Does the dog die?
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Twin Peaks
TV Show • 1989 • Mystery
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Your Triggers
Yes
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35
1
Waldo the myna bird is shot and killed because he "saw too much" on the night of Laura Palmer's murder, and might "talk". Also: (dead) fish in the percolator. But no dogs are harmed
The Tickle Fox
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Abandonment
Yes
16
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3
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
50 supporters
Yes
20
No
4
0
S1
A teenaged character discusses his mother abandoning him for periods of time due to alcoholism.
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Yes
13
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Abuse
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49
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As described in other TWs here, there are frequent depictions of child abuse, as well as abuse of 17-18 y/o characters who still live with their parents and are seen as children, thus. The entire show revolves around abuse in a roundabout manner.
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Yes
67
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Very much so. The most prominent is the abuse between a woman and her boyfriend, but there is also abuse between a daughter and her father, and a separate daughter who is neglected and emotionally abused by her father. Healthy parental and domestic relationships are few and far between and there is a *lot* of near-abuse manipulation between almost all of the depicted couples.
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Are there abusive parents?
71 supporters
Yes
21
No
0
6
Extremely, though it's not necessarily apparent from the getgo
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Yes
16
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1
Yes
7
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1
Yes
21
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2
0
S2
The killer reveals that they were abused as a child.
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Is someone stalked?
31 supporters
Yes
43
No
2
3
S1
E1
Not stalked per se but James and Donna are tailed by the Sheriff and Agent Cooper.
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Yes
29
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4
Addiction
Is there addiction?
32 supporters
Yes
42
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1
1
In the first episode (Pilot) it's revealed that Laura Palmer has an addiction to cocaine.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
26 supporters
Yes
45
No
0
5
S1
E1
Bobby and Mike drink and drive drunk while trying to find Donna.
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Yes
55
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1
7
Characters are implied to use and sell cocaine, as well as syringed drugs. There is forced-drug usage implied as well, abuse casual occurrences of alcohol abuse.
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Animal
Are animals abused?
314 supporters
Yes
2
No
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2
S2
E17
S2E17 This guy brings a ferret to the enviromental event, to show "endangered species" and he's holding her and showing to the audience, she looks kinda scared and uncomfortable, I had to skip this scene as it was too much for me, but I think she somehow managed to escape
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Yes
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4
4
S1
E7
Skip at 30:35 to 32:25 to avoid seeing the bird.
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Does a pet die?
268 supporters
Yes
26
No
3
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A pet bird :(
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Were animals harmed in the making?
228 supporters
Yes
3
No
7
1
S2
E17
S2E17 event scene with the ferret, I don't know any "behind the scenes", but she looks real and scared, which actually made me anxious about the making of this scene
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Yes
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No
26
Yes
0
No
10
Are there spiders?
76 supporters
Yes
34
No
2
1
There is an intense scene where spiders are used at the end of Season 2.
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No
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Yes
27
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1
Yes
0
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Yes
0
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7
Yes
0
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7
Yes
3
No
6
Yes
0
No
35
Is there a dead animal?
1 supporters
Yes
35
No
3
3
Taxidermy is seen many times throughout the show
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31
Assault
Yes
3
No
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there are a couple of scenes before and after sexual assault happens
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Yes
50
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4
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There are a few instances of this which are only implied in the original two seasons of Twin Peaks. (SPOILERS) Two different female characters who were kidnapped are found to have been raped by multiple men before the show's timeline starts. There is also inferred sexual assault/abuse between a few couples who are in either abusive or generally unhealthy relationships.
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Is there pedophilia?
169 supporters
Yes
27
No
4
5
A lot of mention of much older men being with highschool girls, as well as talks of girls being assaulted by their fathers at unspecified ages. While most of the romantically-toned interactions between Audrey and Cooper are initiated by Audrey and pushed away by Cooper, they can still be a bit discomforting to watch for some viewers, as Audrey is still in highschool.
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Is rape mentioned?
126 supporters
Yes
31
No
1
4
the character whose murder serves the basis of the series was also raped, as was the other girl that was with her on the night of her death. this is discussed a number of times, particularly in the first season.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
74 supporters
Yes
4
No
11
2
S2
During season 2, there is an entire subplot which involves a 35 year old woman's sexual advances on a high school boy. Although he is uncomfortable and rejects her advances multiple times, it's implied that they have sex in a later episode
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Is someone drugged?
44 supporters
Yes
17
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1
0
S2
E6
A young girl is drugged with heroin which almost k*lls her
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Yes
24
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1
Yes
1
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9
Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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1
Yes
16
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0
Yes
15
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0
Bodily Harm
Yes
0
No
19
Yes
0
No
16
Is someone tortured?
130 supporters
Yes
43
No
2
5
S1
E1
Implied that torture has occurred when the officers find the abandoned train car but none is shown.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
122 supporters
Yes
1
No
19
2
S1
E1
It's mentioned that Laura and Ronnie were raped.
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Yes
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
85 supporters
Yes
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In the first episode a character pulls an object out of a corpse's fingernail.
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Yes
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Is someone burned alive?
72 supporters
Yes
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Several people are shown/implied to have died in a fire but it later turns out they all survived.
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Yes
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Is there a hanging?
70 supporters
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33
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3
2
S2
E7
Early in the episode, Hawk will open the door to investigate the now trashed home of a character that previously cut their face with a gardening utensil. Look away or down as the body will show shortly later and was extremely triggering to my partner. You don’t see the head but do see the arms and legs. The body will be shown one more time when Cooper and Harry arrive to the same location, it is not shown again after that.
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Is there throat mutilation?
62 supporters
Yes
1
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0
Strangulation but not mutilation.
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Yes
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Is there shaving/cutting?
57 supporters
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1
S1
two people cut their thumbs with a blade and press them together, blood is shown
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Is there amputation?
53 supporters
Yes
17
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Not explicitly, but there is a character whose character largely revolves around the fact that he only has one arm. There is discussion of this, and therefore while the amputation is not shown, it may still be unnerving to viewers sensitive to this subject.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
46 supporters
Yes
26
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1
0
S2
E18
Near the beginning of the episode Josie pretty clearly has a panic attack
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
44 supporters
Yes
2
No
10
0
Yes, achilles tendon injury is implied!
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Does someone break a bone?
43 supporters
Yes
22
No
2
2
Does anyone have any details please?
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Is someone choked?
34 supporters
Yes
15
No
0
0
S2E7: towards the end of the episode a woman gets choked by a man, very lengthy and upsetting scene. Begins after male character is seen staring at himself in the mirror, lasts almost the remainder of the episode
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Are any hands damaged?
33 supporters
Yes
5
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5
0
there's a one armed character
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Yes
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5
Is someone stabbed?
30 supporters
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5
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5
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there are mentions of stabbing but not in excessive length and nothing happens on screen!
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10
Yes
0
No
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Yes
13
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1
Does someone asphyxiate?
1 supporters
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14
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0
S1
E8
S1E8 - a character is suffocated with a pillow.
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Yes
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21
Yes
5
No
14
Children
Is a minor sexualized?
141 supporters
Yes
25
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4
5
A central theme of the show. Minors are sexualized both by each other and by adult characters. If this is a trigger probably best to avoid the show.
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Does a kid die?
114 supporters
Yes
55
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3
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The premise of the series is the murder of a teenage girl
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Yes
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Creepy Crawly
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0
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
60 supporters
Yes
12
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A bird. Later, a demon.
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Does a major character die?
40 supporters
Yes
22
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The whole series centers around the death of a significant character.
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Yes
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No
0
Yes
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Disability
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0
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Yes
18
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
27 supporters
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14
No
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a character attempts to overdose but survives. another character is abducted and her captors plan to kill her by overdose, but do not succeed
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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
42 supporters
Yes
2
No
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No. However, similarly, the lock on a teenage girl's diary is broken in order for it to be read. This may upset viewers who are sensitive to the misuse or abuse of children's toys or personal belongings.
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Yes
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1
Does a family member die?
33 supporters
Yes
20
No
0
1
S1
A good bunch of this season involves Laura's parents violently grieving
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Is someone kidnapped?
20 supporters
Yes
38
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5
A female character is tied up and forced to stay in a brothel. A major villian in season 2 kidnaps several people and murders some of them.
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Does someone cheat?
1 supporters
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51
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half of the entire cast of the show is cheating on each other with the other half of the cast
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Fear
Yes
36
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5
Yes
6
No
1
Are there clowns?
18 supporters
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No
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0
S2
E13
There’s a doll of a clown during a scary/eerie scene
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Is there a shower scene?
14 supporters
Yes
2
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-2
I wish
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Are there ghosts?
10 supporters
Yes
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It's not totally clear, but in at least one instance there appears to be a ghost.
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Are there mannequins?
8 supporters
Yes
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0
Yes, a character is in a closet with a mannequin at one point.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
4 supporters
Yes
16
No
0
0
S1
The opening credits
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Is someone possessed?
1 supporters
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A main plot element is that several characters have other-worldly entities sharing their bodies.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
1 supporters
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2
S2
E4
At the beginning of S2E4, absolutely. Also, a totally chilling and terrifying scene. Especially when you learn more context later on in the show.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
176 supporters
Yes
39
No
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In the original series there is no vomit though a brain-damaged character spits out his food pretty graphically which may be triggering for emetophobes.
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Yes
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4
Is there defecation?
60 supporters
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1
No
7
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There are only two scenes which involve a bathroom. One is outside the bathroom and someone goes in to vomit. Nothing is shown or heard. The other takes place in S3/The Return, and the person isn't even using the toilet.
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Is someone eaten?
51 supporters
Yes
1
No
7
0
S3
Not in a cannibalistic way, but more in an existential way (by a supernatural being)
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Yes
1
No
9
Yes
1
No
5
Does someone spit?
19 supporters
Yes
37
No
3
9
A brain damaged character regularly spits at his caretakers especially when they are trying to feed him.
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Large-scale Violence
Yes
0
No
16
Law Enforcement
Yes
24
No
6
Yes
12
No
0
LGBTQ+
Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
97 supporters
Yes
1
No
13
4
A trans woman makes a flirty comment about a young woman, but the young woman in question is a legal adult.
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Are there transphobic slurs?
75 supporters
Yes
7
No
11
2
S1
E3
It's more generic: someone is insulted with a q-slur. The character isn't LGBTQ+ and it is brief.
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
49 supporters
Yes
16
No
2
3
A character is initially deadnamed due to the character mentioning her being unaware of her transition. After they reunite, the character's are all pretty consistent in using her preferred name/pronouns. it's not played maliciously (for the 90's)
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Yes
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No
7
Yes
0
No
10
Loss
Yes
1
No
5
Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
54 supporters
Yes
47
No
1
4
I'm pretty sure when Audrey is kidnapped by Blackie, and other people at One Eyed Jack's they inject her with something?? I know they drug her at least.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
42 supporters
Yes
0
No
17
1
no but there are scenes in a regular hospital where characters are suffering significant mental anguish (PTSD, flashbacks) which could be triggering
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Is electro-therapy used?
35 supporters
Yes
1
No
21
0
S2
Not therapy, but in S2 a character is punished using a shock collar
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Yes
1
No
24
Are there heart attacks?
23 supporters
Yes
3
No
0
1
S2
E12
An old man dies of heart failure offscreen while making love to his young wife
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Is there a hospital scene?
22 supporters
Yes
45
No
1
5
S1
E1
Sheriff Truman and Agent Cooper visit Ronnie in the hospital and Laura's body in the morgue.
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Yes
0
No
6
Mental Health
Yes
38
No
1
8
A character hangs themselves
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Yes
20
No
2
2
S1
E7
Character attempts suicide by ingesting a lot of pills. They are rescued by their partner and are safe, but unconscious for a while after.
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Yes
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No
4
4
Scars from a suicide attempt are shown, and a character bashes their head into a mirror, causing them to bleed. There is also both implied and depicted instances of excessive recklessness/self-destructiveness which could be read as a form of self harm.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
66 supporters
Yes
19
No
2
8
While no character is explicitly labelled as autistic, at least two are heavily coded as such. The adult son of a family is described as having "emotional problems," and being in the 3rd grade despite his age. He is present in the show only as a nuisance or a caricature of neurodivergence. Similarly, a supporting character is characterized by her "oddness," and strange obsessions and/or interests. She is looked down upon and sometimes demonized for this, and is lied to and emotionally neglected by her husband. When she expresses childlike emotions, she is treated poorly.
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Is autism misrepresented?
51 supporters
Yes
10
No
3
0
S2
A background character runs into walls, wears an appropriative headdress, and in S3 his stimming is used to heighten the tension of a violent scene.
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Yes
0
No
21
Is there misophonia?
50 supporters
Yes
17
No
2
5
S1
E1
A character has a pencil stuck in a styrofoam cup and twists it around. The sound bothered me. A little later in the episode a bell is rung many times in a row.
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Yes
14
No
2
Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
44 supporters
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Yes
12
No
4
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
38 supporters
Yes
22
No
2
6
S1
E1
Laura's mother displays some behaviors that could be interpreted as PTSD from her death.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
38 supporters
Yes
16
No
0
0
The show has a surrealist tone with dream sequences, hallucinations, and scenes that are ambiguous.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
35 supporters
Yes
14
No
4
2
Audrey is often shown stalking other people, while hiding inside the walls and/or small spaces such as a closet, etc.
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Yes
20
No
2
Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
31 supporters
Yes
2
No
10
3
Not directly, but a character is possessed and it's somewhat similar to DID
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Are there anxiety attacks?
30 supporters
Yes
28
No
1
4
S1
E1
Several people hear the news of Laura's death and react in ways that resemble a panic attack.
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Yes
10
No
0
Yes
0
No
6
Yes
2
No
5
Yes
14
No
0
Yes
13
No
0
Natural Disasters
Yes
0
No
4
Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
64 supporters
Yes
32
No
1
4
S1
E1
One scene of Laura and Donna filmed on a camcorder is shakey.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
62 supporters
Yes
52
No
1
7
S1
E1
In the morgue when Agent Cooper is inspecting Laura's body the lights flash on and off throughout the scene. Could be a photosensitivity trigger.
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Yes
9
No
0
Does a baby cry?
28 supporters
Yes
7
No
7
1
S2
E8
yes, breifly in season two episode 8, at roughly 10 minutes in.
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Is there screaming?
22 supporters
Yes
17
No
0
0
A lot, in the first 1-2 episodes
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Yes
0
No
5
Yes
7
No
2
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
23 supporters
Yes
14
No
0
0
S2
E4
happens many times throughout the series. noting a particular instance from s2e4, through a window at night a man watches a couple making out a couch and it’s really creepy
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Is the fourth wall broken?
15 supporters
Yes
1
No
10
0
S3
The viewer is never addressed by the characters (except in the Log Lady episode introductions)
The phrase "we are like the dreamer, who dreams and then lives inside the dream" —spoken by Monica Belucci to Gordon (played by David Lynch) in a dream— is often interpreted in this instance to be a reference to the fact that the characters only exist in a TV show.
When Dale Cooper sees Naido, we are shown a transparent overlay of Cooper's face looking directly into the camera, which some have interpreted as looking at the viewer.
The phrase "we are like the dreamer, who dreams and then lives inside the dream" —spoken by Monica Belucci to Gordon (played by David Lynch) in a dream— is often interpreted in this instance to be a reference to the fact that the characters only exist in a TV show.
When Dale Cooper sees Naido, we are shown a transparent overlay of Cooper's face looking directly into the camera, which some have interpreted as looking at the viewer.
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Pregnancy
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
0
No
22
Yes
0
No
20
Yes
0
No
20
Are there abortions?
27 supporters
Yes
0
No
20
4
While she doesn't end up getting one, a character heavily considers getting an abortion and it's discussed in multiple episodes.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
21 supporters
Yes
6
No
6
0
A character’s sister has a baby who is on screen very briefly
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
66 supporters
Yes
15
No
4
3
Casual fatphobia is present through jokes, teasing, casual remarks, et cetera, though none are said to characters who are actually fat themselves.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
66 supporters
Yes
17
No
2
1
S1
E3
Yes, a brief mention of the q-slur.
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Yes
35
No
3
20
A trans woman character appears in the second season and gets deadnamed initially. I wouldn’t call her a transphobic joke character since she does get her own personality and plot and is generally treated more respectfully then many trans characters in the 90s. She is played by a cis man though. Trans viewers tend to have more mixed feelings on her like in this article: https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-made-twin-peaks-denise-such-a-radical-trans-character-on-tv
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
55 supporters
Yes
12
No
8
5
S1
E6
a photo is shown of a man wearing a womens night dress and the cops/fbi agent say denigrating things about the photo before moving on.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
53 supporters
Yes
31
No
0
5
S1
E1
A mother is behaving very callously towards her son with special needs.
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Does an LGBT person die?
43 supporters
Yes
19
No
8
4
Without too many spoilers, it's later shown that multiple characters who die were likely bisexual
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Yes
1
No
14
Is a minority is misrepresented?
41 supporters
Yes
13
No
3
2
In addition to the noted Asian stereotyping, there is a police officer named Hawk who is clearly implied to be Indigenous American, who is described as "the best tracker around" and has several lines of stereotyped dialogue.
There is also a mentally disabled character who is described as "25 years old but in the third grade" who has very stereotyped behaviors such as bashing his head into things.
I'm sure there is more that I'm missing as well.
There is also a mentally disabled character who is described as "25 years old but in the third grade" who has very stereotyped behaviors such as bashing his head into things.
I'm sure there is more that I'm missing as well.
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Yes
0
No
18
Yes
0
No
14
Does the black guy die first?
28 supporters
Yes
0
No
21
2
Nearly every character in the show is white.
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Yes
0
No
8
Race
Yes
0
No
6
Relationships
Yes
16
No
2
Religious
Yes
7
No
0
Yes
6
No
1
Sex
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
42
No
4
11
It’s hard to explain fully without getting into spoiler territory, but there is stated to be a teenager who is molested and later sexually assaulted by her father. Nothing is explicitly shown in the show, but it’s stated by the characters and a major plot point. There’s another instance where a father is attracted to his daughter unknowingly because she’s wearing a mask.
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Is there sexual content?
82 supporters
Yes
38
No
0
2
On-screen only kissing is shown, though there is a lot of spoken mention of sexual relations between characters
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Yes
0
No
10
Is someone sexually objectified?
55 supporters
Yes
17
No
2
1
S1
The Dancers in One-Eyed Jacks are sexualised
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Is there BDSM?
37 supporters
Yes
9
No
0
1
S1
E8
Laura Palmer says, in a recording, that she 'gets off on' physical abuse and threat. A man who previously abused her states that she liked bondage. It's not what I would call risk-aware consensual kink.
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Yes
8
No
0
Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
28 supporters
Yes
14
No
3
1
One of the cops cries a lot and isn't *exactly* ridiculed for it but it is kind of made a joke
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
43 supporters
Yes
1
No
6
1
S2
E1
It isn't explicitly stated to be such, but there is an elderly man who brings room service in a hotel at the start of S2 Ep1 who is clearly not entirely mentally present or aware of the situation he is in.
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Yes
1
No
5
Does someone have a stroke?
22 supporters
Yes
0
No
11
0
No, but multiple characters have brain injuries that affect their behaviour and ability to function.
Relationships between those characters and the partners who care for them are explored.
Relationships between those characters and the partners who care for them are explored.
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
17 supporters
Yes
6
No
7
1
It depends on how you define chronic illness I suppose, but there is a character in a wheelchair who is present throughout the show.
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Social
Yes
0
No
7
Are there fat suits?
36 supporters
Yes
1
No
8
0
Despite what the troll says, no.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
9
No
0
Yes
0
No
10
Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
89 supporters
Yes
34
No
2
3
All seasons of the series end on ambiguous dark notes
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Yes
1
No
5
Yes
0
No
19
Vehicular
Yes
22
No
3
Yes
20
No
2
Does a car honk or tires screech?
15 supporters
Yes
13
No
0
1
S1
E1
Police sirens
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
21
Violence
Yes
36
No
1
Does someone drown?
48 supporters
Yes
1
No
20
4
S1
E1
Body was disposed of in a lake but was found on the shore and was dead before going into the lake.
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Is there gun violence?
43 supporters
Yes
40
No
1
1
Multiple characters are shot, shot at, or threatened with guns throughout the series, including in situations involving police.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
17
No
7