Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
I'm going to say yes even though the diagnosis isn't used, because someone who has an apparent intellectual disability and is perceived as "odd" is socially outcast, bullied, and even beat up, and it could be a bit triggering.
As standard for British crime drama the police are portrayed mostly positively but its not as overtly propaganda as American shows can be, and doesn't portray police as infallible
S3E2 a man dies from asphyxiation. We see a little of him struggling to escape where he's trapped, but we don't really see the actual suffocating. We do see the post-mortem effects, though.
Series 2 episodes 1 and 2 revolve around the deaths of a young child and a teenager, the deaths are not shown on screen. Series 7 is about the disappearance and possible murder of a teenager as well. There are likely other episodes where children/teens die.
In Series 2 episodes 1 and 2 people use this word about a particular character but it is portrayed in a negative light and the protagonists do not use it.
Series 1 episode 1 when DS Macintosh gets to the crime scene at the start of the episode she vomits from a hangover. There may be other incidences but not in series 1, Series 7 or the first two episodes of Series 2
Season 6 was triggering for me. It shows a character having PTSD flashbacks. It’s a great show, but there should be a TW. I don’t need to see that, thanks. I live with it everyday.