10 Shocking Scenes That Prove TV Has Gone Too Far
2. The Red Wedding (Game Of Thrones)
Game of Thrones shocks, it’s what it does. People are suddenly murdered, tortured, raped, basically, anything goes. But The Red Wedding scene set itself apart from the rest of the show.
In perhaps the most brutal scene ever shown on television before it, Rob Stark, his pregnant wife, and his mother are brutally murdered. During the wedding of Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey, the Stark’s friends and guests are murdered in the hall, among them Rob’s wife, who is repeatedly stabbed in the stomach to make sure the unborn baby dies too. In an emotional scene, Catelyn Stark begs for her son to be spared. But her pleas fall on deaf ears and both her and her son are slaughtered.
Throughout the season, GoT creators masterfully build up Rob Stark as the savior and future ruler of Westeros, in order to make his fall that much steeper. The Stark family is liked by all, and viewers support their cause. And then they kill them, well most of them. After Ned’s death in the first season, many of us thought a Stark’s death couldn’t shock or sadden us that much, for a second time. We were proven wrong.