The Haunting of Hill House

TV Show • 2018 • Horror  

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Episode
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Does the dog die?
168 supporters
Yes
54
No
159
14
louisatipton
No dog dies onscreen, but in some scenes you possibly hear the barking of ghost dogs
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Abandonment
Yes
13
No
2
Yes
25
No
3
2
The father, Hugh, leaves the children to go live with their Aunt Janet after the mother dies and Aunt Janet raises them.
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Is an animal abandoned?
1 supporters
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Yes
1
No
13
Abuse
Yes
20
No
1
3
Drummerwitchakookoo
None of the main characters’ parents are abusive—but it’s confirmed (though not explicitly shown onscreen)—that a young girl is being assaulted by her foster father in episode three.

Theo reports it; he’s arrested and the children are removed from the home.
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Yes
0
No
14
Is someone stalked?
12 supporters
Yes
56
No
18
8
cassandrasaurusrdr
I mean, the ghost sorta stalk the characters. The most stalk-y scene I can remember is adult Luke being followed by the tall man with the hat.
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4
Theo has flashbacks of what appears to be her dad being violent with their mother.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
37 supporters
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Yes
0
No
14
Yes
0
No
19
Yes
103
No
4
9
carabc03
the house is haunted, and nellie sees a ghost called “the bent neck lady” but is dismissed as being crazy, and whenever she tries to talk to her family about her ongoing sightings, she is asked if she’s off her meds. also, the brother writes a book about the house being haunted (and makes a ton of money off of it, and does meet and greet type things) while still telling nellie that she’s insane for believing the house was haunted.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
7 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Is a child abused?
59 supporters
Yes
134
No
4
19
Anonymous
In episode 3, it is implied that a child is being sexually abused by her foster father. Though it is not shown, the character Theo acts out the scene as if she were the child. It happens when she sees the couch.
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Addiction
16
Anonymous
Hi there, finished the series. There is an instance of drug usage and many times needles are used in the later half on the series. Tread carefully.
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Is there addiction?
6 supporters
Yes
140
No
2
8
LandoCalrissian
Luke is an addict
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Yes
128
No
12
6
shannonwilliams49
There is definitely alcohol misuse, which doesn't mean there is necessarily alcohol addiction. Theo in ep 6 especially uses alcohol to self-medicate/deal her emotions.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
61 supporters
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Yes
0
No
18
Does a horse die?
49 supporters
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Yes
1
No
129
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
87 supporters
Yes
136
No
53
17
kyatenaru
Kittens, episode 2, failure to thrive
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Are animals abused?
101 supporters
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Yes
8
No
91
Yes
0
No
90
Yes
118
No
4
10
cjn2491
The flashbacks in Episode 2 center around one of the characters finding outdoor kittens who ultimately die. Honestly you can skip all the flashback scenes in this episode and it won’t take away from the series.
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Is an animal sad?
1 supporters
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Yes
1
No
12
Are rabbits harmed?
35 supporters
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Yes
0
No
19
Does a cat die?
91 supporters
Yes
314
No
8
48
Anonymous
Yes. 5 kittens die in episode 2. They all die of natural causes.
First kitten dies at 24:46 and then a funeral is held and the kitten is shown quite a bit until 27:41.
The last 4 kittens die at 34:13. It us a quick flash for only a handful of seconds.
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Does a pet die?
79 supporters
Yes
45
No
2
1
Minor spoiler:

Theo finds kitten, the kittens end up dying. A good amount of theodore’s episode is focus on this. It shows the dead kittens
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Does a dragon die?
16 supporters
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Yes
1
No
126
Are there spiders?
26 supporters
Yes
10
No
97
1
Im not sure if its a spider, but a bug comes out of a dead kitten's mouth.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
2 supporters
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Yes
0
No
17
Are there snakes?
10 supporters
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Yes
1
No
110
Are there sharks?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
16
Are there bugs?
0 supporters
Yes
165
No
3
15
crabby
at 2 different times you see a beetle crawl out of a dead thing's mouth (at one point it's an animal, at another time it's a human).
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Assault
4
Theo gets punched in the boob by Shirley
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Is someone drugged?
13 supporters
Yes
18
No
2
1
rainbear
SPOILER ALERT
children are poisoned by an adult
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Is there pedophilia?
57 supporters
Yes
22
No
1
4
Drummerwitchakookoo
It’s confirmed (though not explicitly shown onscreen)—that one of Theo’s patients is being assaulted by her foster father in episode three.

Theo reports it; he’s arrested and the children are removed from the home.
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Is someone held under water?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
17
Is rape mentioned?
39 supporters
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Yes
18
No
1
Is someone beaten up by a bully?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
13
Is someone restrained?
9 supporters
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Yes
27
No
1
Yes
119
No
5
29
crabby
you discover that Theo's child therapy patient is being sexually assaulted by her foster dad, and Theo experiences this through visions and kind of mimes the actions as it's implied what happened, but you don't explicitly see it actually happen.
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Yes
11
No
1
1
zzyellow
faces are momentarily grabbed and covered in Ep 9 and 10. The mouth of a ghost who is trying to speak is restrained by wire. (ep 9)
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Yes
0
No
15
Bodily Harm
Yes
5
No
88
0
AylinFevzi
The guy cuts his hand in the ventilator
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Yes
11
No
2
2
S1
 E8
Hugh severely injures his hand on a fan.
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Are there dislocations?
5 supporters
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Yes
6
No
3
Yes
7
No
3
1
FleetwoodMacNCheez
Not throat, but neck mutilation
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Yes
60
No
0
9
kyatenaru
Hard breathing during sleep paralysis scenes, one scene where the subtitles say "[choking]" and the character has trouble breathing before dying.
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Is there decapitation?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Is there cannibalism?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
No
56
Is someone crushed to death?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
29
Is someone choked?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Yes
6
No
91
11
No one is burned alive but there is a graphic story of a little girl burned to death and her eyes oozing out like eggs in episode 3.
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Yes
12
No
47
11
FishMan
No one is buried alive but there is talk of someone being sealed in a wall alive and dying.
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Is there body horror?
25 supporters
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Yes
17
No
0
Is there amputation?
11 supporters
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Yes
1
No
64
Yes
23
No
68
11
Anonymous
Two people die by falling, with obvious associated traumatic head injury, but no heads are squashed like by a car or other object smashing into it.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
11 supporters
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Yes
1
No
29
Is there a hanging?
18 supporters
Yes
112
No
4
19
crabby
you see it right on screen, pretty brutal.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
13 supporters
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Yes
22
No
2
Yes
21
No
68
13
uwumercy
no actual teeth damaged but there is a scene with a character waking up with her mouth wired shut and she has to cut it open. pretty disturbing in my opinion
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0
rainbear
During an overdose in the last episode, at least. There may be other instances I can't recall.
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Yes
122
No
3
14
crabby
a recurring ghost has a broken neck, and at one point you see how it gets broken right on screen.
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
70
No
20
4
TheCassandraComplex
As another commenter said, someone has an aneurism. One of the characters also suffers from sleep paralysis which can appear similar to a seizure.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
40 supporters
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Yes
0
No
42
Yes
84
No
24
15
Gary
Just seconding the other commenter, the dad gets his hand caught in an industrial fan which deeply cuts his hand and fingers. The wound is graphically shown and I believe there is bone exposed, I would count it as mutilation just to be cautious for people.
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Is someone tortured?
52 supporters
Yes
16
No
67
3
RachelCamille
EXTREME gaslighting in ep 9. Detailed depiction.
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
17
No
9
1
TheCassandraComplex
A couple characters fall from a landing that is right next to a spiral staircase but they fall from the landing, not the stairs.
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Yes
122
No
2
8
eyesinthehills
Two people fall to their deaths, one dying from hitting the ground and another from being hanged. Both are graphic, the first being fairly bloody but with no close-ups of the wound, and the second showing the body drop and the person with their broken neck for around an additional minute after.
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Yes
108
No
3
24
Anonymous
Episode 10, timestamp 17:54. Pretty darn gross actually. Definite warning here. Close your eyes for a few seconds after you hear the word eyes. Open again when you hear a gasp.

Another one in 27:08. It starts to happen once you hear the music swell. You can open your eyes again once you hear the scream.
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Is someone stabbed?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Yes
24
No
11
3
TheCassandraComplex
There are a LOT of ghosts that appear as corpses in various states of rot and decay, and there’s parts of an embalming shown. However, there’s not a lot of actual blood or injuries that result in excessive blood (no severed limbs, viscera etc.). The bloodiest part is when (mild spoilers) Hugh sticks his hand in a fan and gets a few deep lacerations. There’s also a pool of blood around a corpse of a person who threw themselves off a balcony.

TL;DR: Even though there’s not a lot of actual blood and gore, I’m marking yes just to be safe, mostly because of all the decaying corpse-like entities and the frequent instances of body horror.
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Children
Yes
2
No
23
1
zzyellow
I'd say yes. Coerced into a 'tea-party' murder.
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Does a kid die?
24 supporters
Yes
136
No
4
12
RachelCamille
Episode 9. It's murder in order to "save" them. Very big potential trigger. Also graphic discussion of other child murders.
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Is a minor sexualized?
56 supporters
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Yes
8
No
13
Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
0 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Death
0
valhdia
S1
 E10
Hugh
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Does a major character die?
10 supporters
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Yes
14
No
1
Yes
11
No
7
1
rainbear
Animals die but there are no non-human characters in this show.
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Does someone die?
8 supporters
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Yes
14
No
1
Disability
Is the r-slur used?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
31
Yes
0
No
9
Drugs/Alcohol
Yes
31
No
2
1
echoevemorrow1
SPOILER









last episode Luke is tricked into overdosing
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
6 supporters
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Yes
2
No
54
Does a parent die?
6 supporters
Yes
148
No
1
11
invadermac
Mom & Dad both die in the course of the series
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Does someone cheat?
12 supporters
Yes
79
No
2
7
basilange
It's assumed one character cheats but it's not what it looks like. Later, its revealed another character cheated on her husband.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
8
No
29
6
basilange
The mother punches a child's vanity mirror after her son fixes it for her
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Does a family member die?
0 supporters
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Yes
16
No
1
Fear
Are there jumpscares?
27 supporters
Yes
186
No
3
20
louisatipton
Oh man. In episode 8 there is this one crazy jump scare that will make you pee your pants. If you don't want it to be spoiled for you stop reading.

If you are scared and want to be ready for the jumpscare, it happens in s1ep8 when adult Theo and Shirley are arguing in the car and Nellie's ghost unexpectedly shows up
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Yes
99
No
1
7
Anonymous
Episode 9 and 10. Debatable, honestly. It's uncertain but I thought it would be best to click yes just in case.
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Are there ghosts?
5 supporters
Yes
174
No
0
19
thefishdj1977
Lots and lots and lots and lots and ....
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Are there clowns?
8 supporters
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Yes
3
No
98
Are there natural bodies of water?
0 supporters
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Yes
1
No
6
Yes
1
No
7
-1
AylinFevzi
Bella dead body has holes on her face
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Are there razors?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
4 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Is there a shower scene?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
74
Are there mannequins?
3 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15
Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
30
Does someone vomit?
54 supporters
Yes
112
No
4
25
Anonymous
Episode 9, timestamp 45:50
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Is someone eaten?
15 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Is there on-screen pooping?
19 supporters
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Yes
1
No
7
Does someone spit?
7 supporters
Yes
58
No
18
9
RachelCamille
The one that comes to mind is mouth frothing from drug use and poison.
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Is there audio gore?
26 supporters
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Yes
34
No
7
Is there farting?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
3 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
22
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
8 supporters
Yes
3
No
34
4
TheCassandraComplex
Cops are a fairly neutral presence in a some of the episodes, they are not shown in either a negative or positive light.
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Is there incarceration?
3 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
17 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Are there transphobic slurs?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
13
Yes
0
No
10
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
15
1
rainbear
Not really. A lesbian almost kisses a married man, but it's... Complicated.
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
2 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
13 supporters
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Yes
1
No
80
Yes
130
No
3
12
Anonymous
graphic depictions of someone using heroin intraveniously
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5
Anonymous
if you count a drug rehabilitation center yes
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Is there a hospital scene?
6 supporters
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Yes
82
No
3
Is there menstruation?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Does someone have cancer?
9 supporters
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Yes
4
No
87
Mental Health
Yes
32
No
0
1
TarotCard
Possible PTSD from events in childhood
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Does someone have a mental illness?
11 supporters
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Yes
9
No
2
Does someone self harm?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
34 supporters
Add comment
Yes
70
No
16
Is autism misrepresented?
16 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
34
No
2
3
TheCassandraComplex
Not in an in-your-face aggressive way but the mom starts to loose touch with reality and (MAJOR SPOILERS) attempts to murder her own children with poisoned tea. She doesn’t succeed but unfortunately she does kill someone else’s child in the process. One of the ghost’s backstory mirrors this as well.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
14
Yes
23
No
3
1
TheCassandraComplex
The characters have many encounters with the supernatural. It’s unclear to both the characters and the viewer much of the time whether these experiences are real or hallucinations.
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Yes
7
No
1
2
TheCassandraComplex
Young Theo’s reaction when her father touches her reads like a meltdown. Theo’s sensitivity to touch in general hits close to home, even though it is supernatural in her case.
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Is there misophonia?
21 supporters
Yes
0
No
26
5
TarotCard
I have misophonia and nothing bugged me. It's my comfort show haha
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Is there ABA therapy?
0 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Is there body dysphoria?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Is there body dysmorphia?
14 supporters
Add comment
Yes
9
No
64
Yes
0
No
29
Yes
73
No
0
4
veb003
There is a great deal of anxiety in the show, experienced both by children and adults.
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Yes
90
No
1
11
RachelCamille
Stuck in a dumb waiter, can't get back up, and the lights go out.
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Yes
0
No
83
Is there autism specific abuse?
26 supporters
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Yes
0
No
48
29
RachelCamille
GRAPHIC SUICIDE. You watch it. It's realistic. You see the corpse with obvious Mark's of the suicide.

You see a SECOND suicide after watching in a linear sequence as this person is gaslit into suicide. The victim says "I want to wake up". The gaslighter says, "Then wake up". Then they suicide. I haven't had ideation in over a year, and my brain still flooded with relief and gratitude when the gaslighter gave permission. It is BAD. Be aware. This "waking up" ideation is pretty common and dangerous. It's a turn of phrase they return to for the rest of the season.

There's future gaslighting where an addict is told that the only way to ever really be clean is to be dead.
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
16 supporters
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Yes
11
No
1
Are there underwater scenes?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Does a baby cry?
12 supporters
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Yes
26
No
2
Is there shakey cam?
22 supporters
Yes
4
No
61
2
TarotCard
Slight shakey cam as a character falls while hanging themself
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Is there screaming?
6 supporters
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Yes
8
No
0
1
aniwillow
It is a TV-MA show, there is a lot of cursing and some references to sex.
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1
Episode 6 has an ongoing lightning storm and flashing lights throughout
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
0 supporters
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Yes
10
No
3
Is the fourth wall broken?
4 supporters
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Yes
0
No
26
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
11 supporters
Yes
22
No
3
3
TheCassandraComplex
There is a very sad and disturbing backstory about a stillborn infant. Nothing is shown but it’s very emotional and could be hard for parents who have experienced miscarriages and/or stillbirth.
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Is there childbirth?
12 supporters
Yes
0
No
59
2
TheCassandraComplex
Mentioned, not shown.
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Are there abortions?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
60
1
TheCassandraComplex
Human babies are not shown explicitly but referenced in two disturbing backstories about infant death. (Spoilers) There’s also a graphic hallucination with a pregnant woman whose belly rapidly swells and becomes corpse-like.
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Yes
94
No
4
9
user25067
The Dudleys reference the miscarriage of their first child
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Yes
15
No
33
6
Baskinmyrobbins
2nd to last episode, Steeves wife (not really) is pregnant and slowly becomes blackened and corpse like from her womb outward.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
24 supporters
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Yes
0
No
59
Yes
10
No
43
6
RubySees
The first death referenced in the first episode is of a black man who dies in a car accident. His wife is featured recounting both his death and her encounter with his ghost. We only see him in a photo.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
0 supporters
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Yes
0
No
47
Yes
0
No
48
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
14 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
29
Is there hate speech?
14 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
76
Is a minority is misrepresented?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15
Yes
4
No
105
28
James Palmer
one of the main characters is a lesbian and does not die :)
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7
lesro99
Some of the children are gaslit by being told that they're just insane when they're seeing ghosts or are talked down to about their mental health struggles.
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Are there n-words?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
47
Is there aphobia?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15
Race
Is there blackface?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
13
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
20 supporters
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Yes
1
No
20
Religious
Is religion discussed?
8 supporters
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Yes
8
No
3
Are there demons or Hell?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Sex
Yes
98
No
2
8
crabby
there is a sex scene, but it's brief and the sexual acts happen out of the shot.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
21 supporters
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Yes
1
No
19
Are there nude scenes?
17 supporters
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Yes
2
No
19
Is there bestiality?
44 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
13
Is there BDSM?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
9
Does someone lose their virginity?
6 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
13
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
43 supporters
Yes
33
No
33
12
hopethishelps
Don’t remember the episode but when Theo is treating a patient she finds out the childs father is abusing her.
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Sexism
Yes
0
No
21
Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
4 supporters
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Yes
0
No
21
Does someone have a chronic illness?
5 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
13
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
13 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
17
Is someone terminally ill?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
8
Social
Yes
24
No
2
2
TheCassandraComplex
Luke is briefly homeless after being kicked out if rehab.
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Are there fat suits?
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Is existentialism debated?
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Spoiler
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The dad describes letters written by his daughter to Santa, and he recalls having to make sure that he bought his children the gifts mentioned in the letters. While he doesn’t explicitly spoil Santa, he implies that he is the one buying the gifts and not Santa.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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louisatipton
Ending is satisfying and I'd say it's pretty happy :)
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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louisatipton
Episode 8, Theo and Shirley are suprised by Nellie's ghost while driving, and spin off the road. They don't really crash though, and it's not a big deal, no one gets hurt
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a plane crash?
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Near miss episode 4. Tires screech, horn honks and pedestrian hits the hood of the car.
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there blood/gore?
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BruckheimerFoehdh
Some graphic cuts to someone with massive head trauma. Graphic scene of embalming a body. There is also a hallucination of a girl's eyes melting out of her skull.
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Does someone drown?
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RachelCamille
A drowning is vaguely referenced in ep 9. Not described in detail or made a relevant plot point.
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Is there gun violence?
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