We did not see that coming
Brunch|September 16, 2023
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Arshia Dhar
We did not see that coming

A Baratheon (who's actually a Lannister) dies at the Purple Wedding, to everyone's relief.
Game of Thrones, Season 4, Episode 2 (2014)

A woman (Urmila Matondkar) is home alone on a stormy evening with a psychopathic murderer on the loose. Then, two strange men (Manoj Bajpayee and Sushant Singh) break in, blaming each other for the murders. Who's the psychopath? The woman!
Kaun? (1999)

The married-into-money Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen), who knows there's no wine in prison, helps his billionaire FIL punk his kids.
Succession, Season 3, Episode 9 (2021)

Those friends who keep hanging out with mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe) aren't real, after all. Nash is a paranoid schizophrenic. His "friends" exist only in his head.
A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Rival magicians Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) both used clones: Borden had a secret identical twin, who did some stunts, Angier had a cloning machine, and killed his clones after a trick was performed. Presto!
The Prestige (2006)

Samwise Gamgee doesn't make it.
Stranger Things, Season 2, Episode 8 (2017)

Why is Vidya Bagchi (Vidya Balan), heavily pregnant in Kolkata, looking for her missing husband, Arnab Bagchi? Plot twist: Vidya was never pregnant. Her husband's name is not Arnab Bagchi. She's avenging the death of her husband in a poison-gas attack.
Kahaani (2012)

Amnesiac Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) has key events from his life as body tattoos. He's looking for the man who raped and killed his wife, Catherine (Jorja Fox), only to learn that it was he who gave her an insulin OD.
Memento (2000)

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