The most traumatizing on-screen death of the year isn’t in a bloody battle or gunfight, but a quiet NYC apartment. If you can bear it, Netflix’s His Three Daughters is a heartbreaker. Netflix has given us plenty of reasons to cry over the last nine months.
We’ve had the terrifying stalker ordeal in Baby Reindeer (and the Fiona Harvey fallout), the haunted spirits of The Deliverance , and the emotional romance of One Day . There haven’t been as many major death scenes on the streaming service ..
. until now. Unlike any kills in Longlegs or tragic accidents in Mother’s Instinct, the most brutal death scene of 2024 comes from a dad’s terminal illness in His Three Daughters, which is now on Netflix.
We’re going to talk about that gut-wrenching ending now, so SPOILERS AHEAD ...
The new movie follows three sisters as they support their dad in his final moments, and there’s plenty of unresolved tension between them. We never see their dad fighting for his life in his room – but that changes in the final moment, when we witness his death playing out on screen. The girls wheel him into the living room, where he suddenly regains health and tells his daughters all the things he wishes they’d have known over the years.
Except he hasn’t really come back at all...
he’s died while his consciousness has floated away. It’s an undeniable tear-jerker, but it’s almost a moment director Azazel Jacobs didn’t actually plan for. Speaking to Dexerto, he explained, “When.