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Why did so many good people have to die on TV finales?

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Any faithful TV viewer is familiar with the end-of-season shocker, which usually comes in the form of a cliffhanger or a horrible violence. But the body count seems to be going up, and going deeper.

This season we lost lovable intern Mr. Vincent Nigel-Murray (Ryan Cartwright) on the penultimate episode of ‘Bones,’ ‘Justified’ wonder Mags Bennett (Margo Martindale), ‘Castle’s’ Capt. Montgomery (Ruben Santiago-Hudson), not to mention Sue Sylvester’s sister Jean (Robin Trocki) on the penultimate episode of ‘Glee’and, seemingly, ‘Fringe’s’ Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson).

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Read more here of Mary McNamara’s Sunday Critic’s Notebook on why writers resort to sacrificing so many of their own.

Also in Show Tracker:

Jeff Conaway: ‘I would like to go to a nice place when I die’

The women of ‘Justified’

Full Show Tracker coverage of ‘Fringe’

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