In flashbacks it is shown that a teenage girl has to give up her baby for adoption. She spends the rest of her life searching for him and hoping to reunite with her child.
A main character has blackouts in her memory and questions if she is violent for most of this season, spurred on by the public believing her to be guilty of two violent crimes. This and her implied PTSD are explored in-depth in S2E6-S2E7.
A very contrived side-plot in this episode is a fish being almost flushed down a toilet. Prior to that, it is carried in a plastic bag, placed in a toilet tank, and accidentally flushed. It survives in the end.
Not really ghosts, but Mabel does talk to people (like Tim Kono and Ben Glenroy) who have died. Not in a "they're actually there" sense, more like talking with herself, but it could be compared to ghosts.
Oscar, one of Mabel's childhood friends, was wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. He's released in season 1, and his time in prison is talked about.
In season 2, Charles visits Jan in prison. Jan is also briefly mentioned in season 3.
Throughout the series, various main and non-main characters are arrested (innocent or not), most often in the season finales.
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It's very brief, but the start of season 3 episode 9 shows Oliver in the hospital (about to be released), and Mabel has a dream that takes place in the hospital as well. All of this is one short scene.
Mabel, particularly in s1 and s2, sees and speaks with “ghosts”. They’re implied to be only products of her mind, but are presented to the viewer as if she is conversing with any other character. It’s neat. And somewhat disconcerting.
Second half of S3:E9, it's shown a character who's been fasting break the fast and eat a cookie (shows as if it's a "binge") and calling themselves a pig. In the first half of S3:E10, Mabel calls out that it's an eating disorder, as the scene is revisited, however it doesn't linger on the topic.
A character is believed to commit suicide and a note is found with similar language in it. Another character expresses wanting to die after the death of his cat
episode 7 is told from the perspective of a deaf person, so no words are said, but there is a constant pitching noise in the background that can be triggering
No spoilers: someone has a gunshot wound to the head and, up to the point I’m at right now in the show, is being classified as suicide. That’s all I know
Towards the start of the first episode, the fire alarm goes off in their building. It is not incredibly bright but the stairwell is slightly lit up by flashing red.
In episode 5, a character makes fun of another character’s past weight gain and a picture is shown of the character either in a fat suit or heavily edited to look bigger
No, but in season 1 episode 9 there are some uncomfortable comments where a character's gender is put into question. I don't remember the timestamp, but it's while the characters are looking through a box of sex toys during the first half of the episode.
At the beginning of episode 1, one of the main characters encounters a man who speaks graphically and tactlessly about his father who has ALS. He describes the disabling effects of his father’s ALS and expresses that their family would be better off if he were to die.
The primary show premise is a group of two older men and a much younger woman with a shared love of true crime podcasts solving mysteries. The relationship is strictly platonic however.
In the second episode someone makes a joke that someone else is going to do something sexual with their cousins, it was only am offhand joke though and nothing happens. It could still be triggering or upsetting to survivors of incest.
no nudity or s*x scenes are ever shown. a box of sex toys is found, and it appears a couple times throughout season one, but they're never shown being used. two characters sleep together totally offscreen, and one of them repeatedly mentions it in a bragging manner after the fact. one character mentions that they could hear a couple having s*x next door. two characters are briefly seen passionately making out in an elevator.
A man crying about his dead cat seems to be intended as a joke (i.e., meant to be laughed at) in S1. Most characters comfort him in the moment, which is definitely meant as a joke in juxtaposition to a lack of group emotion about a dead person. Later, it's implied that the man is too emotional because it was only a cat.
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Mabel, Charles, and Oliver are put in a cop car and taken to the police station after having been found over Bunny's dead body, Mabel herself being covered in her blood.
A dead body is shown with a head wound and lots of blood. The main characters return to the bloody scene later on. A main character also suffers from nosebleeds