10 TV Deaths We All Saw Coming (That Still Left Us Stunned)

10. Chuck McGill - Better Call Saul

Maybe no-one truly saw Chuck's death coming. After all, Vince Gilligan has a knack for subverting our expectations. But the context of it as a prequel opens doors for speculation about why certain Albuquerque characters weren't seen in Breaking Bad. Not only did Chuck McGill not feature in Breaking Bad, but Saul barely even mentions having a brother for the entire five season run. That forced us early on to question why that was.

But by season three we'd become so engrossed in the Better Call Saul world that it was easy to forget that it was a prequel. So when it finally came, a capitulation of his paranoid and jealous spiral at the end of season three, it was still a bombshell.

The most chilling aspect was how devoid it was of purpose or emotion. A man who isolated himself for years commits suicide quietly in isolation in a horrible way. He'd lost everyone in his life and the silence in his final scene emphasizes a sad end to a lonely character. For the first time in Better Call Saul's three season run, the credits rolled silently.