10 TV Moments You Didn't Expect To See This Season
Death, destruction and...Joe Exotic.
It's often repeated that we're living through the Golden Age of Television right now, and given the absurd spate of high-quality shows gracing our TVs, laptops, and smartphones at any one second, it's tough to disagree.
But great TV is one thing - what about shows that shocked, confounded, and took us all totally off guard?
These 10 TV series, all aired from 2019's fall season through to today, served up some of the most mind-meltingly unexpected moments across all entertainment media.
From jaw-dropping plot twists to insane death scenes, ridiculous cameos, and every barmy concoction in between, these are the moments that just about nobody banked on seeing.
Whether it worked against considerable odds, left fans infuriated, or turned out more divisive, you can't knock these shows for at least trying to do something fresh, creative, and ambitiously bizarre...
Of course it goes without saying that SPOILERS WILL FOLLOW for some of the hottest and most talked-about TV shows of the last six months, so you've been warned...
10. Picard "Dies" (But Gets A New Body) - Star Trek: Picard
Early in Star Trek: Picard, it's revealed that Picard (Patrick Stewart) is suffering from a terminal illness, and to most fans, this seemed like a piece of long-term storytelling that would pay off in a future season with Picard's probable demise.
After all, Picard had already been renewed for a second season before the first even began airing, so nobody expected the show to resolve Picard's fate this year, right?
And so, fans were surprised that the season finale indeed ended with Picard succumbing to his disease, but of course, there's a twist.
Dr. Altan Inigo Soong (Brent Spiner) ends up transferring his consciousness into a synthetic "golem" body, allowing Picard to live out a few extra decades of life in his new chassis.
Fans were heavily divided on the twist, some seeing it as a neat wrinkle to Picard's characterisation, while others viewed it as a needlessly silly affectation.
Either way, just about nobody saw it coming. Didn't most of us expect that Picard would eventually die of his condition in, like, season five or something?