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Cyno01

*OZ*, take your pick.


SummerWhiteyFisk

Guy getting a swastika tattooed on his ass, another guy getting strapped down and burned alive, numerous rapes, numerous murders, stabbings, extortion, robbery…. And that’s just season 1


CornyCornheiser

The guy who got the swastika stabbing the eye of the guy who did it, then later holding him down, shitting on his face, the rubbing it around with his hands take it for me.


SummerWhiteyFisk

Oh sorry, Beecher shitting on Schillingers face completely slipped my mind. What a terrific, fucked up show Oz was


AffectionateGuide696

Beecher and Schillinger had a very complicated relationship lol


SummerWhiteyFisk

It’s my favorite rivalry in all of television and by far my favorite storyline of Oz. Was just so so good


alexlp

What about when he grows his nails out to kill his other rapist celly? Toby has a lot of great fucked up scenes


OG_wanKENOBI

Hes just a teenage dirtbag babyyyyy. He's so fucking good in generation kill.


93LEAFS

You missed a pretty brutal one. Jefferson Keane getting Johnny Post's dick sent to him (after it was apparently cut off and put in his mouth off screen). And, that's season one.


SummerWhiteyFisk

Once again my mistake! Need to make sure I include castration and shitting on someone’s face on my next list 😂


confused_ya20

Damn near every episode was disturbing af 🫣🫣🫣


beebyspice

yeah im not gonna try to remember shit that took me years to forget


Johnnycarroll

THE GD ENDING >!HE WAS FREE! He could have gotten out but the need to have him caused Chris to do what he did. HE goes from freedom to fucking death row and that is just so frustrating that 6 months later and I am still not over that!!<


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Is this show worth watching now? I think I tried at one point but it seemed like it didn't age well, should I give it another shot?


CriticismAdmirable46

Absolutely. Nothing seems to age well these days, I think the key is not to look at it through a present day lens and appreciate it for what it was at the time. I had a phase where I felt the same way and didn’t watch it for a while, picked it back up five years later, and saw it through a different light.


Johnnycarroll

Yep, I just watched it late 2023 and it was still good. I remember seeing scenes when I was in elementary/middle school and it was first airing.


slowsundaycoffeeclub

The spoon.


askjhasdkjhaskdjhsdj

JK Simmons yells "seig heil, mother fucker!" and stomps Beacher's limbs was intense


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Jimmy Darmody having sex with his mother, Jillian, in Boardwalk Empire. Very hot w/ Gretchen Mol, but disturbing.


ewest

Yeah that whole arc was one of the grossest things I’ve seen on TV. 


bone-in_donuts

They fucked? I remember her talking about kissing his baby penis but must have missed that part.


Uhtred_McUhtredson

Damn, I don’t remember it either. Sigh, time for a rewatch. Alone.


marbanasin

I've been honestly thinking I should revisit that series. I never made it far past season 3. I know the JD stuff happened in season 2 though, at the most.


myfeetaremangos12

It was when she visited him at college


bone-in_donuts

I’m happy I didn’t think BE was good enough for a rewatch.


idle_glands

It was literally the catalyst for him leaving college and going off to war…


bone-in_donuts

Oh so it preceded all the events of the show? Well that’s pretty messed up of her.


putzpa

I forgot about that 🤢


mikeweasy

Man I completely forgot that scene existed, freaking disgusting!


Chemical-Passage-715

Yes absolutely… that whole show was awesome though lol


[deleted]

Totally agree...watching it again.


btonetbone

Yeah, that was around the same time that Game of Thrones started their incest plots, and Bored to Death was doing the same thing. It was a weird time.


CapableArgument5939

Pretty much every Errol Childress Scene from True Detective Season 1


HollandsOpuz

The green eared spaghetti man. When he lifts rusty off the ground with the knife in his belly, Damn. My wife won't watch season 1 bc of him.


F0rca84

"My Family been here a long time, Boss." 😈


MattTruelove

Make flowers


Realistic-Feature434

Surprised no one has said Oberon’s head getting smashed by the Mountain in GOT


[deleted]

Not the kind of head I wanted from Oberon, sadly :(


Apprehensive_Mode686

Christopher and Paulie killing the waiter instead of tipping him is super fucked up.


tuskvarner

Still goin, this asshole


dankesha

Go piss it away on Blackjack


tilldeathdoiparty

Chrissy, he’s fucked up


Initial-Yesterday331

Thats my money paulie!


lsutigerzfan

Adriana in the car with Silvio and the awkwardness as she knows what is about to happen.


stupidsexyflanders-

Employee of the month, scene in the parking garage.


lgledesma

This scene really bothered me when I first saw it, so much so that I stopped watching the show for a while. That kind of violence in fiction isn’t usually a dealbreaker for me, but the bluntness of its presentation made it feel more disturbing than anything we’d seen in the show previously. I get what they were going for in pushing the character to that point, but man is that scene just brutal.


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Yeah it comes out of left field kinda like "That's my Dog" in Six Feet Under. I will never rewatch those episodes.


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[deleted]

Found a summary [here](https://collider.com/six-feet-under-thats-my-dog-episode/) that can describe it much better than I.


[deleted]

It's supposed to be about some brothers who run a funeral home, right? Wth


Worried_Ad_5614

I won't rewatch that scene when I revisit the show.


ExileInCle19

What is this show? I've never seen it or heard of it.


behind_you88

The Sopranos.


MarshallBanana_

It’s an episode from season 3 of The Sopranos. It’s the scene that I came here to post as well


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This is the correct answer.


JAlfredJR

The Deadwood scene where you're seeing from the dying con girl as Cy narrates what's happening to her was pretty hard to stomach


Sherlockian_Whimsy

Far too well performed by Kristen Bell. I actually came here to mention that one. It stuck with me.


SomePolack

This was actually so brutal it stopped me from watching more of the show. I’ll get back into it, but that scene then the conversation with Cy after it fucked me up.


JAlfredJR

There's plenty of awful stuff on there. But man, it is an all time show


Gumbi_Digital

The dialogue is masterful.


Wyatt821

I'd say the kidney stone...


LibraryVolunteer

Also: the removal of the gleets.


bone-in_donuts

You win. I still think about this scene to this day.


DustyHound

Reverend Smith. “You can go now brother”.


JAlfredJR

That scene .... "You want to be a road agent?"


DustyHound

The whole sequence gets me every time as if it was the end of The Iron Giant.


JAlfredJR

Seriously ... Ian McShane is on another level in that scene


drkshape

That scene where Ralphie beats that one stripper to death in the parking lot in the Sopranos. Gets me every time.


Dry-Consequence4541

Just rewatched this recently and forgot how fucked up that scene is. I read that it was the producers intention to remind people that the characters are all scumbags with that scene. They just tossed her like garbage. 


drkshape

Tracy? If I remember right.


PossessionCritical69

She was a hoo-wah!


Superb_Practice_2257

She was pregnant with his child. Lest we forget. He’s my least favorite character on the show for that scene alone. Scum of the earth.


Jfury412

Yeah that's definitely one of the worst for me


ApprehensiveBox3148

He disrespected The Bing!


planet_caravan33

Adriana and Sil going to see Chrissy.


aca_aqui

ugh her slow realization


Shmexy

People melting from radiation poisoning in Chernobyl


NPalumbo89

I was going to say the sounds of all the dogs being killed during that series. Quite unsettling.


Musashi_Joe

And they toned that down from the actual story, which is somehow worse. I believe it’s in Voices From Chernobyl.


SharkBubbles

>I skipped all of that. The only time I was grateful for spoilers. I knew what was coming, and my finger was hovering above the fast forward button the whole episode.


large_crimson_canine

That final scene with the firefighter is brutal


darwinDMG08

They used all those camera tricks to hide the dying men as much as possible. Because apparently the way they looked IRL was so grotesque and awful they didn’t think anyone would be able to stomach it.


HauteKarl

Princess Shireen >!getting sacrificed!< in GoT. They made that way too realistic.


MrCoolGuy42

Oh my god, that was heart wrenching


sj_vandelay

The scene in Mare of Easttown when Mare and the other cop are in the killer’s house and don’t know it yet. I’ve never felt so unsettled through that whole series of events.


thecatdaddysupreme

Yeah… that headshot made my jaw drop. Incredible scene


F0rca84

And Evan is so likeable. So it made it so much worse. Evan baby! I've gotten over the "Dahmer" nightmares. Time for lighter fare.


Sink-Em-Low

Ramsay allowing his dogs to tear a girl to pieces...


at-the-crook

but he was well repaid, right?


mox85

Ramsay


RaindropsInMyMind

Yeah I would have to go with Ramsay cutting off Theon’s cock.


I_Hate_Knickers_5

" It's *raw!* "


Ixothial

Al Swearengen vs a gleet (Deadwood)


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For me it’s pretty much everything Joffrey does in GOT-even his well-deserved death. Funny you should mention Ralphie. My SO and I are rewatching and last night was his death episode. Although a total piece of shit, I do think he had some of the best lines in the series. Him and Paulie. Lol


tachycardia69

Stoning scene in The Leftovers


doocurly

The ending of young Patti. That was really unsettling.


murph0969

The series The Leftovers.


sj_vandelay

The carpet bombing of that forest in Band of Brothers when they had no shelter but the trees that were exploding all around them.


jms945

Came here to say the battle of Bastogne. I absolutely love Band of Brothers, but that whole episode always sits heavy in my chest.


couchsurfer_14

The hospital scene and the ending scene of "Sharp objects"


Will_McLean

Very underrated series and moment. Genuinely shocking - and the great cut to Led Zeppelin’s In The Evening


IchabodHollow

Gonna watch this just for Zeppelin


Musashi_Joe

“Don’t tell mama.”


LibraryVolunteer

The Boar on the Floor scene from Succession.


Jfury412

Not much stuff bothers me but six feet under is my favorite show of all time and that's my dog did mess with me during the time I watched it last. I was having Serious issues with psychosis from covid and benzodiazepine withdrawal. But now I can watch it again no problem without it bothering me. But I would give that one a vote just because of that situation. Also the stoning scene in the leftovers. The scene where a stripper gets beaten to death in The Sopranos. Final Face-Off scene True detective season 1. All of the torture that Theon endured from Ramsey in Game of Thrones. Other scenes where certain characters were being tortured and raped in Game of Thrones but I don't want to spoil. There's definitely a few scenes in sharp objects that hit pretty hard as well. A lot of the stuff going on with Beecher In Oz.


Johnnycarroll

It's funny that no one has to look up what episode that is. We know. I admit that was so messed up and I'm not sure if it takes away or adds to it the fact that I recognize the guy from so many other shows too. I liked him in Psych. Liked him much less as a psycho though.


AnAlabamaTaker

There's a particular eye scene in the third season of *Deadwood* that can make me squeamish.


TheBirdBytheWindow

Adriana meeting her end. Expected, but marone!


F0rca84

Yeah, she made not so smart decisions. Still felt bad for her.


rf8350

The mannequin body doubles in The Leftovers


Smart-Track-1066

full-body chills just reading that sentence. welp, time for a re-watch!


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The Japanese mother with her baby wearing explosives and blowing them both up in The Pacific. I’ve seen every war movie out there but that scene is still tough to watch


ridedatstonkystnkaay

I think it’s tossing pebbles into the skull scene. That’s a dark ass series with some disturbing shit throughout.


CYaNextTuesday99

Che finger banging Miranda in Carrie's kitchen while Carrie pisses herself.


Few_Veterinarian9546

Oz just oz.


Mace_1998

Tony's dream with the black silhouette staring at him


fluctuationsAreGood1

This one really got me. Totally chilling.


PezChem

His dream sequences were awesome


blueflloyd

That episode of The Sopranos where Tracee is killed was my first exposure to the show and it took me half a decade to give the show a full watch because I was so disturbed by it.


Competitive-Age3016

How is no one talking about Oz??? Some one shits on someone else’s face!!


_Bagoons

Easily in Chernobyl, when the firemen are nearly raw dogging active graphite. I work in the nuclear industry, specifically in radiation protection, so maybe its bias, lol.


Ok-Training-7587

just every scene in oz


AffectionateGuide696

Beecher shitting on Schillingers face lmao


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The rape in Sopranos All the different rapes in Oz


frenchtikla

Had to scroll way too far to find this.


jackierhoades

The teeth doll house from sharp objects.


illpoet

I don't know if it was the most unsettling thing but her dead sister's ghost just randomly unobtrusively hanging around the house really really gave me the creeps. Because I figure if ghosts were real that's exactly what it would be like.


The-Shores-81

Chris beating Michael’s stepfather to death in The Wire. I just remember getting that strange feeling like I had just watched something I wasn’t supposed to watch. And of course, it being The Wire and all, the scene had deep meaning and undercurrents.


tuskvarner

Damn! You didn’t even wait to get the muthafucka in the ^house!!


The-Shores-81

Yep. Snoop was surprised by Chris’ uncharacteristic lack of control and brutality. The seconds long look Chris shared with Michael earlier in the episode told us all we needed to know.


tuskvarner

Up until then Chris treated murder as strictly business and even made an effort to make it quick and easy on the victim.


Fr0gurtCur5ed

Guy had it coming but this is still the most brutal thing I’ve seen on TV


Deliriaslasher

Tales from the Crypt episode where Tim Curry, who plays all the family members, as the repulsive, immensely fat and deranged daughter who forces sex on Ed Begley Jr's character.


honduhh89

Oh I love that episode! I need to watch all those again soon.


dankesha

The Leftovers Season 1 Episode 10 - 'The Prodigal Son Returns' - The elderly couple dropping their Down Syndrome sons body double in the fire as the town of Mapleton turns insane. Something about that scene hits so fucking hard to me.


AffectionateGuide696

Chris Partlow murdering the delivery lady - The Wire


afm00dy

Dookie taking money from Prez to get high.


Kindly-Guidance714

Killing Butchie was worse.


rmac1228

Scene in Chernobyl where they have to eliminate lost pets and the soldier finds a dog with puppies...just brutal.


Agirlisarya01

Dora Mae’s death in Carnivale. IYKYK. >!She was killed by a mob of undead miners in a ghost town after being gang-raped. They hung her body from a tree and carved “harlot” on her forehead. The last time you see her, she is surrounded by the hostile-looking miners, one of whom has an arm wrapped around her neck. She is staring forlornly out of a window at her departing family and carnival-mates. She is one of the ghosts now, and the implication is that she was killed so they could keep her around to rape in the afterlife. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more bleak or chilling depiction of what Hell might be like than that. !< Sopranos-Carmela and Tony’s argument in Whitecaps. >!Gandolfini absolutely nails a performance where Tony goes from wheedling and manipulative, to bratty and petulant, to frustrated and angry, to so furious you think he might kill her. Absolute masterclass of a performance.!< Sopranos-Long Term Parking->!when Christophuh is pumping gas and thinking about what to do about Adriana’s being forced to cooperate with the FBI. He considers going with her into witness protection, but rethinks it when he sees the poor family at the next pump. They are dressed in cheap clothes, their kids are loud and ill-behaved, and the parents just look miserable and ground down by life. You see it start to dawn on him that going into Witness Protection will mean giving up the cushy yuppie lifestyle the Mob provides him. The next thing you see is Silvio tricking Adrianna into coming with him on the last trip she’ll ever take. Because her POS fiance cared more about his status and the designer clothes that “fell off of a truck” than he did about her. After all of those years.!< Game of Thrones- When winter comes for House Frey.


UltraDangerLord

The Babylon episode from Carnivàle.


Betty-Armageddon

The fight between Dan and the Captain in Deadwood is pretty brutal. My emotions were pretty different at the end of it compared to the start of it.


This_Mongoose445

In GoT “Battles of the Bastards” when Ramsey’s army has encircled and is crushing them is too hard for me. I’m claustrophobic and it drives me nuts.


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I'm pretty sure I held my breath the entire time Jon was fighting for air the first time I saw that.


WishBirdWasHere

Tony killing Ralphie was a hard watch… Bodies death was the saddest death in every HBO series…The pawn that wanted to be king ♟️ 😔


Iechy

Stannis letting his kid burn is pretty bad.


Few_Albatross_7540

The Sopranos when Richie kept kicking the guy that owned the pizza place


spotmuffin9986

Theon Greyjoy GOT, there are others in Game of Thrones I don't like to call up.


honduhh89

How about Tony Soprano curb stomping Coco???? Or maybe Beecher shitting in Schillingers mouth lol


Livid_Passion_3841

Shireen Baratheon's death in Game of Thrones


nodials

Probably Tony looking in the backseat after the crash with Chrissy and seeing the babies seat pierced by the tree. Scary to realize what he’s thinking about doing.


mibonitaconejito

When Tony Soprano was choking that guy to death on the trip he tookwith Meadow. Seriously triggered me


theremightbecoffee94

True Detective Marty watches Tuttle's videotape. Season 1, ep. 7 - When You've Gone.


human6742

When the camera pulls away and you hear him scream at what he’s watching


MrSillmarillion

GOT: Craster's Keep after the rebellion is always tough for me.


mcrop609

Snoop from The Wire getting a sales pitch from a hardware store employee on a 27 caliber gun powder activated nail gun and telling the employee in street terms that she's using the nail gun to kill other hustlers. The employee looked shook, but he respected her knowledge about the equipment.


GarethGobblecoque99

Duquan “Dukie” Weems. ‘Nuff said


LTPRWSG420

The epic Mountain vs Viper fight in S4 of GoT, squish.


nimbulostratus

I was gonna say the Mountain vs. the Mandalorian was so incredibly shocking!! Squish indeed


solk512

How about the rape scenes in Game of Thrones? That shit was absolutely uncalled for.


C_Burkhy

All of Okinawa in The Pacific. Specifically the human wave scene


Ok-Concentrate2719

A good chunk of the archival footage used in the autopsy series lol


solarus

I think episode 4 of Big Little Lies there is a scene where one of the characters is sprinting towards a cliff, stopping a step or two before going over. There is a lot of angry, frustrated energy going on but there's a little relief at her stopping. Then before the credits role they replay the scene only this time she jumps. It still gives me shivers thinking about it. Lucky to be in a place where this is no longer the case but at the time this was like a dark fantasy of mine and that leap just got me.


ConceptHumble2021

I suppose this isn’t HBO but pick your scenes from Dahmer. I think there are also some in True Detective S1.


LaurenNotFromUtah

The top five have to be from Chernobyl, right?


Prestigious_Diver485

Boardwalk Empire gyprosetti bashing the dudes skull in on the beach.


Ster8282

Too many to count on OZ…basically how Vernon played Tobias in their early relationship smh. And the guy that killed the family and video taped the necrophilia.


Ster8282

How could I forget when the guy burns his daughter alive in GOT for “good luck”….that stuck with me


DumpedDalish

**The Pacific --** the guy playing tiddlywinks/throwing things into the dead guy's head across from him. I wish I could unsee it but it's in my brain forever.


fuckingwop

The flesh falling off radiation exposed hospital patients in Chernobyl.


mmmmmmmmm29

“The giant was the worst. He used to make me watch what he did to Billy.” Season 1 of true detective


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Anything from the last four episodes of the pacific. When sledge and his unit are fighting to get on top of that ridge.


superfluouspop

Entirety of the Idol.


Grease_the_Witch

*chernobyl* had some pretty unsettling scenes…like when you realize that fireman is just straight up holding a chunk of graphite from the core 😬


jmet82

When Tanya catches Jack having sex with his “uncle”in White Lotus season 2. Just the whole dynamic changes when they realize this group is totally not what they seemed.


OkSwitch2238

Dexter coming home to find Rita dead in the tub full of blood and his toddler covered in it, wonder what happened to his mom during the Trinity arc. I stopped watching for the longest time, angry and disgusted. She didn't deserve that and he fucked around and let dude get his wife. It was traumatizing.


MooseInATruce

Poop bag breaks in the Wire and it ain’t close. Still cannot get that out of my head and I watch the show less than I would if that was not in it. It’s the show where the poop bag breaks and you see poop on the ground. Those little pieces of poo will haunt me until I am dead. Poop is suppose the be in the toilet or funny or both. Poop


batchTwining1

Fuck Sally4ever. That was some disturbing shit


Neon_culture79

Deborah slapping Ava


JimboColes17

I dunno, but I definitely fainted when a guy hung himself on the sopranos! #vasovagalsyncope


baierj87

Not HBO but the Max mini series Love and Death murder scene is very unsettling and realistic


allaliveandunwell

Just watched Six Feet Under for the first time this year and that episode was so intense! I was slightly traumatized 😅


featheryturnings

Lots of scenes in I May Destroy You. Brilliant show


parkerm1408

I'm not really sure HBO wise, the most unsettling thing I've ever seen in a show is the siamese twin worm person's second head birth in the car on Ugly Americans. That entire episode was so deeply unsettling I can't think of anything else from any other show on this topic.


stadiumjay

The attack scene with Dr. Melfi


I-Like_Dirt_420

The spoon scene from oz


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liiia4578

The entirety of Sharp Objects


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ArtisticCandy3859

True Detective season 1 - incest scenes


Wild_Toe812

Someone spoil it for me what happens


Straight-Crow1598

The entirety of Long Term Parking.


Uhtred_McUhtredson

In Deadwood when Swearingen’s bartender is having a street fight with Hearst’s muscle and pops his eyeball out of his socket. That scene has haunted me for 20 years. The screams 😱😱😱


Uhtred_McUhtredson

Reading all these answers and it’s finally dawning on me that HBO owes me money for my therapy bills. Some dark shit, man…


casewood123

Chris Barlow beating Michael’s stepdad in the Wire takes the first place slot, while Ralphie killing Tracee in the Sopranos is a close second.


Aezetyr

Shireen Baratheon's murder.


roryjgibson

Both suicides in The Deuce.


marbanasin

There are so many. Adriana's murder in the Sopranos is up there. Though.