Yahoo Lifestyle 2024 in Review: The Scenes We Wish We Could Unsee!
Much of TVLine’s annual Year in Review is about the scenes, performances, moments and ‘ships we could not take our eyes off of.
Today’s round-up is not that.
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If you’re ophidiophobic, Chicago Med was not your friend in 2024. Do human centipedes bug you? We hope you steered clear of The Boys. And if you dread trips to the dentist, well, the Alex Cross series — in channeling both Marathon Man and Little Shop of Horrors — did nothing to ease your anxiety.
But not all of this year’s Scene We Can’t Unsee are about body horror and extricating God’s creatures from ungodly places. The way that a Dancing With the Stars contender made an ass of himself still haunts us, as does House of the Dragon‘s version of (ahem) motherly love.
A quick reminder: The images below are pretty graphic, and some contain spoilers for your favorite shows. If you spy a header naming a TV show that you aren’t yet caught up on, you might want to return to this list later — or quickly scroll past!
Now for the fun (?) stuff: Scroll down for more than two dozen of the year’s most disturbing moments. When you’re done, hit the comments to make your own additions to this list. Which scenes from 2024 do you wish you could unsee?
3 Body Problem
Science: so beautiful, so brutal, so bloody! As Auggie’s state-of-the-art nanofibers sliced through the Judgment Day, julienning everyone aboard, the carnage just. didn’t. stop. Who knew a couple of cut-up paper dolls could herald such dread? (The story behind how they did it, though? So cool.)
American Horror Stories
Look, we support love in all its many forms. Even self-love. But you’ve got to draw the line somewhere, and for us, it was Victor Garber pleasuring his own clone in an episode of American Horror Stories. No thank you.
The Boys
There appears to be no ceiling for how explicit The Boys is willing to get, as evidenced by this Season 4 scene — too graphic for a wide screenshot from us — in which Kimiko and Frenchie walked in on supe Splinter… and his many clones… pleasuring each other in a sauna. It brought a whole new meaning to the phrase “love train.”
Chicago Fire
Something must have been in the air on March 20, because on the same night that Med extracted a snake from a patient’s ear (see below), one hour later, Fire paramedic Violet pulled a spider out of a man’s throat. Why were you trying to hurt us, #OneChicago?!
Chicago Med
We’ve heard about a snake coming out of the toilet. [Shudder!] But one being pulled out of a patient’s ear? As if we needed another reason to be afraid of the slithery reptiles!
Chicago P.D.
The cop drama seriously upped the gross factor when Intelligence came across a decaying victim with a mouth full of bugs and… honey. That ain’t sweet!
Chucky
It wasn’t Devon Sawa’s first time getting killed by the red-headed maniac, but it was definitely the most gruesome. Chucky may be known for his witty one-liners, but there was nothing funny about President Collins’ absolutely horrid death scene that is still haunting our dreams.
Cross
Maybe it’s just our dentophobia talking… but when the next step in The Fanboy’s transformation of Shannon into serial killer Aileen Wuornos involved taking a chisel to his captive’s perfect pearly whites, rest assured that the entirety of said scene was watched through our fingers.
Dancing With the Stars
Dancing‘s impressive hair and makeup team always outdoes itself on the traditional Disney Night episode… but maybe the prosthetic artists could have pulled back a bit on this Encanto look. We’re not even sure how poor Alan Bersten was breathing in his donkey getup, let alone performing a jazz routine with Ilona Maher. Couldn’t he have gotten one of the backup dancers’ cute donkey onesies instead?
Fallout
While we fully appreciate the irony that Chris Parnell’s Overseer Benjamin “oversees” with just a singular peeper, we dare you to look us in the eye and tell us the effect was not thoroughly discomfiting.
Girls5eva
Mega pop star Gray Holland was tired of being a mega pop star, so Gloria helped him fake his own death by removing all of his teeth… and replacing them with the teeth of a dead fox. We later saw a happily anonymous Gray strumming his guitar at an open mike and showing off his pointy new choppers. (And we kinda wish we had never seen that, actually.)
Grey’s Anatomy
Apparently, it wasn’t enough that Mika’s beloved baby sister Chloe had just endured her first round of chemo. The long-running ABC drama then landed the sibs in a car accident that sent Chloe to the E.R. with crushed legs that looked like… like… Eesh. Like this. And that was before the docs sliced them open!
Grotesquerie
With a title like Grotesquerie, we figured that Ryan Murphy’s latest creation would be heavy on gore, but nothing could have prepared us for what Niecy Nash’s Detective Lois Tryon would discover in the premiere: a father cooked in the oven, his family forced to eat him, and a baby boiling on a hot stove. (The bright side? At least they left that last one up to the viewers’ imagination.)
House of the Dragon
Aegon was lucky to live through Season 2’s fiery aerial clash at The Battle of Rook’s Rest, but we weren’t lucky to see the aftermath, with the young king burnt to a crisp and his maesters slowly peeling his melted armor away from his still sizzling flesh. He did survive… but our appetites didn’t.
House of the Dragon (Bonus Ick!)
We had no beef with Daemon’s Episode 5 sex dream… until his silver-haired fantasy partner revealed herself to be his mother. Even for the incest-happy Game of Thronesverse, this was a low point.
Industry
Seeing Eric masturbate in a public bathroom wasn’t all that surprising, to be honest. But having said that, we definitely didn’t need to see his O-face and the bodily fluids that followed.
Landman
Given that we’d just watched multiple people die in a fiery explosion in the previous episode, it shouldn’t have fazed us to see Tommy slice off the tip of his pinky finger as a means of expediting his ER stay. But it really, really did.
Love Is Blind
The moment Leo and Brittany finally met face-to-face had us gagged — and not in a good way! From his nonsensical word vomiting, telling Brittany he wants to “be her structure” so she can become her “most intuitive self,” to Brittany’s uncomfortable laughter, we couldn’t stop squirming. Not to mention the way he completely smothered and squeezed her on that mustard yellow couch — ick!
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Our heads damn near exploded along with Jose’s when son Lyle blew out his brains, and with them, any thought of ever again abusing him or brother Erik.
Poppa’s House
Conducting some personal grooming in the kitchen is bad enough, but did Poppa really have to blow his gray butt hairs into Junior’s face?
Shōgun
When Yoshii went to demonstrate his army’s new, mad skills with cannons, he literally turned the tables on Lord Ishido’s visiting aide by aiming the fire at Jozen and his convoy! Not since The Patriot have we seen a cannonball do such graphic damage.
Station 19
We did not have seeing Spencer Treat Clark sopping up his bloody nose with a tampon on our 2024 bingo card, nor did we want to. Nonetheless, that was what we got when the Animal Kingdom vet guest-starred as Beckett’s rowdy cousin.
Survivor
We love that the auction has found its way back into the game, but no level of starvation could convince us to chow down on those XXL fish eyeballs. Thanks, but no thanks, Jeff.
True Detective: Night Country
HBO’s moody crime anthology is always good for some high-grade nightmare fuel, and they served up a doozy with “the corpsicle,” aka the frozen remains of a group of dead scientists, fused together by Alaskan snow and ice. The result was a ghoulish piece of evidence that could’ve been crafted by a Renaissance sculptor… and that still haunts us to this day.
The Umbrella Academy
We can only imagine how it smelled inside Diego’s already-beat-up van after his siblings — who had unknowingly ingested superpower-restoring marigold the previous night — vomited all over the vehicle’s interior as the marigold took its toll. And the Hargreeves still had hours left on their road trip after that disgusting ordeal. Horrifying!
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
After Daryl unleashed a few superpowered zombies to take out the regular ones that had trapped Carol’s friend Ash in a car, we saw red. Like, so… much… red. Guess sometimes less really IS gore.
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