Does the dog die?
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True Blood
TV Show • 2008 • Drama
ReportTrue Blood is an American television drama series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in northwestern Louisiana. The series centers on the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress with an otherworldly quality.
This tv show contains 114 potentially triggering events.
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The dog fight scene is at S3E07, 24 minutes in.
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Unanswered Triggers
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
22 supporters
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rhysescup
S5
E7
Tara’s mother disowns her after becoming a Vampire.
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Abuse
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
25 supporters
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0
Forgives then hates then forgoves then hates rinse and repeat
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Yes
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Yes
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damalojo
In S1 E6, a brother attacks his sister and blames her for a death in the family
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Yes
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Ingeborg
Tara
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Yes
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damalojo
Yes, several children. One character is abused by her alcoholic mother. Another knew her uncle had sexual thoughts about her because she could read his mind.
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Addiction
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damalojo
Vampire blood (or "V") is a popular recreational drug
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Is there addiction?
10 supporters
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trailertrashtransboi
Addiction is a common theme all throughout and they show it VERY accurately especially if you live in the south yourself
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
7 supporters
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Anonymous
Lettie mae is an alcoholic in s1
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
68 supporters
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Ingeborg
Pig heart and egg is destroyed. Unknown if it real
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Yes
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pkcountry
Season 4 Episode 5 a child is forced to repeatedly stab a goat while his grandfather holds the goat's head. Lots of pained bleating and blood splatter.
Season 4 Episode 6 they sacrifice a cobra by throwing a live one onto a fire
Season 4 Episode 6 they sacrifice a cobra by throwing a live one onto a fire
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Are animals abused?
113 supporters
Yes
14
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Sz 1 ep 7 they kill a possum :(
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Yes
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Anonymous
Season 3.
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Is there a dead animal?
63 supporters
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damalojo
The intro contains a time-lapse of a decaying fox and several insects/animals being eaten
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Does a cat die?
101 supporters
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S01E09, 12 minutes in as they enter the house.
S02E11, 16 minutes in: There’s talk about shooting cats with A BB gun.
S02E11, 16 minutes in: There’s talk about shooting cats with A BB gun.
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Yes
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Assault
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Is there pedophilia?
64 supporters
Yes
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Anonymous
Only mentioned once during a scene where Sookie has a flashback about her great uncle
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Is someone held under water?
11 supporters
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Anonymous
A possum is drowned
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Is rape mentioned?
43 supporters
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Ingeborg
Often
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Yes
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Yes
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ChelseaO
Someone has a flashback to being imprisoned and raped 100s of years ago. Rape is shown on screen.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
27 supporters
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vampireceilingfan
S4
No, but there is onscreen sexual assault of men.
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Anonymous
S2: Bill is basically raped by his Maker, Lorena. He cant go against her orders and she holds him captive.
S3: Jason is drugged and raped repeatedly while tied to a bed while people watch.
S2: One of the antagonists holds parties that she turns into orgies that double as a ceremony to honour her god, it can be argued that her influence over the participants makes the sex they have fall into the category of rape since none of them remember it afterwards. One of the victims of this has a conversation with a friend the next day where she says that she’s worried she date-raped the man she’s been seeing since she can’t remember anything past the point where she blacked out.
S3: Jason is drugged and raped repeatedly while tied to a bed while people watch.
S2: One of the antagonists holds parties that she turns into orgies that double as a ceremony to honour her god, it can be argued that her influence over the participants makes the sex they have fall into the category of rape since none of them remember it afterwards. One of the victims of this has a conversation with a friend the next day where she says that she’s worried she date-raped the man she’s been seeing since she can’t remember anything past the point where she blacked out.
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Bodily Harm
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Is there throat mutilation?
14 supporters
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Ingeborg
Alot biting and blood
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
16 supporters
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Fiddledee_Dee
Characters often strangle each other to get them to stop talking. I don’t recall any strangulation-related deaths, but there may have been a couple at most.
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Is there cannibalism?
24 supporters
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Anonymous
S2 maryann serves cult members human flesh without their knowledge
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Yes
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Is someone burned alive?
24 supporters
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meowllyyy
In season 1, some vampires are killed during the day when their house is set on fire.
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Is someone buried alive?
15 supporters
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Anonymous
Its how vampires are turned. Two people are also buried alive in cement
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Yes
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Does a head get squashed?
35 supporters
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Anonymous
S3E6 a head is bludgeoned out of shape on screen
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Is there a hanging?
24 supporters
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AnnieMannie
Early on in the show, there is a death that involves an animal hanging from a ceiling fan by a rope, but this was likely not the cause of death (murder). So it may be triggering still, in this regard
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Are any teeth damaged?
25 supporters
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Anonymous
A character gets teeth pulled out as punishment in s1 and a characters head is exploded by a shotgun in s4 and her tooth is shown on the floor in s5 e1
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Yes
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Does someone have a seizure?
4 supporters
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rhysescup
S5
In the first episode (I believe) the main character seizes due to a blood incompatibility.
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Is there excessive gore?
51 supporters
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There is obviously lot of blood shown throughout the series and intermittent gore scenes. For example when vampires are killed they explode in a fountain of blood and ooze
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Children
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Does a kid die?
28 supporters
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Anonymous
A man kills a baby off screen. And a character is described as having delivered babies and eaten them in the maternity ward. Multiple teen girls are killed at once by an out of control vampire
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Is a minor sexualized?
61 supporters
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Anonymous
Jessica is 17
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Death
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Does a major character die?
11 supporters
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Anonymous
Several of them.
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Does a non-human character die?
15 supporters
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Ingeborg
Vampires, werewolf, werepanters, fairies, shapeshifters, witches, and other supernatural beings.
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Yes
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
21 supporters
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Anonymous
S5E1
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
6 supporters
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faeriewitch
S6
E3
Emma, Luna’s daughter, is taken from Sam by the werewolves.
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Does a parent die?
8 supporters
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damalojo
The main characters' parents die
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
15 supporters
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Anonymous
Arlene finds her new baby ripping the heads off of barbie dolls in s4 ep1
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Fear
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Is someone possessed?
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damalojo
In season 1, a character believes her alcoholism is a result of being possessed and gets an exorcism. It's shown on screen
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Are there ghosts?
5 supporters
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rhysescup
One of the main characters is a medium and has numerous interactions with ghosts.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Ingeborg
The amount of holes people Get from being bitten.
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Yes
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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damalojo
Early in season 1, a cop wets himself out of fear after an interaction with a vampire
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Does someone vomit?
58 supporters
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JoeyFlower
S1:e9. The very opening, bill stakes the vampire bartender who Vs blood all over sookie and then ginger Vs. Then the credits start
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Is someone eaten?
18 supporters
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Anonymous
Werewolves eat their dead pack leader
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Is there on-screen pooping?
20 supporters
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ChaoticGourd
S6
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Does someone spit?
9 supporters
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rhysescup
S5
E7
One of the characters spits in the face of another.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
14 supporters
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0
Several central characters are cops. The police are depicted as being flawed but overall good people doing their best to protect the community. There are scenes where cops engage in illegal activity like beating a suspect for information, which is depicted by the show as morally appropriate
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
21 supporters
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damalojo
Several times. Eg in S1 E8, a drug is injected into an arm vein very explicitly
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Is there a mental institution scene?
16 supporters
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Anonymous
Lafayettes mother is in a care home
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Is there a hospital scene?
7 supporters
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rhysescup
S5
E7
There are a few hospital scenes through the seasons
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Does someone have cancer?
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radialintrepid
No cancer, but there is a disease that slowly kills vampires around the end of season 6 and in 7 in case that is too similar for you.
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
28 supporters
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radialintrepid
Terry obviously suffers from PTSD throughout the entire series.
For how his story ends SPOILERS:
In season 6 episode 9 Terry is shot and killed by someone he hired to do so because he couldn’t live with the guilt.
For how his story ends SPOILERS:
In season 6 episode 9 Terry is shot and killed by someone he hired to do so because he couldn’t live with the guilt.
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Anonymous
S2E10
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Ingeborg
Maybe when a human turns to vampire it decipt their transformation and difficulties with excepting their bodies
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Is there body dysmorphia?
19 supporters
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Anonymous
Sort of. A female spirit possesses the body of a gay man (she was under the impression he was a woman because of his makeup/clothes) and is horrified when she realizes
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Yes
10
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
24 supporters
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0
S1
E6
Sookie binge eats a pecan pie.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
30 supporters
Yes
0
No
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Anonymous
No but a character uses “r*tarded” twice
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Yes
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Anonymous
There is a flashback in s5 ep3 where a character slits her arms in order to make a vampire turn her (she lives). A character tries overdosing on meds when shes left alone in the bathroom. A vampire stakes himself while under a spell. A character hires a hitman for himself in s5. A major character stakes himself in the finale. A character has a bath scene where he eyes the razor on the wall (and its implied he might kill himself) but only shaves his head. Major plot point in s4 involves vampires walking into the sun while under a spell. A vampire enters a tanning booth with the intention of committing suicide
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Noxious
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
9 supporters
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3
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0
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Anonymous
There are multiple instances of this throughout the show. Stalking is a common theme
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5
Pregnancy
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5
Is there childbirth?
13 supporters
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10
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Anonymous
A character is described as having worked at a maternity ward. A woman gives birth on a pool table
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Are there abortions?
12 supporters
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ferdie
someone /tries/ to abort
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0
Does someone miscarry?
13 supporters
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Anonymous
No, but arlene is woken up by terry after trying to abort her baby. Her crotch and the bedsheets are covered in blood
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No
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
28 supporters
Yes
12
No
0
0
Anonymous
In passing. In s4 a character says something alongs the lines of “fat and old” and is scolded for it. S5 ep5 uses the words “fatties first” when a prisoner tries to persuade a vampire not to eat him
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Anonymous
No, but a flamboyant gay man is referred to as a “sh*male” once
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Does the black guy die first?
14 supporters
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0
No
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Ingeborg
But in the end most of the Main black cast Are dead.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
30 supporters
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damalojo
In S1 E5, not a slur, but some restaurant customers refuse to eat food prepared by the gay chef because they say it "has AIDS."
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Anonymous
No, but theres a quick offhanded joke about “a jew at an al-qaeda pep rally chance of getting out of here”
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Yes
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No
1
Is there hate speech?
20 supporters
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18
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Anonymous
Occasional racism and homophobia. A character is called a slur in s5 ep2 (ch**k)
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
12 supporters
Yes
7
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Ingeborg
No but in the ending both black and LGBT cast Are mostly dead or done dirty storywise. Which is sad
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Does an LGBT person die?
24 supporters
Yes
23
No
0
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Anonymous
Yes but not for being lgbt
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
27 supporters
Yes
13
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0
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Anonymous
The word “r*tarted” is used twice
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Yes
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No
1
Is there aphobia?
12 supporters
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No
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Ingeborg
Both Sookie and Jason Are kind of looked down on. Sookie for being unsexual and a virgin in the begining. Its decipted as shame. And Jasons for being extremly sexual active, and him mocked for this. Also Jessica kinda stays a virgin bc of healing reasons and its wierdly glorified.
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Race
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No
3
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
24 supporters
Yes
7
No
0
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rhysescup
In technically, the main character’s relationship with two different vampires is an age gap; they are both hundreds of years old and she is in her twenties, i believe.
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
35 supporters
Yes
26
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Ingeborg
Alot Sex in this series. In season 2 ending There is a big orgy Where all the townspeople Get together.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
26 supporters
Yes
8
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Ingeborg
Jason, Eric, Jessica and Sookie alot
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Yes
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0
Is there bestiality?
46 supporters
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1
No
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Ingeborg
Kinda, alot of supernatural beings sleep with humans. Some Are shapeshifter and turn into animal at a point, and probably Are with other shapeshifters as humans or animals, it might be weird.
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Does someone lose their virginity?
9 supporters
Yes
4
No
0
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Ingeborg
S2
Sam to Maryann
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Yes
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No
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2
Fiddledee_Dee
There’s a sub-plot in one season that involves an in-bred family.
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Sexism
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3
No
1
Sickness
Yes
2
No
1
Yes
1
No
2
Yes
2
No
1
Social
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
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Yes
2
No
1
Spoiler
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0
No
10
Does it have a sad ending?
24 supporters
Yes
3
No
5
1
Anonymous
Multiple major characters die
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Vehicular
Yes
14
No
0
Yes
6
No
0
Yes
4
No
1
Is someone hit by a car?
11 supporters
Yes
10
No
0
0
Anonymous
S2E10
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Violence
Yes
0
No
10
Is there blood/gore?
31 supporters
Yes
21
No
0
1
Anonymous
Its a show about vampires
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Does someone drown?
10 supporters
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7
No
0
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rhysescup
A possum is drowned in one of the first one or two seasons. So far a person has not been drowned but i’m only on season 5
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Yes
14
No
0