One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."
This tv show contains 78 potentially triggering events.
I would refer to the actions of the main antagonist as stalking, though it is a bit different from what one would normally consider stalking to look like.
Angelia by Whispers. Whisper's actions are what pushes Angelica over the edge. Whispers and some of the other characters. There's also some more general deceit/manipulation used by other characters in pursuing their goals
End of S1 and beginning of S2, non-recreational use of illegal drugs. There's also a couple scenes in which characters use party drugs. Someone also tries to buy medicine for another character in relation to disease management; later use of said drugs.
Talked about in the end of the second season, but not shown on screen. I personally still found it very triggering.
!!!!!!!BIG SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wolfgang's mother is raped by Wolfgang's father, who is also her father. Confusing, I know, but it involves incest as well as sexual assault and domestic abuse. Only the domestic abuse is shown, but it can still be incredibly triggering.
There is a scene where one of the characters is in prison, and the guards attempt to hang her early in season 2. She escapes.
Not a hanging exactly, but similarly triggering: Early in season 1, a character is held down and suffocated. She also escapes.
There is a scene where one of the characters grabs a mans toe and appears to break it with an audible snap but the character is seen walking later in the same scene, could be considered mutilation.
Spoilers: In s2ep11 Wolfgang is kidnapped by the main villain, he is tasered and then drugged using a needle. After this, the other main characters kidnap Whispers and Jonas as leverage
A main character and a couple of minor characters are cops. This is particularly bad in the first couple episodes, where there's some egregious use of white saviorism by the main character cop to show he's "one of the good ones." This lessons a lot after the first couple episodes and as the show progresses, and by season 2 he's not in his job anymore. But there's a significant amount of him abusing his position and power to get what he wants to solve the mystery of the show, especially in season 1, that's never questioned or portrayed as anything but positive and helpful. (While he does get in trouble for some but not all of his actions, it's portrayed more as the punishment being bad and hurting the cause of the main characters than it is a rightfully deserved punishment for abuse of power.)
There's also a scene in which a mild insult for cops is compared to actual discriminatory slurs in a pretty offensive manner, equating insulting cops to things like racism, homophobia, sexism, etc.
S2 E08 someone commits suicide by slitting their wrists in a bathtub. There is a closeup on their wrists as they're doing so, and I believe there are a few shots of the character afterwards.
Not actually mentioned to be DID, nor intended to be, but the main plot is that characters have different people inside their heads that they can 'switch' into under stress.
The first episode has a death that is presented as a suicide, whether it is or not later in the series is ambiguous, but someone triggered by a suicide scene will likely be triggered by this.
There is a Jewish character in one episode who fits the harmful trope of Jews being involved in money in a negative way.
There is also an episode that uses the Holocaust memorial in Berlin as some kind of mental location (one of the characters does live in Berlin? It isn't clear whether he is at the memorial or not) and although this isn't technically anti-Semitism (depending on the intentions of the writers) it is still potentially upsetting.
Nomi’s mom during S1 is really aggressive in the misgendering- deadname/pronoun use consistently in conversations with people using correct terms, comments making fun of chosen name, conspiracy theory about dangers of HRT. Nomi is supported by many others but it can feel pretty rough.
Yes, there are minor LGBT characters that die, but since the main 8 characters are considered to be pansexual and are very openly portrayed that way, those deaths are not considered to be a part of the bury your gays" trope.
There is very little portrayal of differently abled folk but the focus on the writing is to support differences and demonstrate that bigoted language and behavior is hurtful, misguided, and behavior of antagonists. Neurodivergent representation is positive in the protagonists.
There's a montage shown of hurtful words that were used against the main characters, they're written on the wall in spray paint. The n-word is one of these.
Several of the characters use guns throughout the series. Most of the more violent scenes occur with Wolfgang, but there are some with Capheus. [Spoiler] Angelica commits suicide with a gun
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