Top 10 TV characters' deaths in 2013
From left, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) and Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in a season 5 episode of "Breaking Bad." Credit: AMC
Death, be not proud. Or, on second thought, be proud. Be whatever you like. You never cared what anyone thought, anyway, especially on TV.
And what a TV year for you -- mayhem, destruction, a beheading, a kitchen fork. Your methods, your variety, your sheer virtuosity made 2013 a macabre masterpiece. BuzzFeed, the website, tallied 65 major TV deaths a couple of days ago. It was an incomplete list.
There are all sorts of reasons for the killing (beginning with "violence sells"), but TV also has learned that there's no easier way to galvanize fans than offing a major character.
Today, I rank 10 key deaths, in order of importance. Certain shows don't really count, by the way -- "American Horror Story," for example, where death is cheap, commonplace, and sometimes not even for the whole season.
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