10 Grimmest TV Storylines Ever

1. The Behanding Of Gary Beecher - Oz

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Boy, that Vern Schillinger was a piece of work, wasn’t he?

When his long-running nemesis Tobias Beecher (who had already been beaten, raped, broken-limbed and stabbed by Vern at this point) tries to make good between them, Vern sees only a new threat.

Paying Vern’s last living son to come and visit his old man in the big house, Tobias will forever rue the day he tried to be nice. Vern sees this all as a dastardly ploy and takes the offensive, getting his son to kidnap Beecher’s infant son and daughter. From there they cut the hand off Beecher’s young son Gary and mail it to him in prison before killing the poor kid completely.

Sometimes, it does not pay to be nice.

Having already killed one of his sons by tricking him into overdosing, Vern’s preferred son is executed by hitmen on Beecher’s orders leaving him childless and guilty of one of the worst things to happen in possibly the most unpleasant TV drama of all time.

Seriously, did TV ever get nastier than this?

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