So that’s how Donna dies…

American sitcomKevin Can Wait delivered one of the most talked-about deaths of the season, with the series finally revealing how Donna (Erinn Hayes) died in the season two premiere!We already knew that Donna would be killed off; we just didn’t know how she would die,or, perhaps even more crucially, how the series would handle her conspicuously sudden absence. And as it turned out, the show handled Donna’s demise with exactly as much subtlety and delicacy as one would expect from a Kevin James show.

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Donna is dead, but the Season 2 premiere never stated how she died; instead, it made a joke about coupons. The scene, which came right at the top of the episode, lasted for fewer than two minutes. In the scene, Kevin receives a flyer from Donna’s gym and is briefly overcome with grief as his daughter promises to call the gym to make sure the mistake doesn’t happen again; after all, it’s been “over a year” since Donna died. Kevin thanks her, then blurts, “But don’t throw that out; on the bottom, there’s a coupon for a kung-fu lesson.” After that, Donna doesn’t even get another mention in the entire episode! Kevin Can Wait airs on Comedy Central in India.