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Tear Jerker / Broadchurch

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  • The opening theme is incredibly beautiful and sad.
  • When Beth Latimer asks Tom Miller for a hug.
    "I miss his hugs."
  • Jack's breakdown and tragic suicide.
  • The town lights a bonfire on the beach in memory of Danny and as we watch, more fires start up the distance, until the whole coast is spotted with pinpricks of light.
  • Alec asking Tess that they could be a family again despite still being bitter about the affair. It shows how, for all his talk about how everyone is alone and no one can be trusted, he does get lonely and crave companionship underneath.
  • After putting Pippa's photo that he had been carrying around in the Sandbrook case file, signifying that the case was solved, Alec breaks down sobbing alone in the interrogation room.
  • Trish Winterman in the immediate aftermath of her rape, going through the whole process of evidence collection while she's so shocked from what happened that she can barely speak. Ellie's kindness toward her throughout the ordeal somehow only makes it sadder.

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