Dexter

TV Show • 2006 • Crime  

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Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.
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Does the dog die?
509 supporters
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Ollie2
S8
 E12
No dogs are shown on-screen living, then dying, during the entirety of the series.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is there smoke or haze?
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Abandonment
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18
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Yes
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Ollie2
S4
 E2
Trinity killer uses a rescue dog to relate to a woman who loves seeing rescue dogs. Once he finishes meeting her, he abandons the dog by unleashing it and letting him run loose in the neighborhood. Dog is never shown again.
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ShambriMurphy
S1
 E7
Rita’s children struggle with their father being released from prison but not being able to see him. I would avoid this episode if you struggle with abandonment
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Abuse
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ShambriMurphy
S1
 E5
Rita’s husband is released from jail and continues to break parole and restraining order by appearing at their house and inserting himself into their lives. Rita should be calling police and his parole officer but just lets him continue to show up.

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Is someone gaslighted?
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38
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18
Yes
24
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2
Is someone stalked?
24 supporters
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Yes
56
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2
Is a child abused?
118 supporters
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Yes
52
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7
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lrrrbch
S5
 E9
A teenage girl is physically abused by her stepfather. Bruises are shown.
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ShambriMurphy
S1
 E8
First 5 minutes there’s a woman’s naked dead body in the bathtub covered in blood
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13
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1
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lrrrbch
S5
S5 is about women who have been raped and tortured. Some of them are shown to have marks on their backs that look like whip marks. In E10 the cops find videotapes from the assaults. You hear the audio; it sounds like someone being whipped
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lrrrbch
S5
 E9
A teenage girl is physically abused by her stepfather. Bruises are shown.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Yes
44
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6
Does someone abuse alcohol?
21 supporters
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Yes
42
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8
Yes
46
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6
Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
120 supporters
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2
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51
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
201 supporters
Yes
93
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12
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Ollie2
S4
 E7
Two characters hit a deer while driving a van in the woods. The deer is shown and heard suffering, so one character uses his ax to end the suffering. We don’t see the ax connect with the deer, just blood on the ax after the deer is killed. Definitely skip, or mute the volume, if you don’t want to hear the cries of a hurt deer, though there is some importance to what the incident does to one of the character’s mindsets later in the episode and season.
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Are animals abused?
237 supporters
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73
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13
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Ollie2
S1
 E4
Rita mentions the neighbor’s young, adorable, Beagle mix is barking all the time because he is neglected by being left outside all day and all night. Dexter mentions bringing him inside and feeding him, implying the neighbor neglects that too. The arrogant neighbor says the dog was abandoned by her ex, and seems to really hate the dog, too. Spoiler: the good boy finds a new loving, caring home, thanks to some sneaky dognapping from Rita.
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Yes
56
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Ollie2
S4
 E7
Dead alligator carcass is shown, shot off-screen by a man protecting his dogs (not shown). Dexter arrives on scene to see the alligator is already sliced open and a human arm is pulled out. Lots of blood is shown.
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Is an animal sad?
99 supporters
Yes
24
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3
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VRK867
S4
 E7
Two characters hit a deer with their car and have to put it out of its suffering. As soon as they hit the deer I would suggest muting as sounds of suffering is heard. Timestamp approx 23:35 to 25:10
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Are rabbits harmed?
90 supporters
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24
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4
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Lil1pupLyd
S7
 E6
Hannah poisons a rabbit for eating her flowers. You see her holding a dead rabbit, though it looks very fake.
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Does a cat die?
204 supporters
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2
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52
Does a pet die?
193 supporters
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Yes
10
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22
Does a dragon die?
1 supporters
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Yes
1
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56
Are there spiders?
55 supporters
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Yes
36
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10
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VRK867
S4
 E7
At the beginning of the episode they show a dead alligator cut open.
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Are there snakes?
23 supporters
Yes
43
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8
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Nugatt
S6
 E1
They are shown around 18-19.30 and about 41.30-43.30.
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Are there sharks?
8 supporters
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1
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18
Are there bugs?
42 supporters
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47
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9
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junebugx1994
S2
 E9
around 45:00 there are maggots shown on dead body parts in a trash bag. i believe it is shown twice within a minute so i would skip 2 to 3 minutes ahead to be safe.
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Assault
Is someone restrained?
31 supporters
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Yes
39
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0
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LGyger
S5
 E10
The police finds video evidence that does not show anything explicit, but the audio is quite disturbing and there are also pictures of the victims on the wall which are shown multiple times in this episode.
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Yes
58
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7
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evecathjess
S1
 E1
Short 5 second clip of rape, the main character watches it as porn on a laptop
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Is someone held under water?
31 supporters
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Yes
11
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2
Does a woman get slapped?
23 supporters
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Yes
13
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2
Is there pedophilia?
141 supporters
Yes
30
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3
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ErisFiestas
S1
 E1
The first person Dexter kills is implied to be a pedo, Dexter lays out the bodies of the man's victims and he says he "couldnt help himself" to the young boys
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Is someone drugged?
34 supporters
Yes
23
No
1
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VRK867
S1
 E1
Dexter injects his victims
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3
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6
Is someone beaten up by a bully?
23 supporters
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Yes
9
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2
Is someone's mouth covered?
16 supporters
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Yes
20
No
1
Is rape mentioned?
95 supporters
Yes
29
No
1
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LGyger
S5
A woman describes to Dexter what happened to her in a quite detailed way when she was held captive by a serial killer.
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Bodily Harm
Is someone crushed to death?
38 supporters
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Yes
5
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16
Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
95 supporters
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Yes
3
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17
Does a head get squashed?
61 supporters
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Yes
17
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23
Is someone burned alive?
0 supporters
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Yes
29
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7
Is there finger/toe mutilation?
62 supporters
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Yes
36
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5
Yes
27
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10
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Ollie2
S4
 E12
We don’t see the process of the children being buried alive on-screen, but this episode reveals the aftermath of them being dug up. And a previous episode established the kids are drugged, and placed in body bags while still alive, before being buried in cement.
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Is someone stabbed?
18 supporters
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14
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0
Is someone choked?
21 supporters
Yes
16
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2
0
S1
 E1
Guy gets in his car and someone’s waiting for him in the back seat and puts a string around his neck. guy makes chocking nosies and gets told to drive. About a minute into the episode
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Is there cannibalism?
41 supporters
Yes
23
No
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VRK867
S1
 E2
Human flesh is pulled from the mouth of the first victim.
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Is there body horror?
70 supporters
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Yes
13
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0
Yes
29
No
7
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lrrrbch
S5
Victims are decapitated and have their eyes gouged out. You don't see it happen, but the heads are shown.
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Are there dislocations?
12 supporters
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Yes
8
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5
Is there excessive gore?
106 supporters
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Yes
27
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3
Yes
17
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0
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ShambriMurphy
S1
 E7
End of episode the teenage killer slits his own throat and you see his body
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Yes
16
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1
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BebberMan
S4
The Trinity Killer goes to high five his son, then bends his fingers all the way back because he broke his car.
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9
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12
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justmyluck
S3
 E11
Not sure if this counts but Dexter strangulates Prado with a cord/string at the end of adios, amigo. It's obvious that this is about to happen when he pulls out the string.

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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Yes
42
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4
Does someone become unconscious?
1 supporters
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Yes
18
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1
Yes
38
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7
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Ollie2
S4
 E9
Not confirmed, but very likely. You hear a snapping sound when one character grabs another’s fingers and does the “wishbone split” to them.
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Is someone tortured?
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53
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4
Yes
14
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3
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lrrrbch
S5
The first part of the season is about killers who decapitate their victims. Decapitated heads are shown several times.
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Is there amputation?
35 supporters
Yes
36
No
3
0
ShambriMurphy
S1
 E7
A side character from the first few episodes who had two amputated limbs receives prosthetics, you see the prosthetics no amputation or body parts or blood
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Are any teeth damaged?
58 supporters
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Yes
32
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8
Yes
8
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12
0
S5
 E12
Character gets pushed downstairs during a struggle
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Does someone fall to their death?
14 supporters
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Yes
33
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8
Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
29 supporters
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Yes
1
No
15
Yes
64
No
4
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ShambriMurphy
S1
 E7
The intro to every episode shows Dexter shaving his neck hair closely
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Does someone have a seizure?
1 supporters
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Yes
1
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26
Is there a hanging?
37 supporters
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20
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11
Children
Is a minor sexualized?
117 supporters
Yes
16
No
8
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Ollie2
S4
 E9
A 15-year old girl has feelings for Dexter, seeing him as a savior, and tells him how she wants to do “nice things” to him in a very sexual manner. She also makes an attempt to kiss him.
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Is an infant abducted?
32 supporters
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5
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14
Does a kid die?
76 supporters
Yes
45
No
12
12
Ollie2
S4
 E12
Ten year old’s corpse is found in a body bag buried in the ground. We don’t see his death on-screen, but we do see the rotting corpse when the body bag is opened.
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
18
Cringey
Is there audience participation?
0 supporters
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Yes
0
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3
Death
0
Wiltin
S4
 E3
A woman jumps from a building, believing she is saving her family from harm by doing so.
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Does a major character die?
26 supporters
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Yes
19
No
3
Does someone die?
15 supporters
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Yes
22
No
0
Does a non-human character die?
34 supporters
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Yes
3
No
15
Disability
Yes
3
No
4
Is the r-slur used?
32 supporters
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Yes
23
No
5
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
19 supporters
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Yes
9
No
10
Family
Does a parent die?
28 supporters
Yes
54
No
7
11
Ollie2
S4
 E12
Be warned: this is a bad episode for parent deaths, with multiple parent characters dying. They happen near the end of the episode.
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Does someone cheat?
23 supporters
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Yes
36
No
7
Yes
18
No
12
0
Maindseee
S1
A doll is dissected and placed on Dex's fridge
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Does a family member die?
23 supporters
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Yes
15
No
1
Is someone kidnapped?
11 supporters
Yes
37
No
3
0
ShambriMurphy
S1
 E5
A sex worker is held captive and tortured by a serial killer. The torture itself is not shown but she is bloody bruised and restrained and gagged.
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Fear
Is trypophobic content shown?
26 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Are there mannequins?
1 supporters
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Yes
13
No
2
Are there natural bodies of water?
3 supporters
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Yes
17
No
1
Are there razors?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
19 supporters
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Yes
15
No
1
Are there clowns?
19 supporters
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Yes
21
No
15
Is someone possessed?
16 supporters
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Yes
2
No
36
Is there a shower scene?
1 supporters
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Yes
35
No
8
Are there ghosts?
8 supporters
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Yes
28
No
14
Are there jump scares?
67 supporters
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Yes
32
No
13
Gross
Yes
13
No
10
0
lrrrbch
S2
 E2
A boy is threatened and wets himself; the camera pans down to show the stain
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Is there farting?
12 supporters
Yes
1
No
10
0
lrrrbch
S5
 E11
There's a video of a farting cat 😅
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Is someone eaten?
38 supporters
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Yes
10
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2
Does someone vomit?
116 supporters
Yes
54
No
12
32
None in the first season.

Season 2 Episode 4: the marine biologist throws up off screen after entering the morgue.
Season 2 Episode 10: Harry walks in on younger Dexter killing someone and throws up. Only once, visual is shown.
Season 3 Episode 4: Rita throws up when she’s sitting on the bathroom floor. Not graphic.
Season 5 Episode 5: officer Manzon throws up after seeing dead bodies, visual and audio, but easy to see coming.
Season 5 Episode 9: Astor throws up off camera, audio only.
Season 7 Episode 2: Debra throws up after running from Dexter’s apartment, visual and audio.
Season 8 Episode 12: A veterinarian throws up blood while walking into a hospital. Visual and audio.
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Is there audio gore?
51 supporters
Yes
34
No
4
12
Ollie2
S4
 E9
There is a snapping sound when someone splits another character’s finger apart.
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Is there on-screen pooping?
46 supporters
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Yes
0
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12
Does someone spit?
11 supporters
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Yes
31
No
8
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
20
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
38 supporters
Yes
28
No
23
0
Jake18
The whole show seems to have an air of a "law above all" kind of message. It really depends on how you interpret it.
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Yes
12
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0
0
ShambriMurphy
S1
 E5
You don’t see it but Paul is released from prison, he mentions prison and the parole officer is mentioned
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LGBTQ+
Is there bisexual cheating?
26 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Yes
1
No
9
Are there transphobic slurs?
56 supporters
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Yes
12
No
3
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
41 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
26 supporters
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Yes
1
No
9
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
7 supporters
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Yes
5
No
6
Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
33 supporters
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Yes
3
No
21
Is electro-therapy used?
25 supporters
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Yes
0
No
29
Yes
64
No
2
0
VRK867
S1
 E1
Dexter uses a needle on his victims.
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Is there a hospital scene?
13 supporters
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Yes
44
No
6
Is there menstruation?
4 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Does someone have cancer?
22 supporters
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Yes
31
No
9
Mental Health
Is there autism specific abuse?
59 supporters
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Yes
17
No
14
Is there body dysphoria?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Is there body dysmorphia?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
25
Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
25 supporters
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Yes
2
No
5
Is autism misrepresented?
44 supporters
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Yes
2
No
4
Is a mentally ill person violent?
36 supporters
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Yes
18
No
7
12
Ollie2
S4
 E8
48 minutes into the episode
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12
Ollie2
S4
 E11
40 minutes into the episode
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Is there ABA therapy?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
33 supporters
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Yes
20
No
2
Is there misophonia?
36 supporters
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Yes
17
No
4
Does someone self harm?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
86 supporters
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Yes
35
No
7
Does someone have a meltdown?
10 supporters
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Yes
5
No
5
Yes
3
No
15
0
ShambriMurphy
S1
 E7
Dexter and the other killers are all diagnosable sociopaths and the struggle with their mental illness is a major theme in his monologues
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Are there anxiety attacks?
24 supporters
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Yes
32
No
6
Is reality unstable or unhinged?
29 supporters
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Yes
6
No
2
Does someone have an eating disorder?
44 supporters
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Yes
2
No
22
Is there a claustrophobic scene?
19 supporters
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Yes
23
No
7
Noxious
Does a baby cry?
22 supporters
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Yes
21
No
5
Are there sudden loud noises?
42 supporters
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Yes
8
No
1
Is there shakey cam?
50 supporters
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Yes
2
No
25
Is there obscene language/gestures?
1 supporters
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Yes
14
No
0
Are there underwater scenes?
10 supporters
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Yes
7
No
2
Is there screaming?
16 supporters
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Yes
12
No
0
0
Tiuzuru
S1
 E11
Flashing police lights, almost strobe-like and could be triggering for photosensitivity.
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Paranoia
Yes
8
No
10
0
VRK867
S1
 E1
At the very end of the episode Dexter like right into the camera knowingly.
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0
ShambriMurphy
S1
 E5
Dexter’s “colleague” the other serial killer is always watching him. He always watches others. The entire show is people watching eachother from afar in a sense
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
36 supporters
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Yes
0
No
19
Are there abortions?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
No
31
Is there childbirth?
29 supporters
Add comment
Yes
26
No
10
Does a pregnant person die?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
4
No
21
Are there babies or unborn children?
17 supporters
Add comment
Yes
18
No
4
Does someone miscarry?
29 supporters
Add comment
Yes
6
No
21
Prejudice
Yes
0
No
21
Is there aphobia?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
10
No
2
Does the black guy die first?
20 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
31
0
ShambriMurphy
S1
 E7
Because it’s based in Miami the Latino cops are very exaggerated- Spanglish and fedoras and Hawaiian shirts. The African American male cop is silent and angry all the time and has anger issues. There’s stereotypes everywhere
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Are there fat jokes?
54 supporters
Yes
24
No
9
0
mia_maria
S1
 E4
41:30 in, Deb mocks two people she sees on video while reviewing security camera footage. No one but herself hears this.



She calls them "Mr. and Mrs. Tub-o-Lardi."
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Are there homophobic slurs?
54 supporters
Add comment
Yes
17
No
6
Does an LGBT person die?
36 supporters
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Yes
24
No
8
Yes
23
No
9
Yes
10
No
14
0
sameoldrhymes
S3
 E12
sort of, debra jokes that she feels like a ‘transvestite’ when wearing a dress
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Are there usages of the n-word?
39 supporters
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Yes
0
No
23
Is there hate speech?
36 supporters
Yes
30
No
9
0
lrrrbch
S1
A lieutenant is called "spic" by her boss
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Race
Is there blackface?
42 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Relationships
Yes
24
No
8
9
Ollie2
S2
 E7
Debra and Lundy during season 2 and 4. Actors are 30 years apart in age. The characters are between 20 and 30 years apart, possibly mentioned during an episode in season 2.
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Religious
Are there demons or Hell?
12 supporters
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Yes
4
No
6
Yes
13
No
1
0
ourtykes
S6
Religion (specifically christianity) is a major plot point in season 6, with the antagonists of the season being religious extremists, Dexter questions the idea of religion a lot
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
65 supporters
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Yes
53
No
3
Does someone lose their virginity?
18 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
Is there BDSM?
31 supporters
Add comment
Yes
8
No
1
Are there incestuous relationships?
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94 supporters
Yes
27
No
15
2
ferny
The protagonist's adoptive sister thinks she is in love with him. She dreams of kissing him in a scene. Not sure if it is incestuous since he is adopted, but it is still kind of weird.
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Yes
23
No
4
0
Spoink
S4
 E1
New serial killer is introduced and kills a young woman in a bathtub, both are nude
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
14
No
7
0
Anonymous
S1
 E3
Really gross comment about rape.
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Is there bestiality?
95 supporters
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Yes
0
No
19
Sexism
Yes
0
No
16
Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
12
Does someone have a chronic illness?
11 supporters
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Yes
4
No
11
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
1 supporters
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Yes
2
No
8
Is someone terminally ill?
20 supporters
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Yes
11
No
2
Social
Yes
0
No
13
0
Wiltin
S3
A woman debates whether or not to keep her pregnancy, and her decision to keep the kid is not based on anti-abortion sentiment.
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Is existentialism debated?
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Yes
4
No
8
Are there fat suits?
32 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Is someone homeless?
6 supporters
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Yes
5
No
12
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
7 supporters
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Yes
15
No
9
Are there end credit scenes?
51 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Does it have a sad ending?
70 supporters
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Yes
35
No
5
Vehicular
Yes
31
No
8
10
Ollie2
S4
 E7
Deer
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Does a car crash?
21 supporters
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Yes
35
No
7
Does a car honk or tires screech?
8 supporters
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Yes
16
No
4
Does a plane crash?
20 supporters
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Yes
0
No
31
Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
33
Does someone drown?
30 supporters
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Yes
28
No
10
Is there blood/gore?
61 supporters
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Yes
58
No
3
Yes
37
No
5
0
ShambriMurphy
S1
 E7
Cops hold a gun to a serial killers head
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