9 Most Emotional TV Moments Of 2016
1. Poussey's Death - Orange Is The New Black
"This place crushes anything good."
Those words are spoken in The Animals, the 12th episode of OITNB's brilliant-but-harrowing fourth season, by chief Caputo to the young, kind-hearted officer Bayley.
By the end of the episode, they'd be devastatingly literal.
Tensions between the inmates and he guards had been building all season long, so it was only a matter of time before it escalated to the point that something like this happened. But it still doesn't fully prepare you for the trauma.
As riots break out, Poussey Washington - one of the nicest and best characters on the show - is pinned down by Bayley, and begins to be crushed. The scene goes on and on, as her situation becomes more perilous - and invokes the Black Lives Matter movement - until eventually she is crushed to death.
It's horrible to watch, shot in chaotic fashion by Mad Men's Matthew Weiner, and is an almost unspeakable tragedy.
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