True Blood

TV Show • 2008 • Drama  

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True 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 130 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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The dog fight scene is at S3E07, 24 minutes in.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is an animal abandoned?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Are any hands damaged?
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SassyBonassy
A lot of talking about both because of the religious fundamental nonsense going on
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Are there underwater scenes?
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Are there mannequins?
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Abandonment
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rhysescup
S5
 E7
Tara’s mother disowns her after becoming a Vampire.
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Forgives then hates then forgoves then hates rinse and repeat
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Is someone stalked?
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Anonymous
S2
In season 2 Bill has several extremely violent sexual encounters with his maker Lorena.
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Ingeborg
Tara
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Is someone gaslighted?
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ChaoticGourd
Jessica, has this abuse history and mentions it in a fight with her family the last time she sees them
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Is a child abused?
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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?
14 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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Anonymous
Lettie mae is an alcoholic in s1
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Animal
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Ingeborg
Pig heart and egg is destroyed. Unknown if it real
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
143 supporters
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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
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Are animals abused?
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Sz 1 ep 7 they kill a possum :(
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Anonymous
Season 3.
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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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Is an animal sad?
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SassyBonassy
S1
 E12
In the season 1 finale, the guy who killed all the innocent women throughout the season kicks a dog in a graveyard fight and it yelps in pain.

If you just disassociate for a second it's fine because SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS the dog transforms back into a human after that one kick/yelp.
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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AshleyRadke
S1
 E9
The cat is found dead after Bill and Sookie return home from Fangtasia.
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Does a pet die?
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SassyBonassy
S1
Sookie's pet cat is killed by the dude murdering everyone to get to her. It's very quick but i believe the body is briefly shown strung up from the hallway chandelier.
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
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SassyBonassy
S1
Jason smacks Sookie out of furious grief when someone important to him is killed instead of her
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Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
98 supporters
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Anonymous
Only mentioned once during a scene where Sookie has a flashback about her great uncle
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Anonymous
A possum is drowned
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Is rape mentioned?
70 supporters
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Ingeborg
Often
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone restrained?
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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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Is someone's mouth covered?
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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.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Ingeborg
Alot biting and blood
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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 decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Anonymous
S2 maryann serves cult members human flesh without their knowledge
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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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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Anonymous
Its how vampires are turned. Two people are also buried alive in cement
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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Anonymous
S3E6 a head is bludgeoned out of shape on screen
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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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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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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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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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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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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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
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
39 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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Anonymous
Jessica is 17
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Anonymous
Several of them.
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Ingeborg
Vampires, werewolf, werepanters, fairies, shapeshifters, witches, and other supernatural beings.
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Does someone die?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
29 supporters
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Anonymous
S5E1
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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damalojo
The main characters' parents die
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Anonymous
Arlene finds her new baby ripping the heads off of barbie dolls in s4 ep1
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faeriewitch
S6
 E3
Emma, Luna’s daughter, is taken from Sam by the werewolves.
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
9 supporters
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rhysescup
One of the main characters is a medium and has numerous interactions with ghosts.
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there clowns?
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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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Ingeborg
The amount of holes people Get from being bitten.
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Are there razors?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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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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damalojo
Early in season 1, a cop wets himself out of fear after an interaction with a vampire
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Anonymous
Werewolves eat their dead pack leader
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ChaoticGourd
S6
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Does someone spit?
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rhysescup
S5
 E7
One of the characters spits in the face of another.
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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6
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
25 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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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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1
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2
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0
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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3
Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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11
Yes
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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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Anonymous
Lafayettes mother is in a care home
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rhysescup
S5
 E7
There are a few hospital scenes through the seasons
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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 have a mental illness?
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Yes
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Anonymous
S2E10
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Is autism misrepresented?
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3
Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Anonymous
No but a character uses “r*tarded” twice
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Is there misophonia?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Yes
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Is there ABA therapy?
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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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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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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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0
S1
 E6
Sookie binge eats a pecan pie.
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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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Anonymous
S2
Lafayette also has PTSD in season 2
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
12 supporters
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
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Anonymous
There are multiple instances of this throughout the show. Stalking is a common theme
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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5
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
22 supporters
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5
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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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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Yes
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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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ferdie
someone /tries/ to abort
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Yes
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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
The word “r*tarted” is used twice
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Yes
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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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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Anonymous
No, but a flamboyant gay man is referred to as a “sh*male” once
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Yes
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Anonymous
Yes but not for being lgbt
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Are there fat jokes?
47 supporters
Yes
12
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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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Is there aphobia?
16 supporters
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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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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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No
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Ingeborg
But in the end most of the Main black cast Are dead.
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Is there hate speech?
23 supporters
Yes
18
No
0
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Anonymous
Occasional racism and homophobia. A character is called a slur in s5 ep2 (ch**k)
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Yes
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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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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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Yes
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
36 supporters
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Yes
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Is there bestiality?
77 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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Ingeborg
S2
Sam to Maryann
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Ingeborg
Jason, Eric, Jessica and Sookie alot
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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80 supporters
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Fiddledee_Dee
There’s a sub-plot in one season that involves an in-bred family.
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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 there BDSM?
20 supporters
Yes
2
No
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SassyBonassy
A lot of BDSM gear in Fangtasia, the vampire nightclub
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Sexism
Yes
3
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
17 supporters
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Yes
2
No
1
Does someone have a stroke?
9 supporters
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3
Does someone have a chronic illness?
10 supporters
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Yes
2
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1
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
25 supporters
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Yes
1
No
2
Social
Are there fat suits?
24 supporters
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0
No
4
Is someone homeless?
5 supporters
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Yes
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3
Is existentialism debated?
10 supporters
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2
No
1
Are there anti-abortion themes?
31 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
3 supporters
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10
Are there end credit scenes?
29 supporters
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No
3
Yes
3
No
5
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Anonymous
Multiple major characters die
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
12 supporters
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Yes
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0
Does a car crash?
18 supporters
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Yes
14
No
0
Does a plane crash?
10 supporters
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Yes
4
No
1
Yes
10
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0
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Anonymous
S2E10
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Violence
Does someone drown?
18 supporters
Yes
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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Anonymous
Its a show about vampires
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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SassyBonassy
Ginger shoots Lafayette in Fangtasia, not fatally, "just" in the leg
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