What show did you come to understand as a profound extended meditation on suffering and loss?

BoJack Horseman

This is the 3rd time I've seen something relating to Bojack today, might be time for a rewatch lmao

The Good Place. The end makes me cry.

As the show went on, I ketp thinking that it was so good, and the end was going to ruin it. That it had to have an end, and there's no way it could be satisfying.
And then it was perfect, and I loved it, and I watched the whole series over again.

The Bear. The show is just a bunch of people trying to process the grief of traumatic life experiences while simultaneously trying to survive the loss of a beloved person in common. All this through the power of cooking and yelling very loudly. The food is awesome though.

Easy answer would be the Galactica remake. The entire show is essentially watching humanity break down because of the collective weight of what it lost as a society.

So say we all

I'm kinda surprised no one has said Midnight Mass. It revolves around suffering and the ideas of redemption.

Honestly any of Flanagan's work could be used for this question.

The Haunting of Hill House is about loss and the grief of losing.

Haunting of Bly Manor gets around to it slowly, but it also focuses on loss, though not entirely permanent.

And The Fall of the House of Usher is just a sadistic chase of suffering and pain

This video about midnight mass was so good.
- Holy cow that's three hours, lol.
  Does it require visually looking at it or can I podcast it and do something else?

The Midnight Gospel, particularly the finale

Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time, I'm going to have to watch that again

Not a show, but a book and a movie adaptation: Interview with A Vampire is actually about Anne Rice's daughter.

I was a sad, broken and despairing atheist when I wrote 'Interview with the Vampire' [in 1973, after the death of her daughter from leukaemia]. I pitched myself into writing and made up a story about vampires. I didn't know it at the time but it was all about my daughter, the loss of her and the need to go on living when faith is shattered. But the lights do come back on, no matter how dark it seems, and I'm sensitive now, more than ever, to the beauty of the world – and more resigned to living with cosmic uncertainty.
Vampires are the best metaphor for the human condition Here you have a monster with a soul that's immortal, yet in a biological body. It's a metaphor for us, as it's very difficult to realise that we are going to die, and day to day we have to think and move as though we are immortal. A vampire like Lestat in Interview… is perfect for that because he transcends time – yet he can be destroyed, go mad and suffer; it's intensely about the human dilemma.

Peacemaker

Another easy answer would be Six Feet Under. This show has the most beautiful finale.

Over the Garden Wall

I think you're asking for someone to say a particular thing so I take the bait and say: The Leftovers.

Genddy Tartakovsky's Primal. The show is visceral and intense and forces you to acknowledge that you and anything around you can lose everything in the snap of fingers, for no real reason except "thats just how life is sometimes". And it does this despite having no comprehensible dialog.

Mmm... Berserk (1997) was the first thing that came to mind.

Zoeys Extraordinary Playlist. The way it shows the characters most intimate thoughts that they try to conceal from the world.

Drive My Car

The Good Place

The Leftovers. It seems like a show about the end of the world, but then it's not. Amazing show one of my all time favs.

Deadwood. WandaVision.

Oz.

Tribal Trails.