Cast of HBO's Legacy Credit: HBO
Warning: Contains spoilers for Episode 4 Episode 3 season of Legacy
To paraphrase the greatest man ever, Logan Roy fled into the great boardroom in the sky. After just over three seasons of playing the grapple with the possibility of a life after Logan, The Legacy has finally achieved its goal, destroying its equivalent of King Lear, Macbeth and Richard III rolled into one.
His death is not exactly like that. surprise — after all, the original plan was for Logan (Brian Cox) to move into the great beyond at the start of the Legacy debut (until Cox suggested it would be more fun to keep him around).
But still, it's the bomb. One that will cause excitement for both onscreen – how will his obnoxious children deal with his demise? — and in the real world. Viewers, after all, may wonder if The Legacy will lose some of its spark in his absence.
However, Logan's passing is not unprecedented. Television has been hilariously throwing out key characters for years now. Here is the countdown of the deaths that changed television.
1. Red Wedding, Game of Thrones, 2018
At first glance, the most shocking part of Legacy has little to do with the massacre that ended the third season of Game of Thrones. But in terms of their effect on the viewer, Logan's exit and the Stark hunt were tuned to the same destructive frequency.
Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) in Game of Thrones Red wedding. Credit & Copyright: Helen Sloan/HBO
In both cases, the wedding wasn't the main factor: Willa loves Connor, but it's all about the money, while Tully-Frey's wedding was all political. And then the episode was derailed by death from above: Logan died at 20,000 feet, and Robb and Catelyn Stark were blinded by arrows from above. In each case, by the time of the final credits, the audience was in a state of clear shock.
2. Bobby Ewing, Dallas, 1985
Entering the eighth season of Dallas, Patrick Duffy grew weary of the South Fork and its shenanigans and his good-natured Bobby character in particular. Since his contract had expired and no pay increase was in sight, he hung up his stetson and embarked on a film career. He may or may not succeed — in any case, he will no longer have to play second fiddle to Larry Hagman, also known as Bobby's villainous older brother J.R. Ewing.
“I did the show for seven years. My contract was for seven years,” Duffy told the Huffington Post. “It was an ensemble show and I thought that if it was ever going to be the peak time of this show, I might be able to run something more singular, a star place, that it would be the time to do it. I left the show and it didn't happen — typical Patrick Duffy business decision fiasco.» Patrick Duffy as Bobby Ewing. Credit & Copyright: Getty
At the time, no one thought Daffy would want to come back. And so it was decided to kill him on the screen — he was hit by a jealous ex Katherine, the half-sister of his wife Pam.
Kate intended to mow down Pam. But Bobby rushed to the rescue, pushed her aside, and—in hilarious slow motion—rolled over the roof of the car. It was that. Bobby was a loser.
Only he wasn't there. In 1985, it was still a long way before TV stars moved into the movies, and Duffy struggled to break out of the shadow of Dallas. Hence the decision to bring it back (Larry Hagman convinced the producers to raise Daffy's salary).
This led to that climax of 80s television and American soap operas when Bobby appears in Pam's shower. in the ninth season of the cliffhanger. Everything that happened from the time of his death to this moment — 31 TV episodes — was written off to Pam's dream.
3. Ned Stark, Game of Thrones
Spoiler culture was still in its infancy when Game of Thrones hit theaters in 2011. This is how the series misled its viewers about its apparent protagonist and protagonist, Ned Stark, despite being dead in the original George R.R. Martin novels since 1996.
Dead Ned, who lost his head at the behest of Prince Joffrey, caused the internet to freeze in disbelief and marked the rise of Game of Thrones as a phenomenon. When Ned's head fell to the floor, viewers entered a new era of television where expectations would be shattered and no one would be safe.
4. Zoe Barnes, House of Cards
Today, this early Netflix hit is reminiscent of a mausoleum erected to commemorate Kevin Spacey's career as the title character. However, in February 2014 it became the most watched on television, completely eclipsing the 1990 BBC political thriller of the same name by Andrew Davies and the 1989 Michael Dobbs novel on which it was based.
That's why the murder of pesky reporter Kate Mara Zoe Barnes by Spacey's Francis Underwood was so shocking. They exchanged monologues at the subway station when he just threw her in the train's path. Drink watchers could be heard going crazy around the world.
Kate Mara in House of Cards Credit: Netflix
In the original House of Cards, Francis Urquhart pushed reporter Matty Storin to his death from the roof garden of the House of Commons. However, Mara was considered such an integral part of House of Cards that her departure came as a shock nonetheless. Hot on the heels of the decapitated Ned Stark, her run-in with this commuter express heralded a new era for prestige television, with unexpected death potentially lurking around every corner.
5. Maud Flanders, The Simpsons
The idea of a simple cartoon killing off a character — and having that death be considered meaningful — would have been ridiculous before The Simpsons. But such was the cartoon's cultural reach before its tragic decline in quality and relevance that the departure of Ned Flanders' benevolent wife made world headlines.
As with Patrick Duffy and Bobby Ewing, Maud's departure was the result of off-screen turmoil. Actress Maggie Roswell, who also voiced gossip Helen Lovejoy, moved from Los Angeles to Denver and got tired of traveling to California twice a week to record her lines.
She also wanted a pay rise. With no pay increase in sight, she quit her job and Maude Flanders was killed in February 2000 when she was pushed off the podium at Springfield Speedway after being hit by a T-shirt gun (Homer dodged her way) . Roswell and the Simpsons later reconciled and she returned to the series in 2002. But unlike Bobby Ewing, Maud stayed dead, giving Helen Lovejoy more screen time.
6. Stringer Bell, The Wire
Idris Elba was shocked when The Wire writer/showrunner David Simon told him that his charismatic drug dealer would be killed in the season 3 finale.
«When he read the script… he was like, Dude, I can't believe I'm leaving the show,» Simon told the Associated Press at The Wire's 20th anniversary celebration. » /> Idris Elba as Stringer Bell in The Wire. Credit: HBO
“Like, he wasn’t happy. And I remember talking to him about the script and saying, “Idris, you will have roles in films. You're going to be an A-lister. People will get a lot of this death, they will get this story arc in hindsight — that's your calling card, man. You will be fine.”
7. Glenn, The Walking Dead
The zombie apocalypse thriller has been fun killing characters from the start. And Glenn (played by Beef star Steven Yeun) has already dodged a reaper once with a rope bait and a switch in which the undead seemed to be dragging him to a gruesome death, only to be revealed to have miraculously crawled under him. bin on wheels and survived.
There was, however, no escape when he was cornered by the garrulous warlord Negan in 2016. Abraham Negan had already been beaten to death and then pulled a surprise out of his hat by announcing that he was claiming a second victim just to prove he shouldn't be messed with.
It wasn't death that caused the waves, but the way Glenn left. The producers overdid it sadistically, showing us his bruised head and dangling eyeball. It felt like a line had been crossed in terms of on-screen violence. Even The Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln thought it was too much, and he played the creepy best friend stalking Keira Knightley in Love Actually.
“I regret how it happened,” he said. “For 100 years, we could scare people in movies without showing the eyeball. When that happens, it diminishes what we're trying to do, which in my imagination is a family drama set in hell. This is not some B-movie bloody celebration.”
8. Cassie Stewart, The Unforgotten
Nicola Walker's phlegmatic DCI was the rock that formed the basis of Chris Lang's gripping cold case thriller. In a series full of hidden secrets and festering lies, the no-nonsense Cassie brings everyday humanity. We all loved riddles, of course. But much of The Unforgotten's charm came from Walker's frivolous acting. Killing her was tantamount to destroying the show itself.
Nicola Walker as Cassie Stewart. Photo: ITV
Nevertheless, Walker and Lang felt that Cassie's story was drawing to a natural conclusion. After falling out with her father over whether her son would inherit the family home and the trauma of her terrible job as a police officer, she went into a spiral. And then it all came crashing down when she went into a stupor while driving and died in an accidental road accident.
Walker said, “A lot of people said she was an empath, and the problem with being an empath is that in the end you will break. I felt that if she kept coming back, she would seem like a superhero. So it was in many ways a joint and long-planned decision.”
9. DC Trotman, In Duty
Duty Line was already a hit by the time it returned with its second season in 2014. But that was when Jed Mercurio really got ahead, throwing Jessica Rain's Georgia Trotman out the window of a five-story building.
Jessica Raine as Georgia Trotman in On Duty. Cole—apparently disguised as a nurse, after all, it's On Duty—and the message was that no one, not even guest stars, would be safe from now on.
10. Tony Soprano, The Sopranos
The original plan was for Tony Soprano, the biggest gangster on screen since Scarface, to give his final bow by entering the Lincoln Tunnel that connects New Jersey and Manhattan without leaving the other side. But then The Sopranos writer David Chase was on Ocean Park Boulevard, NJ, spying on a picturesque nearby restaurant. , Edie Falco and Robert Iler in the final scenes of The Sopranos. Photo: HBO/Kobal/Shutterstock
“It was like a shack where breakfast was served. And for some reason I thought: «Tony should get it in a place like this.» Why? I don't know. That was about two years ago.”
What did Chase mean by “understand”? It has never been officially confirmed that Tony was killed while on his way to have dinner with his family at that diner in the June 2007 finale. However, the fade to black after Journey's Don't Stop Believin' appears in the jukebox has been widely interpreted as a signal that he is about to be shot. That this is a clipping before the bullets fall.
Nevertheless, the final fate of the character is a source of controversy to this day. Even the cast can't agree. «I was going back and forth,» said Michael Imperioli, who played Tony's protégé, Christopher Moltisanti. “And then I thought maybe this is just what you see, this is what you get. This is the end of the story. There's no death, no what if, no what happened to Tony, it just ends right here. I don't know.
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