After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the estate’s chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling tale.
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They are stalked by ghosts, usually hidden in frame or shown far behind them. A ghost continually walks by windows and leers in, scaring the other characters.
A character implies that his father sexually abused him and other young children in a conversation with his mother, who is complicit. The scene is a few minutes long. It is in episode 7 around the 40 minute mark when peter flashes back to his mom knocking at the door.
Episode 2: A pet pigeon is killed off screen. Its body is seen in full view, and in the following scene it's death is explicitly described by a character.
A bird is killed offscreen in e2; the dead bird is shown but nothing else is heard or seen. In e5 woman tells a tory of a hurt mouse dying badly but it is not shown. There are no other animals in this series
In episode 1, while Dani is walking outside with Miles and Flora, Miles finds something in the bushes and calls for them to come look. He then brings over a palm-sized spider which scares off Flora, but Dani is not afraid and gently takes the harmless spider into her own hands.
Nothing happens on screen. A character implies that his father sexually abused him and other young children in a conversation with his mother, who is complicit. The scene is a few minutes long. It is in episode 7 around the 40 minute mark when peter flashes back to his mom knocking at the door.
In episode 2 Miles attempts to choke out a roommate at boarding school as well as Dani while playing hide and seek. No one is seriously injured but they both struggle to breathe.
No but there are a couple scenes that could be considered torture if you squint. For instance a character is forced to watch as potentially bad things happen to others characters. So it depends on your point of view.
A character is struck by a vehicle and is shown to be bleeding out on the ground in Episode 4. That's the goriest part of the series I think. Another character falls from a great height in Episode 5, and their body is shown in the aftermath, but only a little blood and no bones/guts. Some partially decomposed bodies are shown in brief glimpses. Not a gory series besides those examples.
A child is abducted in Episode 8, and another child is almost abducted in Episode 9. Both are by a ghost though, so not a realistic portrayal of child abduction.
Ep. 8, after Viola appears and says, "I don't want tea, I want to talk to my daughter" and again when Viola walks into the manor and it's filled with plagued peasants around 48 minutes in
Characters make choking sounds when they're being, well, choked to death. Another character's body falls from a large height, killing them. The impact isn't shown on-screen, but the sound is heard.
Spoilers for episode 4:
There is a family in a hospital waiting room that is told the news of a persons death but there is no view of the hospital room itself.
Not D.I.D. but does show multiple spirits in the same body. Systems may be triggered by religious scenes that demonize being more than one. And the overall message, especially the ending, that priorities singlethood over life itself.
There were several times in various episodes where I came across a misophonia trigger, specifically the sound of a kiss/smooch and several times with mouth sounds and general eating sounds but it isn’t bad. It isn’t extremely noticeable to most people but my misophonia is very sensitive and it was triggered several times in several episodes!
In episode 5, Miles is possessed and says the pejorative “F” word derogatory to homosexual men when referring to a cigarette. Context matters but it can be triggering to some.
Episode 4, timestamp 5:08-5:18, a woman mentions she wishes she'd had a daughter to pass on her old dress to, then jokes with a quick roll of her eyes that a certain one of her sons might have liked it. As a trans woman who's generally sensitive to this trigger, I actually chuckled at the line and considered it positive, since she says it rather lovingly and with a smile and the person she's talking to doesn't react, all a relief considering the scene takes place in the 70s or 80s. It just came off to me as a quick reference to her likely having a gay son, but I'm still voting Yes because I could certainly understand more negative interpretations.
Major Spoiler:
In the last episode of the season one of the gay girls drowns herself in a lake to end the curse of the ghost that came back so it wouldn't kill her lover.
Kind of. The season is not told linearly but, on a second watch, we realize that one of the very first deaths, not initially shown, is a person of color.
A child is possessed by the spirit of an adult man, and sometimes gets borderline flirtatious with adult women. It's not too bad, but there's a moment where the kid strokes a woman's ear, which may skeeve you out.
Yes, Christianity - Scenes being taught by nuns. A lot of talk about the bible verses to do with Legion (the man that was possessed with multiple spirits and Jesus moved the extra spirits to some nearby pigs and drowned the pigs/spirits).
A character implies that his father sexually abused him and other young children in a conversation with his mother, who is complicit. The scene is a few minutes long. It is in episode 7 around the 40 minute mark when peter flashes back to his mom knocking at the door. A brother and a sister are possessed by a couple.
In Episode 8, a character is shown to be slowly dying from a chronic illness. It's clear they're suffering, often kept in bed and needing to be cared for by others. It's a major part of the episode. In the first 4 episodes, a character mentions their mother is suffering from dementia and needs to be cared for. The mother is not seen, but the impact of her illness is called a "burden" and discussed in detail by the character.