The 10 Most Disturbing TV Episodes of All Time, Ranked

While there might’ve been a time when TV was relatively safe, at least if you were watching fictional shows, that time’s well and truly over. Shows from decades past could explore dark and disturbing things on occasion, but never really to the extent that those episodes remain devastating to watch by today’s standards. Things shifted a bit in the 1990s, and then well and truly by the turn of the 21st century.