Squid Game

TV Show • 2021 • Action  

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Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.
This tv show contains 96 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
497 supporters
Yes
106
No
363
4
LadyApocalypse
I haven't watched it yet, but I think the people voting yes are just trolls. They voted yes on "Does a Dragon Die?" so...
I'll come back and edit this once I watch!
EDIT: NO DOG OR ANY OTHER ANIMAL DIES IN SEASON 2.
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Abandonment
Yes
72
No
8
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
36 supporters
Add comment
Yes
77
No
8
Is an animal abandoned?
111 supporters
Add comment
Yes
14
No
84
Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
59 supporters
Add comment
Yes
32
No
30
Yes
2
No
50
Is someone stalked?
22 supporters
Yes
273
No
10
13
pinklemonade
The people who control the games have files with information about the players like their work experience, education, debt, illegal activities, etc
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
159
No
36
13
alienfriend
None shown but one character describes their childhood abuse including spousal domestic abuse and murder
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
106 supporters
Add comment
Yes
57
No
14
0
S3
 E4
A villainous character going through withdrawal has his drugs taken by another character as revenge.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
205
No
39
24
Anonymous
An old man begins to lose his short term memory, and is completely unable to remember things that have just been said. When playing a game against another character, he asks for things to be repeated. This other character lies about how the game is going in order to win.

There are several times where a character is tricked/betrayed by someone they trust.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
28 supporters
Add comment
Yes
2
No
51
Is a child abused?
117 supporters
Yes
103
No
83
19
eggthew
A character implies that she was sexually assaulted by her father when she was a kid
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Addiction
11
Syno
There’s use of sleeping gas on the players.
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Is there addiction?
25 supporters
Yes
331
No
6
16
SilverSkylark
Addiction to smoking and gambling, possibly alcohol too
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
21 supporters
Add comment
Yes
214
No
31
Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
168 supporters
Add comment
Yes
2
No
105
Does a horse die?
114 supporters
Yes
3
No
275
0
violetlime
but horse racing (abuse) is depicted in episode 1.
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
199 supporters
Yes
253
No
92
20
xxfreakiexx
A dead fish is cut at a market for food, nothing bad really and there's fish that have died in a bowl when he visits an apartment to look for his brother but nothing terrible. The series is brillant and coming from someone who's overly sensitive to animals dying most of you should be ok! I recommend
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Are animals abused?
232 supporters
Yes
81
No
227
22
Blitkun
Horse racing is depicted early in the first episode.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
8
No
274
Yes
306
No
68
13
koralik
1st episode, at 24:10 fish's head is cut off
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Is an animal sad?
97 supporters
Add comment
Yes
4
No
72
Are rabbits harmed?
85 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
86
Does a cat die?
197 supporters
Yes
2
No
312
10
Golab
but in the first episode a cat is fed
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Does a pet die?
190 supporters
Yes
48
No
66
0
S3
 E3
The boat captain's dog gets shot
2 comments | Add comment
Does a dragon die?
39 supporters
Add comment
Yes
6
No
271
Are there spiders?
56 supporters
Add comment
Yes
2
No
244
Are there alligators/crocodiles??
4 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
77
Are there snakes?
22 supporters
Yes
1
No
228
14
LeiaPasquarelli
A guy has a tattoo of a snake.
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Are there sharks?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
66
Are there bugs?
43 supporters
Yes
126
No
116
0
Nylah_jp
In one short scene a lot of bugs were crawling over a dead persons body
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
25 supporters
Add comment
Yes
67
No
2
Is someone drugged?
32 supporters
Add comment
Yes
86
No
4
Is there pedophilia?
139 supporters
Add comment
Yes
9
No
94
Is someone held under water?
29 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
49
Is rape mentioned?
96 supporters
Yes
84
No
20
0
Anonymous
S1
 E5
About halfway through the episode, Number 28 (a solider) confronts Number 29 (Jun-Ho in disguise) before their dive to deliver the harvested organs to the buyers about suspicions he is not who he says he is. After Jun-Ho demands answers about the previous night’s victim’s identity, Number 28 says that it was a girl. When Jun-Ho is not convinced, Number 28 says that all the soldiers “took turns having sex with her” beforehand. (It’s unclear if she would have been conscious or not since she was significantly injured in the day’s game.)
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
23 supporters
Add comment
Yes
73
No
5
Is someone restrained?
30 supporters
Add comment
Yes
84
No
2
Yes
256
No
25
39
pinklemonade
There's a mini side story where some "staff" members and a player who's a doctor traffick organs from deceased players, one mentions to an undercover cop that they took turns to rape a woman before taking her organs
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Is someone's mouth covered?
14 supporters
Add comment
Yes
75
No
2
0
arowana
S1
 E7
No assault occurs and the writing frames it as an uncomfortable scene but you do watch as onlookers jeer upon hearing that a man was coerced into performing sexual acts.
1 comment | Add comment
0
GuEcho
S2
 E5
There’s an attempt but no actual rape
1 comment | Add comment
Bodily Harm
Yes
243
No
4
2
plateoffrogs
Lots of throats are slit, and people die from it.
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Are any hands damaged?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
30
No
17
Yes
43
No
10
0
S3
 E2
Characters break bones during fights or tripping.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there throat mutilation?
45 supporters
Add comment
Yes
59
No
9
Yes
210
No
4
6
Syno
People are drugged by a sleeping gas, which makes them cough. People choke each other as well.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
47
No
11
0
enzxzen
S2
 E1
2 decapitated heads are shown in a dream
1 comment | Add comment
Is there cannibalism?
42 supporters
Yes
113
No
91
7
Mayy
First episode some gangsta man sticks his finger in the main characters blood and sucks it off. Says he tastes good and will make a soup out of him but that's as far as it goes.
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Is someone crushed to death?
36 supporters
Add comment
Yes
6
No
45
Is someone choked?
1 supporters
Yes
76
No
1
0
ClementineLuck
S3
 E2
Someone is choked to death by another. Very graphic
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
214
No
37
3
TaylorGriffin
Someone is near-death and is put into an incinerator. There is no screaming, or a sign of pain or struggle.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
143
No
49
11
eggthew
Someone is trapped in a coffin and then cremated alive
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Is there body horror?
68 supporters
Add comment
Yes
65
No
9
Yes
159
No
44
8
pinklemonade
Ali is missing two fingers, it is not shown how he lost them just a close up of his hand

1 comment | Add comment
Yes
199
No
31
9
pinklemonade
Episode 9 - During the game many people fall from a very high type of bridge and a close up of a woman's skull/brain is shown for a few seconds
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
28 supporters
Add comment
Yes
4
No
41
Is there a hanging?
35 supporters
Yes
217
No
17
13
pinklemonade
A character commits suicide by hanging himself with bed sheets
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
28
No
20
0
sp1d3r_l3g5
S1
 E9
No, but strangulation is attempted.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
162
No
53
10
Nobodytoseehere
It's not shown, but a character twist's a man's genitalia
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Does someone become unconscious?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
68
No
1
Yes
219
No
11
7
Syno
Someone has their hand get stuck in a press machine, which crushes it. People also fall off from a high place, and are shown on the ground afterwards.
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Does someone have a seizure?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
186
Yes
68
No
137
1
xeobun
no teeth directly damaged but in the first episode there’s a threat and [slight spoiler] a knife held to his throat/mouth
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
256
No
29
19
jackkastiel
Episode two when theyre fighting in the factory. A hand gets stuck in a machine
4 comments | Add comment
Is someone tortured?
98 supporters
Yes
296
No
5
19
niomi
In the first episode the main character is hit in the face and his nose bled. the beater wiped blood away and licked the blood from his thumb, then intimidated him further by holding a shiv to the inside of his nostril. but does not cut him.
3 comments | Add comment
Does someone fall down stairs?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
44
No
18
Yes
244
No
2
15
pinklemonade
Many times throughout the episodes
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
242
No
13
11
jackkastiel
An eye is removed from a dead man. (They show the eye, but not the removal in focus)
3 comments | Add comment
Is someone stabbed?
1 supporters
Yes
83
No
0
0
tardigrade
S1
 E5
In episode 5 you see someone being stabbed in the brain. There's quite a lot of blood.
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Is there excessive gore?
109 supporters
Add comment
Yes
98
No
8
Children
Is an infant abducted?
32 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
44
Does a kid die?
73 supporters
Yes
75
No
133
17
fishtopherwalken
Two of the competitors and one of the red suits that die are confirmed as teenagers.
1 comment | Add comment
Is a minor sexualized?
118 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
68
Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
20 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
59
Death
0
kiyoko_japan
S1
 E4
Major spoiler:

A character sacrifices themselves to save another character, who dies anyway so it is a failed sacrifice
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
72
No
0
0
S3
 E6
Yes
1 comment | Add comment
Does a non-human character die?
34 supporters
Add comment
Yes
4
No
53
Does someone die?
15 supporters
Yes
89
No
0
0
LAYER013EGO
Well what do u expect by watching squid game
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Disability
Yes
3
No
36
Is the r-slur used?
32 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
51
Drugs/Alcohol
Yes
5
No
41
0
Essi
S3
 E3
one of major characters describes that her son attempted to overdose (he didn't die bc of it)
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Family
Does a family member die?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
52
No
5
Does a parent die?
26 supporters
Yes
255
No
1
14
pinklemonade
Many of the "players" that die were parents and at the end Gi-Hoon's mother dies from diabetes.
Sae-Byeok mentions that her dad died while scaping North Korea.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
31
No
152
12
Moomin
No but if you don’t want upsetting imagery around children’s toys/games this is NOT the show for you. Twisted versions of various games and toys throughout.
3 comments | Add comment
Is someone kidnapped?
10 supporters
Yes
244
No
6
8
pinklemonade
Before been taken to the place were the games take place the players are drugged so they don't know where it is
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Does someone cheat?
22 supporters
Yes
12
No
171
25
pinklemonade
They cheat on the games, not on people
1 comment | Add comment
Fear
Are there ghosts?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
181
Yes
44
No
140
22
Anonymous
Although they aren’t quite jump scares, there are several instances where a character is suddenly shot which can be alarming. The sound and visual cut to someone dying is often very abrupt with no warning.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
58
No
120
16
pinklemonade
There is a [long] sex scene that takes places in a bathroom stall
1 comment | Add comment
Are there natural bodies of water?
3 supporters
Add comment
Yes
64
No
3
Are there clowns?
19 supporters
Add comment
Yes
14
No
182
Is someone possessed?
16 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
180
Is trypophobic content shown?
27 supporters
Add comment
Yes
4
No
23
Are there razors?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
19 supporters
Add comment
Yes
35
No
13
Yes
17
No
23
0
misto
S1
 E7
The 7th episode has many mannequins and humans acting like mannequins
4 comments | Add comment
Gross
Does someone vomit?
121 supporters
Yes
293
No
75
46
Vanessa1303
The comments about player 299 are about a scene from the reality show and NOT about season 2.
Nobody v* in episodes 1-6.
Episode 7 is not safe.
At minute 4:59, someone on the boat v*.
It announces itself. The man gags in his sleep (starts at 4:39) and then runs to the railing outside. It is only a few seconds until 5:05.
9 comments | Add comment
Yes
270
No
3
15
After the workers come back to the room with the players (after the alarms are sounded), they demand the old man to get up, and they pull his blanket off of him. It's revealed that he's wet himself.
2 comments | Add comment
Is there farting?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
43
Is someone eaten?
36 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
41
Is there on-screen pooping?
46 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
41
Does someone spit?
11 supporters
Yes
207
No
5
14
pinklemonade
A lot of blood spitting
1 comment | Add comment
Is there audio gore?
51 supporters
Yes
249
No
3
14
Syno
Gunshots, blood splatter, stab wounds, etc.
1 comment | Add comment
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
7 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
53
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
36 supporters
Yes
61
No
103
12
byakuyautistic
An important part of the story includes a cop being worried about lives and wanting to end the game.
3 comments | Add comment
Is there incarceration?
4 supporters
Add comment
Yes
15
No
26
LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
53 supporters
Add comment
Yes
6
No
48
Yes
2
No
71
-1
DoggoLives
The deadname of a transfem character is not known.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there bisexual cheating?
25 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
44
Yes
4
No
41
-1
DoggoLives
An old woman asks to her son “is that a man or a woman?” To her son referring to a trans woman. The son then explains how people can transition to another gender if they feel comfortable. This is not meant to be cruel and the old woman understands.
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
37
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
23 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
172
Yes
179
No
20
0
S3
 E1
around minute 31:43-32:00, a soldier draws blood from guard 011. both needles and blood are visible
2 comments | Add comment
Is there a mental institution scene?
32 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
170
Yes
213
No
1
4
eggthew
A character is briefly in hospital due to diabetes
1 comment | Add comment
Is there menstruation?
4 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
36
Yes
236
No
5
11
pinklemonade
Oh Il-Nam (001) has a brain tumor
3 comments | Add comment
Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
9 supporters
Add comment
Yes
47
No
2
Yes
190
No
25
9
WillowReymond
Player shoots himself. Another player hangs himself.
3 comments | Add comment
Is autism misrepresented?
43 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
45
Yes
41
No
119
30
eggthew
I highly doubt that none of the characters have no mental illnesses or disorders, but none are mentioned or implied to be the reason why they're violent.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
25 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
35
Is there autism specific abuse?
58 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
197
0
S1
 E2
A man attempts to poison himself while burning coal in the bathroom.
3 comments | Add comment
Is reality unstable or unhinged?
28 supporters
Add comment
Yes
14
No
19
Does someone have a meltdown?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
48
No
5
Is there misophonia?
37 supporters
Yes
170
No
18
34
ratatat
im not entirely sure if this counts? but in the second game they all start licking the candy, and theres a few close up shots of the tounges while they do.
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
179
No
12
6
eggthew
Several characters do panic and/or freeze up during the games
1 comment | Add comment
Is there ABA therapy?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
25
16
WillowReymond
Suicide does happen
1 comment | Add comment
Is there body dysphoria?
13 supporters
Add comment
Yes
30
No
15
Is there body dysmorphia?
29 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
160
Yes
159
No
17
15
Syno
Someone crawls in a vent, someone is trapped under a bed for a moment, someone is alive but stuck in a coffin.
1 comment | Add comment
38
ghostlysekai
eating disorders arent mentioned or shown, but the characters frequently state disappointment with the amount they're eating, if underfeeding is triggering to anybody.
1 comment | Add comment
17
pinklemonade
A character hangs himself after losing his wife in the games.
Sang-Woo stabs himself in the neck last minute.
8 comments | Add comment
Yes
64
No
5
0
VeganCakes
S2
 E1
A character has a graphic nightmare relating to two dead characters from season 1
1 comment | Add comment
Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
7
No
26
Are there sudden loud noises?
44 supporters
Add comment
Yes
64
No
1
Is there shakey cam?
52 supporters
Yes
135
No
22
4
Syno
Many moments have shakey camera movement to induce stress in the viewer that the characters are feeling. But it’s not too extreme.
2 comments | Add comment
Does a baby cry?
22 supporters
Yes
54
No
132
0
Misash02
S3
 E2
Baby is born and cries.
2 comments | Add comment
Is there screaming?
16 supporters
Add comment
Yes
79
No
0
Is there obscene language/gestures?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
51
No
2
30
jackkastiel
Episode 4 after the black masked man says "Do it." The following fight scenes are entirely strobe
2 comments | Add comment
Paranoia
0
enzxzen
S2
 E1
two characters follow another around for a while but he doesnt know
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
4
No
39
0
Anonymous
S2
 E1
Alternating shots from two characters facing each other’s points of view, both making direct eye contact with the camera when shown.
1 comment | Add comment
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
36 supporters
Yes
1
No
46
0
Misash02
S3
 E2
The baby is born alive
1 comment | Add comment
Does someone miscarry?
30 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
164
Are there babies or unborn children?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
47
No
15
Is there childbirth?
30 supporters
Yes
29
No
157
1
plateoffrogs
There is mention of someone giving birth and their child nearly not making it in episode 2
2 comments | Add comment
Are there abortions?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
168
Yes
3
No
155
0
plateoffrogs
there is a conversation in episode 2 about how a pregnant woman almost didn't make it to hospital and almost lost her baby because of it, if that counts
2 comments | Add comment
Prejudice
Yes
1
No
164
3
b3ll4g0th
No, but the "depraved homosexual" trope is depicted in s01e07. (An older man with a decadent lifestyle tries to sexually assault a younger adult man and fails. )
1 comment | Add comment
22
Syno
A very old man with a brain tumor and health problems gets picked on, and is rarely picked for teams in the games. But some characters make sure he isn’t left out.
1 comment | Add comment
Are there usages of the n-word?
38 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
175
Yes
1
No
149
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
44 supporters
Add comment
Yes
23
No
147
0
DanaOreo
S2
 E2
In episode 2, an older lady makes fun of a trans character asking “are they a woman or a man?” and “men are men and women are women”. This is, however, treated as bad as her son corrects her behavior. It is worth pointing out, however.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
57
No
106
11
Syno
We don’t actually know if a character is LGBTQ+ or not, but there are a couple of characters that many people who are LGBTQ+ deem to possibly not be straight, and they die.
3 comments | Add comment
Are there fat jokes?
56 supporters
Yes
47
No
101
11
pinklemonade
Not jokes but it is used as an insult
1 comment | Add comment
Is there aphobia?
23 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
27
Is a minority is misrepresented?
30 supporters
Add comment
Yes
26
No
15
Yes
1
No
178
10
byakuyautistic
There are no black characters, and the first one to die is a lightskinned east asian.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there hate speech?
36 supporters
Yes
183
No
10
29
eggthew
Racist remarks are made towards a Pakistani character
4 comments | Add comment
Race
Is there blackface?
40 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
49
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
38 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
41
Religious
Is religion discussed?
14 supporters
Add comment
Yes
41
No
5
Are there demons or Hell?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
34
Sex
Are there nude scenes?
52 supporters
Add comment
Yes
55
No
13
Is there bestiality?
91 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
62
Does someone lose their virginity?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
38
Yes
55
No
7
0
enzxzen
S2
 E5
around the 21 minute mark, there is a scene that starts that has sexual threats made towards a woman
1 comment | Add comment
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
93 supporters
Yes
57
No
108
31
eggthew
None that are shown, but a character implies that she was sexually assaulted by her father when she was a child
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
217
No
21
16
Herdo
S1E4: Sex scene in a restroom.
S1E7: Lot's of naked people, but with full body painting, so there's not much to see. In the same episode there's also a naked man to see from behind.
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Is there BDSM?
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Sexism
Yes
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31
Sickness
Yes
45
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Anonymous
S2
 E2
A little girl has blood or bone cancer with a poor prognosis.
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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16
Social
Are there fat suits?
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Anonymous
S2
 E1
Scene of the ddakji guy tormenting homeless people in a park
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Is existentialism debated?
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DanaOreo
S2
 E4
It is revealed that a character’s wife was pregnant and that they tried to convince her to abort it because she has an illness and needs a transplant but she refuses and says she will give birth even if it kills her. It is not shown in a bad nor a good light, but it is mentioned.
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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pinklemonade
Bittersweet
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Vehicular
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Anonymous
S2
 E2
Siren
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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eggthew
No one drowns, but several people are dumped into the ocean after being killed, and there's a scene where they pull a corpse out of the ocean
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Is there blood/gore?
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Syno
Pretty much the entire show has blood, gore, bruises, etc.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Syno
People are threatened with guns, and killed by execution with guns.
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