A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world. Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
This tv show contains 75 potentially triggering events.
A person is killed during a dog walk. Nothing bad happens to this dog, it's mentioned that it comes back home. Later, a character is mentioned to have killed their dog violently in the past. Not shown.
Hector talks about his fear of losing custody of his kids if he gets caught cheating with Mindy, and with the ending scene, it can be confirmed to be something that happens after the episode occurs.
Character is physically abusive toward his child. It is shown through several actions, lines and reactions from said child. This episode looks like it takes part in the 60's or 70's.
It is mentioned that an 8-year old is being sexually abused by her father. There's a brief flash of the father starting an interaction and loosening his belt. Can be triggering.
No dogs in this episode, but dog-like creatures are injured and killed. It's clearly CGI, but they whimper like actual dogs. Also, goats are left chained in a place where they would be killed. It is not shown if they end up alive.
A cat is briefly displayed at the beginning of the episode however there is no mention of the cat being harmed and the cat is not seen for the rest of the episode.
It is mentioned that an 8-year old is being sexually abused by her father. There's a brief flash of the father starting an interaction and loosening his belt. Can be triggering.
Loch Henry- a couple has been kidnapped and are shown gagged and tied up|| Mazey Day- a woman is chained to a the floor with a metal collar round her neck
S1E1: A character is coerced into publicly having sex with a pig, which is partially shown on screen.
S1E2: A character is given a drink called "compliance," which leads her to agree to be part of a sex ring. There is sexual harassment before she is pressured into going into the ring and taking off her shirt by two men and a woman, who also make other sexual comments. While she says "yes" in the videos of her sexual encounters, which are distributed throughout the community, she is hesitant to do so, and it is clear that saying "no" is not an option.
S2E3: Mention of pedophilia.
S3E3: A character is shown masturbating to child p**n (although nothing on his laptop is shown) and is later arrested. This character also interacts with (but does not assault) a child.
S4E1: Two women are forced to kiss a man several times. A third woman is tortured when she refuses to kiss someone. There is one suggestion of a main character forcing a woman into sex.
S4E2: The woman coerced into doing p**n by the judges of a talent show is referenced.
S4E6: A man is shown spanking his girlfriend during sex, despite her repeated requests for him not to do so. In the context of the episode, it is made clear that he is doing this specifically to cause her pain, in order to utilize a device that turns her pain into his pleasure.
There is a ‘threat’ of it in season one episode 3 but nothing happens.There is a death and the throat is heavily slashed. First shown 9:11. Off frame completely at 11:00. No audio of it so just look away there’s important dialogue. ( wait until they’re outside and waking alway from scene. I’ve not watched the whole season so I’ll update if I see more.
Princess Susanna's finger is severed and sent in a box when the Prime Minister's team attempts to fake fulfilling her kidnappers demands. The severing is not shown on screen as it is done out of view behind Susanna's back. Spoiler: ˙ǝlɐɯ pǝᴉɟᴉʇuǝpᴉun uɐ oʇ pǝƃuolǝq ʇᴉ pɐǝʇsuᴉ 'ɐuuɐsnS oʇ ƃuolǝq ʎllɐnʇɔɐ ʇou pᴉp ɹǝƃuᴉɟ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʇ pǝlɐǝʌǝɹ sᴉ ʇᴉ 'ǝposᴉdǝ ǝɥʇ ɟo puǝ ǝɥʇ ʇ∀
Mention of graphic sexual violence including genital mutilation and torture when discussing the prior actions of a serial killer - none shown on screen only described
White Christmas - a digital clone of a person is subjected to six months of isolation and mental torture to "break" her. Later another person suffers a similar fate.
A lot of episodes feature gory deaths but particularly black museum where a man is shown cutting and torturing himself, the scene is gory as he’s shown pulling his own tooth out while covered in cuts
A couple on vacation is kidnapped, tortured and killed. Scene shows home video filmed by the abductors of the kidnapped couple restrained and in distress, it is implied they are about to be brutally tortured and murdered.
There are some in store displays, one in particular is focused on because it's got an outfit a character likes. There are also mannequin parts in a bin outside. They aren't the focus of the scene.
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Season 1
Ep 1 The National Anthem- NOT SAFE! Man V*s around 39 minutes in after woman is taken off bridge. Audio and body language only. Saliva is seen around his nose and mouth for remainder of scene and two more times after this.
Ep 2 Fifteen Million Merits- SAFE!
Ep 3 The Entire History of You- SAFE! One mention of P.
Season 2
Ep 1 Be Right Back- NOT SAFE! Woman V*s around 11 minutes in after taking a big sip of wine. Audio and body language only. Same woman V*s again around 13 minutes in after g*gging and running out of room. Audio and visual.
Ep 2 White Bear- SAFE!
Ep 3 The Waldo Moment- SAFE!
Ep 4 White Christmas- SAFE! Man g*gs and coughs up blood around 22 minutes in.
Season 3
Ep 1 Nosedive- SAFE! One mention of V.
Ep 2 Playtest- SAFE!
Ep 3 Shut Up and Dance- NOT SAFE! Man V*s around 20 minutes in after getting a text and walking to the bathroom. Audio only. One mention of TU.
Ep 4 San Junipero- SAFE!
Ep 5 Men Against Fire- SAFE! Some blood out of the mouth.
Ep 6 Hated in the Nation- SAFE! Woman foams at the mouth around 54 minutes in.
Season 4
Ep 1 USS Callister- SAFE!
Ep 2 Arkangel- NOT SAFE! Girl V*s around 43 minutes in after running out of classroom. Audio only. Mention of V.
Ep 3 Crocodile- Safe-ish. Woman bends over a g*gs a few times around 3 minutes in. Woman bends over and g*gs again around 49 minutes in. No V, but might be triggering.
Ep 4 Hang the DJ- SAFE! Man spits out food.
Ep 5 Metalhead- Safe-ish. Woman g*gs, coughs and bends over around 27 minutes in. No V, but might be triggering.
Ep 6 Black Museum- SAFE! Some blood out of the mouth. Mention of P. Some intense coughing. Some drooling.
Season 5
Ep 1 Striking Vipers- SAFE!
Ep 2 Smithereens- NOT SAFE! Man says he’s going to V many times around 15 minutes in and finally V*s around 16 minutes in. Audio and body language only. V is seen on his suit for remainder of episode.
In the episode Black Museum, in the third story of this anthology episode, a life-like (and possibly consciousness) hologram is forced to undergo holographic torture via an electric chair - being restrained to the device, and unable to escape.
This is clearly shown to be a painful and harmful abuse of this hologram.
White Christmas- a character has what is presumably schizophrenia (mentions hearing voices) and the show handles it really poorly- she murders someone and kills herself to 'escape the voices'.
In the episode Black Museum, a man is shown to be seriously harming himself due to an implant that mixes up his pain and pleasure responses. There may be more episodes containing self harm, but this is the only I know of.
Demon 79- A character who murdered people in the belief that she was preventing an apocalypse is briefly implied to be mentally ill. She isn't actually, but could still be triggering
Given paparazzi are involved there's lot of camera flashing. The worst part is honestly the part in the cabin. I'm not sensitive to flashing lights and it even bothered me.
A woman gives birth via C-Section in the opening scene. The child does not cry and the doctors rush the child away and don’t tell the mother what is happening.
White Christmas- a women with schizophrenia murders someone else and then herself to 'escape the voices'. Massive misrepresentation of the illness and feeds into the stigma
In San Junipero two gay characters die, but their relationship is framed as something very positive, they both die of oldage and they find love in the "afterlife" so imo it does not fall into the bury your gays trope
in S1:E2 there is a man on the bike who watches this show where food is shoved into fat people's faces and he is laughing at them. He also watches another show where water is fired at fat people dressed in yellow scrubs and stuff because that's the workers gear. He laughs hysterically at them, and bullies all of the workers.
White Christmas- a women with schizophrenia murders someone else and then herself to 'escape the voices'. Massive misrepresentation of the illness and feeds into the stigma
There's a lot of microaggressions and racist remarks made. There is also a nationalist group. This takes place in Britain, the primary targets seem to be immigrants and the main character is Indian.
A major character is supposedly fifteen (actress looks like she's in her early to mid twenties though) and the male character she's seeing is a bit older than her, but they have been going to the same school. It's unclear how much older he is, but the mom does note that she's unhappy he's sleeping with her daughter due to her daughter's age.
Not an anti abortion theme, however in the episode 'White Christmas', when a character tells her partner she wants to get an abortion he gets and angry and calls her a bitch
In the beginning, they play with the blood from the slain family across the walls and at the end its shown across the walls and a huge puddle on the floor.