From shocking character revelations to mind-bending timeline shifts, television has given us some truly unforgettable moments that changed everything we thought we knew. Join us as we explore the most jaw-dropping plot developments that left audiences stunned and forever changed how we view our favorite shows.
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00:00Who do you know? Who's okay with using children? Jesse, who do you know?
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the best unexpected plot developments in TV stories in the 21st century to date.
00:14Naturally, spoilers ahead.
00:16Um, oh, sorry. I thought we reserved the conference room.
00:20No, Todd, we have it until three.
00:22Sorry. Sorry, everyone.
00:24Number 30. Wanda All Along. WandaVision.
00:27You're supposed to be a myth, a being capable of spontaneous creation.
00:33Here you are, using it to make breakfast for dinner.
00:39Let go of my children.
00:41When Wanda Maximoff is captured by Agatha Harkness, we're certain that the latter has been manipulating the Scarlet Witch through the TV-inspired scenarios depicted in the show, too.
00:49However, as Agatha takes Wanda down memory lane through a series of flashbacks, we learn the truth.
00:54Wanda trapped a whole town in her fantasy.
01:06Her grief over losing Vision leads her to create the elaborate TV illusion, imprisoning the town's residents and essentially being revealed as a tragic villain protagonist.
01:15And sure, she doesn't get a catchy song to go along with this revelation, unlike Agatha, but we'd argue it's a better twist.
01:22Who's been messing up everything?
01:24It's been Agatha All Along.
01:29Number 29. Who is Lady Whistledown? Bridgerton.
01:33Give my regards to Madame Delacroix.
01:35Your regards will have to wait, though. Seems she's making a short trip back to France.
01:39I'm not going to say goodbye to her.
01:41Throughout much of this Regency-period drama, high society remains fascinated by the writing of the mysterious Lady Whistledown.
01:48Her gossip papers expose embarrassing secrets for many, including the eponymous Bridgertons and their neighbors, the Featheringtons.
01:55Of all that I have imparted to you, dear reader, there is but one bit of wisdom you must heed most.
02:02One can never know the truth of a marriage hiding behind closed doors.
02:07Heloise Bridgerton is especially interested, playing detective in search of Whistledown's identity.
02:12She believes she has discovered the right answer. Genevieve Delacroix, a modiste to high society ladies.
02:18However, in the finale, Heloise learns that Madame Delacroix was absent from a crucial party and with her brother Benedict at the time, discounting her as a suspect.
02:27Instead, the audience learns that Lady Whistledown's true identity is in fact Heloise's best friend and noted wallflower Penelope Featherington.
02:35Perhaps I will come forward one day.
02:39Though you must know, dear reader, that decision shall be left entirely up to me. Yours truly.
02:48Heloise just couldn't see someone so close to her.
02:56Captain Michael Byrne, we have sentenced you to death for crimes committed against the Terran throne.
03:04Do you have any last words before we collect our retribution?
03:08Game-changing twists aren't usually in Star Trek's wheelhouse, but the first season of the show has a doozy.
03:14While in the Mirror Universe, Michael Burnham tries to convince her counterpart's adoptive mother, the Emperor Philippa Georgiou, to release her captain Gabriel Lorca.
03:23You have no reason to hold my captain any longer. He shouldn't have to suffer for your Lorca's crimes.
03:28The captain may not be comfortable where he is, but I am.
03:31Georgiou expresses reluctance, citing her universe's Lorca as being duplicitous and conniving.
03:37As she discusses her Lorca, Burnham recalls some odd coincidences.
03:41And at first, you're thinking, huh, I guess the two Lorcas are similar.
03:45But then, Georgiou reveals that she and other humans from the Mirror Universe are all photosensitive, just like the Lorca Burnham has been following.
03:52You're sensitive to light.
03:55Only compared to a human from your universe is the singular biological difference between our two races.
04:02The whole season, Lorca's actions have been a long con for him to return to overthrow Georgiou.
04:07My so-called captain's not from my universe. He's from yours.
04:15Stepping out for a bit. Don't worry about me, son. I know where I'm going.
04:21You want me to call the police?
04:25No.
04:27The first season finale of this often-overlooked sci-fi series sees the Fringe team pursuing David Robert Jones,
04:33a man whose goal seems to be crossing between universes.
04:36Dr. Walter Bishop goes to an old beach house with his son Peter to retrieve a device.
04:41While there, Walter explains that he too once crossed between worlds, hoping to retrieve something he once lost.
04:47We believed that we were catching glimpses of another reality, another world, just like ours, but slightly different.
04:56Populated by slightly different versions of ourselves.
05:01The team stops Jones, hooray, and everything starts to wrap up.
05:05And then, we see Walter visiting a grave.
05:08The name on the grave? Peter Bishop.
05:11The implication is that Walter's original son died, and he abducted another version of Peter.
05:16Our Peter from the other universe.
05:18There's more than one of everything indeed.
05:20Okay, just so I'm clear. Somewhere out there, there is a hole to another reality, and you need to plug it.
05:27Yes, I'm afraid so.
05:28Well, do you know where it is?
05:30Yes. Yes, I do, Peter.
05:33Number 26. Family phone call. The Boys.
05:36Sir, I apologize for disturbing you, but you have a call.
05:40He says he's, well, he's claiming to be Soldier Boy.
05:44Outrageous twists are kind of the order of the day in this dark superhero series.
05:48Although Butcher's wife still being alive did leave us, and Butcher shook, there's an even more shocking development in the boys.
05:54Throughout season three, it gradually becomes apparent that all-American hero Soldier Boy isn't all he's cracked up to be.
06:00Much like his successor, Homelander.
06:02However, after interrogating Mindstorm, Soldier Boy departs and makes a call to Homelander himself.
06:08I thought we should have a conversation.
06:09I don't know who the f*** you think you are, but you got lucky once.
06:13G.I. Jackass reveals to Homelander that he provided Vought scientists with his genetic material.
06:19He is Homelander's father. The monster desperate for family had one after all.
06:24Turns out, Vogelbaum made a kid.
06:29Born spring 1981.
06:33A boy.
06:34Number 25. Who's infected? The Walking Dead.
06:38I thought we worked this all out.
06:40Trying to kill each other, man.
06:42What you think, we just gonna forget about it all?
06:44Gonna ride off into the sunset together?
06:46You gonna kill me in cold blood?
06:48Season two of this long-running zombie apocalypse show gets a bad rap.
06:51But it ends with quite a game changer.
06:53Shane's long-simmering jealousy and resentment of Rick leads him to try and kill his former friend.
06:58Rick kills him instead.
06:59However, despite not being bitten by a walker, Shane still turns into one after death.
07:04Forcing Rick's son Carl to kill the undead Shane.
07:07It's not what it seems. Please.
07:13The next episode, when the group wonders how this is possible,
07:16Rick reveals what Jenner at the CDC told him.
07:18They're all infected.
07:20Whatever disease causes zombification after death, getting bitten only hastens it.
07:24It's not the cause.
07:25This revelation changes everything.
07:27Because it means even a safe place won't be safe if someone dies there.
07:31At the CDC, Jenner told me.
07:36Whatever it is, we all carry it.
07:44Sorry to interrupt this, but I brought you a gift.
07:49A gift? What's the occasion?
07:52Howard Hamlin is a bit of a stick in the mud, but not a fundamentally bad guy.
07:56So after Jimmy McGill slash Saul Goodman and Kim Wexler use elaborate means to ruin Howard's reputation,
08:02we feel bad for him, even if he is a lawyer.
08:04Howard angrily confronts the duo at their apartment,
08:07delivering a speech lambasting them for setting him up.
08:09Jimmy, you can't help yourself.
08:11Chuck knew it.
08:13You were born that way.
08:15But you, one of the smartest and most promising human beings I've ever known,
08:20and this is the life you choose.
08:21However, while Howard has seen through his old colleague's cruel prank,
08:25he doesn't see Lalo Salamanca, Jimmy's cartel client, sneak into the room.
08:29Jimmy and Kim try to get him to leave, but Howard is concerned for them,
08:33right up until Lalo puts a bullet in his head.
08:36This shocking death sees Jimmy's criminal and professional lives collide in an astonishingly violent way.
08:42Oh my God!
08:43No!
08:44Oh my God!
08:45No, no!
08:47Shh, shh, shh.
08:52Okay.
08:55It's done.
08:56Number 23.
08:57Who's the snitch?
08:58Succession.
08:59And the holding company move.
09:01If we do that, that's real?
09:03He can't sanction a deal without us.
09:05That's legal fact.
09:07Block him and he's f***ed.
09:08Okay, so...
09:11Time to rip off the bandaid.
09:12The three Roy siblings are forever at odds with their domineering father Logan.
09:16In the season 3 finale, they learn of a clause in their mother's divorce agreement
09:20that allows them voting rights in the company,
09:22finally giving them one up on Logan.
09:25You can handle this?
09:26Been basically planning it since we were four.
09:30What if dad flutters his eyelids at you, Ron?
09:32You gonna melt?
09:33Me?
09:34No.
09:35However, the conclusion reveals that Logan has renegotiated the divorce agreement,
09:39effectively shutting them out and retaining his power.
09:42In the final moments,
09:43Shiv realizes that her often downtrodden husband Tom is the one who revealed their plans,
09:48selling them out to Logan to secure his own rise.
09:51There are betrayals aplenty in Succession,
09:53yet this is by far the most unexpected.
09:56Hey, Shiv.
09:58You okay?
10:00Hey.
10:05Yeah, uh...
10:07You okay?
10:09Number 22.
10:10Angela picks Cal's brain.
10:12Watchmen.
10:13We always knew that this day would come.
10:15What day, Angela? I don't know what you're talking about.
10:17You do know.
10:20You just don't remember.
10:21The wildest twist in this dark superhero miniseries concerns Dr. Manhattan,
10:25the M.I.A. nuclear superman the people of this alternate world treat like a god.
10:29Lady True reveals to Angela Abar that Manhattan isn't on Mars,
10:33as most of the world believes,
10:35but in Tulsa, living as a normal human.
10:37And in danger from a white supremacist group.
10:39Because Dr. Manhattan isn't listening.
10:43He's not even on Mars.
10:45Where is he?
10:48Right here in Tulsa.
10:51Pretending to be human.
10:52Although Angela is incredulous,
10:54Lady True points out that Angela doesn't ask who Dr. Manhattan is,
10:58the implication being that she already knows.
11:00While that gets our minds turning,
11:02they just about explode when Angela returns home
11:05and pries open her husband Cal's head with a hammer.
11:07Cal has been Dr. Manhattan,
11:10unknown to both us and him.
11:12Hey, baby.
11:16We're in f***ing trouble.
11:28As perhaps the most complex time travel show ever,
11:31Dark has an enormous number of twists.
11:34However, one of its first is arguably its biggest.
11:37Jonas Kahnwald is dealing with a lot in season one.
11:40The death of his father Michael,
11:42his feelings for Marta Nielsen,
11:44and the disappearance of Michael, her younger brother,
11:46who has been sent to the past.
11:48Things start to make his and our heads spin
11:50when Jonas finally gets the note his father left behind.
11:53In it, Michael explains that as a boy,
11:55he was sent to the past.
11:56He was Michael.
11:58Alles ist miteinander verbunden.
12:02Michael.
12:03Michael.
12:04This twist opens the whole show up to dozens of crazy developments,
12:07not the least of which is that Jonas has been crushing on his aunt.
12:17George O'Malley is the John Doe.
12:20Grey's Anatomy.
12:21I joined the army to be a trauma surgeon.
12:23I report for duty tomorrow.
12:29You did what?
12:30Shortly after George announced he'd be leaving
12:32the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital to become a trauma surgeon,
12:35a heavily injured John Doe came in.
12:38His face was unrecognizable because he'd been hit by a bus
12:41while saving an innocent bystander.
12:43They spend the episode struggling to save the mystery man
12:46without realizing his true identity.
12:48When the man is able to communicate,
12:50he draws out a 007 with his finger.
12:53Since George was previously given this Bond-themed nickname,
12:56fans instantly knew that he was the injured John Doe.
13:00It's George! It's George!
13:03It's George! John Doe is George!
13:06This tremendous twist shook viewers more
13:09when he started to slip away from the mortal coil.
13:12It's safe to say that no one was expecting George's journey
13:15to wrap up like this.
13:17You are fire
13:26I don't feel so swell.
13:28I think I should go home.
13:30I have to stop eating off the cart.
13:32Over the course of season one, Peggy had to endure negative comments
13:35and issues with her clothes due to her sudden weight gain.
13:38She was able to push past these problems
13:40and pursue her goals until the season finale.
13:43When Peggy starts to feel particularly awful,
13:46she sees a doctor and learns that she's pregnant.
13:49Honey, you didn't mention that you were expecting.
13:53What?
13:54You're going to be a mother.
13:56Before she can grapple with this unexpected news,
13:58she goes into labor.
14:00Peggy's delivery is quickly followed by an impactful scene
14:03where she decides to give up her child.
14:05The choice to end Peggy's season one arc with this emotional story beat
14:09made an already iconic Mad Men character stand out more among the ensemble.
14:14Don't you want to hold him, sweetheart?
14:2118. The Bent-Neck Lady's Identity
14:24The Haunting of Hill House
14:26It was like a bent-neck lady.
14:32Although learning that Nell was a ghost
14:34at the end of the first episode was surprising,
14:36there was another twist left in store about her life for viewers.
14:40Before her passing, she had gotten terrifying visits
14:43from a ghostly encounter known as the Bent-Neck Lady.
14:46I'd rather sleep here in case she comes back.
14:50Nell eventually tries to get to the bottom of where the spirit came from
14:53by going back to the creepy Hill House.
14:55She proceeds to have a few ghostly encounters
14:57that unfortunately lead to her getting a broken neck.
15:00As Nell dies, she travels backwards through time
15:03and becomes the Bent-Neck Lady at various points in her life.
15:07This devastating and absolutely heartbreaking twist still haunts us today.
15:13I can't talk or move my arms or legs.
15:1717. Frank Ends Zoe's Career
15:21House of Cards
15:22What's your next move?
15:23Trying to figure out how to respond to this.
15:28I got it a couple hours ago.
15:30Reporter Zoe Barnes seemed like an integral part of House of Cards.
15:33Her close relationship with Frank and complex storylines
15:36seemed to guarantee her safety.
15:38So we didn't see anything wrong with her meeting up with Frank
15:41in a train station during the first episode of Season 2.
15:43However, we found ourselves gasping
15:46when he suddenly pushed Zoe towards the train tracks.
15:49Jesus.
15:51I want to believe you, Francis.
15:54I know you're...
15:57Her sudden end made us realize that anything could happen on House of Cards.
16:02Unfortunately, Zoe wasn't the last person
16:05who would fall victim to one of Frank's shocking betrayals.
16:08You were the one who told Zoe to pursue this.
16:11She told me what you said.
16:12The only stories that mattered were the ones that scared you to death.
16:15Okay, this isn't just death threats.
16:1716. Violet is a Ghost
16:20American Horror Story
16:21They planned some brutal family dinner for tonight.
16:24Like it's gonna make me feel better.
16:27Do you believe in ghosts?
16:30Why are you asking me?
16:32When Violet took a large amount of sleeping pills
16:34after seeing haunting visions,
16:36a ghost named Tate appeared to save her.
16:38Over the next few episodes,
16:40she avoids going to school
16:42and blowflies start appearing in the house.
16:45It's only when Violet tries to leave the house
16:47that she has to come face to face with the truth.
16:50Sadly, Tate wasn't able to stop her from passing away
16:53and becoming a ghost.
16:54I held you.
16:56You were safe.
16:59You died...
17:02in love.
17:03He hid this fact from her
17:05so that she would be spared the tremendous shock
17:07that we all felt watching this episode.
17:10The combination of the subtle story hints
17:12that led up to this moment
17:13and its ramifications on Violet's story
17:15made it a horrifyingly effective reveal.
17:18What happens now?
17:20You draw a card and discard.
17:23No, I mean...
17:26like how's it gonna be?
17:2715. All the Characters Are Connected
17:30This Is Us
17:31Explaining to him how you
17:34took the sourest lemon that life has to offer
17:39and turned it into something resembling lemonade.
17:42In the This Is Us pilot,
17:44we see how excited Jack and Rebecca Pearson are
17:46to welcome their triplets into the world.
17:48We're also introduced to two siblings
17:50who shared the same birthday with a businessman
17:52who just found his biological father.
17:5436 years ago, you left me at the front door of a fire station.
17:58Don't worry, I'm not here because I want anything from you.
18:00I was raised by two incredible parents.
18:03Since each character had distinct plot lines,
18:06we didn't expect their stories to be woven together.
18:09But after a tragic scene
18:10where the couple loses one of their triplets,
18:12they adopt a baby who was left behind at a fire station.
18:15It's only then we realize that Jack and Rebecca
18:18are the parents of the other three characters
18:20we've been following.
18:22As soon as This Is Us pulled off
18:24this ridiculously clever time jump,
18:26we knew we had to watch every episode.
18:29What did he say? How about the lemons?
18:32Huh?
18:33Says no lemons.
18:35So sour.
18:37You can't make something resembling lemonade.
18:43He knows my name.
18:44Occupation.
18:45He can find out about my family.
18:48My family.
18:50What the hell have I done?
18:52Before his final confrontation with Arthur,
18:54aka the Trinity Killer,
18:56Dexter Morgan tried to get his wife Rita
18:58to get to safety.
18:59The two men then struggle to stay ahead of the other.
19:02But their game of cat and mouse finally ended
19:05when Morgan captured and slayed the villain.
19:07Upon arriving at a dark home,
19:09Dexter listens to a voicemail
19:11that reveals that Rita returned to their house earlier.
19:14When he calls her phone, it rings in the next room.
19:17I love you. Bye.
19:20Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.
19:22Beep.
19:25Beep.
19:26Dexter soon finds that his wife has been slain
19:29and that his child has been left at the crime scene.
19:32This shocking sight still stands
19:35as one of the show's most striking and sobering images.
19:38You sure you don't want to tell them about Rita?
19:42I just want them to have one more good day.
19:44Number 13.
19:45Arriving on Earth.
19:46Battlestar Galactica.
19:48All right.
19:50I'll release your crew.
19:54We go to Earth together.
19:56The space-faring humans on Battlestar Galactica
19:59endured a devastating surprise attack,
20:01survived a conflict with Cylons,
20:03and had to overcome internal struggles
20:05in an attempt to reach Earth.
20:07They finally got a chance to achieve their goal in Season 4.
20:11Upon finally finding the planet,
20:13they have a big and justifiable celebration.
20:16But today, our journey is at an end.
20:20We have arrived at Earth.
20:23But they should have taken a closer look at Earth
20:26before they started to cheer.
20:27If they had, the Battlestar Galactica crew
20:30would have known that the planet was now uninhabitable
20:33due to a past nuclear conflict.
20:35The pain of this harsh truth can be seen on everyone's faces
20:39as they stumble around the surface.
20:41It was clear that the crew would never be the same
20:44after losing their hope for Earth.
20:45So the question is...
20:48where do we go from here?
20:50Number 12.
20:51Sidney's time skip.
20:52Alias.
20:53I just remembered...
20:56Francie doesn't like coffee ice cream.
20:59No, she doesn't.
21:01After discovering that her best friend was replaced by an assassin,
21:04Sidney is forced to fight her in an intense battle.
21:07Although the heroine prevails,
21:09she ends up passing out at the end of the fight.
21:11Sidney and the audience were stunned
21:13when they saw her wake up in Hong Kong a short time later.
21:16However, the rug was pulled out from under us again
21:20when we learned that there had been a major time skip
21:23while she thought she was unconscious.
21:29You've been missing for almost two years.
21:31The mystery of how two years could have gone by
21:34without her knowing
21:35immediately left us hungry for more.
21:37This alias twist was a great way to keep us guessing
21:40about what would happen next in Sidney's story.
21:42They asked me to come back to them.
21:46To explain.
21:47Come back from what?
21:51What are you talking about?
21:52Number 11.
21:53Dr. Cox loses a friend.
21:55Scrubs.
21:56So, you still doing the whole kooky guy
21:58who brings his camera everywhere thing?
22:00Till the day I die.
22:02During the My Screw Up episode,
22:04Dr. Cox is visited by his friend Ben.
22:06The camera-toting guest mentions that he hasn't seen a doctor
22:09since his cancer went into remission.
22:11Meanwhile, J.D. loses a patient who had an irregular heartbeat.
22:15These two plotlines crash together in a jaw-dropping reveal.
22:19After Dr. Cox overworks himself
22:21while tending to patients to make up for the one that was lost,
22:24he heads out of the hospital with Ben.
22:26When the doctor arrives at a grassy location,
22:29he realizes he's at his friend's funeral.
22:33Where do you think we are?
22:35This devastating turn was cleverly foreshadowed
22:38by details like Ben's lack of camera late in the episode.
22:42Whether you caught on early or not,
22:44this was one of the show's most heart-wrenching plots.
22:47No matter how alone you feel,
22:50how painful it may be,
22:55with the help of those around you,
22:58you'll get through this too.
23:01Now, Dr. Cox's friend Ben is in the hospital
23:04Number 10.
23:05All the main characters are in The Bad Place.
23:08The Good Place.
23:09We're the ones who misled everybody
23:11and dragged you all into this mess,
23:13so we should go to the Bad Place.
23:15Agreed.
23:16Okay, I thought you were gonna at least pretend to fight me on that,
23:19but whatever.
23:20This fantastical sitcom centered around four flawed humans
23:23who tried their best to fit into a heavenly paradise
23:26called The Good Place.
23:28However, they constantly ran into problems
23:30with their sanctuary and each other.
23:32Eventually, the group is forced to send two of their members
23:35to the ominous Bad Place.
23:37But it's then that Eleanor realizes
23:39they've been in the Dark Realm the entire time.
23:42They're never gonna call a train to take us to the Bad Place.
23:46They can't,
23:48because we're already here.
23:52This is the Bad Place.
23:54This genius reveal reframed the actions
23:56of all the Good Place employees,
23:58made us do a double-take,
24:00and shook up the show's entire premise.
24:03The comedy would go on to shake the show's formula up
24:05with wilder twists as it continued.
24:08But the Bad Place reveal stands as the show's most defining turn.
24:12Next time, I'll spread you out,
24:14so it's more of a slow burn.
24:16Uh, next time?
24:17Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna erase your memories,
24:19you know, make a few changes and start over again.
24:21Number 9.
24:22Fitz betrays the team.
24:24Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
24:25You can't be here.
24:26There's work that needs to be finished.
24:29What, what work?
24:31It was devastating and shocking to learn
24:33that the loyal S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Ward
24:35was actually a HYDRA infiltrator.
24:37But the show had a bigger betrayal in store.
24:40In Season 4,
24:42the kind Agent Fitz became a sinister villain
24:45when he was inside a virtual simulation.
24:47His evil self later returned as a separate entity
24:50and committed horrible misdeeds.
24:53When the Good Fitz tried to stop his sinister counterpart,
24:56he learned it was impossible
24:58because there was no evil entity.
25:00It wasn't an anomaly.
25:04It was you.
25:07Programming the robots.
25:09Keeping everyone else occupied.
25:11It turns out that Fitz had a dissociative episode
25:14and committed all those twisted deeds,
25:16while the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had one of their own
25:18turn on them before.
25:19This Fitz twist was the biggest gut punch.
25:22You had a psychic split,
25:24but that dark persona, that's not you.
25:26It is me.
25:27Number 8.
25:28Oh Il-nam created the S.Q.U.I.D. games.
25:30S.Q.U.I.D. game.
25:41The cutthroat nature of these brutal life-or-death games
25:43forces some shocking events.
25:45However, few are as emotionally devastating
25:48as a game of marbles,
25:49which sees protagonist Song Gi-hyun
25:51forced to let his elderly friend Oh Il-nam die
25:53to save himself.
26:01However, the sting of loss
26:03turns to the sting of betrayal
26:05as Gi-hyun learns that Il-nam is not only still alive,
26:08but also the creator of the S.Q.U.I.D. games.
26:10Their chat on Il-nam's deathbed
26:12reveals that he developed the games
26:14to help himself and other wealthy people
26:16stave off boredom.
26:17Far from being a sweet old man,
26:19Il-nam is arguably the biggest monster of them all.
26:36Number 7.
26:37River Song's identity.
26:39Doctor Who.
26:50River Song was initially introduced
26:52as an extremely cool professor
26:54that had a mysterious history with the Doctor
26:56that spanned across time.
26:58After making a few notable appearances,
27:00audiences finally got to see
27:02the surprising origins of this character.
27:04In the A Good Man Goes to War episode,
27:07the Doctor's companion Amy Pond
27:09has a child named Melody.
27:11Since this infant was born with alien Time Lord DNA,
27:14she had the ability to regenerate into different forms.
27:17The Doctor and his friends soon realize
27:19that Melody will eventually become
27:21the time-traveling River Song.
27:23Hello, Rory.
27:27What's wrong?
27:31It's my birthday.
27:32As the series continued,
27:34this complex twist was further fleshed out and revisited.
27:37While it might take you a while
27:39to put River's time-bending story together,
27:41it's definitely worth the effort.
27:43It's me.
27:45I'm Melody.
27:49I'm your daughter.
27:54After countless cycles of repetition,
27:56these hosts, they were varying.
27:59They were on the verge of some kind of change.
28:02On Westworld,
28:04synthetic beings known as hosts
28:06that look like real humans and animals
28:08are programmed to behave in certain ways.
28:11Throughout most of the first season,
28:13it's not Bernard was just there to help
28:15keep these artificial beings running,
28:17but the truth was much more shocking.
28:19It turned out that Bernard was a host the entire time
28:22and wasn't consciously aware of it.
28:25In a way, their existence is purer than ours.
28:29Afraid of the burden of self-doubt.
28:35I don't understand.
28:37While we were still reeling from this bombshell,
28:40this forces him to eliminate his love interest, Theresa.
28:43Although some fans suspected Bernard was a host,
28:46none of them could have anticipated this one-two punch.
28:49It was a story development that made us question
28:51the nature of our reality.
28:53We should be getting back, Bernard.
28:56We have a great deal of work to do.
28:59On the new storylines.
29:05What was that? I've never seen that before.
29:09That's what you needed.
29:10If we looked up the phrase
29:12unreliable narrator in the dictionary,
29:14we'd find Elliot's face staring back up at us.
29:17Although we knew that his version of events
29:19could always be questionable,
29:20we still weren't anticipating a huge season two twist.
29:23Elliot led us to believe that he spent six episodes
29:26of the second season staying with his mom
29:28and away from the typical cast.
29:30However, it's eventually revealed
29:32that he was in prison for a big portion of the season.
29:35You know you haven't been staying with your mother, right?
29:39I know.
29:45This unbelievable twist
29:47turned a huge chunk of his storyline upside down.
29:50Although Elliot apologized to us for the deception,
29:53we weren't sure we could trust his perspective again after this.
29:56I'm sorry for not telling you everything.
30:00But I needed this in order to get better.
30:08Please don't be mad too long.
30:14When Jesse believes that the son of his love interest
30:16has been poisoned with ricin,
30:18he immediately accuses his cooking partner Walt of the crime.
30:21Tell me, tell me what it is you think I did.
30:24Brock.
30:25Why did you poison him?
30:27Who's Brock?
30:28You saw him in my living room just last night.
30:30But after a tense scene,
30:32the two agree that crime lord Gus
30:34was the one responsible for this heinous action.
30:36Jesse and Walt then work together
30:38to bring the kingpin down permanently.
30:40After Gus has been dealt with,
30:42it's revealed that Andrea's son had consumed a plant
30:44known as Lily of the Valley.
30:46It was most likely a flower called Lily of the Valley.
30:51The camera then reveals
30:53that that is exactly what Walt has in his own backyard.
30:56Knowing that he was capable of poisoning an innocent person
31:00just to manipulate Jesse
31:01marked a shocking new low for the show's protagonist.
31:04Was this you?
31:07What happened?
31:12I won.
31:13Number 3.
31:14The Red Wedding.
31:15Game of Thrones.
31:16Well let's get ready.
31:18The wine will flow red
31:20and the music will play loud
31:23and we'll put this mess behind us.
31:27We were heartbroken and stunned
31:29when we discovered why Hodor could only say his own name.
31:32But the show's most noteworthy twist
31:34took place at a wedding.
31:36After watching the heroic Robb Stark achieve great victories,
31:39he and his mother Catelyn attended a marriage celebration.
31:42But the festivities abruptly end
31:44once we see one of the ceremony's guests is wearing chainmail.
31:47And I owe my new queen a wedding gift.
31:56Robb!
31:57Over the next few minutes,
31:59we see Robb, his wife Talisa, Catelyn,
32:01and his direwolf all meet gruesome ends.
32:04The horrifying events of this night
32:06upset the balance of power in the world
32:08while axing off a bunch of main characters at once.
32:11To this day,
32:13mentioning the Red Wedding to a fan
32:15is still bound to bring a tear to their eye.
32:17Mother.
32:20The Lannisters send their regards.
32:25Number 2.
32:26Nina Can't Be Trusted.
32:2824.
32:29George?
32:32George is the mole?
32:34At the start of 24,
32:36Nina was presented as a high-ranking agent
32:39who had some romantic tension with Jack Bauer.
32:41Neither he nor the audience was expecting the moment
32:44that she revealed she was working for their enemies
32:47in the 23rd episode of the series.
33:02Nina quickly demonstrated her true twisted nature
33:05after she was exposed as a traitor
33:07by fatally shooting Terry Bauer.
33:09Having one of the show's most prominent heroes
33:11become a despicable antagonist
33:13was a brilliant stroke of genius.
33:15Nina's evil turn made fans want to go back
33:18and look for signs they missed.
33:20While we hate what she did to the Bauer family,
33:23we loved how this brilliant twist
33:25shook up the show's status quo.
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33:49Number 1.
33:50Jack's scenes are flash-forwards.
33:52Lost.
34:02Since Lost begins with people getting stranded on an island,
34:05the show used flashbacks to show us their lives before the crash.
34:09So when we saw a series of scenes
34:11about a depressed Jack in the city,
34:13nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary.
34:15But everything changed
34:17when it was revealed that these story beats
34:19take place after he leaves the island.
34:22The implication that Jack would escape
34:24and meet up with fellow survivor Kate
34:26was game-changing.
34:28Not only did this twist make us rethink past events,
34:31it also opened the door for the show to play with time.
34:34While Lost had many great turns,
34:36the Jack flash-forward reveal
34:38is the main plot twist we always go back to.
34:42Is there a shocking TV twist post-2000 we forgot?
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