10 TV Shows That Killed Characters Unexpectedly Early
6. April Green - Jericho
Jericho was a criminally underrated show based around a small town in Kansas amidst a nuclear war.
One of Jericho’s most tragic characters was April Green. April was a doctor within the town’s medical centre and was pregnant in the first season. Given that the country was in the middle of nuclear armageddon, the centre was poorly supplied when April fell into labour.
At this point in the show, April was aware that her husband Eric was in love with a local bartender and had filed for divorce, but had begun to uneasily reconcile with him when the baby arrived.
Complications arose and devastatingly, the baby died as a result of a haemorrhage during labour. An unconscious April awoke later, lucid and unaware, to tell a heartbroken Eric that she wanted to name the baby Holly. Unable to tell April what happened, Eric agreed, only to watch April herself die in the hospital bed as well.
This absolute gut-punch may be one of the hardest on this list to watch, but it's definitely worth suffering through.