Pivoting To This Is Us: 4 TV Shows Exploring How To Deal With Grief

The black comedy series Dead To Me’s third and final season was released on November 17. Starring Christina Applegate, Linda Cardellini, and James Marsden, the series explore grief, friendship, and forgiveness.

From hit-and-runs to cancer diagnoses to murders, the leading ladies are dealt a heavy hand. While secrecy and murder investigations drive the plot forward, the central friendship between Applegate and Cardellini’s characters and their working through their grief is the central element.

The dark comedy series Dead To Me isn’t the only series to depict how people deal with their grief. Take a look are these TV shows about dealing with grief.

Christina Applegate (left) and Linda Cardellini (right) in Dead To Me

4 TV Shows About Dealing With Grief

Pivoting

Three women are hit with the realisation that life is short after their beloved friend passes away due to cancer. The three friends, played by Eliza Couple, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Maggie Q decide to turn their lives around and make major changes after the tragedy.

In the television series Pivoting, the friends and family of the late woman struggle to cope with the tragic death and support each other through the process.

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

A software developer gains the ability to hear the innermost thoughts and emotions of people through the form of song. Instead of starting the pilot episode with the main character already suffering a loss, this musical comedy-drama series follows Zoey Clarke (played by Jane Levy), whose father is terminally ill.

While Zoey has not lost her father to progressive supranuclear palsy yet, her father has lost his muscular faculties is unable to speak.

The series delves into the grief that comes when a person know their loved one will pass away.

The series touches upon topics such as grief, mourning, depression, and postpartum depression.

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A Million Little Things

A group of friends face tragedy after a beloved friend dies by suicide. The family drama TV series features an ensemble cast as a tight-knit group of friends who have to deal with the loss of their friend.

The series highlights how grief does not disappear and is something that people have to live with.

This Is Us

This Is Us is a family drama series which follows the lives of a family in different timelines, before and after the death of the beloved family patriarch.

The ensemble drama showcases how each member of the family faced their personal issues and loss with support from their friends or family.