Skins/Tear Jerker

Sid's father's death, and his utterly shell-shocked reaction to it, in Season 2 of Skins.
When Sid runs to the beach in tears, and Michelle follows him, and then he turns around and says to her brokenly, "Chelle, I'm so lonely." Add Fat Segal's beautiful ambient music in the background.
- Except that the track in this part is by Sigur Rós. Beautiful scene and beautiful music, anyway.
Chris' death and funeral.
The scene in the final episode of Series 2 where Tony and Sid say goodbye. "I've always loved you the best, Sid." Heartwrenching.
- Series 2's finale is like a neverending tearjerker. Aside from the two examples above, the other plotlines have Anwar reaching a dead end in his life and facing up to the shame and loneliness from being left behind while all his other friends were able to move on with their lives. During the scene where he makes up with Maxxie and leaves with him, this becomes tears of happiness... only to become tears of sorrow again when the bus leaves to show Sketch, alone and forgotten with a face of pure despair.
In Series 1, Cassie's near-suicide was heartbreaking to watch.
Naomi's struggles to face up to her love of Emily in her episode.

Emily: I know you, Naomi. I know you're lonely. I think you need somebody to want you. Well, I do want you. So be brave, and want me back!

- Also the catflap scene. Equal parts heartwarming and tearjerking.
And her continued failure to cope in Katie and Emily's ep.

Emily: What do you do if someone you love lets you down? Really fucks you over?
Thomas: You must try to stop loving them.
Emily: And is that possible?
Thomas: ...No, I don't think so.

- And we all know that Thomas is really talking about Pandora when he says that.
- And then Emily comes out to Thomas who takes it as the most normal thing he's ever heard, and she falls apart again.
- Fuck it. Emily is a walking Tear Jerker, Naomi is (mostly) a walking Crowning Moment Of Awesome, and them finally getting together is a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
And then they had to go and fuck it all to hell in Series 4.
- Naomi at the end of Emily's episode, when she realises that there's nothing she can do to stop Emily finding out that she cheated with Sophia - at an open day that she promised Emily she wouldn't even go to. The desperation is written there.
- The pool scene in Katie's episode. "I fucked the dead girl, I'm the one who gave her the drugs, and now she's punishing me for it."
Effy's suicide attempt in Freddie's S4 ep. (Freddie's murder in Effy's ep provoked anger rather than tears...)
The entire scene where we find out about Grace's Death and that Rich has been hallucinating for the entire episode that she was awake. What really hammers it home is the last scene of Professor Blood, who was a seemingly irredeemable character, breaking down on the stairs of his ruined house is the worst thing. Seeing a father well and truly losing it, and admitting that he also talks to Grace all the time because he doesn't know what else to do, and then crying and asking "what would she think of me for turning off the bloody machine" is just physically painful to watch.
- Especially seeing as, from his perspective, she was his little girl, and we saw Rich watching baby videos of Grace earlier in the episode. you cannot help but think of her as a lost daughter, rather than a lost girlfriend or friend. that kinda makes it worse. the whole idea of 'no parent should ever bury their child.

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