The 10 Heaviest TV Episodes of the Last 30 Years, Ranked

Spoiler Alert: This list contains spoilers for multiple TV shows.The last 30 years of television have seen the airing of several of the heaviest episodes, not just of the last three decades, but arguably of all time. These may be some of the greatest episodes of television in history, but they’re undeniably tough to get through. Whether they’re depressing, violent, emotionally exhausting, narratively dense, or all of those things and more, they can simply not be described with a more fitting word than “heavy.”