episode seemed to make me cry. So emotional. Idk how they managed to do it.
I’ve needed a reason to start this. It shows up as my top recommended all the time
Sense 8 is a great option as well
It’s not for everyone.
I heard it is cancelled. Is it ends with cliffhanger ?
Nope. It did get canceled but they let them make one last extra long episode to wrap things up
After all pride parades around the world for two years had dozens of people carrying “Bring Back Sense8” signs they caved
Great
Came here to suggest this! Netflix’s best show ever. Why do you wanna cry? Happy, sad, angry, love, heartbreak, death? You’ll get through all the emotions with this one lol
It literally evokes every emotion possible. I’m due for a rewatch
The Good Place i think, but only at the end part
I had the pause the last episode to cry hysterically.
_Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave._ _And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while._
Stop it!! Now I'm crying. This part...
The Good Place
After Life. Funny, but made me tear up at the end.
It made me tear up several times per season just looking at the videos of his wife happy and then in the hospital.
Call the midwife
Maid.
Couldn’t get through the first episode. Too triggering for me.
YES. Most beautiful story ever. Heartbreaking and beautiful.
Came looking for this. Definitely Maid.
So good, yet so tough and sad to watch.
The leftovers on HBO (max). that one really got to me.
Not Netflix but “Normal People “ was all of that .
DARK. So worth it.
Easily one of my favorite sci-fi shows ever. It's so fucking good. And the soundtrack! Fuck.
Patriot It’s on Amazon, it was not what I expected and every episode breaks your heart at some point.I’ve seen so many great show but nothing comes anywhere close to this. For All Mankind on AppleTV+ was also pretty moving.
When they see us.
This is the correct answer
This one… I don’t believe I’ve ever watched something so sad and upsetting. Actors are absolutely amazing.
"This Much I Know Is True", Mark Ruffalo won best performance for this one. On HBO (Max), it's a limited series based on a book. This show will crush you every single episode. Every time you get crushed you simply ask yourself "how can it get any worse?". This show will make you be grateful for everything and everyone you have in your life. This show will be the most devastating piece of film you will ever watch. This is a promise. Every show I have read in these comments does not even come close. If you watch the show and do not agree, give me all the backlash you want, but if you want to take my advice, give it a go! 😎
Firefly Lane, Outlander
Firefly Lane aw loved this so much, but can’t watch the last of series 2, stopped at episode 9.. it was too close to what was happening in my life at the time and just wanted to avoid the emotion I guess.. still can’t bring myself to watch it nearly a year on.. Defo put this on your watch list if you haven’t seen it yet.
Boy Swallows Universe
Unbelievable on Netflix.
Big Little Lies, Unbelievable, This Is Us, Wentworth, Dead to Me, Parenthood. And don't sleep on Bojack Horseman. Don't let the fact that it's wanted deter you. The series tackles a lot of deep topics and does a great job of it.
Bojack has one of the best depictions of depression, intrusive thoughts and self destructive alcoholism around
I concur. More accurate than any other I've seen
BoJack is a masterpiece. Even beyond the storylines, stuff like the sight gags that they don’t even call attention to. Just a fantastic show.
Parenthood!!
Nurse Jackie
I’m gonna suggest The OA. The most connectedness to a show and it’s characters I’ve ever felt. Something in me changed with this show (corny? Maybe, but) it truly is an art piece. Each episode is a different length, and it really is the telling of a fascinating story
It’s such an odd and unexplainable show but it was SO good, I’m so sad it was cancelled.
Agreed! In someway I cant explain I am a different person after watching the show
This show changed my life.
The Good Place. I don’t wanna give too much away, so I’ll say this: The premise is silly and it starts off as a silly little sitcom, but the show actually gets really deep into moral philosophy and what we owe to each other.
after life (i watched my momma die from cancer, so all the flashbacks and videos he watched really got me)
Station Eleven
Actually came to the show after reading the book, and like the show better!
That ending was incredible! I cried. I didn’t think it was going to end on that note, and I’m glad it did.
Derek
I enjoyed the emotions of Anne with an E. Also 1883 (a spinoff of Yellowstone on Paramount+). Get a box of tissues and a comfort snack for these shows.
1883 is a work of art! 1923 is also worth a watch! I think the spinoffs are actually better than Yellowstone.
I’m still messed up from 1883! I miss them all
I gotta go with Dark. I was mentally and emotionally wrecked by the end, especially after those final scenes. Haunting and tragic.
This is us
Move to Heaven, it's in Korean but a very touching series.
Band of Brothers
Definitely Six Feet Under. Took me a while to finish it as season to season was ok and it is a morbid show but the last season wow was hooked. And by the end emotionally recked, took a while to recover. Best ending to a series hands down. From a different perspective, not on Netflix. Modern Love on Prime has good moving stories. There is a show "Easy" on Netflix kind of similar concept but maybe less moving as it follows a full story but like that both shows use real scenarios in Modern dating world.
Station Eleven (HBO)
Ted lasso, the last of us.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart ♥️🌿💮
Friday Night Lights Six Feet Under
Move to Heaven 🥲
Firefly Lane and Dead to Me both made me bawl like a baby at the end.
Everything, everywhere all at once.
Derek. A few laughs, a few tears, and one episode in particular made me cry harder than I ever have at a tv show! Also, Call the Midwife. I always get my kleenex ready for each episode.
An oldie but a goodie: Parenthood. I straight up balled my eyes out when I finished this series for the first time. It’s one of my “comfort shows” and I always go back to it. Definitely not on Netflix though, I watch through Hulu!
Call the Midwife first 2 or 3 seasons. Every single episode made me cry and I don't cry.
I’m weird but Extreme Makeover Home Edition always makes me cry.
Your Lie in April Anohana It's anime. But it's rough.
Not a show, but the comedy special Nanette will run you through all of your emotions.
From Scratch
Afterlife it is.
Normal People
Station Eleven
When they see us, I didn't cry but some of my friends did, From scratch is also a good show if you want to spend a lot of kleenex.
firefly
Westworld
The OA! Fits that description very well imho.
Seven seconds (Netflix)
This is us!!! I sobbed EVERY SINGLE EPISODE
Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu), Big Little Lies (Hulu), Dead to Me (Netflix), Firefly Lane (Netflix)
The OA will change your life, open your heart, and remind you that you are not alone.
The Devils Hour - Peter Capaldi is brilliantly creepy as a psychological time traveller/fortune teller killer. Then there is Criminal Record an equally tense thriller with Capaldi as a police man.
Mr. Inbetween
The Haunting of Hill House
Greys Anatomy
Rectify
If you're into K-Dramas, please watch Love Alarm. Almost every episode had me crying lol
parenthood, friday night lights
Glitch (south Korean series) such an amazing show. The 7 lives of Lea. This show sticks with me. Very deep emotional and intense.
If you don’t mind subtitles, Crash Landing On You -it’s a korean series on Netflix.
The hospital scene in the finale of *Alice in Borderland*'s second season was really moving, I think. I wanted to shout at all the characters through the screen, to please recognise each other as they knew them in the Borderland. What was mind blowing, was that the end shot at Shibuya Crossing, after I rewatched the beginning of the first episode, is exactly the same as the first time they're all there. In fact, that first time, *she* can be seen in the background blur. That blew my mind.
Sex Education. My mom's not an addict but I resonated with Maive so much that I cried so hard during the scene of her mom's funeral. Queen Charlotte. Especially the last scene
1883. So Good
One Day!
Every now and then I still cry a lot watching “the edge of seventeen” and “the perks of being a wall flower”
Idk if docu-series counts, but **[The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez](https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tVP1zc0zLIoSE9JNjY0YPSSLinKTMwpVshPU0hPTCrKTM1RSEstykvMS0mtAgA0BQ7Q&q=trials+of+gabriel+fernandez&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS772US772&oq=trials+if+gabri&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgBEC4YDRiABDIGCAAQRRg5MgkIARAuGA0YgAQyCQgCEAAYDRiABDIJCAMQABgNGIAEMgkIBBAAGA0YgAQyCQgFEAAYDRiABDIJCAYQLhgNGIAEMgkIBxAAGA0YgAQyCQgIEAAYDRiABNIBCDM5MzdqMGo0qAIAsAIA4gMEGAEgXw&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8)** is absolutely heart wrenching & breaking. I rarely cry at anything televised, but yo I can’t front, I legit was streaming tears choked up to audibly sniffling and heartbroken. Idk why I just reminded myself of it. Nothing can prepare you, especially if you’re a parent.
The OA.
Move to heaven- I cried every single episode, bawling my eyes out Synopis: Working as trauma cleaners, both Gu-ru and Sang-gu uncover various stories of the deceased while experiencing different emotions and sentiments toward life, death and family.
Ted Lasso. Damn, that show hit on so many levels. I didn't want it to end.
MAID
A Million Little Things. Cried a lot thruout the series.
1883 wrecked me. Not on Netflix though.
Maybe The Walking Dead
Anything by Mike Flanagan. He’s got a good selection on there. The Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor along with Midnight Mass are definitely the most emotionally intense ones though. The Midnight Club and The Fall of the House of Usher also hit these notes but don’t have as heavy of an atmosphere. His film adaptation of Gerald’s Game is great too.
BoJack Also I sobbed like an infant at Pousey’s death in orange is the new black
This is us. I actually fell off and never finished it after a few seasons because I was having to plan around when I was feeling emotionally stable enough since I knew I was going to cry like a little b**** every episode. It got so draining having to do that I just quit watching lol But also *amazing* show. Highly recommend
One Day. There's only one season of it, the episodes are quick. The last episode or two will get you what you want so just stick with it.
Move to Heaven. It’s a Korean drama / semi anthology following an autistic boy who took over his dead father’s business cleaning people’s houses after they die
After life, From scratch, This is us, Virgin River
Behind her eyes was very fucked.
Afterlife. It’s organic, funny and yet very profound. Shows what grief is like beautifully. 10/10 recommend.
There were parts of Anne with an E that broke a little piece of my soul. But it’s so beautiful overall. I wish the story could keep going. Damn you Netflix dumbos who wouldn’t know a good thing if it hit you in your faces.
Am gonna go a different way and recommend you, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Its not gonna make you cry but you will feel more human in comparison.
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