The original post: /r/television by /u/OkPainter6232 on 2025-04-29 07:11:39.
What’s a use of a song in a TV series that really made you emotional? For me a recent one is from the underrated and sadly overlooked 2005 TNT crime-drama series “Wanted”(The last show Aaron Spelling produced before his death)it’s basically about a task force made up of people from various law enforcement agencies tracking down criminals on the Most Wanted list. It’s pretty compelling stuff, I think fans of “The Shield” will dig it. Anyways there was one episode where the task force has to rescue a kidnapped kid from a child predator and naturally the parents are worried their daughter will get murdered(like the victim the task force found at the beginning)after they managed to save the girl and capture the criminal and the girl is finally re-united with her parents when she runs into her parents arms Creed’s “With Arms Wide Open” starts playing and that really got to me, which is notable as i’ve never been that big of a Creed fan(I like a few songs here and there but most of their music just bores me or annoys me)and that song wasn’t usually one I actively listened to whenever it was on the radio but it was used really well there.
BTW a lot of the music used in that show wasn’t listed under the soundtrack section on IMDB so I added it in myself(I was able to identify most of the songs with Shazam but a couple I got no results on).
Also really liked the use of Led Zeppelin’s “Babe, i’m Gonna Leave You” in the season 3 finale of One Tree Hill, that was notably the first time the band had EVER allowed use of their music on a network TV show and it really stood out, oh man the wait for season 4 was agony.