Top 20 Best TV Monologues
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Date: 2023-11-20
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Jeremiah
One monologue thatd be a good pick is Terrible Weapons, from Trials of the Darksaber, the Season 3 episode of _Star Wars Rebels_ that shows explosives expert Sabine Wrens challenges with the titular weapon that signifies Mandalorian leadership. She was pushed to her limit during her training, especially when it came to her past as an Imperial Academy cadet, but it made for one epic scene.
The truth is that I left to save everyone. My mother, my father, my brother! Everything I did was for family, for Mandalore! I built weapons, terrible weapons, but the Empire used them on Mandalore. On friends, on family. People that I knew. They controlled us through fear, Mandalore, fear of weapons I helped create. I helped enslave my people! I wanted to stop it; I had to stop it! I spoke out. I spoke out to save them, to save everyone! But when I did, my family didnt stand with me. They chose the Empire. They left me. Gave me no choice. The Empire wanted to destroy worlds, and they did. They destroyed mine.
As far as monologues from a galaxy far, far away go, Sabines catharsis is just one of those moments you dont forget.
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One monologue thatd be a good pick is Terrible Weapons, from Trials of the Darksaber, the Season 3 episode of _Star Wars Rebels_ that shows explosives expert Sabine Wrens challenges with the titular weapon that signifies Mandalorian leadership. She was pushed to her limit during her training, especially when it came to her past as an Imperial Academy cadet, but it made for one epic scene.
The truth is that I left to save everyone. My mother, my father, my brother! Everything I did was for family, for Mandalore! I built weapons, terrible weapons, but the Empire used them on Mandalore. On friends, on family. People that I knew. They controlled us through fear, Mandalore, fear of weapons I helped create. I helped enslave my people! I wanted to stop it; I had to stop it! I spoke out. I spoke out to save them, to save everyone! But when I did, my family didnt stand with me. They chose the Empire. They left me. Gave me no choice. The Empire wanted to destroy worlds, and they did. They destroyed mine.
As far as monologues from a galaxy far, far away go, Sabines catharsis is just one of those moments you dont forget.
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Chels
This might not be a monologue but Bucky Barnes in the FATWS, when he finally told Sam how he felt about the shield. Bucky since Winter Soldier was a man of few words and a lot of action but in this therapy moment, he finally says what is on his mind. Steve believed in you, he trusted you. He gave you that shield for a reason. That shield was everything he stood for, that is his legacy. He gave you that shield and you threw it away like it was nothing. So maybe he was wrong about you, and if he was wrong about you then he was wrong about me. '' that moment struck us hard and Bucky because Steve believed he was still good even when he didn't believe it. Bucky feels hurt that maybe his best friend was wrong about him and this speech conveys Seb's strong acting skills. A second mention could be Sam's speech to Bucky after the training session.
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This might not be a monologue but Bucky Barnes in the FATWS, when he finally told Sam how he felt about the shield. Bucky since Winter Soldier was a man of few words and a lot of action but in this therapy moment, he finally says what is on his mind. Steve believed in you, he trusted you. He gave you that shield for a reason. That shield was everything he stood for, that is his legacy. He gave you that shield and you threw it away like it was nothing. So maybe he was wrong about you, and if he was wrong about you then he was wrong about me. '' that moment struck us hard and Bucky because Steve believed he was still good even when he didn't believe it. Bucky feels hurt that maybe his best friend was wrong about him and this speech conveys Seb's strong acting skills. A second mention could be Sam's speech to Bucky after the training session.
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Ivan
My favorite will always be American is not the greatest country in the world. Not anymore. This changed the way I saw life. Me as a born Mexican and family all Mexican but raised in the US since I was 2. Even I became blind to think the US was the greatest the best and everything I should strive to be. But thats not the case. It was when I first saw this that I started loving other countries and taking off my rose colored glasses. It was because of this that I saved enough money to go to the UK bac in 2019 to experience something new. You want to know the first thing my grandmother said when I came back from the UK? She said she doesn't see why anybody would ever want to leave and I knew that this blind sided American problem was all too real. American is not the greatest country in the world anymore. But is sure as hll used to be.
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My favorite will always be American is not the greatest country in the world. Not anymore. This changed the way I saw life. Me as a born Mexican and family all Mexican but raised in the US since I was 2. Even I became blind to think the US was the greatest the best and everything I should strive to be. But thats not the case. It was when I first saw this that I started loving other countries and taking off my rose colored glasses. It was because of this that I saved enough money to go to the UK bac in 2019 to experience something new. You want to know the first thing my grandmother said when I came back from the UK? She said she doesn't see why anybody would ever want to leave and I knew that this blind sided American problem was all too real. American is not the greatest country in the world anymore. But is sure as hll used to be.
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fanjoy
Maybe too old for a lot of folks out there, but Alan Alda's monologue - actually the whole episode is a monologue since he's stranded with a family that speaks only Korean, which he doesn't understand, and he's speaking English, which they don't understand - in the MASH episode entitled Hawkeye. He's suffered a head injury and must stay awake so ke keeps talking non-stop for almost the entire half-hour show. Kudos to the writers, I think it's Alan Alda's finest non-comedic work; it touches on universal human truths and emotions everyone has felt sometime in their life. Among my favorite lines: Was I ranting? My ranting gets raves.
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Maybe too old for a lot of folks out there, but Alan Alda's monologue - actually the whole episode is a monologue since he's stranded with a family that speaks only Korean, which he doesn't understand, and he's speaking English, which they don't understand - in the MASH episode entitled Hawkeye. He's suffered a head injury and must stay awake so ke keeps talking non-stop for almost the entire half-hour show. Kudos to the writers, I think it's Alan Alda's finest non-comedic work; it touches on universal human truths and emotions everyone has felt sometime in their life. Among my favorite lines: Was I ranting? My ranting gets raves.
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Rhaegar
I am Daenerys Stormborn. Your Masters may have told you lies about me, or they may have told you nothing. It does not matter. I have nothing to say to them. I speak only to you. First, I went to Astapor. Those who were slaves in Astapor, now stand behind me, free. Next I went to Yunkai. Those who were slaves in Yunkai, now stand behind me, free. Now I have come to Meereen. I am not your enemy. Your enemy is beside you. Your enemy steals and murders your children. Your enemy has nothing for you but chains and suffering, and commands. I do not bring you commands. I bring you a choice. And I bring your enemies what they deserve.
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I am Daenerys Stormborn. Your Masters may have told you lies about me, or they may have told you nothing. It does not matter. I have nothing to say to them. I speak only to you. First, I went to Astapor. Those who were slaves in Astapor, now stand behind me, free. Next I went to Yunkai. Those who were slaves in Yunkai, now stand behind me, free. Now I have come to Meereen. I am not your enemy. Your enemy is beside you. Your enemy steals and murders your children. Your enemy has nothing for you but chains and suffering, and commands. I do not bring you commands. I bring you a choice. And I bring your enemies what they deserve.
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Meaghan
Sports Night S1E3. Jeremys monologue about producing a hunting segment, when he hates hunting, & seeing a dear get shot just so he can fit in at his new job is heart breaking, endearing & completely relatable.
Joshua Malina delivers something that on the page shouldnt work with power & grace. Sabrina Lloyd & Robert Guillaume both set him up, support him & validate his pain through out.
Written by Aaron Sorkin (like #5 & #2 on this list) this monologue shows that the context doesnt have to be completely serious to be earth-shattering.
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Sports Night S1E3. Jeremys monologue about producing a hunting segment, when he hates hunting, & seeing a dear get shot just so he can fit in at his new job is heart breaking, endearing & completely relatable.
Joshua Malina delivers something that on the page shouldnt work with power & grace. Sabrina Lloyd & Robert Guillaume both set him up, support him & validate his pain through out.
Written by Aaron Sorkin (like #5 & #2 on this list) this monologue shows that the context doesnt have to be completely serious to be earth-shattering.
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Juliana
In Private Practice Amelia Shepherd is about to have a brainless baby and wants to donate his organs to help other babies but one of the doctors refuses to do it because he believes it's murder. She has this amazingly sad and beautiful monologue about how she as a mother is suffering but knows that donating her baby's the organs is the right thing to do. I have never cried so much watching a monolugue in my entire life. it is stuck with me forever.
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In Private Practice Amelia Shepherd is about to have a brainless baby and wants to donate his organs to help other babies but one of the doctors refuses to do it because he believes it's murder. She has this amazingly sad and beautiful monologue about how she as a mother is suffering but knows that donating her baby's the organs is the right thing to do. I have never cried so much watching a monolugue in my entire life. it is stuck with me forever.
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Chet
Oh I have to work harder to get what a white person gets my God do you know how to cry anything else. Never once do you see any black person in any type of long term successful life. Not to mention one Asian person was portrayed. Where are the Hispanic people where are the gay people or Indian people or overweight people. Oh is that because they aren't crying insensately? Theses were not meaning full or heartfelt monologues these were actors whining.
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Oh I have to work harder to get what a white person gets my God do you know how to cry anything else. Never once do you see any black person in any type of long term successful life. Not to mention one Asian person was portrayed. Where are the Hispanic people where are the gay people or Indian people or overweight people. Oh is that because they aren't crying insensately? Theses were not meaning full or heartfelt monologues these were actors whining.
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actuallycay
God you have listed truly my favorite TV monologues here: OTH, Sorry For Your Loss, Shameless, Grey's Anatomy (Both Cristina and Bailey's Monologues, Euphoria, and WandaVision. The actors in these shows are just phenomenal. Sophia Bush, Elizabeth Olsen, Emmy Rossum, Sandra Oh, Zendaya, Paul Bettany, and Chandra Wilson are just WOW incredible. They all know how to deliver the most powerful and intense moments on a screen.
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God you have listed truly my favorite TV monologues here: OTH, Sorry For Your Loss, Shameless, Grey's Anatomy (Both Cristina and Bailey's Monologues, Euphoria, and WandaVision. The actors in these shows are just phenomenal. Sophia Bush, Elizabeth Olsen, Emmy Rossum, Sandra Oh, Zendaya, Paul Bettany, and Chandra Wilson are just WOW incredible. They all know how to deliver the most powerful and intense moments on a screen.
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Dee
It would truly be nice if you had introduced the monologue. then let us watch it and make our decisions about it. Instead, you show them saying 5 or 6 lines. you narrate for a minute. they get to say two or three more lines. you narrate some more. Not sure how I feel about the monologues because I don't remember a single one allowed to go from beginning to end without the narration telling us how badass it is. .
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It would truly be nice if you had introduced the monologue. then let us watch it and make our decisions about it. Instead, you show them saying 5 or 6 lines. you narrate for a minute. they get to say two or three more lines. you narrate some more. Not sure how I feel about the monologues because I don't remember a single one allowed to go from beginning to end without the narration telling us how badass it is. .
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Dominique
Honestly the best monologue in my opinion from Euphoria was Jules talking to her therapist about why she doesnt want to be on hormonal treatment anymore. That shit was soooo good! Still gives me chills, because she really broke down the journey of womanhood and why cisgendered and trans women do the things we do to please men. I felt that shit as a Cis woman. It was powerful.
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Honestly the best monologue in my opinion from Euphoria was Jules talking to her therapist about why she doesnt want to be on hormonal treatment anymore. That shit was soooo good! Still gives me chills, because she really broke down the journey of womanhood and why cisgendered and trans women do the things we do to please men. I felt that shit as a Cis woman. It was powerful.
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fanjoy
The twelfth doctor war speech on BBC Doctor Who season 9 is just amazing! A ten minute monologue about the consequences of war on innocents and how they could be avoided if we just talked (just to resume, theres a whole background story behind it. With no music in the scene its just Peter Capaldi being amazing. I think that shouldve been on this list.
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The twelfth doctor war speech on BBC Doctor Who season 9 is just amazing! A ten minute monologue about the consequences of war on innocents and how they could be avoided if we just talked (just to resume, theres a whole background story behind it. With no music in the scene its just Peter Capaldi being amazing. I think that shouldve been on this list.
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BecomingLizzyBlue
Though David Tenant is my favorite Doctor, Peter Capaldi, the 12th Doctor gives one of the greatest speeches of all time with Where I Fall. Its not just a great monologue, but a way of living. It defines the kind of person we should all try to be. I do what I do because its right, because its decent, and above all, because its kind.
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Though David Tenant is my favorite Doctor, Peter Capaldi, the 12th Doctor gives one of the greatest speeches of all time with Where I Fall. Its not just a great monologue, but a way of living. It defines the kind of person we should all try to be. I do what I do because its right, because its decent, and above all, because its kind.
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EchoJae
NGL, about 15 of this list of 20 are so uninspiring they seem like nothing more than excuse to make another best monologue clip video where _Newsroom_ and _The West Wing_ can be addedagain
Most arent even monologues, but rather one- or two-liners.
Viola Davis/Annalise Keating being #1 was nice, though (if not totally expected)
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NGL, about 15 of this list of 20 are so uninspiring they seem like nothing more than excuse to make another best monologue clip video where _Newsroom_ and _The West Wing_ can be addedagain
Most arent even monologues, but rather one- or two-liners.
Viola Davis/Annalise Keating being #1 was nice, though (if not totally expected)
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Tez
criminal that Frank's speech in the graveyard from Daredevil wasn't on this list. There's just so much emotion in it and it runs the whole gamut of apathy to fear to joy to sadness to exhaustion to depression to grief to horror to anger to resentment to relief to resignation. The word choice is just so hard hitting and played expertly.
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criminal that Frank's speech in the graveyard from Daredevil wasn't on this list. There's just so much emotion in it and it runs the whole gamut of apathy to fear to joy to sadness to exhaustion to depression to grief to horror to anger to resentment to relief to resignation. The word choice is just so hard hitting and played expertly.
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walid
house about pain, sherlock about vulnerability, alfie solomon about how to stay faithful to your sword, the doctor speech of let me tell you a story, gellert grindelvald poisonous and seductive speech about the muggle, at least one or two of alan shore's closings in legal boston
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house about pain, sherlock about vulnerability, alfie solomon about how to stay faithful to your sword, the doctor speech of let me tell you a story, gellert grindelvald poisonous and seductive speech about the muggle, at least one or two of alan shore's closings in legal boston
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Louise
I have two favorites.
1. The Crown must win. Must always win. Such a chilling scene and says everything about Queen Elizabeth II
2. I did not kill Joffery, but I wish that I had. Peter Dinklage was AMAZING in that scene and you really felt Tyrions rage
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I have two favorites.
1. The Crown must win. Must always win. Such a chilling scene and says everything about Queen Elizabeth II
2. I did not kill Joffery, but I wish that I had. Peter Dinklage was AMAZING in that scene and you really felt Tyrions rage
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Jessica
All of these are great, but I really wish Chidis Wave monologue from the Good Place series finale was on this list. Its the one that has stuck with me since it aired and its so beautifully shot and written, makes me cry like a baby each time I watch it.
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All of these are great, but I really wish Chidis Wave monologue from the Good Place series finale was on this list. Its the one that has stuck with me since it aired and its so beautifully shot and written, makes me cry like a baby each time I watch it.
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Martina
In a video about Best TV Monologues, it is absurd how much we hear Phoebe SUMMARIZING major parts of the actual monologues and telling us how we're supposed to feel about them. I want to hear the actors, not the narrator.
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In a video about Best TV Monologues, it is absurd how much we hear Phoebe SUMMARIZING major parts of the actual monologues and telling us how we're supposed to feel about them. I want to hear the actors, not the narrator.
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Ninaofthe90s
I can't believe you didn't include my favorite one. Game of thrones - Jaime Lannister explains to Brienne why he killed the Mad King. One of the most chilling, emotional and best acted moments in the entire show.
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I can't believe you didn't include my favorite one. Game of thrones - Jaime Lannister explains to Brienne why he killed the Mad King. One of the most chilling, emotional and best acted moments in the entire show.
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CRAZYCHRIS291
The Doctors speech in 2013s The Rings of Akhatan is probably one of the most powerful monologues from that series of Doctor Who and thats coming from a Series with a crazy amount of powerful monologues
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The Doctors speech in 2013s The Rings of Akhatan is probably one of the most powerful monologues from that series of Doctor Who and thats coming from a Series with a crazy amount of powerful monologues
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Linn
Before watching; Jane the Virgin. Gina Rodriguez ranting for 5 minutes straight without a single cut in the last season was fantastic. I won't say more for spoiler reasons, but those of you who know you know
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Before watching; Jane the Virgin. Gina Rodriguez ranting for 5 minutes straight without a single cut in the last season was fantastic. I won't say more for spoiler reasons, but those of you who know you know
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Mervyn
My favorite monologue was Tom's Helen of Troy speech in Scandal. He delivers it to Olivia after he has been arrested.
I was blown away by the power of a tangential character's one big moment.
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My favorite monologue was Tom's Helen of Troy speech in Scandal. He delivers it to Olivia after he has been arrested.
I was blown away by the power of a tangential character's one big moment.
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Lilly
My favorite monologue was in supernatural when Dean told his mum that he wasnt just a brother for Sam he also had to be a mother and a father. I think Jensen Ackles was just amazing in that scene
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My favorite monologue was in supernatural when Dean told his mum that he wasnt just a brother for Sam he also had to be a mother and a father. I think Jensen Ackles was just amazing in that scene
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SinSch
Everwood should be on that list. Most underrated show ever. There are a lot of great monologues, for example Andy's (Treat Williams) Give me my joy back monologue.
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Everwood should be on that list. Most underrated show ever. There are a lot of great monologues, for example Andy's (Treat Williams) Give me my joy back monologue.
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Mushroom
What is grief, if not love persevering?
That line hits the softest part. For those who already experienced losing someone, it hits hard even without aiming
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What is grief, if not love persevering?
That line hits the softest part. For those who already experienced losing someone, it hits hard even without aiming
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Nunn615
Should do Top 20 Best Monologues from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Honestly there's so many from that show alone you could have put one of them in this list.
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Should do Top 20 Best Monologues from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Honestly there's so many from that show alone you could have put one of them in this list.
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Caroline
Deeply, deeply disappointed that Julia Sugarbakers the night the lights went out in Georgia is not on this list. Shameful! It should be in the top five.
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Deeply, deeply disappointed that Julia Sugarbakers the night the lights went out in Georgia is not on this list. Shameful! It should be in the top five.
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Ella
What about Teds In 45 days speech. It shows how Tracy really is worth waiting for and how much Ted loved her. It also foreshadows the end of the show subtly
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What about Teds In 45 days speech. It shows how Tracy really is worth waiting for and how much Ted loved her. It also foreshadows the end of the show subtly
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Calope
OITNB is a blessed tv show. So much representation and accuracy. Pains me and builds me up again. Heartbreaking and heartwarming. Such a masterpiece.
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OITNB is a blessed tv show. So much representation and accuracy. Pains me and builds me up again. Heartbreaking and heartwarming. Such a masterpiece.
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